I'm a winner either way
It looks as though I'm about to find out if everything I've believed since I was 18 was right, or wrong. If I've been wrong all these years, then, starting tomorrow, we'll see world peace, economic prosperity at home, full employment with everyone having rich,meaningful jobs, clean harbors and bays, an end to global warming, no more poverty and happiness abounding in every clean, decent home. In short, the Jubilee will have arrived and all because the collectivist way is the right way. And who could complain if all those good things come to pass?
If I've been right, then none of the above will happen and the country will be ruined, but I'll have the deep satisfaction of having been proved correct. Too bad for my kids but that's their look out.
Either way, there's absolutely nothing I can do about it so what, me worry? Not I.
2 years ago
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RIP USA
If you are going to stand on the other side of the fence with your arms folded, you will never convince yourself you were wrong no matter what happens during this administration (Jan 20th, actually).
If the last 8 years didn't convince you the GOP is a train wreck and needed to be shown the door, Obama isn't likely to change your ideology either.
It's the results I'm looking for, not idealogy. If shutting down free trade and elevating unions strengthens our economy, if proving universal health care gives everyone quality medical services without bankrupting us, if massive new job training programs break from a 45-year track record of failure and this time enables millions of unemployed to find rewarding work, then great! I will be delighted to admit the errors of my ways. But you betcha, I'm definitely standing on the opposide of the fence on this one, arms crossed. You wanted the car? Well you caught it - let's see what you do with it - I hope it's more than just pissing on the tires.
Agree with both stationstops and cf. I think the last 8 years have been a disaster - but that is because Bush went AWAY from Republican tenets (small government, less spending) and towards the no-man's-land of war, spending, and provincialism.
Mostly I think voters wanted something - anything - different. Obama was it. You can't tell me that people actually WANT higher taxes and more powerful unions (see how well GM and Chrysler and Ford have done WITH them....?).
If Obama can pull it off he will have my vote in 2012, without question. What I fear will happen instead, though, is higher taxes for me and my family, 10% unemployment rates, and and a government deficit that rages ever more out of control. No one hopes more than me that I am wrong.
CEA
Mark my words on this...4 years from now we will have an absolutley devestated economy that is getting worse by the day and guess what? Obama and left will STILL be blaming Bush. And the American public will still buy it....
anonymous - both Reagan and Bush 1 had a combined budget deficit of $.5 TRILLION.
Clinton: $200B Budget surplus.
Bush did not 'move away' from GOP spending tenets, he elevated them into the ionosphere.
Less spending is not something republican presidents actually *do*, its something they say they'll do after they hypnotize you with a tax cut and leave the debt balance to the next Democratic administration.
Happened to Clinton, happened to Obama.
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