Republicans, Taxes, Deficits, and Jobs

[kentuck]

The Republicans are salivating over the next election. They believe they are going to take back the House and maybe the Senate. How do the plan on doing that?

Like every other election in the last 30 years, their plan will call for taxcuts and deficit reductions. They will say that is the way to create jobs.

However, they cut taxes by a trillion dollars in 2001 and their Party and their President created the least amount of jobs in history and doubled the debt on the American people. Now they want to return to the same strategy. We have seen this movie before and it is a horror film.

But the final brick in the wall was the economic depression they left this present Administration. Either they don't care or they are ignorant of the extent of the crisis because they have refused to work with this President on any of his ideas to help this economy. We tried it their way and it failed miserably. Now they want the American people to repeat the same disaster once again?

Republicans must be forced to explain exactly what their plan is to create jobs and to get us out of this mess that they got us into. They cannot be permitted to feign amnesia about their role in the present mess. Democrats need to become more aggressive toward these dangerous people.

[AndyA]

1. Democrats have needed to become more aggressive for decades or longer.

I watch them on the talk shows, and they let so many golden opportunities slide by. A Republican makes a comment about the lousy economy today and how the American people are upset about it. But does the Dem say, "Well who ran the economy into the ground in 2007, resulting in this recession?"

RNC Chair Steele commented this morning about the "double standard" with the Trent Lott-Harry Reid comments. Tim Kaine did point out that Reid's remarks were in support of Obama, and Lott's were in support of someone who was a very obvious bigot, but he stopped there. I think he should have mentioned the GOP's pursuit of impeachment against Clinton for lying vs. the GOP's failure to impeach Bush for war crimes and lying to the American people, Congress, and the entire world about it.

If I'd been Tim Kaine, I would have pointed out that the GOP/Bush tax cuts in 2001 did NOTHING to prevent this recession.

I would point out that no new jobs were created because of it.

I would point out that the only ones who are better off are the hyper wealthy, who didn't need help in the first place.

I would point out that most of the current deficit is due to the actions of the GOP/Bush rather than Dems and Obama.

I would point out AGAIN the huge issues handed to Obama last year when he took office, and remind people that the Dems were not the ones responsible.

But, they don't. And that's another missed opportunity to correct the lies. And millions of people see this day in and day out...is it any wonder people don't seem to understand the situation?

[kentuck]

2. They need those types of responses...

Otherwise, the people will believe everything the Repubs say. They have to be called on these issues: taxes, deficits, jobs, the wars, and the collapse in the economy. "Balls, said the Queen. If I had 'em, I'd be King." :-)

[anonymous171]

3. If republican policies don't work then why do democrats support them?

The democrats have shot themselves in the foot on this one.

[applegrove]

4. I'm thinking the rich want to park their money outside the US in high growth countries. In that way

they have become detached from the middle class in the USA. They do not require a good consumer market at home in order for their investments to pay off. Just a thought. How can they reap huge benefits from these foreign investments if they get taxed at 38% when they repatriate their money. They don't care about anything but becoming the next generations of super nova rich.