One of the things that scares me is the total lack of togetherness displayed in our country now. It is all about me, has become our national phrase. The Republicans are doing nothing and then blaming the President for the economy's sluggish recovery. The last I looked it is the Congress that votes on spending money and taxes. The President tries to set the agenda, but when the opposing party decides it's top priority is to make the President a one term leader, you can be sure that nothing will be accomplished
I don't want to hear the rhetoric from the right about principles. They have thrown theirs out the window. They are allowing Americans to suffer because they what to win politically. When Obama took office he was slammed for trying too hard at giving to the right. His own party took him to task and wanted him to stand his ground. Each time the President gave to the right, the left screamed he was giving away too much and the right moved the line further away from compromise.
Do you honestly believe the country can afford to wait for the election to be over to start solving problems? Do you believe that if Mitt Romney is elected, Congress on the left side of the aisle will miraculously decide to forget the do nothing politics from the right, and start working with him? They will continue the same destructive politics that the Republicans have been practicing for the last three years.
The right keeps saying the left wants to keep blaming President Bush. We are not continuing to blame him we are trying to remind everyone of those eight years. The Romney presidency will look just like the Bush presidency. Cut taxes. Deepen the recession. Cut regulations so we can have more companies to bail out.
Look at the facts. Bill Clinton, left office and the country had the largest surplus in history. We could have looked at ways to fix Social Security, not privatize. We could have looked at reforms for Medicare and Medicaid. We could have built off of the successes, by Congress and Clinton, instead Bush decided to cut taxes. Got us involved in two wars, without paying for them. Then, he was in office for the start of one of the worst recessions in history.
It took Bush eight years to destroy the economy and yet the right expects Obama to solve the problem and right the ship in three years, all while giving him no support from Congress. Any economist will tell you that an economic downturn this severe will take more then three years to recover from and we all have to work together to do so. It will take a combination of increased revenue and spending cuts to get us moving forward. It will take the effort of American companies and the government working to get people back to work and grow the economy. It will take time as much as we wish it didn't. The right wants to have us believe that the same things they did to get us here in the first place will some how turn the American economy back around. If you believe this, then you must also believe Peter Pan was a real boy.
It is time to quit waiting for the next election. It is time to quit waiting for the ideal situation to come along for businesses. It is time to become an American and stand up for the country as a whole and not just for yourself. Decide now!
