Politcs is not a game to be played with no rules

Monday, March 10, 2008

Politics is not a game to be played with no rules

I am pretty moderate politically. Slightly left of center. But I do mean slightly. I used to and hope to again vote democrat and republican depending on who is better. National and local Dem. vs. Rep. are totally different things. Example if I lived in Philly the Democrats have been in power since the beginning of time, so I would have to vote republican to get any kind of changes. When ever one party owns a city or state there will be serious corruption and unlimited problems!

My big problem at this time on a National level I can not even think of voting for a Republican until this batch of neocons that has taken over the Republican party is gone! To me in a perfect world right now we would get all Democrats in charge for no more then 4 years to restore the Bill of Rights and some kind of sanity to government.

After that I hope the republican party will exile the right wing talk radio types from their ranks and I can go back to hating both parties equally. That would be wonderful. Then if one party could be in control of the Senate while the other has the Congress I would love it! When the government is divided no one has enough power to do permanent damage. The more they fight each other instead of us the better. It would be nice if the presidency changed every 4 to 8 years too. I used to think when one party had control more got done and the government would run better. I was half right, as slow and unaccomplished as they are with public affairs. That's how efficient they are behind the scenes dismantling everything not in the neocon play book. Appointing old pals to important positions they know nothing about. This administration sure didn't invent this but they are the Michael Jordon of shady maneuvers. The Nixon administration who even had some of the same main players looks clean next to this mess.

I don't care what your beliefs are. If you are far right or far left please shut up and go away, and if you could take Ralph Nader with you too that would be very nice! if you are rational right, center or rational left we need all those points of view to make things work. The last important thing is radio. IT IS NOT THE NEWS they do not get payed to be correct. They get paid to find ways to yell and get you worked up over things that usually never happened so you get so worked up you keep listening! It is entertainment not news never was and never will be. Most of them don't even believe their own garbage, read a interview some time. They understand why they get paid and how much. It's all about holding a audience any way you can. They don't usually out rite lie, but live on exaggerations of half truths. I am always amazed when I talk to a Rush or clone fan at a bar. They start yelling about all these horrible liberal plots that are just around the corner! The strange thing is I have never heard of them and they never happen.

Reading a little history doesn't hurt either. Over time memories distort quite a bit leading to bumper sticker level debates. Yes Carter was pretty bad. Then Ronald Reagan came in and made many much needed changes and things got better. That part is true. Unfortunately while some tax cuts did bring in more money, the big picture over all was a larger deficit then we had ever had to that time. It's not a example here and there the country runs on it is the big picture.

Tax cuts do not over all pay for them selves! To still be claiming this after all these years and all these cuts is kind of naive at best. There are always one or two that help. But not taxing a single penny a American company makes in another country they shipped our jobs to UNLESS they bring it back to the states is a very bad idea! that leads to a huge deficit. Making it more profitable in every way and even giving tax cuts to send jobs over seas so "Americans can pay lower prices and are better off" is somewhere between stupid and treason, As a side point the reason we won WW II was not out technology that was very good, but so was the germans. It was our massive industrial base. We could build anything 10 to 1 against any other country in the world. We can't do that any more.

There may be a problem when any party strongly believes that all current and future problems can only be solved by in this case Reagan and what he did. What year was that? About 2 decades ago, please think about that. If your plan for the future is over twenty years old. Don't you think someone somewhere should be able to come up with something new? Name on thing besides gravity that has not changed completely in the last two decades. Is there a single solution to anything in today's world with all the new technology like computers and cell phones....that still work? In closing I don't really care what you think just think instead of just repeating word for word what you hear on the radio please.

Labels: democrats, government, politics, Republican control, right wing radio

Wednesday, March 5, 2008