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Jim B. · #6 12-05-2012, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by MTUpower

Please tell me how kicking the can down the road/increasing the debt ceiling is good in the long term?

In life people often need to make short term sacrifices in order to realize long term gains. What I see the POTUS/left doing is giving short term gains at the price of long term sacrifice. The right needs to come off this we won't tax the rich more stupidity and the left needs to wake up and understand they are fukking the youth and all of us with debt. Yes the right increased the debt but that's water under the bridge and they are not in power so don't bother to bring that up.

No. LET's bring it up, not just "poo poo" it as you said.

Let's bring up military waste and fraud and how come the chest beating far right has dragged us into unwinnable wars for decades. Please explain the mission, goal and strategy for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Mr. MTU Power....

And a lot of iot is BLOOD (not just water as you so cavalierly and dismissively put it) under the bridge... all the death and permanent injury of our troops, and those country's civilians.

The knee jerk "partisanship above patriotism" of the far right has been repudiated by the American electorate. What *IS* it about that concept that so eludes you???!!

Younger people and the remaining middle class see no good reason for the tax breaks given to multimillionaires and want to see some meaningful reform here.

The flimsy fig leaf of "job creation" has been shown to be a sham, and ripped away. Most of those "jobs" go to places like China and Bangladesh, where labor is cheaper; and tax breaks should be tied directly to corporate investment and jobs and new infrastructure created only WITHIN the United States and not outside it.

It's time to see REAL reform.

"Tax cuts for the rich" are unsustainable morally until they are truly earned.

Not given away to Congressional represetatives through slick bribery by lobbyists.

Both sides are guilty of it, but it is far far more pervasive on the right, far right and the Republican party, in terms of both scope and actual dollars.

The entire system has been perverted into a plutocracy, and does not resemble the Democracy of our founding fathers.

Goes back over a hundred years, to the robber barons and railroad scandals at the beginning of the last century. And before. It is about limitless greed.