07-08-2016, 08:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-08-2016, 08:00 PM by Eric the Green.)
(07-08-2016, 04:03 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: As a majority, I believe the country is pretty much on the right track.
But the polls say by a 40% margin that America is on the wrong track. A majority of Republicans and Democrats say that.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/...y-902.html
Quote: I'm on the same track as my parents and their parents. I'm on the American track like most Americans. A track that is considered scary for some, granted by others and acceptable to most who identify themselves as being Americans. However, there are some who believe that our track isn't for them/wasn't created for people like them. I'd place you in that group of people as a spokesman/wannabe leader of those people. An alternate path may be required for those who are unable to advance themselves naturally. An alternate that they can choose to take and create for themselves and hope it's able to last as long as our path.
The "American track" has never been only self-reliance. Government help has been a part of it since Hamilton. I have covered all of that before, and in my article. http://philosopherswheel.com/freemarket.html
Quote: For an American, you sure don't know squat about the American spirit. You know, the good old "can do" spirit that so many Americans have that you and so many blue patrons appear to lack. You know, the good old "fighting" spirit that so many Americans still have that you and so many of your blue patrons appear to lack. America wasn't created to be given away to whoever or whatever group has an issue with it today. It's funny, the Democrats created the system that you have issues with today and all you can do is blame Republicans. YOU ARE CRAZY.
Reagan said that his trickle-down economics program "promises to revive the American spirit." The rapacious spirit of the wealthy yes, but American spirit has fallen behind Europe. Americans had spirit in the sixties, when they worked together to fight poverty and put man on the Moon under JFK and LBJ which created the computer industry and its famous valley where I live and work. Americans had spirit when they spoke up when their government started a deadly war they didn't need or want, and stopped it. Americans had spirit when they created the EPA and clean air and water, and stopped corporations from ripping off the consumer. Americans had spirit when groups discriminated against spoke up for their rights and advanced them. I don't have issues with any of that which the Democrats and the people created. I have issues because the Republicans came in and stopped all of that and more.
The Republicans have [i]given away]/i] this spirit and this country to the Republicans and to the wealthy 1% whom they represent. Democrats were complicit too, to the extent they were "New" Democrats who deregulated Wall Street. Bill Clinton bowed to the free market ideology of Reagan, but he still raised the minimum wage and created the earned income credit. His leadership had put the country on a path to prosperity when YOUR man came in, sent us off to 2 never-ending wars, exploded the debt, deregulated Wall Street and the corporations even more, denied climate change, and made the growing equality gap of the Reagan years into a grand canyon.
How can I be crazy, when I know that REPUBLICANS created the system we have today, and when I want them out so we can progress again after 35 years of neglect, mindless obstruction and decay?