Looking back at History.

I have not written a blog in a while because I felt all tapped out. As I watch the Republican debates I wonder if my recall of recent history is real or a figment of my imagination ? 

Didn’t President Bush destroy a balanced budget by giving out tax cuts to everyone?

Didn’t President Bush start two wars without paying for them?

Didn’t President Bush tell the public that the economy was sound and two weeks later tells Congress that the economy was in danger of complete collapse?

Didn’t President Bush insist on the Tarp bailout to save the banking system from a complete collapse?

Did I remember these events correct or not?

Enter President Obama full of hope and change.

Didn’t the Republicans refuse to vote for any bills that the Democratic Party sponsered?

Didn’t the Republican leaders state that their main goal was not to help the country but to make Obama a one term President?

The Republicans have refused to talk about any bill or budget that would both, raise taxes and cut spending. They refuse to acknowledge that their party played a big part in the mess our economy is in. They would rather protect the wealthy than the working middle class. How can voters agree with them? I find it hard to believe that voters support a party that wants to cut programs paid for by pay role taxes like SSI or Medicare.  Medicare has not raised its 1.45% tax on workers since it started. Since that time medical costs have risen 10 times faster then  workers pay. Why does the Republican party blame the program instead of high medical costs? 

The Republic Party has been on a 65 year quest to get rid of SSI and a 50 yr. quest to destroy Medicare.  The fact is that the wealthy do not want to pay any amount to these programs to help the masses. They love their money way too much and resent poor or working families. They wonder why they deserve anything except a paycheck. A public education for everyoue ?  They ask Why.

Is this the kind of society that good Christians really foresee in the future?  If the elderly could not afford their health care in 1962 how can they afford them today without these programs?

Is this problem that hard to understand or am I just too idealistic? Can't we just fix these programs?  Didn't Rpnald Reagan fix SSI with a modest tax increase?

I causes me wonder that Republicans blame Obama for all the problems we face today when the past President and Congress caused their share of them. Instead of trying to help the President they are trying to make it worse and blame everything on him.  The history on this issue is not that old and I find it offensive that people today choose to overlook the past and blame all problems on Obama.

I also find it hard to be around or even have a discussion with morons that hate so much and can’t see the forest through the trees.  Sometimes I just want to say to them that it is not political but historical.  The facts are the facts. These people give no credit to Obama and no blame to Bush. Are we all Americans or menbers of just a Political Party ?