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This election scares me

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#1 ·
I've always felt that even if my candidate didn't win we would be fine and life would go on as usual. I don't feel that way this time. We are either going to go back to being a capitalist nation that rewards hard work or we are going to move farther towards the failed Europeon socialist welfare state model. We are either going to work for a living or vote for a living. This is the most important election of our lifetime so please get out and vote. Unless, of course, you are voting for what will be four years worse than the last four.
 
#100 ·
Problem is, compromise is defined as Republicans caving and Democrats get what they asked for. Case in point: in August 2011, Washington hit the debt ceiling and the President needed the debt limit raised to continue to function. Republicans said fine, we'll raise your limit, provided you make budget cuts . . .Dems said we'll agree to cuts beginning in Jan. 2013 if you will give us the debt ceiling raise now. Republicans, believing Democrats were sincere in their promise to make cuts, caved, the limit was raised and S&P lowered our credit score for the first time in US history because Republicans were rolled like weenies.

Now we have the so called "fiscal cliff" looming and the president says give me the tax increases and we'll decide what to cut LATER. but this is a spending problem not a tax problem and not addressing budget cuts IS what's sending us over this cliff.

It's so bad . . .the last two budgets the President has sent to Congress were so outrageous in spending, they were voted down by 100% of Congress (see? Democrats and Republicans CAN agree the President is a tax and spend politician).

We have to do something, here . . .the debt ceiling limit must be raised again next month . . .and the time is ticking on this fiscal cliff. Congress will soon leave Washington for Winter Break . . .while the President shuffles off for his three week Hawaiian vacation. None of these people have earned the break . . .we're sitting on the edge and short of a miracle, we're ALL falling off.

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#102 ·
What is happening with the fiscal cliff issue is the president is trying to make it look like republicans fault no matter how it plays. This is in the hopes that democrats will gain control of the house in the next midterm election. This is how slimy Chicago politics works. Hold the entire nations economy hostage for political gain. It amazes me that nobody who voted to give Obama a second term thinks there is any chance we are heading for an economic collapse. Our system is truly broken and four years from now it might just be irreparable. Obamacare is starting to create the problems so many of us knew were coming. We have a tax on medical devices set to start at the first of the year. Now we have democrat senators trying to get the tax postponed or repealed. One major maker of medical devices has notified employees that 1000 workers will lose their jobs. Problem is obamacare needs the 29 billion this tax will generate. Once again we have a new entitlement program the government will not be able to pay for. Hide your money because the government will be looking for it as it heads to bankruptcy.
 
#103 ·
My point was more to the fact that the media has and always will be in the bag for Obama. Romney may have been doomed from the get-go BC of his flopping around, but Obama has also changed views IE gay marriage, except when it's Obama it's called "evolving" and is largely ignored by the media. Unfortunately Americans voted for the the obscure "cool" guy that votes present as a senator so he has no record to get picked at vs the talented awkward guy. My husband predicted the last recession and he's saying we're headed into another one. And you might just want to hire a good tax accountant.
 
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