Common Dreams: It's Your Life

[azmouse]

This is a great article to send to anyone you know who supports Bush.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1214-22.htm

Excerpt:
Consider the fiscal health of the country (and thus, also, of your wallet). The Republicans bill themselves as the party of fiscal discipline, but when Ronald Reagan came into office he spent so much, and cut taxes on the wealthy so much, that he had to quadruple the national debt to (not) pay for it. Democrats managed to reverse that decline in the 1990s, generating the largest surpluses in American history, but then Bush administration policies made Reagan’s recklessness look like kid’s stuff. Spending like crazy – much of it on foolish priorities like an unnecessary war in Iraq, a prescription drug plan which primarily benefits drug and insurance companies, and pork-barrel legislation like multi-million dollar bridges to nowhere in Alaska – while also taking a meat-axe to taxes formerly paid by the wealthy, George W. Bush and his Republican allies in Congress have created the biggest pile of debt in American history.

[ananda]

1. For Reeps..

Up is down.
Right is left.
Liberal is Conservative.
And fiscal responsibly means an orgy of military-industrial spending
with less tax money for our own poor, disabled, and vets.

Go figure.

It's lookingglass world and very bizarre.

Sue

[kentuck]

2. And Social Security would have been in good shape...

if not for the Republicans and their insane taxcuts and spending. There is no doubt in my mind but that we would be in much better shape today if the Republicans had not stolen the election.

[babylonsister]

3. Thanks for posting this. nt

[BlueEyedSon]

4. k/r

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. You have to understand that, when the right wing talk about the

country's economy and the public exchequer, they are talking about themselves and their personal fortunes. It's that simple.

To their way of thinking they are fiscal conservatives, indeed, they are more than conservative, they are highly progressive - they even put Clinton's extraordinary economic record on the economy in the shade! The perfect political party. Everyone - at least everyone who's anybody - is looked after, indeed greatly enriched.

It is exactly the same in the UK.

Perhaps with these neocons, the above is all the more true of the oil and armaments people, and somewhat less true of the remainder of the wealthy.