Steelplate
Bluesman
My standard has nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden or politici ing a damn thing. I used to be a Republican when they stood for balanced budgets, small government and individual rights. Now they are in the pockets of the corporations and the wealthy:
Total U S Debt
09/30/2009 $11,909,829,003,511.75(80% Of All Debt Across 232 Years Borrowed By Reagan And Bushes)
09/30/2008 $10,024,724,896,912.49(Times Square Debt Clock Modified To Accomodate Tens of Trillions)
09/30/2007 $9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 $8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 $7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62(Second Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation)
09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06(First Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation)
09/30/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86(Administration And Congress Arguing About How To Use Surplus)
09/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43(First Surplus Generated...On Track To Pay Off Debt By 2012)
09/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 $5,413,146,011,397.34
09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73
09/29/1995 $4,973,982,900,709.39
09/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32
09/30/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38(Debt Quadrupled By Reagan/Bush41)
09/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66
09/30/1991 $3,665,303,351,697.03
09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25
09/29/1989 $2,857,430,960,187.32
09/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16
09/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00
09/30/1986 $2,125,302,616,658.42
09/30/1985 $1,823,103,000,000.00
09/30/1984 $1,572,266,000,000.00
09/30/1983 $1,377,210,000,000.00
09/30/1982 $1,142,034,000,000.00(Total Debt Passes $1 Trillion)
09/30/1981 $997,855,000,000.00
Today's Republicans look at the numbers and charts and can't see what the problem is. Seems like it's going to plan.
Yes...........listen closely to their proposed remedies for the mess THEY made. They're going to fight any attempt to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy. That's why I quit voting for them.....they used to be a responsible party and DEMANDED bala
nced budgets.
That's why I changed parties too. They still demand balanced budgets, but nowadays it's only on the backs of the poor and the middle class. Their rich benefactors go unscathed.
The GOP reminds of a large number of fans of my favorite NFL team. Us Steelers fans have gotten spoiled by success. If the Steelers don't win the Super Bowl, or(God forbid) miss the playoffs......the sky is falling.
The GOP has been in control of this country for the better part of 30 years. Their trickle down utopian ideology has failed for the same reason that Communism fails...a total sense of ignorance as to the selfish and greedy nature of human beings. Nothing will ever be enough for our most financially driven people. They don't care if the rest of the country flounders.
Like those Steelers fans, someone with different ideology than them got elected to lead this great country of ours, and their sky is falling.....so, what do they do? Grasp on to the only thing they know and double down on the failed policies that got us here. But that's not enough....they feel the need to demonize everyone who doesn't believe in their hocus locus anymore.....Just like the frustrated Steelers fans do to the Patriots, the Colts, and most recently.....getting beat by a Tebow led Broncos.