"Why do you support liberalism?"
Although I proudly admit to being a life long Democrat, I would not think of myself as strictly a "liberal." I consider myself to be, much like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barrack Obama, to be very much a "middle-of-the-roader. But, since many others who are so into labels would consider me, Carter, Clinton, and Obama to be wild-eyed radical liberals, then I'll gladly answer the question.
I support Liberalism because it is the only political entity today who is willing to work on solving problems. You don't have to agree with us, and I know many of you will fight, tooth and nail, against anything we propose..............but, we are still the only hope for starting the debate on the issues that are going to cause us to follow in the footsteps of Greece unless solved.
Our opponents had years and years to work on health care reform, Green Technology, energy independence, Medicare, and social security reform. No one can deny they choose to punt the ball instead of doing any heavy lifting on those causes. Whether the proposals we put forth would make things better, or worse..........we're still willing to try to work on 'em.
The second reason many of you would call me a "Liberal" is because my party WILL work with the GOP on key issues. Not to say I approve of all of it, but no one can deny that Democrats gave the Republicans great support on things like Bush's tax cuts, Part "D" Medicare Reform, No Child Left Behind, his decision to invade both Afghanistan, and Iraq, and his TARP bailout. This is something that is lacking in today's GOP because, for whatever reason, they refuse to work seriously to solve what we will have to address if we are going to continue to function as a nation!
I'm sorry but locking Republicans out of health care meetings is not really WORKING with the opposing party...
And as far as heading towards Greece... What do you think spending ungodly amounts of money is going to do to our country if it's not going to bankrupt us like Greece??
You can use that ole "locking Republicans out of health care meetings is not really WORKING with the opposing party" canard all you like...........it doesn't move the ball one inch! Had the GOP decided to work on a solution to our Health Care crisis instead of trying to make it Obama's "Waterloo" then the resulting legislation could have been far better. That "they' were not involved is no one's fault but their own!
"Spending ungodly amounts of money" is not what's wrecked Greece and has put us on the edge of following right along behind them..............it's "spending ungodly amounts of money we DON'T PAY FOR!"
There is a solution to every problem we face. Now, that solution ain't going to be easy, it is certainly going to hurt, and is sure as hell is going to be expensive. Our only choice is to decide whether to pay the piper, or to continue with our present solution...............hope we die before the crash and let our children and grandchildren be the ones to starve!