Well it's become quite clear that Republican/Conservatives took the information gleaned by their multiple losses and are using it to keep up a "Misery Offensive". Basically that's the only thing that worked in 2010. That's when Conservatives convinced most of the nation their lives were going to be SO MISERABLE as a result of Democratic policies that they had better elect bat shit crazy tea party candidates to thwart the effort. This produced the Sequester, 42 attempts to repeal the ACA, a government shutdown that cost the economy 24 billion dollars, 55 actual bills being passed through congress (A record low), a slowing of hiring, cutting of vital services to the needy nation wide and 11 million people with legal statuses in limbo. They did all that, and turn around blame Democrats. Well that didn't work in Virginia or New York which both went Democrat. The only Republican winning big was Christie and that may well be because he showed he could work with Democrats to solve problems.
This should have been an indication that making life miserable for people and then blaming your opponents is not good governance and doesn't win elections. There are several bills in the house that if passed would make life better for people. Raising the minimum wage, the immigration reform act and the farm bill. What do Conservatives want to do?
Keep on making people miserable.
Let's see how that works come 2014.
The economy is still in the tank, unemployment is still high and the jobs added are lower paying jobs, people are working two and rap three jobs to make ends meet. The middle class is going to be burdened with Obamacare. They are going to need to take more money out of their pocket. The Christmas shopping is a bust. We find out that the President lied about keeping your insurance. We are printing tons of money, which is going to cause greater inflation. Our energy costs over the last five years has over doubled. Food Stamps is up, unemployment for minorities is skyrocketing. More people depending on government, more people disabled.
Tell what great things are taking place? Shovel ready jobs?
And this completely..almost to a fault, ignores that fact that we nearly lost two very big parts of the economy in 2009, the financial sector and the auto industry.
What's good? Unemployment is getting lower, more people are getting jobs, manufacturing is coming back to the US.
What's your focus? The president "lied" about keeping your insurance, because policies issued AFTER the law was passed didn't comply with the law as it was being rolled out.
Energy "costs" did double over the last "5 years" but over the last decade have been pretty much the same. They pummeled 5 years ago because the economy went bust. But they are back up to where they were when Bush took office. And in case you didn't notice, the financial collapse cost the economy millions of jobs. Hence the need for unemployment and food stamps.
And the shovel ready thing is always a novelty. Republican governors were given control over the funding they were given by the Stimulus. What did they do? They used them to keep public employees funded instead of infrastructure building. Why? Because they wanted to keep their tax cuts in place.
Nothing..and I really mean nothing you guys talk about will bring back jobs, raise wages or invigorate the economy. And since 2010? The folks you elected having been doing everything in their power to sabotage the economy.
So how many more years does your miracle need? He told us under four years, did he lie about that also?
