I_Like_Dirt wrote:dckingsfan wrote:That they aren't equally (or more so) of perpetuating really stupid programs that have bankrupted state an local governments?
Here's the thing, you keep pointing to the state and local level, and yet you keep using those arguments on the presidential level when they don't nearly hold up on the presidential level to the same degree you're alleging. No the Ds aren't infallible and even their presidents make some pretty serious mistakes, but if you want to make large sweeping arguments, it really should be that presidentially people should vote D because they haven't been nearly the disaster that R presidents have been, and then on the state and local levels they should consider their options depending on what either given party is doing at that point, or just flat out abstain from voting because it doesn't matter if you go bankrupt by overspending or by running out of revenues due to massive tax cuts or both since you're bankrupt either way.
So, Presidents don't create the budgets. That is the legislatures purview. And on a federal level both parties are equally complicit in bankrupting the country. But Ds point at Rs and Rs at Ds.
The proof that they are both complicit is at the state level where states controlled by both parties have bankrupted their state an local governments.
And when we have had the federal government controlled by either party it has been a disaster.
When one of the parties screws up - you go out and vote for the opposition.
The real point of this is that the D voters need to hold their politicians accountable and not just point out that the other party sucks.
And the R voters need to do the same.
Having dumb and dumber as our two party system isn't a good thing.
- yuck
