Folks may interpret the facts differently...I hope that there are plenty of undecideds who will vote for
the party of tax & spend: the Democrats. There is nothing wrong with taxation ... The rich, during these times,
can afford to pay their fair share. So let's soak up the tax money from the rich with a huge metaphoric sponge!
Of course, there is the republican party (small r) who constantly run the country on a credit card. To coin a phrase, there is no free lunch--unless you rob all the mousetraps. We have to keep up our cost of living. In order to do that,there are some things we have to tax. I think personal income, gas, oil, luxuries, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages are among the items we may continue to tax. We also need to increase the deficit from time to time. Those who hold the budget hostage will eventually have to pay the piper. It is time to pay the piper. So, hopefully, the public will eventually, if not now, see things my way. This election, one way or another, will put the nails in the coffin of "Reaganomics". Obama inherited a deficit of more than a trillion dollars when he took office.
Obama said we would not get out of this hole the republicans & deregulation put us in (during his first term) unless we were fortunate.
We were not fortunate. We're just now getting out of the "great recession" which we have been into since 2007.
If the car industry & the banks were not bailed out, our country would be in a depression or worse. The Democrats
got us out of the Great Depression & will get us out of the "great recession". So, live and learn, as the saying goes. That is, if the Democrats are reelected & their policies are followed by the Congress.
Also posted in a similar form in Algonquin's Table in the "In the Trenches" zone
in Demerara Lady's thread, "We are the 99%", on page one of that thread.
Also, my comment from from Still Trucking's thread, "Presidential Race Jumps the Dog" :
It is my sincere hope that Obama & the Democrats steamroll Romney the
way he steamrolled Santorum. Oh hell, yeah!
Oh, reactionary politics are alive & well in spirit. Meanwhile, Joe McCarthy is
mouldering in his grave...No doubt about it, however, these wedge issues
have not translated into primary votes so far. Imagine trying to outlaw
contraception & restarting "commie hunting". Like the early fifties...
Except that dog doesn't hunt anymore: "My dog's more neo-con than
your dog, my dog's more neo-con than yours, my dog's more neo-con,
'cause he wears the sign of Santorum, my dog's more neo-con than yours..."
Hey, my dog's got the Gingrinch itch...moreover...
I doubt anyone in Congress is a card carrying communist. However, a few are socialist...There is a difference. Sweden is a socialist country.
May the bright light of shared prosperity shine on you all this month.May the waves of oil raise all boats. We've drilled more during four years of the Obama administration than in eight years of Shrub. Let the "fracked
soil" pass some natural gas in upper northeast Tennessee. Let 'em drill where
folks want 'em to drill! Roll drilling rigs, roll to Tennessee...Oh hell, yeah!
... Sixteen days which made us embarrassed to be Americans. 
