Helen wrote:Hermskii wrote:Obama is the worst President we have ever had. Even worse than Jimmy Carter who until now was easily the worst.
Two people ahead of George W. as the worst? LOL! C'mon, you gotta admit georgie was the worst puppet middle america has ever had. I know it, and the folks outside of middle america know it. If you don't admit that, then it invalidates anything else you say politically. You also mention Liberals a lot, here and in other posts. Anyone you don't like gets labelled a liberal. That's interesting that in the need to label them, they get lumped in as a part of the 'other' side of your political spectrum. You seem a bit entrenched in middle america's political system, which is too bad. You have two whole choices, but really they're just the same spoiled fruit. Another choice is not to participate in that system and ask for something better.
As a young man I liked the (canadian) tories because their color was blue and they represented the west. Oh the naivety. Now I can step back and see the government has become something that rules us, and I want it to be dismantled and replaced where the people govern themselves, and any official bodies just do basic administration.
I too used to like the Tories because they promised to put a stop to the spendthrift ways of the Trudeau Liberals. I turned 18 just in time to vote for Bob Stanfield during the last election that he ran in; in 1971. Unfortunately Trudeau was just too popular, and with the Province of Quebec solidly behind him, totally unstoppable. So the mad spending continued. How I enjoyed the brief period when Joe Clark was Prime Minister. But he bungled his minority leadership, and we got Trudeau back for four more. And the first thing that Trudeau did was go right back to heavy deficit financing.
Then we got Lyin' Brian Mulroney along with his gang of separatists posing as Quebecois Progressive Conservatives into power, with the promise of finally balancing the books and making a start on reducing the national debt. Then as soon as they were in power, they did the opposite, and made things a lot worse. Four years later they promised the same thing, and mumbled a bit about Free Trade, but did not run on Free Trade as part of their platform. So what did they do with their majority? Brought in a type of Free Trade that nobody wanted, that ultimately killed our economy, AND made the deficit much, much, worse after promising to end the spending.
So who ultimately cleaned things up? Who got things back on track?
The Liberals with Paul Martin as Finance Minister!
And who was it that spent the "nest egg" that the Liberals put aside for an emergency such as the melt down of 2008 turned out to be, and then had to put us back into massive deficit only because they previously blew all that emergency money on stupid tax cuts for the rich?
The "new" Conservative Party!!
Net result: I seek to know them not by what they say, but by what they do, and vote accordingly.
Dubya and his puppet masters promised to turn things around, but instead got the USA involved in not one, but two foreign wars, when she could not afford either of them, being broke already.
It's those two wars that broke the US economy, the rest just made matters a lot worse.
Obama inherited a complete mess. By being elected when he was, he did the Republicans a big favour, because now they can paper over the mess they brought to a head under Dubya, and blame it all on the Democrats. What a sweet deal for them.
