GOP KILLS CIVIL UNIONS IN CO! RAVE THIS IF YOU HATE THE GOP!

Neither party is doing much good for the people, but I have to agree with most of what "Jimbo" said earlier. I'll re-post his comments in a minute but I have been consistently watching C-SPAN for the past nine months and have found that most of the time it appears that the GOP is just plain "obstructionist". Anything to shutdown the democrats and Obama.
Here is "Jimbo's" posts:
"The GOP does not allow free speech at Allen West town halls. Rand Paul's people knock down a reporter and kick her. They will tell gays and the million children they raise they don't have the rights of heterosexuals. They will tell a woman what she can and must do to her own body. They will rescind equal pay for women in WI. They will get rid of locally elected government in MI. They will deny Muslims building permits for places of worship. They will make outsourced income for US corporations more profitable than here in the US. They will let the oil/gas industry pollute the water not subject to the clean water act. They will let an over million income boss pay a lower tax rate than their sec'y. They will take food off the table cutting WIC and SNAP. They will cut the safety nets for workers ending the EIC, cutting unemployment. They will not raise the min. wage for a decade, then cry poverty raising theirs from $90,000 to $172,000. They will fudge the data (Cheney daily trips to Langley) to give Halliburton no bid contracts, then commit treason (Valerie Plame) to get back at Joe Wilson telling you the truth about Nigerian uranium. They will get religious rubes to back them denying birth control with life at conception. They will make future grandmas pay another $6000 a year for medicare. They will shift more income to the top in the Ryan budget by cutting to shreds all the safety nets, not even reducing the debt."

Pesky historians always pointing out the facts;


1. Reagan was a serial tax raiser. As governor of California, Reagan “signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.” Meanwhile, state spending nearly doubled. As president, Reagan “raised taxes in seven of his eight years in office,” including four times in just two years. As former GOP Senator Alan Simpson, who called Reagan “a dear friend,” told NPR, “Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times in his administration — I was there.” “Reagan was never afraid to raise taxes,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, who edited Reagan’s memoir. Reagan the anti-tax zealot is “false mythology,” Brinkley said.

2. Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.” Reagan enacted a major tax cut his first year in office and government revenue dropped off precipitously. Despite the conservative myth that tax cuts somehow increase revenue, the government went deeper into debt and Reagan had to raise taxes just a year after he enacted his tax cut. Despite ten more tax hikes on everything from gasoline to corporate income, Reagan was never able to get the deficit under control.

3. Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded. Despite the myth that Reagan presided over an era of unmatched economic boom for all Americans, Reagan disproportionately taxed the poor and middle class, but the economic growth of the 1980′s did little help them. “Since 1980, median household income has risen only 30 percent, adjusted for inflation, while average incomes at the top have tripled or quadrupled,” the New York Times’ David Leonhardt noted.

4. Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future. He promised to cut government agencies like the Department of Energy and Education but ended up adding one of the largest — the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, which today has a budget of nearly $90 billion and close to 300,000 employees. He also hiked defense spending by over $100 billion a year to a level not seen since the height of the Vietnam war.

5. Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to choose. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that “resulted in more than a million abortions.” When Reagan ran for president, he advocated a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited all abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, but once in office, he “never seriously pursued” curbing choice.

6. Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.” He wrote in his memoirs that “[m]y dream…became a world free of nuclear weapons.” “This vision stemmed from the president’s belief that the biblical account of Armageddon prophesied nuclear war — and that apocalypse could be averted if everyone, especially the Soviets, eliminated nuclear weapons,” the Washington Monthly noted. And Reagan’s military buildup was meant to crush the Soviet Union, but “also to put the United States in a stronger position from which to establish effective arms control” for the the entire world — a vision acted out by Regean’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, when he became president.

7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty. The bill was sold as a crackdown, but its tough sanctions on employers who hired undocumented immigrants were removed before final passage. The bill helped 3 million people and millions more family members gain American residency. It has since become a source of major embarrassment for conservatives.

8. Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran. Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran, which was subject to a an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages. Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing. When the deals went public, the Iran-Contra Affair, as it came to be know, was an enormous political scandal that forced several senior administration officials to resign.

9. Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act. which placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate. Reagan responded by saying “I deeply regret that Congress has seen fit to override my veto,” saying that the law “will not solve the serious problems that plague that country.”

10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Talbian and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahidin commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters. In fact, Reagan’s decision to continue the proxy war after the Soviets were willing to retreat played a direct role in Bin Laden’s ascendancy.

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WOW. You really don't know your history. Copying and pasting from left wing websites that post 1/2 truths is pinheaded.


Here are the facts dear:

THE ECONOMY BEFORE REAGAN
When President Reagan entered office in 1981, he faced actually much worse economic problems than Obama faced in 2009:
Three worsening recessions starting in 1969 were about to culminate in the worst of all in 1981-1982.
Unemployment soaring into double digits at a peak of 10.8%.
Roaring double-digit inflation, with the CPI at 11.3% in 1979 and 13.5% in 1980 (25% in two years).
Double digit interest rates, with the prime rate peaking at 21.5% in 1980.
The poverty rate started increasing in 1978, eventually climbing by 33%, from 11.4% to 15.2%.
A fall in real median family income that began in 1978 snowballed to a decline of almost 10% by 1982.
From 1968 to 1982, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 70% of its real value, reflecting an overall collapse of stocks.
REAGAN’S ECONOMIC SUCCESS
Reagan conservative policies amounted to the most successful economic experiment in world history:
20 million new jobs were created.
Unemployment fell to 5.3% by 1989.
The top income tax rate was cut from 70% to 28%.
The Reagan Recovery took off once the tax rate cuts were fully phased in.
Total federal spending declined to 21.2% of GDP in 1989 (even with the Reagan defense buildup, which won the Cold War.)
Eliminated price controls on oil and natural gas. Production soared, and aided by a strong dollar the price of oil declined by more than 50%.
Real per-capita disposable income increased by 18% from 1982 to 1989 (meaning the American standard of living increased by almost 20% in just 7 years.)
The poverty rate declined every year from 1984 to 1989, dropping by one-sixth from its peak.
The stock market more than tripled in value from 1980 to 1990 (a larger increase than in any previous decade.)
The Reagan recovery started in official records in November 1982, and lasted 92 months without a recession until July 1990 (when the tax increases of the 1990 budget deal killed it.)
During this 7-year recovery, the economy grew by almost one-third (equivalent of adding the entire economy of West Germany to the U.S. economy.)
In 1984 alone real economic growth boomed by 6.8%, the highest in 50 years.
The inflation from 1980 (in the Carter era) was reduced from 13.5% to 3.2% by 1983.
(The contractionary, tight-money policies needed to kill this inflation inexorably created the steep recession of 1981 to 1982, which is why Reagan did not suffer politically catastrophic blame for that recession.)
The Reagan Recovery kicked off a historic 25-year economic boom (with short recessions in 1990 and 2001.)
The period from 1982 to 2007 is the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet. In 1980, the net worth–assets minus liabilities–of all U.S. households and business was $25 trillion in today’s dollars. By 2007, net worth was just shy of $57 trillion. Adjusting for inflation, more wealth was created in America in the 25-year boom than in the previous two hundred years.
Economic growth averaged 7.1% over the first 7 quarters.

I agree. What we need as a Nation is a Conservative in office.
One who:
RESPECTS the CONSTITUTION
RESPECTS LIFE
EMBRACES LIMITED GOVERNMENT
PERSONAL & FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
and who will put
GOD, COUNTRY & FAMILY FIRST.

We've tried it the lefts way and it has failed. The fact is Liberalism, Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism and Communism has never worked.It destroys the SPIRIT of the INDIVIDUAL and it it has KILLED MILLIONS.

Its time to get back to the Judeo Christian Conservative Values and Principles that America was founded on.

If we keep heading down this bleak dark road the Anointed One has set us all on than the America the COUNTRY we LOVE, the land of the FREE will be FREE no more. Her people will be enslaved by an intrusive TOTALITARIAN DICTATOR aka Barack Hussein Obama.

We have one foot in the grave of Socialism already and were getting closer to sticking the other foot in the grave. We must not allow this Obama Regime to destroy our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!! He must not be allowed to FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM AMERICA into the USSA.

Hitler also said that HE would FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM GERMANY and we all KNOW how that turned out.





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