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Old 07-16-2009, 08:34 PM
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Personalities aside, the real question is do you agree with:

Cap and Trade, the Health Reform bill, the bailout, and what all of these things are going to do to an already sagging economy, rising unemployment, probable increase in taxes, and rising cost-of-living?

All of this "my candidate won, your's lost, live with whatever happens next" is as high schoolish as it gets. We're talking about the nation, not a personality contest. Taxes, the economy, jobs: these are important things, and everyone - Democrat, Republican and Independent - should be concerned when we keep spending money we don't have by just printing it like counterfeiters do.

Our manufacturing base has already gone East to communist nations. We keep raising the cost-of-doing-business on domestic companies without providing them protection from communist-made goods and services based in countries paying folk $20 a day. We're losing taxpayers at a high rate due to unemployment and age, while at the same time our government increases spending.

When will this joint Democrat-Republican sniping and defense take second billing to whether we will still HAVE a nation? We're not that far from economic meltdown. While having concern for social welfare is nice, unless there is a stable country (low unemployment, high productivity, limited/no warfare, standard-of-living getting better), adding more spending while economically downtrodden is nationalistic suicide.

When up to your butt in debt, getting more credit cards and running them up to the limit will not improve your financial status. In other words, you cannot spend yourself out of debt! Yet, that's what is happening right now at the federal level.

We can continue Bush-Obama-Palin-whoever else sniping or realize that these politicians will not pay our personal health care costs, or pay our tax bill, or hire us or our kin. The issues are more important than any politician.