Friday, October 15, 2010

GOP "Pledge to America"-Is this Progress?

Of all the political banter and attacks that I have heard the "Pledge to America" is one of the worst. This "pledge" is nothing more that the GOP playing on the fears of Americans. It is a smoke screen that once cleared away reveals that there is nothing substantial behind it. There are a lot of promises with no solid plans to back them up. It seems to me that if you are going to make a promise that you should have a plan in place to make it happen. Take for example the GOP's promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act. They promise that they will replace the current law with a new one that includes making it legal to buy insurance across state lines, no caps on lifetime care, and among many other things, no dropping a person for a preexisting condition. Do they even know what is in the current law? These things are already included! The GOP couldn't be nonpartisan during the creation of the Affordable Care Act but now they want to come in and repeal it and pass their own version that is basically the same thing with a different name and call it progress! I call that a royal waste of time!
Another thing, they promise is to cut government spending, which sounds good, but it is a proven fact that if you cut government spending in a downturn it makes things worse for the economy. It is not simply a case of treating the economy like your family budget, it is much more complicated than that. If as individuals, we know that we are making less, we cut back.  If the government cuts spending and we as individuals cut spending, who is left to provide the demand to get the economy going again? Think of the economy as a mirror image of a family budget. It is a simple supply and demand equation. If there is no demand, there is no spending and the economy flat-lines or goes deeper into recession.
End TARP once and for all? That was their previous GREAT LEADER, President Bush's, idea! Why is it that people forget so fast? President Bush enacted TARP into law October 3rd 2008, before the election! Are they admitting that they made a mistake? Please give credit where credit is due.
A smaller, more organized government would be great, but a more organized government that has the power and will to get things done is even better. I don't really care what side you are on as long as things can get done without backpedaling and wasting time. I think that the majority of Americans think the same way. There are many things that the average Green Party, Tea Party, Democrat, Republican,  or Independent can agree on. It is up to the politicians to get together and ignore party lines and get stuff done!

4 comments:

  1. I haven't read this yet but just want to say real quickly that the Republicans had some sham website that they were using to solicit "concerns of the real people" for this pledge. The number one thing that site visitors asked for was marijuana legalization. The writers of this pledge decided not to take into consideration those concerns.

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  2. you can check out the pledge here: http://pledge.gop.gov/

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  3. Just read your post Dan, very well said.

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  4. I agree with Scott...very well said!

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