America Is Worse Off

As of Thursday, August 11, 2011

During the recent Washington debates over extending the debt ceiling, the Democratic Senate majority said, “Send us what we want or we will not pass it.” Our Democratic president added that if he didn’t like it, he would veto it. All the while there was a lot of scare talk and even a few “blame Bush” speeches.

It seems that people at Standard and Poor’s have spoken loudest and America is worse off.

I suspect that the 2012 elections will reveal the number of people in this country who are fed up with the status quo.

John White

Pinehurst

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fugitiveguy 1 year, 9 months ago

Yet it was the Republicans who were labeled as terrorists and holding the country hostage. The nerve of Obama going on television and lecturing anyone on "political brinksmanship". Priceless

Zippy 1 year, 9 months ago

Clearly it was both parties with Republican, "my way or the high way," the greatest stumbling block.

DaveyNC 1 year, 9 months ago

Wait, what? I'm pretty sure that if you look, you will see that Obama and the Dems were equally intransigent when it came to entitlement reform. I think that was the bigger stumbling block.

Toda 1 year, 9 months ago

Bush created this mess with a national recession that crippled the economy in 2008. He had a surplus and left a 4 trillion dollar deficit. The Republicans continue to weigh down the former middle class with the weight of taxation. Meanwhile the corporations and wealthy continue with tax loopholes and untouchable when it comes to their share. NO NEW TAXES ~ the former middle class has that covered. We want the wealthy to keep all of their money for foreign investments. Since they are banking their trillions instead of providing new jobs, the Republicans have given them another pass to satisfy the TEA NUTS or Party NUTS. During the hilarious debate sponsored by none other than Fox News, they used time to point out what everyone else thought of the candidates, bashing POTUS'O, but not once did they mention the middle class. Just cut ~ cut ~ cut without the wealthy carrying any of the load. Jet Fuel anyone? Or another sweat shop in Indonesia?

walter68 1 year, 9 months ago

well said Toda!

CaddieMaster 1 year, 9 months ago

Diehard Republicans will see the problem to be the intransigent Dems, and diehard Democrats blame the Republicans (particularly the Tea Party). I think the majority of Independents (which represent a majority these days), are probably just pissed off at the brinksmanship and lack of compromise on either side. The brinksmanship was absolutely the fault of the Tea Party - even the rest of the Republicans in Congress were getting frustrated at them. They "won" this battle, but expect they started the process in which they'll lose the war. The Tea Party "traded" raising the debt limit and our AAA rating for some easy spending cuts and no new taxes. That shouldn't have been the traded - it should have been bigger spending cuts, entitlement and tax reform - which it seemed that saner heads wanted to accomplish but were derailed by the "No Additional Tax on the Wealthy" pledge - which I don't see a lot of widespread support for (in fact, more than 50% of Republicans are even fine with that). I think the joke will be on Congress when the "Super Committee" of 12 are unable to compromise again and across the board cuts to Defense and Medicare will occur, pissing all citizens off and causing a "throw ALL the bums out!" response - and this time, it can't be blamed on the Obama...

walter68 1 year, 9 months ago

all i remember is "Boner" proud of himself in getting 98% of what he wanted! and got it !

Obama should have used the 14th amend. days earlier, and just passed what was needed. debt ceiling raised 18 times with reagan, 10 times with bush jr. and i think it was 6 times with clinton. what is the problrem???? racist a**holes, looks like.. maybe so.

Yukonjohn 1 year, 9 months ago

Ron Paul is the only candidate, well, maybe Herman Cain also, that has a clue about our economy!! If we do not elect one of those two, we deserve what we get....4 more years of what we already have!!