Ideas That Were Tried and Failed

On August 30 Rubio said “Our problem is not the he (Obama) is a bad person; our problem is that he’s a bad president. Because his new slogan for his campaign is the word ‘forward’, a government that spends one trillion dollars more than it takes in, an $800 billion stimulus that created more debt than jobs, a government intervention into health care that is paid for with higher taxes and cuts to Medicare, scores of new rules and regulations, these ideas don’t move us forward, these ideas move us backwards. These are tired and old big government ideas that have failed every time and everywhere they’ve been tried. These are ideas that people come to America to get away from. These are ideas that threaten to make America more like the rest of the world instead of helping the rest of the world to become more like America.” As I’ve checked voting records and listened to the news over the past year and verified the facts with websites published prior to this campaign, I knew at this point I couldn’t listen to his rhetoric anymore. Romney in his speech said: “The President hasn’t disappointed you because he wanted to, the President has disappointed America because he hasn’t lead America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualifications that most Americans have and one that is essential to the task at hand, he had almost no experience working in a business-jobs to him are about government.”

Ronald Reagan who the Republicans continually tout had no experience in business. He cut taxes on the rich and his approach was again tried by George W. Bush who ended up funding wars and more using Trust Fund money like Social Security and Medicare. The cutting of taxes on the rich is the true government failure that has been tried and failed. The deficit grew because repeatedly the Republicans wouldn’t increase taxes on Americans making over $250,000 a year. They want you to believe that regulations hinder business (not profits) when in fact their policies allow greed to drive our companies. On September 7 it was reported only 96,000 jobs were created in August and the unemployment rate was 8.1%. It was also said corporations are sitting on $300 billion and only 17% of them plan on hiring before end of year (August 8 Obama freed up $473 million in unspent earmarks for highway projects). Obama’s way of doing business shows that on August 31 major lenders reduced homeowner mortgages by $1.3 billion due to foreclosure abuse settlements, CitiGroup is to pay $590 million for misleading investors with sub-prime mortgages, September 8 Scotts Miracle-Gro is to pay $12.5 million for violating pesticide laws; September 12 a whistleblower got a $104 million reward for helping IRS recover about $5 billion from Switzerland’s UBS bank and on September 13 the Federal Reserve said it will pump $40 billion into the economy to counteract corporations withholding jobs (another discussion). I say this: If people come to America for Reagan’s approach to government and not for what’s best in America then they should not come; we do not need more people who don’t believe in the Constitution.