"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"

[Little-Acorn]

So asked President Ronald Reagan during his campaign for a second term in 1984. It was particularly apropos since he was running against the man who had been second-in-command of the previous Carter administration four years before, with its double-digit inflation, unemployment, foreign-policy disasters, and interest rates approaching 20%. After Reagan's radical right turn in 1981 and massive tax-rate cuts, inflation was down, interest rates were falling, and unemployment was getting low enough to be considered "full employment" - trends that continued for many years after.

Fast forward to 2010. This election is not a Presidential election, but it is a Congressional one. And it marks the four-year anniversary of 2006, when Democrats took over majorities in both houses of Congress. Spending, already too high after RINOs lost their way, spiked to unheard-of levels, and the national debt began increasing as it never had since WWII. The housing-finance-abuse time bomb, set by Democrats during the Carter administration, accelerated by leftist lawsuits against lenders, and protected by Democrat congresses and filibusters against strident warnings by Republicans ever since, finally exploded in 2008, crashing the country's entire economy.

So it becomes relevant to ask, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago, when Democrats took over Congress?"

Reagan, after four years of his policies, asked that with pride, and the answer propelled him to one of the greatest landslide victories in history for his second term.

Now, after four years of a Democrat Congressional majority's policies, are Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid asking the same thing as they seek to continue THEIR agenda?

No, they are not. Very pointedly, they are not.

In fact, we are hard-pressed to find ANY Dem congressman even mentioning the major legislative "achievements" of the last Congress: Socialized Health Care, Company bailouts, trillion-dollar deficits, lawsuits against states that try to protect their own borders from invaders, decisions to drop charges against thugs trying to intimidate voters, etc.

As you go to the polls to elect your Congressmen this Tuesday, ask yourself two things:

1.) "Am I better off today than I was four years ago?"

2.) "Is my COUNTRY better off today, than it was four years ago?"

Now, go vote to determine which Congressmen you want to keep in office.

And which ones you want to kick out.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

yes

yes

done

 

[Rick]

To ask the question is to answer it:

- Gigantic new national debt.
- Huge new unemployment and underemployment.
- A power-grabbing and rapidly expanding federal government.
- Failures all around the world in foreign policy.
- A falling dollar.
- A policy of slow retreat in afghanistan.
- A collapsed housing market.
- Plans for huge new taxes.
- A "health care" system that will grind inevitably toward the euro model of rationing and death panles if not stopped, and which has already raised health care costs.
- Huge new financial burdens placed on states, which result in huge new state taxes.
- $5 billion looted out of medicare.

 

[nobull]

That would be a great news paper add..eom

 

[Little-Acorn]

That would be a great news paper add..eom

Interesting idea.

 

[Pandora]

Its been getting worse since dems took the house in about 2007 I can't wait for them to be the minority again!

 

[Rick]

To ask the question is to answer it:

- Gigantic new national debt.
- Huge new unemployment and underemployment.
- A power-grabbing and rapidly expanding federal government.
- Failures all around the world in foreign policy.
- A falling dollar.
- A policy of slow retreat in afghanistan.
- A collapsed housing market.
- Plans for huge new taxes.
- A "health care" system that will grind inevitably toward the euro model of rationing and death panles if not stopped, and which has already raised health care costs.
- Huge new financial burdens placed on states, which result in huge new state taxes.
- $5 billion looted out of medicare.

I correct myself $500 billion looted from meidcare.

 

[orogenicman]

I correct myself $500 billion looted from meidcare.

Even if that were true, what do you care? People like you have been trying to destroy medicare since it was first passed into law. It's not like you actually care about people or anything.

 

[bododie]

Even if that were true, what do you care? People like you have been trying to destroy medicare since it was first passed into law. It's not like you actually care about people or anything

What an unbelievably ignorant remark. You have outdone yourself with this one.

 

[Rick]

Even if that were true, what do you care? People like you have been trying to destroy medicare since it was first passed into law. It's not like you actually care about people or anything.

"IF"???

Are liberals capable of opening their mouths for other than a lie or defamation?

Here it is in the liberal rag Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/14/AR2009111402597.html

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system -- would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.

Further, in what is probably the all-time accounting scam, the CBO said they counted the "savings" TWICE in their claims of deficit reduction:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/vital_igns_wrong_in_fuzzy_dem_math_Urb95cbHtBa4qC4a8G5O0K

And liberals, the people who promote abortion, anti-white discrimination, statism, health care rationing, unemployment, do everything they can to erase constitutional rights and the rule of law and have been in love with dictators forever claiming to "care about people or anything"????

That's a howler.