According to the most liberal estimates, the Bush Presidency has cost the U.S taxpayer about $11.5 Trillion. The Obama administration is expected to inherit a $1.2 Trillion deficit from the Bush crime family and that figure doesn't factor in the recent stimulus package and the cost of the Iraq war which is estimated to cost another $6 Trillion. The final numbers could end up being about $20 Trillion!!! That is the price tag for eight years of neo-conservative policies and cowboy style, "shoot-first-die-with-your-boots-on" gun-boat diplomacy.
This is a snap shot of America today and it wont get any better until the broad citizenry get involved, hold their leaders accountable and take back our democracy. One thing that history has taught us is "real change that you can believe in" doesn't drop down from the sky, it comes from the ground up and it becomes a moral imperative when the "unwashed masses" scream to the leaders, "get it done, or else!" No matter how well intentioned, President-elect Obama isnt going to change anything unless "WE THE PEOPLE" demand change and hold him (and all of Congress) accountable.
The days of writing blank checks that our children are going to have to pay for need to stop. Our nation needs a real plan for the future instead of a new stimulus package which is going to cost the government another $850 Billion. The ship has run aground and the Captain and the Crew need to to start bailing water otherwise, unlike the movie "Titanic", the band is not going to play on. The first decade of the 21st century is almost a done deal, in many ways it is very reminiscent of the way the last century started and that is a very sobering and frightening thought. I sincerely hope it will not take another Global War and tens of millions deaths to jump start our economy and get a "New Deal" written into law.
This is a snap shot of America today and it wont get any better until the broad citizenry get involved, hold their leaders accountable and take back our democracy. One thing that history has taught us is "real change that you can believe in" doesn't drop down from the sky, it comes from the ground up and it becomes a moral imperative when the "unwashed masses" scream to the leaders, "get it done, or else!" No matter how well intentioned, President-elect Obama isnt going to change anything unless "WE THE PEOPLE" demand change and hold him (and all of Congress) accountable.
The days of writing blank checks that our children are going to have to pay for need to stop. Our nation needs a real plan for the future instead of a new stimulus package which is going to cost the government another $850 Billion. The ship has run aground and the Captain and the Crew need to to start bailing water otherwise, unlike the movie "Titanic", the band is not going to play on. The first decade of the 21st century is almost a done deal, in many ways it is very reminiscent of the way the last century started and that is a very sobering and frightening thought. I sincerely hope it will not take another Global War and tens of millions deaths to jump start our economy and get a "New Deal" written into law.
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I agree. We need to stop being a compliant society & let the powers that be work for us rather than let them do what they please & keep adding to the hole we are already in. We need to chew bubble gum & kick some ass & hold Congress & the powers that be accountable. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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