I completely get what you are saying. And as I said in my post, even if you ignore defense spending, the Republicans have been VERY fiscally irresponsible and spending money like it grows on trees (LOL). But, I think it's very difficult to go back and judge a lot of what went on because we have better information now. We can say the decision to invade Iraq was a bad decision, BUT, with the intelligence at the time, and the way Saddam was acting at the time, all led us to believe facts which time has proven false. I had to chuckle at Hillary Clinton during the primaries when she said, "If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted to go into Iraq".. to quote my kids, "well, DUH". I am still not convinced that the President knew any information to the contrary, but until I do, I'm unwilling to judge him too harshly for allowing false intelligence to push us into Iraq.
Another way that I think that the Republicans are "blowing it" is because they are taking bits and pieces of an ideology and putting them together in a way that makes no sense. Their push for deregulation is part of a conservative, libertarian leaning way of thought, BUT deregulation by itself isn't going to work unless it's accompanied with smaller, more localized government accountability. And, in this day and age, with the increasing global nature of our economy, deregulation of the financial sector makes much less sense. However, they could apply deregulation to things like education, because we have seen that nationwide regulations (such as NCLB) don't address the individual situations faced by many localities. Other areas I think could be run much more efficiently on a state/local level include FEMA.. let the states plan and set up their own disaster plans. Some states worry about hurricanes, others earthquakes, others tornadoes, others floods, etc. By letting states control more of the emergency response, we could get plans and money put where they are needed in a state by state basis. But, rather than moving to deregulate these areas, they have instead regulated them more, taken more control out of the state's hands.. and instead moved to deregulate the area of our country that has the least amount of local accountability. That has been a huge failing of the Republicans in the last 8 years.
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I completely get what you are saying. And as I said in my post, even if you ignore defense spending, the Republicans have been VERY fiscally irresponsible and spending money like it grows on trees (LOL). But, I think it's very difficult to go back and judge a lot of what went on because we have better information now. We can say the decision to invade Iraq was a bad decision, BUT, with the intelligence at the time, and the way Saddam was acting at the time, all led us to believe facts which time has proven false. I had to chuckle at Hillary Clinton during the primaries when she said, "If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted to go into Iraq".. to quote my kids, "well, DUH". I am still not convinced that the President knew any information to the contrary, but until I do, I'm unwilling to judge him too harshly for allowing false intelligence to push us into Iraq.
Another way that I think that the Republicans are "blowing it" is because they are taking bits and pieces of an ideology and putting them together in a way that makes no sense. Their push for deregulation is part of a conservative, libertarian leaning way of thought, BUT deregulation by itself isn't going to work unless it's accompanied with smaller, more localized government accountability. And, in this day and age, with the increasing global nature of our economy, deregulation of the financial sector makes much less sense. However, they could apply deregulation to things like education, because we have seen that nationwide regulations (such as NCLB) don't address the individual situations faced by many localities. Other areas I think could be run much more efficiently on a state/local level include FEMA.. let the states plan and set up their own disaster plans. Some states worry about hurricanes, others earthquakes, others tornadoes, others floods, etc. By letting states control more of the emergency response, we could get plans and money put where they are needed in a state by state basis. But, rather than moving to deregulate these areas, they have instead regulated them more, taken more control out of the state's hands.. and instead moved to deregulate the area of our country that has the least amount of local accountability. That has been a huge failing of the Republicans in the last 8 years.
I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure
I don't support any president 100%.
MONTANA MOM !
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