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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The real problem is that both sides, both Dem and Repugs want their cake and to eat it too, they have both spent like drunken sailors, neither is prepared to be honest with the taxpayers about what needs to be done, the dems should be telling their supporters 'we can't afford much of these social programs and their has to be massive tax increases to deal with the debt'
while the repugs need to be telling their side, 'we cant afford these wars, the military, vast subsidies to the oil and ethonal industries etc and we need massive tax increases'.
Neither side will do this though, of the two though the repugs are most to blame though, in any western political system you have two sides, left and right, the left's job is defend social programs, to represent the poor and huddled masses, it is the rights job to be fiscally sensible and not piss money away on wars, the military and tax cuts, in the US the roles have been reversed, it is the repugs that have spent the most in the last 60 years, generally on programs that don't benefit the average american in any way really.
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No, the REAL problem is that most people pick a party like they pick a sports team, and rarely/never waver. No matter how screwy a party gets, a hardcore democrat voter will still vote democrat, just as a hardcore republican will still vote "repug". Oh, and clever name there, Rick Bell.