I don't understand how the Republicans and the 'tea party' get support?
IF the US defaulted as the right wing in congress wanted they do realise that their economy would be on it's knees and we would be talking about severe stock fire sales on wal street?
How do they get support when if they got their wish of 3 Trillion pounds of savings and cuts WITHOUT stimulus from revenue going back into areas of government then how the **** can the 'average joe' support them?
If they had their way there would be so many more job cuts and losses it would be unbelievable.
I just can't see what morons watch fox news/vote for Palin/vote for the 'tea party'. They are complete morons with 'constitutional fundamentals' that may have worked as a policy, oh I don't know, 200 years ago.
Saddens me when I see the republicans and fox news having so many morons on their side, they blame Obama for the job figures yet if they were in the white house they promised ALOT more severe cuts. Fiscal responsibility can either be stimulus based or 'cut, cap and balance' based and Obama went down the stimulus route to keep the voters on side but the Republicans WHO ARE THE REASON FOR 70% OF THE DEFICIT because of their policies the US would have alot higher unemployment figures.
US Politics is baffling, who the *ck votes for these people?
And the scariest part is people believe that drivel Fox News put out and American's think Palin is a suitable candidate.
It's genuinely scary, I can see no spin on this that is good for the Republicans yet their approval rating continues to fly.
They just nearly sent half the worlds economies down the plug hole, nearly crippled their own economy for the sake of wanting to use it again as a political tool come next years presidential election?
Sickening.
The Tea Party are complete imbeciles, but they didn't want to default. Both sides wanted a solution, but the republicans took it as an opportunity to try and embarrass Obama, which is just idiotic because if no compromise was reached I'm sure the voters would have remembered how dickish the republicans acted.
What's the point in making spending cuts and then having a stimulus? They cancel each other out. Cuts are needed, there's no two ways about it. People can whine how it's affecting people, but not one person offers a plausible alternative. The UK, US and many EU economies spent way above their means, and the only possible way to begin to sort it out is spending cuts for the next few years. Why would wal street have fire sales because of cuts? They wanted them. Many of the traders were saying the current deal isn't enough, America is perilously close to being downgraded by the borrowing agency which would be a complete DISASTER. There's no two ways about it, most of the major economies are in a financial mess, like it or not austerity is going to be needed in pretty much every major economy including the UK and US.
Obama went the stimulus route because the world was in recession, and the way you escape recession is spend your way out of it.
Unemployment figures can be deceiving. For instance, in the UK tonnes of jobs were needlessly created in the public sector, they add nothing economically and just add strain to the private sector. Public sector employment essentially pays no income tax, since that's what pays them in the first place. So the private sector which is already facing a struggle, has to then support needless consultancy and bureaucracy. Labour is also responsible for the majority of our deficit, by the way.
Rednecks and evangelical Christians vote for them.
They know how to spin propaganda and appeal to certain voters very well.
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