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Originally posted by AGDee
The Republican President with a Republican Congress.. not the President alone.
Failing to address health care issues? yes. Proposing and passing a far less than adequate Medicare prescription coverage plan? yes. State taxes going up due to cuts in federal allotments to the states? yes. Lack of funds for road improvements? yes. The insurance increases due to stock market problems and 9/11, not as directly. Failure to make affordable child care available? yes.
Whether the president was directly responsible wasn't the question though. The question was whether I'm better off than I was four years ago, and the answer is no. Another question to add to it would be.. is the president going to make it better over the next four years or will you feel a continual downward spiral? With the national debt increasing as it is, I don't see how it's going to get better. We're going to get to a point where all the money goes to paying interest on the debt and there is no money for anything else. From what I see in my day to day life, society in general is taking a nose dive and nobody is doing anything about it. We're so worried about what other countries are up to that our own needs are being ignored.
Dee
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No, no and no on everything.
Geez lady even the part about the debt is wrong. You don't just pay interest. That's not how it works. Bonds have a par amount which is pure principal. Every year principal is paid off on the bonds and usually there is interest that is paid off on a semiannual basis.
I wish Democrats would read just a little bit or at least stop making such audacious claims.
-Rudey