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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
We are suckers.
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We are. We can blame them all we want, but it's our own fault. They told us we can have lower taxes and we said hell yeah! They told us we could keep Social Security and we said damn straight! They told us we could kick ass in Iraq and we said booyah! That's what gets them elected, and anyone who said otherwise was shown the door in short order. So when we find out they're playing a shell game and digging us deeper and deeper in debt to make it all happen, kind of tough to say "why didn't you tell us?!"
And don't get any delusions that these "Tea Party" folks are any different. They're banging on Reagan's drum. They're just angry about it. More middle and lower class people marching on Washington to protect rich guys fortunes. They will demand lower taxes (and justify it with logic like we've seen in this thread that has little to do with reality) but won't touch Social Security, Medicade, Medicare or the Military. And when we say "but why isn't the debt going down?" they'll say "well, it's that Obamacare!" or "it's the illegals!" And we'll all jump up and down and say "Yeah! Send the illegals back to Mexico!" and we'll spend a bunch more money and dig ourselves deeper. More distractions to keep us from looking at the real issues that we need to face.