"Read my lips; no new taxes". George H W Bush campaign promise. Any idea what happened next?
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Regarding preachers. There is a pastor in Tennessee that told his congregation that Democrats are demons who are unwelcome in his congregation. See video.
Right, my "mummy-'Daddy" taught me personal responsibility and how to take care of my family. How dare them! Born with blinders on? This coming from a foreigner? It is stunning how people like you think and totally ignore how great this country is, out of jealousy, built on individual wealth creation and neighbor helping neighbor with that neighbor NOT being a federal bureaucrat. Your definition of freedom is rather scary, where the rich get richer? Wow, feel so sorry for people like you totally clueless about what made this country the greatest on the face of the earth, hint, it wasn't your ideology.
Yes, and GHW Bush lost the election and what happened next was the largest tax increase in American history by Clinton, the Contract with America and the loss of Congress by Clinton along with a return of those tax cuts"Read my lips; no new taxes". George H W Bush campaign promise. Any idea what happened next?
‘Read My Lips’: How George H.W. Bush’s Tax Hikes Changed Our Politics
The tributes to former President George H.W.
LOL free education? where do those schools get their revenue in your country? How much of your income is taxed? You don't seem to have a clue what taxes Americans pay or the purpose of those taxes. Schools are paid for by state and local taxes and the amount depends on where you live. Free education? no such thing as those teachers are paid, schools are built, and supplies purchased.
And where does the government get its revenue? What is the education system like in your country that generates comments like yours? You really are U.S. Civics challenged as well as economically challenged in your own country. We are a Constitutional Republic with 50 independent sovereign states. There is a specific role for the Federal gov't here and that is to PROVIDE for the common defense. States and local governments have all the responsibility for social and civil responsibilities.
Factual evidence? Tell us where your government gets its revenue and who pays for all that free stuff you claim you get?
This defines you and the rest of the radical left to a tee, pay attention and wake up
The phenomenon you describe shouldn't surprise. It one believes that the system works better, helps us all, when everyone pursues their own self or selfish interests -- per Gordon Gecko's "greed is good" philosophy in the film "Wall Street," then you will adopt the Ayn Rand, extreme libertarian view of what economic policy should look like. Add to that the corresponding changes in western thought that date back to Luther and Calvin, that faith alone is more important than works, and there you have it.
The system worked great for 250 years or until the last 10 or so when Obama took office and did what Biden is continuing to do now, turn this country into a socialist utopia that exists no where else in the world that previous groups tried to implement here but failed so you and your group of liberals can do a better job. We have 330,000,000 people and not ONE business or private sector running it and that is what you cannot understand. It is a country made up of millions of SMALL businesses with individuals trying to take care of their family but you know better, don't you? you need a massive gov't to do that job totally ignoring where the revenue comes from to fund that massive gov't. Never in my live have I seen such clueless supposedly educated people promoting this BS. Feel so sorry for people like you and my grandkids who have to put up with this BS as you won't destroy this country in the years I have left
Mmmm.... "no where else in the world?".... "since Obama took office?"
You really don't get it, do you? I was raised different, learned personal responsibility and the value of family helping family and that family isn't the federal gov't. you keep buying that liberal bullshit, totally ignoring that Medicare and SS are self funded giving the Gov't an interest free use of your money your entire working career and then getting maybe some or maybe all of it back if you don't die early. It is stunning how you buy the socialist ideology as if there aren't any consequences.
Yep, and when those were debated you had much of the same "IT'S THE DEATH OF AMERICAAAAA!!!" nonsense you hear repeated now. Change is never easy though, and you have to assume there will always be those who resist it regardless of its merits.
You are swimming against the tide. The tide is the way the developed world works and the way those in poorer countries would like their governments to work.
GHWB increased taxes, so he lied. Interesting that you avoided mentioning that and went straight to 'but Clinton'
Whine, whine, whine. My "socialist utopia" (under ten years of continuous Conservative government in England, by the way), ensures that I have free medical treatment from cradle to grave, from a measly monthly contribution as a component of National Insurance. So, no hospital bills, ever, no matter how serious the operation, no small print to decypher, no form-filling or questions about insurance cover, no venal insurers to negotiate with, no co-pay. Free operations, post-op care, prescriptions, ambulance rides, doctor visits, scans, blood tests, physiotherapy, eyeglasses etc., etc. Oh yes, nearly forgot; expectant mothers can get up to 52 weeks' paid maternity leave, and also included within National Insurance is unemployment benefit along with a host of other goodies. Everyone contributes, the cost is thus,, spread equally, everyone benefits.
Your problem is lumping this country into the rest of the world, we AREN'T a poor country, keep buying the liberal bullshit and ignoring the reality that poverty in this country is defined by a number that ignores the cost of living in those states you want to convert to socialism
So sorry about your illness, I lost my wife of 40 years to cancer 10 years ago and she had the best insurance and treatments available. The gov't isn't the answer and that doesn't seem to be something you understand. Your lack of understanding of our Constitution, the taxes you pay, and the role of the state and local governments is astounding. Putting control into the hands of the federal gov't violates every thing this country was Founded on and still no answer to the question, why do you support a gov't big enough to provide you with everything you want that is also big enough to take it all away?
What does that have to do with the thread topic as I already made my statement about GHW Bush lying and costing him the election. Clinton raised taxes and lost the Congress in 1993, why don't you mention that? Why don't you mention the Clinton tax cuts in 1997? Or the Contract with America that Clinton signed? or how about NAFTA? Your biased partisan support of liberalism ignores the results of liberalism as you continue to do what liberals always do, buy rhetoric and ignore resultsGHWB increased taxes, so he lied. Interesting that you avoided mentioning that and went straight to 'but Clinton'
Free medical treatment? where does the money come from to pay those doctors and provide that "free" medical treatment? It is amazing how people buy rhetoric and never buy the results? You don't live in this country yet everything that goes on this country according to you is wrong. You don't have any credibility as you don't understand the role of the federal gov't in this country or the role of state and local governments in this country, why is that? Any idea what taxes you even pay in your country and what they pay for?