The Back Alley Archives

With all due respect Mr. President, you have talked about "hard choices". Can you please tell us what hard choices you have made other than to throw money at every problem? Sure a few programs have changed but Bush orchestrated the biggest Medicaid/Medicare package in history and you upped it. You upped military spending. You criticized McCain for cutting programs that amount to peanuts, and all you can find to cut out of the budget is peanuts.

With all due respect Mr. President, your "Era of New Responsibility" is nothing more than a continuation of the Bush administration Era of Irresponsibility. Mr. President, we hoped for more and deserved more. Yet, behind the charade of campaign messages of hope and change, we essentially see the same fiscal irresponsibility and misguided policies as before. Oh sure Mr. President, your budget priorities have shifted a bit, sadly the irresponsible spending did not.

AA - Interesting article that raises some good points. We have discussed a number of these things on other threads with respect to deficit spending. I am curious as to what else the author has written.

BG - I could take out the word liberals in your comments and replace it with conservative and say the same thing

fetishistic worship of Ronald Reagan by conservatives

I neither know nor care about your motivation for voting for Obama. Whoever did so voted for an individual who represents a political school that is detrimental to my family and my children, and a political cadre that is the most serious threat my way of life has faced to this point.
Let me tell you something, Slider- I am a social moderate and a fiscal conservative and if you were me you'd be terrified of what has been happening.

fetishistic worship of Ronald Reagan by conservatives

Personally, I don't think conservatives worship RR. I know I don't. In fact, IMO he was responsible in the Rep party becoming what it is today. Now, the right wingers will masturbate to his old photos like a skin magazine nightly though.