As one of the growing number of voters who have become an Independent Voter, and one who keeps looking for voters to simply send all incumbent senators and representatives home I applaud Mr. Hartman's fact loaded essay. Well done! Senators and Representatives need to serve for a limited time, and then come back home to tell us what we ne…
As one of the growing number of voters who have become an Independent Voter, and one who keeps looking for voters to simply send all incumbent senators and representatives home I applaud Mr. Hartman's fact loaded essay. Well done! Senators and Representatives need to serve for a limited time, and then come back home to tell us what we need to do to make all our lives better.
US voters have failed both Economy 101 and Social Studies 101 each and every year in the last 50 years. Most voters have been lazy, or simply too busy or too poor, to stay on top of the shenanigans pulled year after year by the Kings and Queens we have re-elected by an overwhelming 90% ratio each voting cycle. We rubber-Stamped all the Washington, DC and State representatives! Allowed them to vote themselves life-time healthcare and pensions that are similar to the Golden Parachutes Corporate CEOs get. We are responsible for our mess, we the voters.
An overwhelming percentage of voters, in all three voting categories are exhausted by the continual emphasis of Democratic candidates on peripheral social behavior issues. Rome has been burning for 50 years now. The current younger generations are the first ones ever in US history to saddled with mortgaged sized student loans, inadequate health care, no pensions aside from what Social Security will have and a work load that has taken over most of their free time. The Boomer Generation Voters allowed all that to happen on their watch, and that is shameful.
Anecdotal discussion: A Baby Boomer tells young people in the family: "You better get busy saving some money for your retirement. Don't count on Social Security being there for you." Instead, some of us politely intervene with: "That's not a positive narrative. Why don't we focus on doing whatever it takes to make sure the Social Security Program is going to be funded so our young people can focus on raising their children?"
It might be more productive for the Democratic Party's candidates to leave all the peripheral issues alone for the next 10 years and focus on shoring up our young people's ability to pay their rent, pay off their student loans and get Health Care For Everyone without Senators Murray and Durbin's covert aide for the pharmaceutical industry.
Mr. Hartman citations:
In fact, here are the year-end budget deficits or surpluses left to the next president by:
• Carter - $78.9 billion deficit
• Reagan - $152.6 billion deficit
• GHW Bush - $255 billion deficit
• Clinton – ($236 billion) surplus
• GW Bush - $1.14 trillion deficit
• Obama - $584.6 billion deficit
• Trump - $3.1 trillion deficit
If you’re noticing a trend, it’s pretty obvious: Republicans run up huge debts that Democrats then do their best to fix.
Democrats are hoping that national social issues like abortion and the threat to gay marriage and birth control will provoke a big win against Republicans this November. But most voters — particularly independents and Latinos — put the economy as their number-one issue.
As one of the growing number of voters who have become an Independent Voter, and one who keeps looking for voters to simply send all incumbent senators and representatives home I applaud Mr. Hartman's fact loaded essay. Well done! Senators and Representatives need to serve for a limited time, and then come back home to tell us what we need to do to make all our lives better.
US voters have failed both Economy 101 and Social Studies 101 each and every year in the last 50 years. Most voters have been lazy, or simply too busy or too poor, to stay on top of the shenanigans pulled year after year by the Kings and Queens we have re-elected by an overwhelming 90% ratio each voting cycle. We rubber-Stamped all the Washington, DC and State representatives! Allowed them to vote themselves life-time healthcare and pensions that are similar to the Golden Parachutes Corporate CEOs get. We are responsible for our mess, we the voters.
An overwhelming percentage of voters, in all three voting categories are exhausted by the continual emphasis of Democratic candidates on peripheral social behavior issues. Rome has been burning for 50 years now. The current younger generations are the first ones ever in US history to saddled with mortgaged sized student loans, inadequate health care, no pensions aside from what Social Security will have and a work load that has taken over most of their free time. The Boomer Generation Voters allowed all that to happen on their watch, and that is shameful.
Anecdotal discussion: A Baby Boomer tells young people in the family: "You better get busy saving some money for your retirement. Don't count on Social Security being there for you." Instead, some of us politely intervene with: "That's not a positive narrative. Why don't we focus on doing whatever it takes to make sure the Social Security Program is going to be funded so our young people can focus on raising their children?"
It might be more productive for the Democratic Party's candidates to leave all the peripheral issues alone for the next 10 years and focus on shoring up our young people's ability to pay their rent, pay off their student loans and get Health Care For Everyone without Senators Murray and Durbin's covert aide for the pharmaceutical industry.
Mr. Hartman citations:
In fact, here are the year-end budget deficits or surpluses left to the next president by:
• Carter - $78.9 billion deficit
• Reagan - $152.6 billion deficit
• GHW Bush - $255 billion deficit
• Clinton – ($236 billion) surplus
• GW Bush - $1.14 trillion deficit
• Obama - $584.6 billion deficit
• Trump - $3.1 trillion deficit
If you’re noticing a trend, it’s pretty obvious: Republicans run up huge debts that Democrats then do their best to fix.
Democrats are hoping that national social issues like abortion and the threat to gay marriage and birth control will provoke a big win against Republicans this November. But most voters — particularly independents and Latinos — put the economy as their number-one issue.
The elimination of civics and economics from public school curricula has gone a long way toward dumbing down the populace. Reagan was a genuine devil.