jjzelinski
Diamond Member
I'm particularily dissapointed in the 10 point spike the Republican campaign has recieved and I just wanted to ofer a post that tried to sum up, off the top of my head, all of the policy failures of our government that I could think of over the last 4 years:
We are less secure, the world is in greater turmoil and we've done more to spurn it on than stem it.
Following the attacks of 9/11, we've gone from a global PR surplus to an enormous PR deficit. We've sacraficed the willingess of our allies for a war that has been proven to be based on halth truths and miscalculations that were widely announced BEFORE the invasion. Not to mention how rediculously bad the nation building effort went following the invasion. Someone apparently thought our underdeveloped invasion/occupation force (Gen. Shinseki anyone?) would be welcomed with flower petals under their feet and becamed "shocked and awed" by the reaction we got by allowing their society to crumble into anarchy for several months.
In order to facilitate the war in Iraq, much of the resources that were being used in Aghanistan were shifted to the invasion of Iraq.
Iraq, which, as a secular, despotic military regime, had no ties to AQ, was completely dissasociated from the war on terrorism.
We've done very little (at least that I've read about) to "handle" (either diplomatically or militarilly) truely threatening nations such as like Iran, Syria, or Pakistan (whereas it's commonly held that UBL has been hiding for the past 2 years.)
The economy may finally be creating jobs, perhaps enough to make up for most of the ones lost in the last 4 years.
The income brackets have a experienced significant polarization; the rich have gotten MUCH wealthier whereasthe the lower and midddle classes generally have suffered, and continue to suffer the burden of the recession.
There are 4 million new people without any form of insurance
Health care reform, lead by a "conservative" administration, senate and house, has lead to a proverbial geyser of profit for select industries in the last several years, all the while making a significant contribution to the greatest budget deficit in history.
Which reminds me, our "conservative" legislative and executive branchs have created the greatest budget deficit in history from one of the greatest surplesses we've ever seen. That's truley remarkable.
All that was promised by the administration during the 2000 campaign has genrally gone unaddressed, and yet now it scrambles to re-promise the promise let unmet or the past 4 years and we're all supposed to believe it will happen. I don't think there was much in the way of political gridlock since, for the last two years alone, the house and the senate have given the executive branch a permanent green light to anything they could possibly want to legislate. Free money or everyone!
The policy failures of both the legislative and excutive branches are so agregious, overt, and abundant that the those holding the reigns of our govnerment will do anything, say anything, and hide what cannot be justified with smoke and mirrors behind a banner of greed and nationalism.
We are less secure, the world is in greater turmoil and we've done more to spurn it on than stem it.
Following the attacks of 9/11, we've gone from a global PR surplus to an enormous PR deficit. We've sacraficed the willingess of our allies for a war that has been proven to be based on halth truths and miscalculations that were widely announced BEFORE the invasion. Not to mention how rediculously bad the nation building effort went following the invasion. Someone apparently thought our underdeveloped invasion/occupation force (Gen. Shinseki anyone?) would be welcomed with flower petals under their feet and becamed "shocked and awed" by the reaction we got by allowing their society to crumble into anarchy for several months.
In order to facilitate the war in Iraq, much of the resources that were being used in Aghanistan were shifted to the invasion of Iraq.
Iraq, which, as a secular, despotic military regime, had no ties to AQ, was completely dissasociated from the war on terrorism.
We've done very little (at least that I've read about) to "handle" (either diplomatically or militarilly) truely threatening nations such as like Iran, Syria, or Pakistan (whereas it's commonly held that UBL has been hiding for the past 2 years.)
The economy may finally be creating jobs, perhaps enough to make up for most of the ones lost in the last 4 years.
The income brackets have a experienced significant polarization; the rich have gotten MUCH wealthier whereasthe the lower and midddle classes generally have suffered, and continue to suffer the burden of the recession.
There are 4 million new people without any form of insurance
Health care reform, lead by a "conservative" administration, senate and house, has lead to a proverbial geyser of profit for select industries in the last several years, all the while making a significant contribution to the greatest budget deficit in history.
Which reminds me, our "conservative" legislative and executive branchs have created the greatest budget deficit in history from one of the greatest surplesses we've ever seen. That's truley remarkable.
All that was promised by the administration during the 2000 campaign has genrally gone unaddressed, and yet now it scrambles to re-promise the promise let unmet or the past 4 years and we're all supposed to believe it will happen. I don't think there was much in the way of political gridlock since, for the last two years alone, the house and the senate have given the executive branch a permanent green light to anything they could possibly want to legislate. Free money or everyone!
The policy failures of both the legislative and excutive branches are so agregious, overt, and abundant that the those holding the reigns of our govnerment will do anything, say anything, and hide what cannot be justified with smoke and mirrors behind a banner of greed and nationalism.
