I do not condemn the religious right for doing what their religion dictates. I do condemn the wealthy leaders of the religious right for duping their working class folowers into to voting in favor of their wealthy leaders iterests, but not their own. A working class person who acknowledges that they are voting against their own economic interests, but they don't care because their main cause is abortion does at least have my respect.
Forgive my bluntness.. But what if Jesus showed up in 3 years and ran for President and lost? Would you then follow the economic policies of the elected President? (I know what I'm trying to say in my head, I'm just not sure how to ask it.. It relates to seperation of Church and state...)
I get this line (spending complaints) from my right-wing lunatic relatives a lot. If I ask why they are now complaining, and not during Bush or, heck, Reagan, I get this line: "But now the spending is TRULY unprecedented". (BTW, this line was born out of the recent Houston Tea Party protest of Nancy Pelosi - you'll note that Thumbs never brought this protest up as it shatters his arguments of bi-partisan altruistic focus on spending). So I did some research, anyhow. [quote from one of my emails] 1) I am again left to question why this was not an issue when Bush was in office. I’m all for complaining about excess spending (show me a party that is actually fiscally conservative, and I’ll sign up) but this is simply a fraudulent argument. What part of Bush’s record breaking budgets was not “truly unprecedented”? The stimulus package was agreed upon by Bush and congressional democrats in October of 2008, resulting in an ~480 billion shortfall for 2009. That’s an enormous sum of money all right, but that’s not much more than Bush’s 2004 deficit (413 billion) or the roughly similar number for 2008. Again, this is not meant to indemnify the spending – far from it. It’s simply supporting data for my assertion that the faux outrage at these rallies is far from “grassroots”. Unfortunately, I’m left to conclude that the outrage is not really directed at the spending, but at the spender. 2) It should be noted too, that a lot of Bush’s budgets are unfairly skewed lower because most of the war spending was tacked on after the fact – so add about a trillion dollars to his eight-year tab for our unnecessary bungle in Iraq. (80 billion alone not included in the 2009 480 billion dollar number above)[/quote] My point - these republican critics are full of ****.
