it's come full circle...

if i weren’t so afraid of what would happen, i almost wish that the republicans would take the house and/or the senate this fall.

republicans have spent the last 2 years fighting absolutely everything the obama administration has tried to do.  they have spent the last two years obstructing judicial and cabinet appointments.  they’ve spent the last 2 years saying no rather than propose any concrete ideas for the future.  they’ve spent the last 2 years pandering to an increasingly dangerous, vitriolic bunch of tea party activists.

i would almost like to see them flounder for ideas and partisanship where they have contributed little to nothing in the past 2 years.

what IS their idea for getting us out of debt?

i think it’s probably what they’ve done in the past and keep talking about now.  giving more money to the rich individuals and mega corporations.  they seem to think that that trickle down thing that didn’t work under reagan will work now.

however, what i don’t think that they are getting through their thick little skulls is that during a recession average to low income families are spending their every last dime to stay afloat.  that means they are forced to spend most or all of their income which does what?  supports and strengthens the economy!

now on the other hand, the wealthy are in no danger financially speaking.  they have plenty of income/wealth to keep themselves afloat.  they have extra, plenty of extra and wouldn’t be forced to spend the money that conservatives seem to think they so need and deserve.  the wealthy can continue to pay for all of their necessities and stick that extra money from lower taxes away in the bank somewhere or hell, even offshore if conservatives relax the rules again.

giving money to the wealthy is NOT going to stimulate the economy.  it will only give the wealthy larger savings accounts and take more money out of play.

now on the other hand, you have lower and middle income families who cannot afford to buy what they need, let alone what they want.  elderly are choosing between medicine and food.  middle class are doing without the small extras they may have used in the past.  i know my middle class family has.

now, give those unemployed the unemployment checks or paycheck to paycheck families a tax break.  where will that money go?  straight back into the economy!

if we had more money on our paychecks i would be able to send my son to his guitar lessons and his mma classes.  as it stands right now, our taxes are so high and the economy such that we’ve cut back on that stuff.  i buy fewer groceries and lower quality groceries.

that’s what i like to call the trickle up effect.  i buy less meat for meals so those butchers and behind them the cattle farmers have less business.  i don’t buy many snacks anymore.  sorry frito lay!

that’s a drop in the bucket!  we really do need another vehicle with both kaity and michael working and me needing to run errands and get the boys to school during the school year.  we won’t be buying one though because 1. our taxes here are too high and 2. we really don’t want to take on another payment right now.  sorry ford!

the thing that really gets me on this whole issue is that the poor whites that are supporting the conservatives are really shooting themselves in the foot!  tax breaks for the wealthy, deregulation for corporations!  i guess guns and abortions really are the biggest issues for them.  more so than tax breaks, education assistance, affordable health care, etc, etc, etc…

so, i guess in some small way i do hope the republicans take over.  they have no ideas.  they spent 8 years running the country into the ground with little opposition.  if the teabaggers have such a short memory then perhaps it will be rudely reawakened by two following years of destruction.  the republicans have no better ideas for creating jobs.  they have no better ideas for stimulating economic growth.

sometimes you get what you ask for…and it’s not pretty.