Jubbergun wrote:
Economic issues are still the forefront of election politics at the moment, so this isn't going to help the President's re-election chances at this point. If he reverses course on QE1+2, moratoriums on drilling/mining, and somehow squares his ideals with the Ryan budget proposal, his numbers are going to go up. Personally, I think he should trade on the budget by giving Republicans what they want in exchange for restructuring the tax code and creating one or more new brackets and making modest raises in the bottom rates while making slightly higher increases in the top rates.
You know just as well as anyone else that a wartime victory means infinitely more to the American electorate than another discussion about the budget.
Eturnalshift wrote:
Probably not. We're still at war with the group and until their ideaology is destroyed (however in the hell we do that) then our freedoms will remain limited as is.
We both know this means forever.
Eturnalshift wrote:
Let's be honest - Neither of us is losing sleep at night over the Patriot Act since we're not the people DHS is actively looking for. Sure, we might not agree with the measures, but I doubt we've been violated as individuals.
The point isn't about how we're being treated, it's about how others have the potential to be treated. Of course I don't lose any sleep over being a white male, people like me run the planet and that's not likely to change. I just happen to agree with Franklin: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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