Let’s be honest! There is no tax cut when you have to borrow money to give it away so you can be elected as a modern day Santa Claus. You are just incurring more debt with interest for the future that will have to be paid by our children. Can you imagine a typical family of today who takes that view of their finances? They would be bankrupt, just like the U.S. Treasury is before you can say, “Compassionate Derivatives.” We have such a huge deficit and national debt that the interest alone in borrowing will total close to forty percent of future budgets. That means that future spending will be dramatically cut and the first on the list will be those programs that help the neediest just as Bush is doing today with food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. The game plan republicans are playing is the same as it was during Reagan/Bush 1’s time in office. They will outspend their nemesis’ (Russians then and democrats today) and let the next administration clean up the bills, debt and mess they leave just like Clinton had to do following the first Bush administration.
What is it about the facts that so incenses conservatives? The gap between the rich and poor has increasingly gotten larger under “w” policies and nothing he is doing will reverse that trend. In hast to demagogue and discredit their opponents many right wing republican evangelicals choose to lie about the effects of their policies on the poor and needy in our society. What is it about quoting the words and teachings of Jesus that right wing evangelicals can’t stand? If they really want to put their religion where their politics are why not truly follow his Biblical teachings? They seem to bypass most of what Jesus taught about materialism, care for the needy and our responsibility toward those who are less fortunate in society. I am in agreement that if Jesus came to Henderson he probably would be driven from most fundamentalist Churches here because they are too narrow minded and bigoted about gays and other outcasts of our society. If they want a theocracy why don’t they apply the theology of their Savior? Is that too much to ask from those evangelical republicans who claim to represent Christ in their party? They conveniently ignore Christ’s teachings when it conflicts with their “survival of the fittest” political policies and capitalistic “laissez-faire” economic Darwinism. I just hope that most reasonable people see through their false political theology. It demeans not only our political system but also blasphemes the teachings of Christ.