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Originally Posted by ELOrocks17
It seems that most liberals keep yelling that they dont want "4 more years" of Bush, but the irony is that over the past 4 years Bush has been acting like an ultra liberal.. So much that his approval has dropped to an all time low
Spending money like there is no tomorrow
sending 45 billion dollars to Africa for Aids research
Mexican trucking
NAFTA
Doing nothing about illegal immigration
Pandering to Iran and Veneuzeula
Does this sound like a Republican?
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I'll give you a straight answer to this nonsense:
1) "liberals" or whoever you are talking about don't like spending money just for the sake of spending money. Certain social programs that provide a social safety net for the less fortunate in society are worthy of spending some tax money on. As is education and healthcare. Spending it on a war you lied to get us into is certainly not a "liberal" characteristic. The biggest presidential spenders in history have been Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, so that spending shtick against liberals is wearing thin.
2) If you are opposed to sending money to Africa for Aids research and whatever poverty relief we can provide you don't have a soul. We are the richest nation in the world with corporations that profit directly off of Africa's misery, the idea that this is a bad thin speaks volumes for conservative "values." Not to mention it's less than a drop in the bucket to send 45 billion to a continent that large.
3) I'll merge Mexican trucking and NAFTA since they're both cut from the same xenophobic cloth. I can't speak for democrats or mainstream liberals on this but personally, I find NAFTA to be a racist, north-heavy imperialistic agreement that seeks to maintain the disparity between the U.S. and Latin America. I don't know many liberals or conservatives that like NAFTA (perhaps for different reasons) but we do need a fair free trade agreement. Shutting ourselves off from the world is not only unrealistic, it's wrong. Right wingers that rant and rave about American jobs bein lost over seas are the biggest hypocrites (as we've already seen) since losing jobs to cheaper labor forces abroad is a function of the international free market, something you constantly deregulate (to our detriment).
If the American people want affordable cars, cheap goods from China, grapes from Chile and rubber from Nigeria, then they can't then turn around and complain that these corporations are shipping jobs abroad to make things cheaper to produce. Nor can they put tariffs on things like steel and then turn around and claim to be Milton Friedman capitalists. Nobody likes NAFTA, to claim it's a liberal or conservative agreement is just dumb.
4) Doing nothing about illegal immigration is not one of my personal values, though "liberals" or democrats or whever you are talking about seem to be all over the place on this. Personally I want amnesty for everyone and completely open borders. I want the ICE and their thugs like FTW to stop brutally raiding families. I want all of the masked racist talk about english only to be done away with. The status quo is the worst of both worlds. Conservatives don't accept the fact that you cannot deport 12 million people. It's physically and logistically impossible. And yet they constantly go on about not knowing "who is in the country." The only way to find that out is to incorporate them into the system so we can track them. Ranting against them and intimidating them is only going to push them and their families deeper into the cracks.
5) "Pandering to Iran and Venezuela." What a complete joke. First, Bush has done anything but "pander" to Iran. He's been rattling his saber about them and their non-existant nukes for years. If we hadn't invaded Iraq, Iran would not be a problem right now, and as it stands it's not a problem anyway. They aren't invading anyone and all of the anti-Israel talk is in response to similar things Olmert has said about Iran. Venezuela is a non-issue. There's nothing to pander to. They aren't breaking any international laws and have had free and fair elections. The oil companies don't like the nationalization of resources so they are pushing an agenda and you're buying it. But Venezuela has every right to freely elect whoever they want and do whatever they want as long as it doesn't involve the invasion of another overeign nation. It is the height of arrogance for you to suggest that we are pandering to Venezuela by not assassinating their elected leaders.
This strategy of calling Bush a liberal because he is your guy and he has been disastrous is just a transparent and pathetic attempt to distance yourselves from your own mistakes. Their isn't a shred of progressive ideology in this administration and to say that he's been anything other than the typical right wing nut is just laughable.
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