For six years I've heard Robert say over and over again that both the democratic and republican parties are no different from one another. After the 2004 election, I started to believe him. As I watch the DNC and RNC this year, I can see that they really are the same. Both parties want to increase spending (even though they talk about cutting it), both claim to be able to deliver on outlandish ideas, and both make promises to make the United States more secure from "terror". I think the current system of politics is laughable at best. Especially when it's pretty clear that the republicans cut taxes but print more money (deficit spending) and the democrats raise taxes and print more money as well.
I bring up printing money because the United States has been freely printing dollars since Aug, 1971 when President Nixon pulled us off the gold standard. What does this mean? It means that there is nothing backing the dollar- only confidence is keeping the dollar propped up. This is what has kept me from being positive in a presidential election- the fact that money is printed, the US goes deeper in debt, and the rest of the world MUST continue to invest in the US in order to keep this whole thing going- NO MATTER WHAT PARTY IS IN POWER. The United States is an empire and a using a fiat currency- someday, that empire will fail and have to pull back as did the British Empire along with countless other empires....
The United States has set up a police station in the Middle East- namely Iraq and Afghanistan.
The idea that the Iraq war needs to come to an end all all troops will be withdrawn is a joke and will never happen. Yet Barack states that's what he wants to do. McCain claims that we need to "win the war on terror".
Do you really think that the US will pull out of Iraq under either party after the largest US Embassy in history was completed in Baghdad?
Do you really think that the US will pull out of Iraq, located in a region where 65% of the recoverable crude oil on the planet is located?
I would like to think that this scenario will change for the better but I'm highly doubtful. Barack Obama's claim that he can "change" America is just as laughable as McCain's. What a joke.....
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Well Bob, this is the world we have come to live in. Our options are to choose the lessor of two evils, if you can call that a choice. Hopefully whoever we choose will do at least a few good things. And to think, this is supposed to be a Republic for the people. Makes you wonder why we even have elections. Why not just draw names out of a hat?
mback,
Thanks for your comment. This situation isn't what I want but I'll tell you, I feel that at least we're informed on these things. I know that I see multiple points of view which, sort of makes me a fence sitter on EVERYTHING. I don't know what to believe anymore.... Thanks again!!
- Bob
i agree, it is all a joke to me as well. i feel like i may have to flee the country sometime in the future. but, i have the urgency to get rich 1st.
I wonder if anybody has asked all the candidates if they can run the billion dollar corporations that the US is proudly bailing out? But when you think about it, when we all get super rich we should build a huge corporation, gamble our money away, and let uncle sam take over once it turns downhill! Maybe that will be the new motto "9 out of 10 business fail, but the government will bail you out so don't worry about it!"
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