by Sixstrings » Fri 21 Feb 2014, 19:28:13
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'O')nce people have been closed out of the workforce for a few years, its pretty hard for them to get back on track. All the charts and data showing the still-shrinking percentage of Americans still in the workforce during the last five years translates into impoverished and ruined lives for millions of American workers.
Yes, it's very serious.
But you and me disagree on domestic policy. I say the rich need to be taxed. And that's where the Brits are coming from too. First of all, the british papers have always run stories like this about the US, it makes them feel superior.
A British consul once called Florida housing projects "like the third world." You see, Brits have housing councils where everyone gets a pretty much decent apartment and it's not as bad as our ghetto projects.
So the British angle on a story like the above is to make Brits feel good that this sort of thing isn't possible in their country.
US has improved on public housing quality, but less quantity -- the newer projects actually look like regular market apartments, but there's not enough of them, money was cut back and we have so many more poor now. So, ergo, people living in the woods like that.
Will you be voting for R next time around, Plant? Or 3rd party / independent?
Personally, I don't agree with Republicans domestically, but something is not working here. I'm really losing faith in Obama, and Democrats. I know that the same old Reagan ideas on domestic policy isn't going to work and will make it worse. Yet, what we're doing ain't working either. Obama has had 8 years.
I may really have to vote R next time, just on the theory that change may actually bring positive change. Maybe business would loosen up with spending and expand, just electing a R in there and them having the House too.
D's need to stop acting like R's, and give us a liberal populist plan to fix the economy, to get my vote again. If they are just going to act like R's anyway then I may as well vote for a real Republican and end the gridlock and maybe that would be some change --
I have to admit that things are not working out in this country.It will certainly help matters, getting my vote, if R's do a "compassionate conservative" thing again. I'm already with them on foreign policy, so put somebody up there with a good domestic plan that's not just tax cuts for the rich, and I really will consider voting R.