If the times are as bad as everyone says....?

[kentuck]

Shouldn't our leaders be asking for sacrifice?

Shouldn't they ask all Americans to give up their taxcuts they received in 20001, since it is one of the biggest contributors to the national debt?

Shouldn't they ask the wealthy to contribute more at this time?

Shouldn't they take another look at the enormous amounts of money spent on wars and defense contracts?

If the times are so bad, why do they continue to play politics as usual??

[spanone]

1. good questions....

[Speck Tater]

2. Because politicians refuse to admit how bad things really are.

If they did that then they would have to take responsibility for turning things around, and they don't want that responsibility on their shoulders. They are paid by their owners to support business as usual, and that requires them to be in a state of denial.

[lame54]

3. Go shopping

[jdlh8894]

9. Going to stock up on

Duct tape and plastic(even though I still have a stockpile left)!!:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Winterblues]

4. Times are not bad for those in Power

For the wealthy the Times are actually quite good, and who cares about all the others anyway? :shrug: What can all those poor people offer to America anyway? They just take up space and resources, which should actually be completely for the Powerful..

[sadbear]

5. Asking for sacrifice is political suicide.

[treestar]

6. Times are not as bad as that

The American people making "sacrifices?" :rofl:

I'm sure DU would trash Obama for letting the middle class tax cuts expire. No way he or the Dems can win on this.

[Poll_Blind]

7. The American zeitgeist, as historians will undoubtably note went from...

...the prosperity of 2000 to a 10-year block of strange and turbulent times in which uncertainty, fear and a feeling of helplessness dominated.

While the election of 2008 allowed for a brief respite from the uncertainty and fear, and while an aura of creeping Hope began to form- by 2010 the Nation, the Media and the Government were largely in a state of open denial about the grim reality facing the nation.

While a significant portion of the country remained mostly untouched by the grimmest of the hardships already harvesting the less fortunate portions of the citizenry, a sense of national foreboding quickly grew: That there was a pit over which the whole nation teetered. An inescapable pit filled with horrors and truths which were too stark and which most of the 300-million citizens "dealt with" by pretending it simply wasn't there. And yet they all knew.

PB

[AngryAmish]

8. Buck up

Compared to history we live in wonderful times. The Mongol horde is not coming over the horizon to take away our first born. There is little fear of disease that will kill a quarter of the population in a season. Not too many starve to death.

Times are hard, but we are made of sterner stuff than this.

[Poll_Blind]

10. I think it takes courage to recognize the situation the country is in right now. No, there are no..

...Mongol hordes coming to take your firstborn, but if you have a child stationed in Afghanistan or Iraq (I do not) what's the difference between fear of having your firstborn taken by Mongol hordes coming to kill them or sending your first born off to fight "them"?

There are no diseases that will kill a quarter of the population in a season but when few of us have access to adequate, affordable healthcare, is the fear hyperbole? Do you have a town with homeless? I do. I ride the bus everywhere I go, if I can manage it. It's hard to look at some of those people or the freshly homeless, middle class families on the corner, and think "Well, there are no Mongols coming for you, no Black Plague to reap you" in solace?

:shrug:

PB