The Republicans are Getting Old part 3

Other issue's the Republicans stay constant is there obsessive ideology that if you have free markets everything will be okay.

Free Market:
Is the corner stone of any good Republican. This idea of freeing capitalism has been the litmus test for quite a while. If you ain't for eliminating "red tape" then you are "bad for America." Michelle Bauchman even wanted to eliminate the EPA! When ever there is a recession the Republicans must blame regulation even though Countries like Canada who had stronger regulations on our banks survived the recession better.

appalling Values :
I have nothing against the family values of the Republican party, but I do have a problem with how they show it. The Republicans have always been more interested in Big business instead of helping middle income families. Instead of supporting a universal health care system they want to go the pro business way of letting companies continue to make cost more expensive so they can make more profit. The Republicans give there  tax cuts or money to first major industries then the rich then foreign countries then to pork projects for things like (pickle technology) then they consider cutting taxes on the middle class, but if the middle class gets a 1% tax cut the rich must get at lets a 1.01% tax cut.

Everyone Can get a Job:
The Republicans like to make Americans feel that anyone can be a rich millionaire, but the system that the U.S currently has where the rich gets richer and the poor get poorer. In fact the top 500 incomes in the U.S. is equivalent to the bottom 50% of the country. The system the Republican want to create where there is no room for middle income (an endangered specious in the U.S) or for that matter the lower income to climb the economic ladder.

The Republicans are Getting Old part 2 (Part 3 will come soon)

Republican morals have of coursed seem the same at least in the capital. one of the most pointless morals that Republican politicians tend to agree with is that

Drugs are Bad!
Republicans, have always were against Marijuana legalization and are always ready like Stephen Harper to spend billions of dollars putting the people who use marijuana (a substance less addicting then coffee and less harmful then Alcohol) in prison. The Republican Idea of "War on drugs is getting very old"

The Rich create jobs.
We all know since a very long time ago that the Republicans believe that if you give a billionaires 1 million dollars somehow a middle income family will all of a sudden increase. During the Regan years where the rich got there taxes almost cut to 1/3 the size the rich got richer and average income for everyone else increased by about nothing. Reaganomics don't work fiscally as the debt ballooned during his years (the Republicans should think next time they praise his policies), and it didn't work in increasing income for middle and lower income Americans. Trickle down economics don't work yet all the Republicans currently are offering more tax cuts for the rich and almost nothing for the poor.

The Republicans are Getting Old! Part 1

The Republicans leaders all over the U.S are getting any new material, and quite frankly I am getting a little sick of proving there ideology wrong, but let's summaries there whole platform shall we.

1. Cut spending
seems simple and okay enough, but where? well they want to cut medicare and medicaid, which would leave seniors and poor income Americans with more bills that can't afford currently. What is there plans to help these people nothing!!! They claim they are saving medicare and to be true they are in a way by making it less expensive, but by doing that they are making medicare less helpful to the people who need it.

2 the debt of the future
If I had a nickle for every time I heard a Republican say the words "this debt will crush are children" or "the Government is going to leave this mountain of debt on are children." I would probably have enough money to pay off this years deficit. While I agree debt is bad long-term, and the U.S currently has a structural deficit I don't see that as an excuse not to raise taxes as a part of stooping this debt on our children.  which brings me to the third point

3. "No new taxes"
The Republicans are crazy when they hear the word tax. If there isn't the word "cut" next to it they go crazy saying this is no time to raise taxes. Well then why can't I say this is no time to stop giving aid to seniors or to the poor especially when it comes to medicine. Even a tax on the very rich who defiantly don't need it would somehow "kill the economy", but taking money out of medicare won't hurt the economy. Come on get real the Rich in the U.S are beeing taxed like nothing compared to other countries (that are developed).

Cut Defense!!!!!!!!!

The Defense budget in the U.S is 20% of the U.S budget. That is of course double than what it was in 2001. If the U.S wants to get back to the surplus years of the 1990's then they will have too cut into defense heavily. Except a lot of the defense spending is in the two wars one is almost finished except there is 50,000 troops still left in Iraq, and Afghanistan is slowly going to be stopped. Not much savings so far. This means that the U.S should maybe look at the pentagon which is spending over 500 billion dollars a year. Maybe look into massive cuts into the pentagon. Even though most people would agree the pentagon needs a lot of money, and I agree with that, but if the U.S wants to reduce the deficit than they are going to need to cut important aspects of the budget. And to be truthful the pentagon is spending a much more than before. I am not saying kill the pentagon, but cut it by 80 billion minimum this year alone. The U.S should also cut homeland security, and many other security programs that have billion of dollars in the budget that the U.S can't sustain. Here in Canada we have a defense budget of about 7% , and it doesn't need to grow any more in fact with the mission in Afghanistan ending the defense budget should lower in value of the total budget. We don't need a big army. We don't have any country to fear except maybe North Korea and Iran and they have bigger fish to fry, and nevertheless we do have allies with similar defense spending then us who can join in if needed.Our defense funding is fine where it is now we have the 13th highest defense budget in the world. The U.S is of course way on top of the packed and can afford (or really needs to) cut it's military capacity.

By taking a holistic approach, $80 billion could be slashed from the $553 billion the Pentagon has requested for 2012, the authors say. Expensive projects ill-suited for today's wars -- like missile defense and the V-22 Osprey -- would be cut.

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Gay Rights Moving Forwards

Even though I don't support Civil Unions, because they aren't enough Gay people should be given complete marriage rights, but In Rhode Island a bill passed to give civil unions to Gay couples in that state. Now that means that all the new England states either have full marriage or civil unions. Hawaii and Delaware will allow Civil unions in 2012. Of course this still isn't enough the majority of state's still don't give anything to gay people in respects of civil unions or marriage, but at least thanks to the momentum of New York some progress is being done, and hopefully more states will soon allow full marriage equality. In some states like Texas it has in it's constitution no same sex marriage or civil unions. That would mean a vote would have to be held to overturn that piece of constitution in order to allow it.

Meanwhile, gay rights activists -- like Marriage Equality Rhode Island -- say that while they support the civil union bill, they would prefer legislation that permits same-sex couples to wed.

  Of course even if all states legalized Gay marriage if the federal government doesn't recognize it then many rights aren't granted.

Federal recognition, however, was not a part of Friday's vote, leaving benefits like Social Security and ease of immigration largely out of reach for same-sex couples.

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