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Democrats_win

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Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:35 PM Jul 2013

GOP’s “gifts” to 21st Century Americans

1. Pseudo-outrage by pompous pampered plutocrats and their minions. After screwing over Americans for 30 years, the plutocrats have it pretty good. Yet they’re the ones who are angry! While we suffer, it’s their voices that are heard by our government and by religion.

2. Greed triumphs over good. Before Reagan, America was a generous, good country that helped our neighbors and each other. Now Americans are charged high prices for every little thing while the wealthy feel entitled to free gifts at every turn. Reagan’s legacy is that he abolished good in America.

3. Massive personal and public debt. Before Reagan, Americans owed very little money compared to today. And, it’s getting worse as college interest rates are no longer fixed-rate.

4. Village Idiot becomes the worst president in American history. Americans should make sure that whenever they look at a dictionary or Google, for the term “worst,” they’ll see George W. Bush listed as the worst president ever. His tax cuts for the wealthy didn’t produce anything while he left us in two foolish wars, and a flash depression.

5. 9/11

6. Lying us into war.

7. Banker bailouts. While the bankers got incredibly generous bailouts by our government and the FED, they proceeded to screw the American people like never before. They even broke the laws with their robo-signing scandal. Americans, who really needed help were left out in the cold while the wealthy bankers who caused the 2008 depression were rewarded.

8. Rampant racism. We once thought racism was dead but you can never take the racism out of the conservative. Worse, Representative King takes a government paycheck while he spews his racist dung.

9. Permanent high unemployment and low wages. Thanks to the 2008 depression, we can count on this.

10. Outsourcing.

11. Public-private partnerships (P3s). This is the new subprime crisis. These P3s are essentially loans to governments who end up paying massive amounts of money for them.

12. The department of homeland security. This is the worst government agency in the history of the world. They spent more money on this department than FDR spent on the New Deal. Then when disaster struck, they failed. They spy on us but can’t find a terrorist even when they’re handed him on a platter. Did we really need this boondoggle to figure out that we needed locks on airplane cockpit doors?

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