Republicans need to suck it up and start helping (real) PEOPLE!
Last edited Tue Jul 3, 2012, 02:09 PM - Edit history (1)
This was inspired by an earlier thread about Governor Chris Christy (R-obviously) complaining (i.e. making excuses) about implementing the Medicaid expansion that is part of ACA. I have become so very tired of Republicans endlessly complaining about how Democratic proposals meant to help improve people's lives are somehow difficult to implement, impractical, or somehow unworkable and then they just shrug their shoulders and give up on the idea of helping people entirely just because they act like it's "difficult" and don't want to make the time or the effort to come up with an alternative solution.
They tell us how horrible ACA is supposed to be but they have no alternative plan for everybody to consider. They drag their feet and try to obstruct progress on social reforms or basically any kind of reform that helps people because they complain about an aspect or two about proposed legislation but don't offer any alternative suggestions. They simply tell us it's too expensive, too difficult and demand that it just be scrapped and never discussed. There are no attempts to work with Democrats to try to find a solution to their concerns with their legislation, no attempts to amend it. They usually want to "kill the bill" and demagogue anything the Democrats want to do to help people to death at the polls so that they can get more power and help the people THEY want to help instead (often pretending that THEY are the ones sticking up for "the little guy"
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The only conclusion I can reach is that they simply don't care about anybody whom isn't (enough) like them and/or doesn't contribute to their campaigns IMHO. How do I know this, you may ask? Well, if you compare how much they not only drag their feet and bemoan the difficulty of helping other people whom are less fortunate than them but also actively work to obstruct any kind of social reform to how they practically bowl everybody else over to enact tax cuts for the wealthy, decrease/eliminate regulations on corporations (their kind of "people" , bust public sector unions, add more money to the Pentagon budget, etc, it should be pretty obvious to anybody that they are smart and/or crafty enough to figure out how to get things done for some people but apparently not others. It's not that there are simply no solutions to fixing social/economic/political problems other than to admit defeat and prepare (most of) us for a bleak(er) future but rather a complete lack of willingness (mostly on their part) to work with others to find reasonable and common-sense solutions to complex problems.
