I'll bite... 
According to the WSJ, the current Democrat plan is:
- Protectionism (poorly performing industries getting a boost, F and GM, your savior has arrived...) And that hurts us how?
- Boost the minimum wage (going to hurt those that it's supposed to help and hurt those it's supposed to hurt) The Republican talking point is "It'll cause job loss". That's just as much a baseless scare tactic as the Republicans claiming they are the only party that can defend you from terrorism.... Here's the facts... the minimum wage needs to keep up with inflation which Greenspan and crew have raised consistently over the past 3 announcements I can remember. More money in people's pockets doesn't hurt people or the economy, it helps it.... They claim businesses will have to cut jobs. Fact is those businesses need the workers just as much as the workers need them. All this will do is force those businesses to cut costs elsewhere (hence become more efficient) to pay for the wage increase. Businesses do this all the time to pay for things they need or want like equipment upgrades etc. Employees are no different. Don't believe the smoke and mirrors.
- Roll back tax cuts for the rich (fuck that includes me, I don't feel rich!) This one doesn't fly with me either. I am by technical definitions wealthy. My household income exceeds 100k. No I don't feel rich. Yes I hate seeing huge tax chunks taken out of my pay and paying tax bills at the end of the year for my online earnings. So this affects me. But I also know it's common sense that the people who can afford to pay more should. All personal motivations and greed aside, it's just the right thing to do. I'm frankly more concerned about HOW the money is spent "coughcoughinvadingsovereign nations unprovokedcoughcough" than who pays more. If my tax money is being spent to better our nation or help the less fortunate and provide tangible services I can use or be proud of I'm all for it. Sorry you don't feel the same way.
- Reduce student loan interest rates (?) Yeah I agree with you there (?)
- Address 'climate change' (oh shit. here we go...) Again can't argue with you there. It's gonna be a clusterfuck of posturing on both sides.... I don't think either party can see past their own agendas far enough to be serious about what if anything is going on with our environment. But then again I don't see how bringing the issue to daylight can be a "bad" thing for our planet. Can you?
- Curb Executive Pay (profitability shouldn't = more money for executives? FUCK, people are making too much money by making others too much money!) Agree with you here too.. the government has no business mandating how much a person can be paid for work they do whether it's morally right or not.
So, what are we going to lose? Free Trade, Tax Cuts, and the loosening of regulations.
Shit. How Repulicany grand standing of you Any time the Republicans are going to lose anything it becomes a national crisis That argument doesn't work anymore and the voters made that clear on Tuesday. Republicans like to tout how we haven't been attacked since 9/11 and take credit for it when the fact is that A) They've been lucky and B) it's only a matter of time. We haven't been attacked because radical Islam is busy probing us and finding our weaknesses. Those people are patient. They planned 9/11 for years. They talk about how they broke up terrorist plots when first of all they didn't do anything. The CIA, FBI, NSA, DOD, and Homeland security did. Why? Because they are under higher alert than before and we're actually LOOKING for terrorist plots now... duh. Again just more smoke and mirrors to give themselves credit for something they didn't do.
It's a simple numbers came folks that the Republicans just by pure dumb luck happened to fall on the better side of. Right after and since 9/11 our security posture has been higher than ever before. It doesn't take a Republican majority to know we need to go on red alert when terrorists fly planes into our buildings in broad daylight. So time passes and the terrorists continue to plan and probe us until one day (hopefully after the Republicans have left office) bam they hit us again and the Republicans can now blame Democrats.
According to the WSJ, the current Democrat plan is:
- Protectionism (poorly performing industries getting a boost, F and GM, your savior has arrived...) And that hurts us how?
- Boost the minimum wage (going to hurt those that it's supposed to help and hurt those it's supposed to hurt) The Republican talking point is "It'll cause job loss". That's just as much a baseless scare tactic as the Republicans claiming they are the only party that can defend you from terrorism.... Here's the facts... the minimum wage needs to keep up with inflation which Greenspan and crew have raised consistently over the past 3 announcements I can remember. More money in people's pockets doesn't hurt people or the economy, it helps it.... They claim businesses will have to cut jobs. Fact is those businesses need the workers just as much as the workers need them. All this will do is force those businesses to cut costs elsewhere (hence become more efficient) to pay for the wage increase. Businesses do this all the time to pay for things they need or want like equipment upgrades etc. Employees are no different. Don't believe the smoke and mirrors.
- Roll back tax cuts for the rich (fuck that includes me, I don't feel rich!) This one doesn't fly with me either. I am by technical definitions wealthy. My household income exceeds 100k. No I don't feel rich. Yes I hate seeing huge tax chunks taken out of my pay and paying tax bills at the end of the year for my online earnings. So this affects me. But I also know it's common sense that the people who can afford to pay more should. All personal motivations and greed aside, it's just the right thing to do. I'm frankly more concerned about HOW the money is spent "coughcoughinvadingsovereign nations unprovokedcoughcough" than who pays more. If my tax money is being spent to better our nation or help the less fortunate and provide tangible services I can use or be proud of I'm all for it. Sorry you don't feel the same way.
- Reduce student loan interest rates (?) Yeah I agree with you there (?)
- Address 'climate change' (oh shit. here we go...) Again can't argue with you there. It's gonna be a clusterfuck of posturing on both sides.... I don't think either party can see past their own agendas far enough to be serious about what if anything is going on with our environment. But then again I don't see how bringing the issue to daylight can be a "bad" thing for our planet. Can you?
- Curb Executive Pay (profitability shouldn't = more money for executives? FUCK, people are making too much money by making others too much money!) Agree with you here too.. the government has no business mandating how much a person can be paid for work they do whether it's morally right or not.
So, what are we going to lose? Free Trade, Tax Cuts, and the loosening of regulations.
Shit. How Repulicany grand standing of you
Any time the Republicans are going to lose anything it becomes a national crisis That argument doesn't work anymore and the voters made that clear on Tuesday. Republicans like to tout how we haven't been attacked since 9/11 and take credit for it when the fact is that A) They've been lucky and B) it's only a matter of time. We haven't been attacked because radical Islam is busy probing us and finding our weaknesses. Those people are patient. They planned 9/11 for years. They talk about how they broke up terrorist plots when first of all they didn't do anything. The CIA, FBI, NSA, DOD, and Homeland security did. Why? Because they are under higher alert than before and we're actually LOOKING for terrorist plots now... duh. Again just more smoke and mirrors to give themselves credit for something they didn't do.It's a simple numbers came folks that the Republicans just by pure dumb luck happened to fall on the better side of. Right after and since 9/11 our security posture has been higher than ever before. It doesn't take a Republican majority to know we need to go on red alert when terrorists fly planes into our buildings in broad daylight. So time passes and the terrorists continue to plan and probe us until one day (hopefully after the Republicans have left office) bam they hit us again and the Republicans can now blame Democrats.
