Typical.  Nova’s generation has flushed this country down the toilet and now they want to blame whoever is in the seat right now.  The fact I understand that this mess didn’t start 4 years ago, and can’t be solved over night shows that my education is much better than your “Obama screwed up everything!” approach to this election and your “select one moment in time to blame the long-term problem” approach to the financial crisis. 

You got it.  Dodd and Frank singlehandedly crashed the economy.  It had nothing to do with the previous decade. 

The rise in unemployment and food stamps is not at all related to that economic instability I just mentioned and dismantling of safeguards like Glass Steagal that started way before 2007.  You nailed it again. 

$16T in debt.  Again, you are right.  It started 4 years ago.  All Obama’s fault.  Clearly only cutting spending to the bone (except the Pentagon of course) is the way to fix it.  A balanced approach would be foolish.  Liberal hogwash right pal!

What part of Obamacare that has been implemented already caused your mother to be dropped from her insurance for having cancer?  I’m really curious about that one.  Answer carefully, because much of it isn’t even in effect yet.  Remember “RomneyCare” was the same thing, he just hates it now because he has to.

Four years is enough to fix unemployment caused by a toxic economy huh?  Reagan had stagnantly high unemployment and inflation up until about October of 1984.  Sure took him 4 years to do anything.  Then he raised taxes a few more times (even after TEFRA in his first term…amazing) once they put him back in for 1985.  Common sense said he had to.  Common sense the GOP lacks in 2012.  According to them Reagan’s tax increases should have plummeted America into a depression.

I’m not going to keep going either because all of your examples try to boil the problem down to one moment in time.  I guess that is a simpler way to try and understand things, but it is not an accurate way to portray the problem. 

I may be younger than you, but you seem to have amnesia when it comes to government policy pre-2006.  You also seem to think I am some big time Democrat.  They all stink.  They have both failed for the last few decades.  I vote for the least offensive candidate, because all you get is “Bad Choice A” and “Bad Choice B”.  None of them are fixing anything now, nor will they in the future until something else collapses.  The big money owns them all. 

Congrats to you though, you probably grabbed the last morsels that remained from the prosperous America my grandparents built that has been slowly bled dry since 1980.  What would be really hilarious is if you revealed yourself to be a CSRS fed.

@NoVaGF

“TroyMcClure - Seems you need to maybe get a refund on your education if your did receive one.”

lol

TroyMcClure - Seems you need to maybe get a refund on your education if your did receive one. It’s great that you point out what people post and disagree with it, but please explain the following to us:

1. When the Dems took over the House/Senate in 2007, who took over the Banking/Finance sector? I will help you, Frank/Dodd.
2. How many times did Bush ask to stop Frannie/Freddie, but the Dems said nothing was wrong with them (who took the 3rd highest pay from them…Obama).
3. Why are there more people on food stamps compared to Obama’s first day in office?
4. Why are more families living in poverty compared to Obama’s first day in office?
5. How come in 2007 when the Dems took over the House/Senate…lending standards change? While Bush may have been in the car, the Dems had control of the gas pedal and steering wheel.
6. 16 Trillion in debt, let’s explain how this is going to be repaid. Does Portugal,Italy, Ireland and Greece ring a bell?
7. Obamacare - explain why Doctors are now refusing to see Medicare patients. It’s true, just ask my mom who is going through cancer and they dropped her because their pay is being cut.
8. Explain how raiding over $700 billion in Medicare is right?
9. Explain how the government made an incredible profit with the banks paying back the TARP money and what did the government do with all the money?
10. Please explain the record high unemployment since he took office? (Don’t use he inherited it…it’s been 4 years and Bush had a record number of weeks with job growth).

I can keep going, but 10 is enough right now. I’m sure everyone will keep mentioning women’s rights, abortion, race and being gay. As a Republican, I vote how I can provide for my family. I could care less if a woman makes more than me, if a person wants to marry a man/woman/tree/dog/cow/cat/monkey and if a woman wants an abortion, that is her choice. I believe its ironic that woman who are Democrat want us to stay out of their vagina’s when it comes to abortion, but wants us to pay for their contraceptives. Again…another debate I would love to have. So prove to use how better we are. Don’t bring up Regan when you don’t know or understand what he did. As you said, you are under 30 and you can only learn so much from Google search.

Whoa there, TroyMcClure:  Haven’t you ever head the expression, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”?  So don’t go judging anything by my screen name.  Not that it’s any of your business, but I’m a mom of three and yes, I bought my own contraception when I was young, married, and not ready to start a family.  Wasn’t covered by my insurance and I didn’t expect it to be.  It’s NOT a health issue.  It was my choice to need it and use it and MY responsibility to buy it.  As for “keeping young people in the dark and pretend it doesn’t exist,” I’m not sure what you’re talking about.  Sex?  Pregnancy?  My kids know darn well what could happen if they have sex.  You know what stops kids from making “life-altering mistakes”?  The love and expectations of parents who talk to them frankly about why sex is for marriage.  NOT free, government-supplied contraception.  There’s no war on women, but there SHOULD be a war on people who expect the government to pay for their every want and whim.  What has happened to pride, self-reliance and responsibility in this nation?

@Eleanor
wow

Tom Seeman:  Another man who seems to think he knows what is best for women. 

Maybe his statement would make sense if the GOP was for equal pay for equal work, but they aren’t for that either.

Erin Smith has basically nothing to cite for her single women.  If anything women have done better during the “Great Recession” than men.  Unless you are some sort of heiress, you aren’t a single woman that is on the GOP’s radar of economic opportunity.  In fact, Ms. Smith’s taxes will probably go up so Kim Kardashian can pay less.  Way to support the single ladies Erin.

And I have a feeling anyone with “Jehovah” in this name isn’t buying much contraception and therefore would find it to be a non-issue.  As a man, I have no problem paying for insurance companies to cover contraception.  It could contribute to reducing the problem we have with unplanned pregnancy.  It is too bad certain sects of our population feel we should keep young people in the dark about it and pretend it doesn’t exist. Maybe some more life altering mistakes could be avoided. 

I already pay for covering Viagra, and being under 30 I’m not using that either.  Won’t see Rush or his cadre of male, gray haired GOP power players complaining about that. 

Eleanor - Stop acting like you suddenly care about debt.  I am sure you didn’t care when Reagan started using the credit card (just like you don’t care he raised taxes now) and didn’t care when HW Bush didn’t balance the budget either, or when his son kicked off some of the most extreme deficit spending seen since WW2.  Now that a Democrat is doing it, you point out the children and our declining standard of living.  Maybe if someone spoke up in 1984 when I was a child, I wouldn’t be inheriting a country riddled with debt and a sliding standard of living that started in the 80s.  I hope the Boomers enjoy their retirement though.  I’m sure trashing this country for it was worth it for them.  Even funnier, people like Eleanor think it can be fixed as easily as a proclamation.  “Why hasn’t Obama fixed it yet!!! “Says the idiot who hasn’t read the paper over the last 4 years.

@Frank Jamesco. There are numerous equal pay regs built into EEO legislation. “Lilly Ledbetter” laws are just more grandstanding.

I’m trying to get a handle on these “women’s issues” and all I can figure out is that liberal women want the GOP to “stay out of their bedrooms” but they also want them to pay for their contraception and abortions.  You know what—I’m a woman.  If I want contraception, I’ll pay for it myself.  If I need to go to the doctor, I’ll pay for it myself.  And I’ll be voting Republican this November.

@ Tom & Eleanor
What was it 171 GOP votes against the lilly ledbetter act? Including paul ryan.
Why do you and your republican friends feel that woman should not be paid the same as men?

If you think the GOP is againt women, then I refer you to Delegate Erin Smith’s article in the Wahington Times:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/30/single-gals-choose-romney/

Tom (and did you make up that last name?)...don’t feel too sorry about how Democratic women have turned out.  They’re showing much more spunk and spine than GOP women who keep quiet and go along with radical government intrusions into their personal lives sponsored by Republican politcians like Vogel and McDonnell.    Surprised you can’t see that.  Of course, if the government mandated a medical procedure on you, you might just change your tune.

The most stunning event at the Democrat Convention today was the National Debt topping SIXTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS ensuring a miserable standard of living for our kids and grandkids without a significant U-turn in our Federal Government

So this is what the Democratic party has come to.  Well, I guess when President Obama’s economic polcies have been such a miserable failure you’re embarrassed to talk about them you have to invent issues.  Thus, the “war on women” meme.

And what are these ” women’s heath issues” that Ms. Shupe is referring to?  Anyone who pays attention to the news knows that they are free contraception and unlimited access to abortion throughout the entire pregnancy.  These are hardly “health” issues, as babies are not diseases. 

Sad, because women’s rights used to refer to things like suffrage, equal pay for equal work, and freedom from harassment in the workplace.  Now it’s all about contraception and abortion.  And to think that they have the temerity to say that the GOP has “gone to the far right.”