It strikes me as strange that the deficit has to be addressed during a Democratic Presidency, but not during a republican one. For a republican it's perfectly fine to start two wars half a world away without a care about how it's going to be paid for, but if a Democrat gets involved in a third one, all of a sudden we have to figure out how to pay for it.
Stranger still is how when a republican suggests screwing the poor and the elderly it's "serious" and "courageous", but if a Democrat suggests increasing the taxes on the rich it's "socialism"....
The one good thing we can draw from this whole episode is that republicans have officially made their intentions crystal clear; they aim to completely destroy the public safety net that has been built over the years. The question is, who will stand up to defend it?
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