The Rock
11/14/2009 4:08:00 PM
"Ilya Shambat" <bettermillenium@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Nov 4, 8:50 pm, tooly <rd...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> It's pretty simple really.
>>
>> Republicans are the party of TRADITIONAL America that represents it's
>> constitution and founders.
> ....
>
> Another error is that of equating Republicans with America and giving
> Republicans the credit for all of America's accomplishments. It is
> largely for the sake of transparency that this claim put to rest.
> Here
> are the facts:
> - The Democratic administrations of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin
> Roosevelt won, respectively, the First and the Second World War;
> - The Democrats form the vast bulk of America's scientists and
> innovators, with over 90% of its Nobel Prize winners being Democrats
> and only 3% of academics being Republicans;
> - Of America's 10 foremost educational institutions, 9 are in solidly
> Democratic states and are centers of Democratic Party's activities;
> - The computer industry, which has been the main engine of prosperity
> of 1980s and 1990s, is largely Democratic. The personal computer was
> invented by a hippie. The computer industry is located in solidly
> Democratic San Francisco Bay Area and Washington State, as well as in
> the Democratic-voting Northern Virginia. The Democrats make up the
> bulk of both its management and its rank-and-file.
> - The Clinton Administration gave America its greatest peacetime
> economic expansion (the greatest wartime one having been under
> Franklin Delano Roosevelt). Its policies created 23 million jobs, the
> first balanced budget in three decades, international peace and
> prosperity, and a revamping of the government to become efficient and
> user friendly (Reagan only whined about the government while being
> its
> head). It also brought about a significant reduction in violent crime
> - which grew under Reagan and peaked under Bush Sr. Meanwhile the
> Bush
> Jr. administration added $5 trillion to the debt, with no jobs
> created, amid collapsing family incomes, and at the end the worst
> economic crisis America has had since the Great Depression.
> - Democrats form the bulk of America's teachers and journalists,
> whose
> contributions are not easily measured monetarily but are of greater
> significance than those of many far higher-paid professionals.
> - Democrats have fought for civil rights, human rights, and women's
> rights, while Republicans have done all they could to sabotage all of
> the above.
> - Democrats have fought to bring to public attention the facts about
> global warming. Republicans have done nothing but aggressively deny
> reality - on this, as much as on federal debt.
> The people who blame all things on "liberal government" or "big
> government" or compare American government to the Soviet Union know
> nothing of what they're talking about. Without the government
> Interstate, the anti-government truckers would not have the roads on
> which to deliver the farming goods, created by government-subsidized
> anti-government farmers, to the big liberal cities that are the
> market
> for their products. Without the government academia, the academic
> research that has been necessary for the hardware and technology that
> are at the core of business production would not have taken place.
> Without the government Internet, the computerization and Internet
> commerce that was the source of 1990s growth would not have been
> possible. Whining about taxes was a big trend under the Clinton
> administration. Being in the high-income bracket, I had a lot of
> taxes
> to whine about. I did not whine about my taxes, because I knew where
> the money was going and saw it as my civic duty to pay it. Under Bush
> I would have had less taxes to whine about; but there was a problem.
> Like many others, under Bush, I no longer was in the high-income
> bracket - or, for some of that time, in any bracket at all.
> But beyond personal experience, let us look at the big issues. Who
> has
> given America a $10 trillion debt? Who has aggressively for three
> decades denied global warming? Who has done this to the country they
> claim to love, and to the children and grandchildren for whose sake
> they claim to practice "family values?" It wasn't the Democrats. It
> is
> the Republicans who have done this to America and to their children's
> and grandchildren's future.
> So to put it shortly: Democrats are not Communists; Republicans are
> not America, nor do they deserve credit for America. Case closed.
Thank you, Ilya, well said, and the truth.
Just right now we have Republicans blocking healthcare for America, we
have Republican blocking benefits for veterans, and they'll continue to
block
everything for the average American. That's their philosophy, only the very
rich and big corporations should have anything. And the morons vote for
them!
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