Originally posted by Alaskan Man
I was never a democrat, but you can bet I was lumped in with the rest of you, I can’t remember how many family members and friends who told me it
was all anti-bush rhetoric or media spin, while keeping there eyes closed to the evidence and refusing to form an opinion of there own (rather then
repeating opinions they’ve heard), while condemning me as an extreme leftist.
I sympathize with you, and I enjoyed the entire post, but this one portion struck a nerve; because the budget deficit is something that worries me.
When Bush was President, I told my Republican family members that the deficit worries me. You know what they said? "Deficits don't matter!" They
said this because Dick Cheney said this. NOW...now that a Democrat is in office, they're all sorts of worried about the deficit! Hypocrites.
Also, when Bush was in office, my Democrat friends were
all about my concern over the budget deficit. They agreed completely! Now that Obama is
in office, the whole thing has flipped! "Deficits don't matter," because Obama said so.
Go ask Argentina, Zimbabwe, Iceland, or the former USSR if deficits matter!
So I sympathize with you. In the past several years, I've been everything from a left-wing extremist to a right-wing extremist -- without ever
changing my views!