1st e-mail:
I am very scared for our nation as we have gotten so soft and liberal. I believe if Obama get in for president that we are in the end times. I feel very badly for what we have left our children.
My reply e-mail:
Nonsense, (name withheld) I am damn glad that we are going to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President. You make it sound like Obama is some Godless twerp. Bush will go down as one of the worst presidents we've had since Warren Harding. It's not right when his rich friends lobby and make laws that are lax on the environment. Bush was way, way, way behind figuring out that allowing cars to burn gas for the forseeable future is a great thing. The state he led, Texas, before he was president had cities with the worst smog in the nation. The United States, among the world, is not the leader or the beacon in saving the environment. It used to be!!
Reasonable minds can disagree on Iraq. I don't agree with leaving Iraq on January 20, as some would think Obama would (HE WON'T!!). But the Iraq War was a mistake for 3 reasons: we were, in fact, misled to believe that there were weapons for mass destruction, (2) we lost over 4,000 of our finest men and women and that was a shame (3) more effort in Iraq means less effort in Afganhistan. Anyone who pays attention knows that Democrats favor the war in Afganhistan. (THereby proving the idea that Democrats are soft on terrorism is B.S.)
I once was a Republican and believed the bill of goods Reagan tried to sell us. But I stopped in 1982. What I've learned over the years is that Republican presidents favor going billions and billions of dollars more than what this nation needs in national defense all the while deprive poor people programs and opportunities to improve. I will never support a party like that. I will never support a party that hates the minimum wage.
Here's a dirty little secret that you and other Republicans fail to acknowledge. Republican businessmen love to proclaim how hard they worked for the wealth they earned. Well, the fact is poor people work hard too (surprise)! There are many people, as we speak, working 2 jobs, work 50-60 hrs. a week and getting a crappy wage with no insurance. They, their children and their community suffers as a result. & the answer ISN'T TAXING THEM LESS, JUST AS THE PROBLEM OF TOO FEW PEOPLE HAVING INSURANCE IS LESS TAXES. That's the most weak, ineffective solution there is!
You may have heard of a President by the name of Clinton. Oh, of course, you know that he got impeached and lied and committed adultery. Yes, yes shame on him for that. But you probably forgot the part where he raised the taxes of the wealthy in 1993 and then our nation had the longest sustained prosperity in our nation's history. He balanced the budget and that led to the prosperity. But don't take my word for it. Listen to Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Chairman during the Bush, Clinton and Junior Bush early adm. Oh and by the way Alan Greenspan is a REPUBLICAN!! He gave Clinton credit for balancing the budget and trimming the national debt (which is double; thanks to Bush and the Republicans in Congress when they were in the majority). He said that trimming the national debt led to prosperity. Yes, it wasn't the only reason but it was a MAJOR contributor.
Republican love to deride Democrats about how they tax and spend. Well, I hate the Republican "borrow and spend' policies. Think about it when we buy a tank or a machine gun for one of our courageous soldiers in Iraq on borrowed money, you know & I know the taxpayers pay for the price of the tank and gun and they pay the interest for borrowing the money. With Bill Clinton, we had a "pay as you go" government. You'd never hear that from a Republican. I could go on for 8 more pages, but that would really suck, wouldn't it? Let's face it. You are a businessman who hates high taxes, who believes in morality and capitalism. So you are a natural for supporting the Republicans. I don't hold that against you. What bothers me about you is when you support candidates who believe in borrow and spend policies, who waste billions of dollars to the Pentagon, and their actions show that they don't give a damn for the poor.
You had your 6 years of Republicans in Congress and the White House. In those 6 years, some things didn't go so well did they?? Guess what? it's our turn! Don't worry, someday we'll elect another Republican president. The Republicans are alive and well. I am a natural Democrat as I proudly work in the 3rd largest city of our nation, I walk past homeless people Monday through Friday on my way to work. I have struggled and cut costs trying to balance a budget. I am an employee not a boss.
So (name withheld), if you ever tout your political views to me, I promise you a very spirited response. If you still want to do that, great. I respect, but don't agree with your views. Also, I believe and assume that you are a very good boss. You told me in the past you provide your employees health insurance. Good for you. If more bosses treated their employees like you, _____, we might not have some of the laws protecting employees as we do now. The fact is that there is a certain minority of bosses that ruin it for others and have to be stopped.
Let's clear a few more things up. Not all Democrats believe in abortion. THe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is against abortion. I am against abortion in most cases. Democrats are for a strong national defense and applaud the policies Bush carried out against Afganhistan until he went to war against Iraq and depleted forces in Afganhistan. There are moral Democrats. Barack Obama is a church going, happily married man. He's a Christian, NOT A MUSLIM, as a few of those redneck Republicans would have us believe. If Obama cheated on his wife, don't you think with how intrusive the media is we would know about it? Clearly Fox's "fair and balanced news" (not) would have dug up something by now. I never thought that Republicans were evil or stupid. I do however, question/disagree with Republicans' policies and their national priorities.
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