Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
See my latter reply to haxxiy. While i personally abhor their economic policies, i still think the Republicans are honestly going too far for what a lot of Americans want. Some of their proposals are common-sense, mainstream stuff, like flattening the tax code while shutting down loopholes, while other things are stuff the average American doesn't want, like complete deregulation or the gutting of social programs.
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I think you'd be surprised on some of that stuff. A LOT of people are bitter about unions. As union membership drops, so does support for them. Essentially only those who benefit from them tend to support them.
As for complete deregulation and gutting of social programs... i'd say those are more your views on their polices then their actual policies.
Additionally... americans don't want any touching of social programs. They also don't want anything to fund them. On social programs... people just want a free lunch. It's a valuable short term plank i guess... but long term it's just dangerous. There isn't any responsible position on Social Programs other tehn an unpopular one.
It's actually sad because had we invested surpluses instead of put the money in worthless accounting tricks like government IOUs... we'd likely still have tons of money to pay for these things with some pretty good profits.
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"Kill the Department of Energy" and "Kill the EPA" are not calls for complete deregulation?
Although this could be a case where their rhetoric makes their intent sound more severe than what they would actually do, but if its convincing voters that such is their intent, then the result is the same.
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I literally did not here either of those things during the campaign... or anybody remotely talking about those things. If I didn't... i'm guessing the average person hasn't either.
A quick look at Romney's campaign site which is still up talks about how he would stop Obama's underminding of the Department of Energy and get them back to their basic research goals and reason for existing.
So, he clearly didn't want to kill it.
http://aboutmittromney.com/energy.htm
And looking at the EPA it looked like people were trying to block who he would appoint as EPA head... which shows he planned to keep that around as well.
So again... I think this is less an issue of what republicans are saying, but what you interpret republicans as saying based on your political position.
