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the United States of America would have no Social Security, no Medicare, no Aid to Dependent Children, no civil rights, no environmental protections, no privacy rights to make contraception legal. There would be no business taxes, either, which could mean an even more vigorous business sector but also lots of gated communities and private security guards and - who knows? - maybe death squads to put down the inevitable insurrections. And there would certainly be no "death taxes," so we'd be burdened with an ever larger cohort of inbred aristocrats. And our daughters and sisters would be flocking to the nation's emergency rooms, hemorrhaging from illegal abortions. And we might still be at war in Vietnam.
On the other hand, consider what the Republicans gave Americans during their last eight years in power: They were asleep at the switch when Osama bin Laden attacked, overreacted by invading a country that had not attacked us (at the cost of about $1 trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives), saddled the country with $43 billion a year in unfunded Medicare mandates and another $1.7 trillion in unfunded tax cuts for the rich ($2.5 trillion according to a new study by Citizens for Tax Justice [PDF]) - then followed their market fundamentalist ideology right over the economic cliff and sent the whole planet spinning into recession.
And now they're upset about how Obama is running the country? What gives them the right to criticize, exactly?
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/angry-republicans-091509?src=rss#ixzz0RDoLXhON
An article I enjoyed - sorry if a repost. http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/angry-republicans-091509?src=rss