Both parties are pretty bad, but what gets me is that people who label themselves as Republicans or Tea party act like all this shit happened when Obama got in office- let's take a trip down memory lane and go back to the last "great" Republican President which no doubt was Reagan- and let's be honest and fair Reagan inherited a mess from his predecessor- but let's take a look at what Reagan did:
1) Raised Taxes
2) Reagan spent more in his years than all the other Presidents before him combined.
3) Amnesty- do you hear that Tea Party- Reagan was for Amnesty.
4) Cut and run- remember the bombings in Beirut that killed over 300 marines- Reagan got the hell out of dodge- there was no retaliation from the U.S- can you imagine the criticism if a terrorist group were to kill 300 plus marines and Obama didn't respond???
5) Iran/Contra Scandal- Iran in the 80's was equivalent to Al-Queada today- so we had an enemy(Iran) who overthrow a pro-U.S govt- oh while I am on that topic- the U.S supported the Shah of Iran who was one of the most brutal and notorious dictators, but we looked the other because Iran was oil rich and was a strategic nation that we used to spy on Russia. The Shah did everything the President of Syria is doing but worse.
Ok so the Reagan administration makes a deal with Iranians who just years earlier stormed the U.S embassy and held Americans hostages- but we are selling arms to these Iranians and at the same time we are telling Saddam-who happened to be our friend back then that we help you in your war against Iran. So the U.S is openly supporting Iraq and at the same time arming and selling weapons to Iran???? This would be the equivalent of the Obama administration selling weapons to the Taliban or Al-queada to use against NATO troops or the U.S selling weapons to Palestinians to use against Israel.
The govt expanded under under Reagan- and good ole George Dubyah grew the govt larger than any President before him- don't you Conservatives like smaller govt??? Well apparently Reagan and Bush didn't like small govt. Both Reagan and Bush spent like crazy- neither one were financially conservative.
So Old grump don't start crying now about whose going to pay for this or that- because the spending got way out of hand during Reagan's administration..
6) Oh let's not forget- when Obama wanted to raise the debt ceiling republicans go ape shit- well check your history Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 TIMES!!!!!
7) you guys hate Obamacare but you love Medicare right? Hmmm one of the 2 programs has a plan to pay for it and one doesn't - can you guess????
Medicare Part D- Bush's plan is a 100 billion dollar a year program that goes straight to the deficit. Add in the estimated 1 to 2 trillion dollar fake Iraq war to the equation- yes the very war that senator Obama voted against. During the peak of that war- it was costing tax payers anywhere between 700 million to 1 billion tax payer dollars a day- just to keep up with the logistics of that war-- so you guys have no problem spending a trillion dollars on a fake and useless war- Iraq is actually worst offer economically and socially now than under Saddam- but that's ok- but you all go ape shit if we spend money to keep our own citizens healthy? There's something wrong with that picture!