Sort of.
They were all over the early 90's race issues conversation of "welfare queens" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and such. Hence the title of this post: I think the candidates were having a debate in some sort of an Alternate Universe, where the entire country of Mexico gets booed, and apparently it's insane to think that if we bomb countries they might want to bomb us back. But here is my actual evidence that this debate was being broadcast from another dimension:
1. Dodd-Frank is too strict and we are being "strangled by regulations".
In my universe, our entire financial system went into a meltdown because of lack of regulation. Income disparity is at its highest in 50 years because of lack of regulation. We've had to bail out banks and investment firms and AIG because of lack of regulation. I grew up in a Republican household. The concept that tax breaks and deregulation can encourage growth and help everyone is not foreign me and I do not believe is always wrong. But come on. I think at this point, we've learned that taking away all regulation is a terrible, terrible plan.
2. Government regulators are the enemies of free enterprise.
Obama just appointed the ex-head lobbyist of Monsanto as the chief of the FDA. SEC lawyers walk out the door and straight into jobs at Goldman Sachs. I wish this were far, far more true than it is.
3. People are staying unemployed because we're letting them have unemployment benefits for too long.
Yes, companies are just begging for new employees and all those lazy low-income folks are saying, "No thanks, I'll take my barely livable unemployment benefits here and pass up that excellent job with health insurance. But seriously, thanks anyway!"
4. Obama has made government way too big, but also, has not spent enough on defense, building up the border or creating jobs. Which he can't do because the government doesn't create jobs. But still, he's doing a bad job at that.
Yup.
5. Obama hates the troops because he wants gay soldiers to be able to serve openly.
The troops don't really care. Military leaders, sociologists and psychologists all say it does nothing to negatively affect troop morale or cohesion. And Obama actually setting an end date so troops can go home to their families...to me that says he cares about them as people a hell of a lot more than our previous president did.
I could keep going, but I would just like to conclude with this point: I think all of these items show that Republicans are horribly out of touch and out of date with their policies. This is also evidenced by the fact that the Fox News moderator looks like a 1950's football cartoon.
1. Dodd-Frank is too strict and we are being "strangled by regulations".
In my universe, our entire financial system went into a meltdown because of lack of regulation. Income disparity is at its highest in 50 years because of lack of regulation. We've had to bail out banks and investment firms and AIG because of lack of regulation. I grew up in a Republican household. The concept that tax breaks and deregulation can encourage growth and help everyone is not foreign me and I do not believe is always wrong. But come on. I think at this point, we've learned that taking away all regulation is a terrible, terrible plan.
2. Government regulators are the enemies of free enterprise.
Obama just appointed the ex-head lobbyist of Monsanto as the chief of the FDA. SEC lawyers walk out the door and straight into jobs at Goldman Sachs. I wish this were far, far more true than it is.
3. People are staying unemployed because we're letting them have unemployment benefits for too long.
Yes, companies are just begging for new employees and all those lazy low-income folks are saying, "No thanks, I'll take my barely livable unemployment benefits here and pass up that excellent job with health insurance. But seriously, thanks anyway!"
4. Obama has made government way too big, but also, has not spent enough on defense, building up the border or creating jobs. Which he can't do because the government doesn't create jobs. But still, he's doing a bad job at that.
Yup.
5. Obama hates the troops because he wants gay soldiers to be able to serve openly.
The troops don't really care. Military leaders, sociologists and psychologists all say it does nothing to negatively affect troop morale or cohesion. And Obama actually setting an end date so troops can go home to their families...to me that says he cares about them as people a hell of a lot more than our previous president did.
I could keep going, but I would just like to conclude with this point: I think all of these items show that Republicans are horribly out of touch and out of date with their policies. This is also evidenced by the fact that the Fox News moderator looks like a 1950's football cartoon.
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