It’s pretty obvious from the following chart showing the national debt that President Obama inherited hell. Whether you like him or dislike him is irrelevant. This is the hell he inherited as president.
This morning I was greeted with this Republican ad on TV.
I noticed a few things about it. One, it was very “white”. I also noticed the play on the word “mourning” as though we are mourning the death of our country. What most people might not realize is this is an old ad that has been remade. The Republicans today aren’t very “forward” thinking. They also aren’t very creative. They are trying to be clever with their little “word” game. They would like us all to remember the Reagan years with some kind of loving memory. The original ad used the word “morning”. Here it is.
It too is a very white ad, as though that’s what America is all about. You know “white” people getting married and living their lives in peace. It mentions the interest rates as being half what they were. This is a boldface lie. I had a place purchased at that time and the interest rate was a whopping 14%. Another thing that is interesting is the national debt. If you look at the chart above, you will notice that the national debt began it’s very sharp upward swing under President Reagan. Conservative Republicans talk in this recent ad about a smaller, more caring government. Caring government and Republican rule is almost like an oxymoron. The two don’t even belong together. Under the first President Bush we had a “thousand points of light”. If people were having hard times, I guess they were supposed to find one of those thousand points of light.. I think most people would prefer a job to begging any day of the week. If you look through the past several years of Republican rule, government spending and the national debt has been anything but small. You can see both of these charts larger if you just click on them.
The new ad portrays this idyllic life that we could have with a smaller more “caring” government. . Republican rule has brought us much chaos and to add to it a resurgence of poverty in America. The true “mourning” should be for the death of the middle class and for the poverty stricken that have lost so much under Republican rule. During the second Bush presidency we had tax cuts for the wealthy and two wars that nobody wanted to pay for. The end result is a huge pile of national debt, most middle and poor people with stagnant wages or no job at all. This is just reality. The numbers don’t lie. Republican rule is a rule where there are tax cuts for the wealthy and a minimal amount for everyone else. Republican rule is just a nightmare and someone needs to point this out when these ads are run on TV that just are false.
I noticed that it is a special group creating the ad, probably a 527 advocacy group for the wealthy for all we know. Trust me the wealthy have a different agenda than the rest of us! This is the group that’s pushing this latest ad.
They’re all pretty much Reagan people.
http://cftr.org/about/default.aspx
Here are just a few of the people involved in the making of this ad. The main thing I notice is how closely they are tied to Republican governing.
Craig Shirley, CEO Shirley and Banister
Bill Pascoe, runs a conservative blog and was Alan Keyes campaign manager in 2004 (That’s when Alan ran against Obama for the senate.)
He says, “Penance for all the wrongs I’ve committed during the course of a professional career in and around politics.”
Cleta Mitchell is a partner in Washington D.C. office of Foley and Lardner LLP
Diana Banister is Vice President of Shirley and Banister Public Affairs
Republicans also grow government. If you will look closely at the following chart you will notice that there was a sharp climb in government growth and % of GDP spent on government growth in the early eighties under President Reagan. You should also notice the sharp decline in those same expenses under President Clinton. The climb starts back up under President Bush.
I’m tired of those Republican lies that I seem to be hearing in this latest ad. Those Republicans don’t seem to have any trouble spending my money or yours. I say talk is cheap. They can tell me all they want about having smaller government. The only one in recent years that has actually had a smaller government is President Clinton and he’s a Democrat.