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They're Both Wrong

8/13/2016

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It’s tough to be a Moderate. You see both parties locked into a rigid ideology rather than trying to solve problems. Each side claims it is right and the other side is wrong. On many issues both sides are wrong. Job creation is a perfect example. The official unemployment figures mask the problem. The only reason it is so low is because many have given up looking. A lot of the jobs that are being created pay very low wages.
Many Democrats have an anti-business bias. Remember the famous Obama quote “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that” when he said business success is due to government spending on infrastructure. Their solution is to increase taxes and regulations on businesses. Like it or not, jobs are created by businesses. Their approach will cost jobs, not add them.
Republicans are just as short-sighed. They want to slash taxes and regulations. Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts are said to cost $10 trillion over 10 years. Many businesses have plenty of cash (Apple has over $60 billion). They hang on to it because they don’t see attractive opportunities to expand. I’m all in favor of eliminating unnecessary regulations but many are needed. We saw in 2008 that deregulating financial institutions was a bad idea.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are among the oldest people to run for President. Unfortunately, many of their ideas are even older.
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    Hi! My name is Dave. I'm in my 60s and live in Indiana. I'll write about whatever is on my mind but most posts will be political. I'm a centrist who thinks both sides are on the wrong path.

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At long last this idiotic shutdown is over. Hopefully cooler heads prevail and it doesn’t start up again.

The real story is that 800,000 government workers are back on the job and many millions of people are no longer inconvenienced.

Unfortunately, that is not the story we are hearing in the media. Their story is about how Speaker Pelosi beat President Trump. He got himself into this mess. She decided that all that mattered was winning. The harm done to the people involved was of no concern whatsoever. A good leader puts the good of the people over political gamesmanship,

it would be nice to think that both people have learned their lesson and will try to do what is best for the
country. I sure wouldn’t bet on it.
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