by Jack Lee
An opposing view on Dennis Prager’s commentary shown below….
I guess I’m one of those 81% of unhappy Americans that doesn’t like the direction this country is going that Prager talks about, but I am still voting FOR Republicans!!! Not because they are doing a wonderful job, nor even a mediocre job, but because anything else would be far worse at this time.
Prager insinuates that Americans have become more or less bored with the Republicans so they want to hand it over to Democrats for awhile. Well, now that isn’t fair, it minimizes what is really going on!
Ok, if 81% of the American voters say we’re headed in the wrong direction then I must believe it’s because we’ve had a GOP Congress and owned the Presidency and we still couldn’t get anything done. We were asleep at the switch when one crisis or one debacle after another happened…all on our watch.
Shall I go down the growing list of complaints about the Party and the Administration?
+The Mexican border is still wide open, it’s only slightly better, but still open. And the border patrol is still short handed to even begin to control the flow of illegals sneaking in to the US.
+We’re still waging war in Iraq, we’re still struggling amid the corruption and incompetence on a scale unknown in our history and blowing more money than we ever dreamed of spending on another country.
+We’ve got spiking energy costs driving up costs at an alarming rate!
+We’re blocking nuclear reactors to deliver cheap, clean electricity.
+Our family food bill has jumped up over 30% in the last year alone!
+There’s been no drilling for more oil, despite our vast untapped oil reserves.
+The corn lobby sold the GOP a suckers deal for ethanol.
+A GOP Congress is doling out billions to overseas contractors that should go to Americans. Even a military airplane contract went overseas. Whats next, China making our tanks and rifles?
+There’s been no reform to a massively convoluted IRS system, no flat tax, no fair tax, nothing…no reform despite years of desperate calls from American taxpayers to fix this rotten system!
+Our dollar is falling against the Euro.
+China holds more of our greenbacks than the sum of our top 10 banks.
+On the GOP watch we saw a lack of oversight in lending that led to the housing implosion and loan scandals.
+Illegal aliens overrun American and are costing California alone 10 billion a year! By the way, we’ve got more illegals than any other state.
To add to our state woes we face dire cuts due to a 20 billion dollar budget deficit that keeps growing every #@$% day! We’re bordering on or actually in a recession (I say we’re in it) and along comes Dennis Prager and dismisses all this says we just want a change for the sake of change? Give us a break!
Prager said, “Forty years of left-wing control of the news media, of Hollywood, of the public schools, of the universities and of nearly every big city government have nearly ruined those institutions. Forty years of a litigation explosion has had terrible social and economic effects… Multiculturalism is destroying the concept of an American culture and people.”
Fine, he’s right of course, and on that we can agree, but how long can we simply blame the democrats when we had the power to make major changes and instead did nothing?
Look at our failing masive social security system, it’s going belly up soon the GAO confirms it, but Congress is so overwhelmed by the scope of the problem they do nothing?
Good conservative people like Prager are needed, don’t get me wrong and they serve a great purpose of cheerleading and pointing out the flaws of liberal democrats, but they are also become more like misguided apologists for the GOP. We need activists holding the GOP accountable more than appologists!
Maybe when we hit rock bottom and we’re kicked out of power we can rebuild the party to what it should be, but probably not. More likely will just be kicked out of power and never get it back.