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shane77m
10-16-2013, 08:24 AM
WARNING! If you watch this video your head might explode. Damn, I mean damn, these people can vote.

http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/shutdown-bushs-fault




http://youtu.be/DTZT8i5e2Rs


MRCTV's Dan Joseph had a question on his mind that he couldn't shake: who bears the brunt of the blame for the government shutdown? Who really is responsible for the mess we're in right now? Is it President Obama or former President George W. Bush? He decided to take these questions to the heart of our misery: Washington D.C.

Despite the fact that "Dubya" has been out of office for the past five years, most of the respondents said former President George W. Bush is to blame for the shutdown.

Why? Well, he apparently did a lot of bad stuff and had policies that only Barack Obama can reverse, which is why the current president has added twice as much debt than economic output over the past two years.

As for health care, which is at the heart of the shutdown, one respondent said that, if Bush had proposed some sort of health care reform, all of this could've been avoided. Well, he did. In fact, there's a long history of Republican policy proposals to fix American health care.

The irony is that Bush's 2007 health care proposal is actually "superior" to Obamacare concerning universal coverage. As Chris Conover of Forbes noted last August:

"[T]he Bush plan actually was superior to Obamacare when it comes to providing universal coverage. Remember, Obamacare actually does not provide universal coverage. The latest figures from CBO says that when it is fully implemented in 2016, Obamacare will cut the number of uninsured by only 45%, covering 89% of the non-elderly. Even if illegal immigrants are excluded, this percentage rises to only 92%. In contrast, the Bush plan (without a mandate!) would have cut the number of uninsured by 65%."
- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/shutdown-bushs-fault#sthash.HQWfjPYq.dpuf

ronpaulfollower999
10-16-2013, 09:05 AM
Whose debt is it anyway?

https://scontent-b-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1393662_752493141432537_1008474960_n.jpg

Cleaner44
10-16-2013, 09:27 AM
Whose debt is it anyway?

https://scontent-b-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1393662_752493141432537_1008474960_n.jpg

Cool graphic... but not accurate. Republicans controlled Congress during most of Bush's time.

Senate, Republican Senators
2001-2003 50 split
2003-2005 51 majority
2005-2007 55 majority
2007-2009 49

House, Republican Representatives
2001-2003 221 majority
2003-2005 229 majority
2005-2007 231 majority
2007-2009 198

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774721.html

Paulbot99
10-16-2013, 09:28 AM
Sadly, I am not surprised by this blind faith in the Führer.

Not that I liked Bush, but still...

Cabal
10-16-2013, 09:30 AM
Lol "shutdown"