Defenders of the president dismiss the notion that Obama’s policies and rhetoric are in any way responsible for our current plight. It happened on Bush’s watch! Of course it did. But they misstate their opponents’ criticism — another straw man in a growing army of them. The question is not whether Obama caused the recession, but whether he is making it worse.
I”m a bit baffled by all of this. If I take a spouse and we decided to share income and debt, I “inherit” her credit cards…but I also get to “pool” her income with mine.
If, during my single days, I manage to build a nice nest egg, grow my income, and manage my debt so that it isn’t going to cost me my entire pool of assets…and THEN…her relatives come to live in my House in 2006 and start running up bills, depleting reserves, eating away at the cushion I have built….it happened on my “watch” but without my permission or impramatur.
Then, the big day arrives and my spouse immediately takes all her credit cards AND all of mine…and runs them over their limits. And feeding her relatives caviar, saffron, truffles, and champagne. She buys them 9000 trinkets, baubles and assorted gifts.
Now, our pooled income must pay for the interest, penalties and fees associated with overextended credit…AND…to pay for her penchant for handing out expensive items which we cannot afford, and 9000 of which…nobody needs.
We didn’t “inherit” this extra debt.
If I make a list of items that put us into this situation, when they arose, how they arose and tried to present them…nobody in the household will read them…it reflects badly on them and their own actions, and heaven knows…in this household information is filtered to fit the preordained “message”.
My question becomes, how does one annul a vote?
