1. Because a vote for the Jobs Stimulus is like admitting that their failed policies of giving tax breaks to the richest 3% of Americans is a FAILED, false policy. (Which by implication, means that the economic policies of Reagan and Bush 41 and Bush 43 were among the worst for US presidents in the modern era.)
2. Because it would be an admission that trickle down Reagan economics (Reaganomics, voo-doo economics) is really a "peeing-on" of the middle class.
3. Because the GOP would have to admit that the De-regulation and Union Busting that the GOP has engaged in (even before Reagan) were polcies that set the USA on this course of greed and excess that enabled bankers, mortgage companies the ability to steal from average Americans, depress wages and depress the net worth of the average US worker.
4. Because they don't believe in the Bill of Rights-- or why would they so actively engage in removing rights of citizens for fairness-- especially as it relates to access to capital/loans, education and healthcare? Look at how consumer rights were de-regulated out of existence such that credit card companies could ruin a person's credit for merely being late on a payment or two. Credit card de-regulation is a GOP idea.

5. Because it would be an admission that they had allowed the nation's infrastructure (roads, bridges, utilities, elec grid, school systems) to deteriorate under THEIR WATCH. Couple that with the lie that not spending money by government was a "good thing". Well, tax breaks didn't fix any roads, bridges or schools -- did it? And military spending didn't prevent 9-11 -- did it?
6. Because much of the GOP is vested in transferring wealth away from the average citizen and worker to their GOP friends, corporations and themselves. While a lot of you are losing your jobs, health care, etc., the average GOP member and supporter accumulated wealth. The GOP can't relate to the blue collar economic situation.
7. Because if they admit they've been neglecting funding of education and building of new schools w/ new technology, the GOP would have to admit that under their tenure, the USA has dropped in its education ranking and literacy rates among other industrialized nations. The USA under GOP "leadership" has dropped to the lowest quartile in literacy rates among all industrialized nations. Hell, our last "president" for 8 years couldn't even speak english.
8. Because they would have to publicly admit-- as most every reasonable economist has stated already, that Alan Greenspan's Fed policies contributed to the nation's economic woes.
9. Because they can't stand that a mixed race guy with Ivy League degrees is smarter than most of the GOP "leadership". (Racism surely isn't dead in the GOP. And Michael Steele is a sacrificial lamb. It doesn't prove much of the GOP isn't racist.)
10. Because the old GOP farts in the party still haven't gotten over the fact that Nixon was and always will be one of the biggest crooks in the world (until Bush 43 and Torture war criminal Cheney came along.)
11. They've never gotten over the public whiping they took over the illegal activities surrounding their participation of Watergate AND Iran Contra. The GOP still calls some of the Watergate and Iran Contra GOP felons "patriots".

12 . Because they are liars and don't care about you and they don't care about America. Some of the GOP hardliners are like wife beaters. When is America gonna stop making excuses for their illegal, bad behavior and put some of these criminals in jail? They don't care about the average man and woman. They don't care about world peace-- they fear monger. They are just in it for themselves and for the money.
13. Because they aren't guided by fiscal conservatism and responsibility-- not when it was they [the GOP] that ran up the largest budget deficits, engaged in the most Govt spending in the history of the nation. Hell, even Pat Buchanan thinks Bush is a faux conservative out to enrich himself and his fat cat corporate oil friends.
14. Because they would have to admit that the past 3-4 GOP administrations were in bed with oil (foreign and domestic) and had a vested interest in NOT pursuing green or new energy efficient policies which encouraged American innovation in these same areas. That the American public would be slaves to oil. Nearly every recession in the modern era happened as a result of GOP policies. 9-11, happened under a GOP president. The GOP didn't keep you "safe".
15. Because by de-regulating the FCC, relaxing FCC & Anti-trust regulations, it allowed large corporations, foreigners to buy our news and media outlets--- consolidating the voice and sources of NEWS. Having fewer news outlets makes for an ignorant, uniformed nation and people. It allows for govt propaganda to flourish. (Sounds familiar ?) except, these haters of free speech and America didn't count on the INTERNET !!

If they keep enough of America poor, unskilled (uneducated), bankrupt you through policies, try to keep you fearful of the foreign "boogey man", then they can control you and your family for at least the next 2 generations-- long enough for them to steal from the US tax payer via investment & private banks. Long enough to artificially keep oil prices high, so you go broke trying to get to work. Long enough for them to accumulate wealth that helps insulate them from the little people.

Let's see how many down votes I can rack up.
(For all you haters, I'm not a communist. I love America!! I just hate tyranny.)
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History.
Roman history.

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