Why Believe Them?

Going back to the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, Republicans have claimed that their policies of lowering taxes would reduce deficits and produce more revenue.  However, under Reagan, the debt increased by $1,873 billion dollars and the revenue as a percentage of GDP actually shrank.  Under Bush 41, the debt increased by $1,483 billion dollars and the revenue continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP.  Then, along came Bush 43 who managed to increase the debt by $6,106 billion dollars and reduced revenue as a percentage of GDP to an historic low.  The last Republican administration was responsible for the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression and as a result of these policies ended up with over 20 million people losing their jobs.  Now, four years later, along comes Mitt Romney, hiring many of the same advisers that were in the Bush White House and he makes the same claim that the Republicans before him made...lower taxes and the world will be a better place.  While he claims to be a job creator, his record in Massachusetts as governor says otherwise as during his term in office his state went from 36^th (out of 50) to 47^th (also out of 50).  While he claims to have reduced expenditures the actual facts prove otherwise and while he did not raise taxes, he raised revenue by increasing fees on virtually everything the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provided to citizens.  To show you just how the former constituents of Romney felt about his competency to be the President, in the Presidential primary, Obama received 511,680 votes compared to 255,892 for Romney and Romney lost to Obama in the 2012 Massachusetts election by over 10 points .  Seeing as how the citizens of Massachusetts have experienced four years of both, they, better than anyone had a feeling for the most competent between Romney and Obama.  Romney would have been bad for the country regardless of whether we are referring to the moderate Romney, the conservative Romney, or the seriously conservative Romney.  The Romney/Ryan administration would have set back women’s health issues 50 years while continuing to destroy the middle class in order to continue to enrich the wealthiest 1%. Needless to say, Republican pundits will find something other than the actual facts to opine the reasons for Obama’s victory.  Their failure to look to history is all the reason needed to explain the Republican losses in the 2012 election.  Unfortunately, Republicans do not believe elections have consequences and will most likely continue to obstruct and block any legislation necessary to reverse the depressing effects of low tax, less regulation policies.  Hopefully, Senate democrats are wise to the tactics of republicans like Mitch McConnell and will make changes in the Senate rules that wil prevent an onslaught of filibusters going forward.