IS IT JUST ME?
The Democrats got nothin'. TARP, Stimulus, Obamacare, Financial Reform, Immigration, you name it. The voters hate everything they've done and the Democrat response is, "Bush did it and we're trying to fix it." That's a platform????
Where are the Conservatives and Republicans? "Cut spending and taxes, DUH." That's a platform?????
I'm listening for a message and I'm not hearing one. Like "the war on terror", you have to clearly identify the enemy and create the narrative. Restoring our nation requires we identify the enemy and simply calling it "SPENDING" doesn't cut it.
1) The 80,000 page Income Tax Code has got to go. As long as it exists we can't fix anything. Special interests, corruption, rediculous regulation and wasted revenue are the hallmarks of the Tax Code and it has to go, before any reform can have a lasting effect.
2) Public Employee Unions have got to be exposed for the frauds that they are and disbanded, immediately. Labor relations laws can't be fixed with the Public Union hammer hanging over law makers.
3) Healthcare must be fixed and we're talking about Obamacare? We've had socialized medicine since the statists put corporations (our employers) in charge of 50% and took the other 50% as a government plan. We don't want socialized medicine? Nevermind, we've had it for over a half a century. As long as the consumer of health services isn't paying for it, we're screwed.
4) Entitlements are out of control and the worst offenders are in the field of healthcare but Social Security is the weirdest. Social Security Insurance was designed to support us, in our old age, after we could no longer earn for ourselves. 65 used to be old but 75 has become the new 65. Moving full retirement from 65 to 66 took great courage, considering the life expectancy grew about 10 years. At minimum, the Social Security bench marks should be moved from 62 & 66 to 66 & 72. Social Security is supposed to be a disability system, not a welfare system.
Until you identify the target, you don't have one.