Our loss of Freedom and Liberty?

In my country…

   I am starting to hear, once again, the GOP (especially its Presidential candidates) talk about restoring freedom and liberty – usually in the context of “taking back our country”.  I’d like to know the freedoms and liberties they think were lost in the last 2 years and 8 months since Barrack Obama became President.  Perhaps, it’s the Affordable Care Act, or the law to regulate the reckless practices of Wall Street and the banks.  Beyond these two laws that have been sorely needed – 55 million Americans without health insurance and the financial meltdown, I’m not sure what their talking about, do you?  If so, help me out by telling me the freedoms and liberties you have lost over the last two years.

  I also hear them talk a lot about changing the direction we are headed to restore jobs.  They say we need lower taxes and less regulation.  Well as best as I can remember, we have had massive tax cuts, and less regulation since 2000 and we have not seen more jobs created.  At what point, do they believe that lower taxes will actually result in job creation?  From the beginning to the end of President George W. Bush’s 8 years in office taxes were reduced by a huge amount, but it didn’t result in a huge increase in jobs.  Surely he, and his administration, worked to reduce the amount of regulation, but again it didn’t seem to have an effect on job creation.  So why does the GOP believe that this is the answer to creating more jobs.  It wasn’t the spark for our economy from 2000 to 2008, and it won’t be the spark for 2012 and beyond.  On the other hand, it will allow the rich to get richer while the poor gets poorer.  This is not the direction I want our country to head in beyond 2012.