Why are the liberals doing what they're doing?

You mean why do liberals fight for middle class working Americans and why do GOP Tea Party Republicans hold the American people hostage (Debt Ceiling)?  It is because the people that follow the GOP Tea Party Republicans feel that if you are not able to stand on your own two feet, build a business, get rich and pay for everything yourself then too bad for you.  They believe in a fairy tale world that everyone should be perfect and if you are not then go live under a bridge.  Liberal Democrats believe that the government should actually help ALL of the American people and not punish them for their imperfections.  Liberals Know that the top 2% of America (the rich) are the only people that GOP Tea Party Republicans are fighting for.  When you them talk about tax reduction they only mean tax reduction for the rich folk.  The reason we don't get cheap health care (The Affordable Care Act) is because if We (All Americans) paid into the health care system it would be Cheap.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans wouldn't get HUGE checks from big Pharmaceutical companies anymore and big campaign checks from Corporate Health Care for big profit companies.  Liberals want Jobs, Health Care, and Education Free for All Americans.  GOP Tea Party Republicans Want Health Care for profit, Jobs in China, For profit education, no regulations, and they want Americans to keep working up until they are 70 so that they can keep wages as low as possible and keep profits high.  In other words the GOP could care less about you and hates our own Government.  They say it right out loud.  "Government is the problem".  So if you want no jobs, no benefits, lowest pay, no health care, education that is not affordable and unattainable, roads, bridges, and buildings that are falling down, food that makes you ill, bad air and water, and a government that will say though luck when your state has a huge catastrophic event, then the GOP Tea Party Republicans are your choice.

The Rand Paul Radical Deficit Cuts!

Rand Paul is asking for big donations from middle class Americans while at the same time cutting their throats.

Look at the list of cuts below and ask yourself where is the sacrifice from the rich and powerful?  Where is the help from the Wall Street brokers that are getting the big Bonuses?  Just today Eric Cantor walked out of the "Bi-Partisan" talks to cut the deficit because Biden said OK we are giving some, Now it's your turn.  But Nope, GOP Tea Party Republicans are saying NO to any shared sacrifice.  The middle class has to bear ALL the burden that the GOP Tea Party Republicans are going to heap upon the American middle class.  They won't even consider closing loopholes to big oil.  Let's walk through his cuts.

Rand Paul: "Specifically, my Cut Federal Spending Act reduces funding for the:"

*  Department of Agriculture by over $42 billion.

OK maybe there are reasonable subsidies that can be cut.  I bet this also cuts Food Safety Inspectors.

*  Department of Transportation by over $42 billion.

Red Flag here.  Cuts to DOT means cuts directly to safety.  This means fewer weigh station inspections.  More overweight and illeagle trucks on the highways and freeways deteriorating them faster.  This means fewer State Troopers to check for tired or drugged truck drivers.  

*  Department of Energy by over $27 billion.

He wants to cut the very thing that will bring about new prosperity.  We need to INVEST in Energy NOT cut it.

*  Department of Health and Human Services by over $26 billion.

Yes lets cut where it will hurt the middle class and the poor the most.  All those people that have been forclosed on and lost jobs will now have even fewer options to get by.  What happens to them.  All just so the rich can keep those Bush tax cuts that were supposed to create jobs but didn't

*  TSA by almost $1 billion.

What happened to Home Land Security?  Who will be inspecting Airports, Trains, and Ports of entry.  These ideas are really scary.

*  Housing and Urban Development entirely, excluding veteran housing programs.

We can afford to pay Wall Street Bankers, and the rich but not the middle class and the poor.  We have to attack them and take away the only tool there is to keep decent wages (Collective Barganing) 

*  Department of Justice by over $9 billion.

How does that work?

*  Department of State by over $20 billion.

You might want to read what they do here and then decide about this:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/436.htm

*  Additional departments and programs bringing the total to $500 billion.

HMMMM?  Seems a little vague but I bet NPR is in here somewhere.

My proposal is accomplished entirely without touching Social Security or Medicare, and believe it or not, still leaves 85% of government funding in place.

Not a word about creating jobs that would bring IN revenue (tax dollars).

It is the same old story over and over from the GOP Tea Party Republicans,  Yes we made mistakes that drove the country into this horrible situation and now you should trust us.  You can trust them alright.  You can trust that  they will give the rich that bought them the tax breaks and YOU will pay for ALL of it.

Just my opinion.

How to Grow Our Economy.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt  brought us through the first Great Depression he created jobs by investing in OUR country. He created thousands of jobs by building bridges, roads, dams, buildings, and much more. We invested in our country which put money in the pockets of the middle class. When the middle class has money they buy things. They buy cars, boats, homes, and much more. the Trickle down economics of Regan did not work and will never work because the rich don't invest because of a tax cut they invest because of an opportunity. They invest because they have people who want to buy something that they make. When you have a middle class that can Afford to buy things it creates opportunities for not only the middle class but the investor as well. We need to once again invest in the middle class and invest in our countries infrastructure, by fixing our bridges, roads, and education. Tax cuts for the rich does nothing to improve our economy. The economy was actually the strongest in the 1950 when the rich paid taxes at a rate above 90% and everything was regulated. Trucking, banking, airlines, Wall street were all regulated heavily and all of America was prospering. The results of all the deregulation since Regan has been catastrophic to our country and needs to be reversed.