Cavuto: I'm Beginning Not To Recognize The U.S.

Neil Cavuto fear mongered about the state of the country - with a litany of worries about taxes, universal health care, not enough cutting, etc. It left me worried about what kind of country he'd like to make us into, in the name of "restoring" it.

This was Cavuto's "Common Sense" editorial on July 19, 2012:

Between Steny Hoyer saying that food stamps and unemployment insurance is stimulus and the President saying the really successful didn't do it on their own, I'm worried.

I'm worried for a country whose elected leaders define the symptoms of a slowdown as the cures. I'm worried about leaders who'd sooner seek out jobless benefits than jobs, and sooner issue food stamps than to try to stamp out the poverty that makes them necessary.

I'm worried about leaders who define their worth by how much they spend, and not how much they cut.

I'm worried about leaders who define who gets a tax cut based on whether they'll spend it and not on whether it's their money and gosh darn it, maybe they're just due it.

I'm worried about leaders who say they know what to do more with our money than we know what to do with our money.

I'm worried about leaders who say the rich should pay their fair share, but say, 'half the people in this country pay no income taxes – well, that's perfectly fair.'

I'm worried about leaders who lose billions in slip-shod spending and have the nerve, the nerve to call it strategic, and express complete surprise when this country loses its AAA credit rating over money, and they say, 'Don't those rating guys know we can just print it?'

...I've had enough of it. Of politicians who define their worth by the worthless rules and regulations they add, and not the rules and regulations they take away.

Who'd sooner screw up health care for 90% of Americans who have coverage, then admit they're actually making these worse for the 10% who do not. Who would compromise a health care system that's been the world's envy, into one now quickly becoming the world's laughingstock.

..There used to be a time... when food stamps were a last resort,now they're a Norman Rockwell commercial.

You used to have to work for welfare,now you just take the welfare.

...I just don't recognize my country here."

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Todd commented 2012-07-29 20:42:55 -0400 · Flag

I actually agree with Cavuto, for the first time in my life.

I don’t recognise the US that continues to fight AGAINST giving all of it’s citizens access to healthcare.

I don’t recognise the US that continues ignore the absurd lack of gun safety laws and cater to the special interests that would turn this country into the Wild West.

I don’t recognise the US that continues to put the needs of the wealthiest before the needs of the working class.

I don’t recognise the US that continues to bleed this country dry, making it so we can’t provide adequate funding for roads and infrastructure.

I don’t recognise spends billions on defence and war spending and cuts funding for arts, education, science, and technology.

I don’t recognise the US that has all the money in the world to go to war against two nations that did provoke us one bit but cannot scrape up the funding to keep NASA running.

I don’t recognise the US that has politicians that do everything they can to deny even the slightest suggestion of a universal healthcare system while enjoying their own universal healthcare system in Congress.

So, there you have it. The first – and last – time I’ve every agreed with Cavuto.

Bob Roberts commented 2012-07-29 13:17:40 -0400 · Flag

Craputo pines for the days when the blacks knew their places (none of that pesky civil rights crap), when women were subservient to their husbands and didn’t talk about things like physical abuse, when the drug of choice was a four-martini lunch (after which said husbands went home and made sure the house was cleaned), when the only women in the workplace were secretaries, when America went to war and the whole country supported it (no questioning the reason we went in the first place, and when the White House was populated with good, God-fearing Christian white people. Yes Neil, those were the days. But this is the 21st Century you asshat.

Jimmy Jones commented 2012-07-29 12:23:19 -0400 · Flag

What a creep.

Bob Sylvia Jr. commented 2012-07-29 11:51:53 -0400 · Flag

I’m back. The Cavuto memory has been purged.

Bob Sylvia Jr. commented 2012-07-29 11:25:28 -0400 · Flag

Arrgh! You had to print an editorial by Cavuto, didn’t you?! Now I have his wheezy voice in my mind’s ear and his doughy visage in my mind’s eye! Time to bang my head against the wall until I’m unconscious.

Rob Willhelm commented 2012-07-29 04:39:55 -0400 · Flag

This scripted actor in the drama known as Fox News that only exist for sole purpose of exploiting the mindless amongst us is not alone, after thirty years of failed conservative governance, I do not recognize my country either.

Kent Brockman commented 2012-07-29 00:19:13 -0400 · Flag

OK Neil, I’ll give you a break. Think about this:

You started off as a baby with zero concepts or talents, you became a toddler with zero concepts or talents, you became a child with zero concepts or talents, you became a juvenile with zero concepts or talents, you became a teen with zero concepts or talents, you became an adult with zero concepts or talents.

That’s the trouble with CONservatives, they don’t recognize necessary developmental transformations because they have zero concepts or talents. You changed from being a pooping cry-baby to what you are now. By your definition you should not know who you are, AND, you should be very, very paranoid every time you look in the mirror. You’ve changed Neil, but only in weight & height.

Kent Brockman commented 2012-07-29 00:07:33 -0400 · Flag

Neil’s worried because Peak Capitalist who have made America almost Worthless by Speculative Economics have left no place for hard working Americans who want Tangible Economics to return and give most people an even footing. You see Neil, the “Americans” who fashioned the Speculative Economy are “Americans” only for convenience. The people YOU are worried about, the 99 %ers, count for less than a person in China who will work for the Faceless Speculative Economists. It looks like this:

China – The New Model American Economy

America – Abandoned & Left To Rot

mlp ! commented 2012-07-28 22:35:07 -0400 · Flag

“…I just don’t recognize my country here.”

Well, pay close attention, asshole……there’s more surprises a-coning!

doors17 commented 2012-07-28 22:17:13 -0400 · Flag

Neil’s comment reminds me of this crazy lady…I want my country back
http://youtu.be/ILmqq_4QyhI

truman commented 2012-07-28 21:51:10 -0400 · Flag

Kneel is a dull propaganda tool who has found his niche in the Fux Noise environment.

R L commented 2012-07-28 19:53:52 -0400 · Flag

Kind of hard to recognize anything with your head lodged firmly up your own ass eh cavuto?

Jeeez commented 2012-07-28 18:21:58 -0400 · Flag

Comment #2 with 98% less snark:

Recently I found a stack of 1974-75 Time Magazine and US World and News Reports in the basement. Very interesting.
The stories are almost indistinguishable from the topics today: energy, high gas prices, foreign policy and relations with Israel (and Russia of course), the economy, unemployment, pollution and the environment. One Time cover even questioned whether the US was becoming Socialist. One could read paragraphs or entire stories and never guess they weren’t written today. One of the few clues that the articles were 37 years old—none of them question the President’s citizenship or religious affiliation.

This “can’t recognize my country” bullshit absolutely drives me crazy. It’s utterly false, and cannot be proven, unless it’s spoken by someone who just got released from prison for 50 years.
It’s only said by fools, the clueless, or hacks with an agenda.

Jeeez commented 2012-07-28 18:02:10 -0400 · Flag

Oh Neil, you’re so right!
Yesterday I was driving down the street and saw a dog having sex with a cat, in public—they weren’t even ashamed about it. And get this—they were both male!
You have to expect these things when you have a “president” who is an illegal alien, Muslim Communist. Cross fingers for President Romney. Three months into his legendary term, and “your” country will be instantly recognizable again!

Remind me again the difference between Neil Cavuto and 70 something trailer park teabaggers?
Truth is, there’s a massive difference between the two. Neil’s just trying to fill their muddled heads with his self-serving bullshit.

Joseph West commented 2012-07-28 17:12:13 -0400 · Flag

Well, in fairness to the dork, I already don’t recognize the US, thanks to selfish so-called conservatives like him. Maybe “We the People” should demand that Congress, for just 5 years, raise the top tax rate back to the 60% or so range it was when Richard Nixon took office (but with an adjustment so that rate only kicks in on people who “earn” more than $1,000,000; IMS, the top rate back then was applicable to those earning over $200,000 or $250,000).

Put all that revenue to trimming the deficit without slashing programs to the bone. It CAN be done. The GOPers want to gut social programs that only account for 5% of the total budget while boosting the defense budget by 15%, and then demanding even more cuts for the social programs to “pay for” the “necessary” defense budget.

mj - the same one commented 2012-07-28 17:02:17 -0400 · Flag

Yeah, Kneel — nothing like having a well-spoken, well-educated black man with a funny name in the top spot to make the country “unrecognizable” . . .

When Craputo and his fellow rightwingnut noisemakers say they “don’t recognize” the US, what they mean is they don’t recognize the fact that the White House has a black family living in it {who aren’t servants} . . . or that people aren’t willing to kiss the asses of the 1% {especially when that 1% regularly tells the rest to live on no minimum wages or benefits} . . . or that people who aren’t supposed to have any rights {women, minorities, gays, Muslims} are demanding them — and getting them . . . or that sane people are actually SHOCKED when a racist shoots an unarmed black teenager, or when an obvious nutjob shoots up a movie theater {and even more shocked when the NRA claims both incidents are “proof” the right to bear arms is under attack} . . . or wondering why the Repub presidential candidate isn’t more “likeable” {when getting laughed off the stage in London should have served as an explanation} . . .

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