American Politics during the Obama Presidency

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Government is a cancer with one goal. Kill the patient.

Out of control government will turn us into a North Korea, a Cuba or a cold war Eastern Europe.

Pelosi, Reid and Obama have no qualms about putting us in 18 inch by 18 inch laying cages as long as they are in power. I am surprised they haven't spouted 'War is Peace', 'Freedom is slavery' or 'Ígnorance is Strength'

I am waiting for them to create the Ministry of Peace which concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.

When the whole world is a North Korea the opportunity to live in freedom will be long ago and far away. Out of control government, at all levels, is bound, determined and programmed to evolve into a North Korea.

Perhaps next year's elections will turn back the tide of out of control government. However, it appears it is only a matter of time before the cancer which is government kills the patient and the entire world will be living in a North Korea.

The problem, El Alamo, as Bush helped prove during his tenure, is that the Republicans only give lip service to smaller government any more, but really only give a different flavor of the same ice cream. I don't know that there's much hope except delaying the inevitable even if the Democrats were to lose significant ground in the elections.

All politicians (or a large enough percentage to not make any difference) are only interested in what's going to get them elected and the American people in larger numbers every year think that the government is going to give them things that will take care of them, make them happy and keep them perfectly safe.

It's all just going to get worse.

Far out stuff El Alamo.

To a large extent, government was the doctor who stepped in to control the cancer of private sector greed and stabilize the patient.

We have seen an increased role of government in the administration's first year in response to the economic situation and to deliver on key reform for which they were elected. We will see a focus on debt reduction and an increasing role of a strong private sector over the remainder of the first term. Let's check in later to see if this prediction or a North Korea scenario proves more accurate.

We always have to do the time for someone else's crime: new regulations.

The big guys (JPM, C, BAC) are getting free money from the Fed, investing it in sovereign debt (Australia, New Zealand) and making money hand over fist on a carry trade. They all are crying foul because of pending regulation. Give me a break. They want all the protection and resources that the U. S can provide; however, they choose to contribute zero to the country's survival: small business loans. There is something morally wrong with their practices. Regulate the bastards out of existence as far as I am concerned: required reserves. They are a liability.

[QUOTE=Esten]We will see a focus on debt reduction and an increasing role of a strong private sector over the remainder of the first term.[/QUOTE]ROTFLMAO!

Jackson

We are still in the first inning but taking everything into consideration, Obama doesn't look too bad to me.

1) If Obama's economic recovery plan works that will be impressive. However, the economy is a mess and Obama's cure I. E. Unsustainable debt which will be impossible to service once interest rates rise, may be worse than the disease.

2) Our health care system is, as Obama says, going to bankrupt us. Health care costs are always rising faster than the economy is growing. Without doing something health care costs would rapidly consume 20% of GNP, then 25% etc. This with a system that incurs over 50% of total health care costs in the last 30 days of a persons life.

However, a big part of reducing health care costs is tort reform and I don't think Obama is going to touch that.

3) Global warming. Obama has bought that bullshit hook, line, sinker and rowboat. Amazing when you consider that all evidence points to us entering a period of global cooling. Anyway, this is a non starter. Only imbeciles and Al Gore still believe in this nonsense and even Al Gore would drop the idea of global warming like a hot potato if he were not making a fortune off it.

Who knows, Obama may morph into a Jimmy Carter (aka village idiot) or into a Bill Clinton who, I for one, wish had been our President (without that brain dead vice president he had) during the Bush / Cheney tenure.

El Alamo, I must respectfully disagree with your assessment of Obama. I don't believe we can borrow our way out of a recession. A recession caused by reckless spending by both Democrat and Republican parties while in power. As you so accurately point out, once interest rates rise (and they will rise) we will never dig out of this mess.

First the housing debacle which started this whole mess was primarily engineered by Democrats during the 90's under the guise to "provide affordable housing" via Fannie and Freddie to folks who would have never qualified for a loan prior to the lending practices forced by the Democrats. Next come the Republicians who permitted the "packaging" of home loans as financial securities which were then traded with abandon with little to no oversight. When the house of cards came down it brought everything else which was teetering on the financial brink with it as well as our national hunger for debt on the personal, business and governmental levels only exacerbating the problem.

Healthcare, OMG you really think "Government" run healthcare is the answer? Look at Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, AmTrak, the USPS, Freddie & Fannie as sterling examples of what our self serving politicians have given us. By the way those same self serving politicians in Washington have their own PRIVATE HEALTHCARE AND RETIREMENT SYSTEM which we pay for but in which we are not allowed to participate! They pass healthcare "reform" for us "little people" not for themselves! I agree with you tort reform would go a long way to help hold down costs but there is plenty of profiteering going on that could be addressed more readily than the government taking over the entire healthcare system. Look at the polling data, the majority understand this will raise insurance costs, save nothing and negatively impact healthcare delivery.

And what is the crap about one state no longer pays for Medicare / Medicaid while the rest of the states are required to and the real pip is the language placed in the Senate version that prohibits changing the "law" by future lawmakers after it is enacted?

I have said from the beginning Obama will make Jimmy Carter look good in retrospect! The village idiots are the people who believed a Chicago politician when he preached CHANGE. How do you like your CHANGE now guy?

Using the word "takeover" to describe the reform is pure hyperbole.

There will be no federal funding of abortion, this has been very clear.

Destroy our quality of care? Take our economy to the very brink of destruction?

How can you believe this bullshit you are posting !