President Obama Is Growing the American Government
@TheRepublicMenu (290)
United States
June 9, 2009 2:14pm CST
What President Obama and his administration is doing has proven to me and those who are able to see that he is indeed a socialist. I have always known it. He is either a democrat socialist or a socialist democrat. I have met people of both ilks.
President Obama takes over General Motors. Now correct me if I am wrong, but when did the Executive branch of government become powerful enough to fire people?
Lets not speak of his attempts at creating a national health system. What, does Canada and the United Kingdom come to mind. How better are their systems as compared with ours? I have met Canadian doctors and they all have said that America does indeed have a better health system than their own. If a socialist health care system is so great, why would Canadian doctors do that?
All sort of questions come to my mind here.
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
9 Jun 09
Oh yeh? well your just a right wing, hard line, racist nut.......oh.....wait a minute.......
This is probably my biggest issue with the current status quo, the growin gof government size, the acumulation of power and the centalization of power, sapping it from the states and taking it for it's own. The only way to take this country back now is through our states, they need to stand up for themselves and we need to demand this of our state governments, or face living in a centralized aristocratic totalitarian system.
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
9 Jun 09
I thought about the same thing only mine involved linens. LOL
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@TheRepublicMenu (290)
• United States
9 Jun 09
xfahctor forgot that I was Black. Second, a response like that is typical of liberals who like to dance around the question at hand.
Democrats, in my line of training, are the real racists. They do not think Blacks are smart enough to do anything, thus, they create avenues to make it easy. But this is another story. Democrats, like liberals, play the race card when it is convient enough to do so. Just notice how many Blacks are Democrat in spite of the horrible beginning.
To be frank...growing government is not what the original founding fathers wanted future Americans to do. So conservatives are more in the right than the wrong when speaking of growth of government. Conservatives being used as an example because I feel that they are more to the American tradition than liberals, especially this New Left losers.
And the more government is grown, the more it cost, lastly, the power of the individual will diminish.
Big government and socialism goes hand in hand and I think President Obama is doing a wonderful job growing government as well as out spending the last president.
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
9 Jun 09
X was being sarcastic. He agrees with you more than you know.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
9 Jun 09
The strange thing is that 9 out of 10 Obama voters said the economy was their biggest concern when polled about their presidential election choice. The real problem is who these voters were...
Obama overwhelmingly got the vote of the under-30s and new voters. These voters don't even understand why you don't want socialism, they don't really have a grasp of what America stands for - having lived under a constant barrage of bad press about America stemming from, well, the American press.
They were concerned about the economy. Well, Obama's policies fly in the face of every known and proven economic theory and yet, they voted for Obama. They liked his face, his voice, the way he wore his tie, who knows? They certainly didn't understand that his economics policies would destroy America . They don't seem to know it now.
The question is the one that Abraham Lincoln asked in his Gettysburg address, it is whether this nation can long endure. I don't know if we can survive Obama's presidency. If we do, we will not be the country we were. We will be owned by foreign nations to whom we owe an insurmountable debt of borrowed money. The deficit will be beyond our ability to reconcile. American industries will have long ago moved abroad to do business, those that remain will be bankrupt or owned by a bankrupt government.
This will be their America, the America these young and inexperienced voters chose. They won't know what to do when it all goes horribly wrong. I don't know if anything can be done.
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@TheRepublicMenu (290)
• United States
9 Jun 09
Rollo, I said the same thing. I remember when I was 18 years old and I was brainwashed. I was told to vote Democrat because of welfare and racism reasons. I head stuff such as...welfare checks were now in jeopardy and White racists are trying to attack Blacks via cutting welfare checks which were owed to Blacks because of slavery.
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
9 Jun 09
We were having a discussion on this subject. What he's doing with the companies is fascism. I can't understand why people don't get this.
Some of us on here have had to endure the name-calling. Particularly "white sheet wearers" for having an opinion on Obama and his administration. Even things that couldn't be construed as racist by any stretch of the imagination.
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
9 Jun 09
Although I must say, it does seem the race baiters have long since fled mylot, I don't see to much of that on here these days thank god, it's now just the people who want more of their lives in control of the federal government and see it as a good thing.
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@TheRepublicMenu (290)
• United States
9 Jun 09
Irish, this is typical behavior of the left. They think in race politics which make them more racists than the alleged conservative base.
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@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
9 Jun 09
Republicmenu, would you consider Geroge W. Bush a socialist? Remember who started Bail out nation? Apparently you missed the last five months of the Bush administration. Under Bush the American people spent $1.2 Trillion bailing out the same people that got us into this mess, and we bought alot of companies. According to Ken Lewis of Bank of America, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson told him that if he didn't purchase Merrill Lynch they would fire him and the board of directors. So here is an example of the executive branching haveing enough power to intimidate a power CEO to do something that he didn't want to do.
When it comes to health care, our nations is the most expensive in the world by far. Find me a person, or a company that thinks that our health care is afordable, and I will show you the CEO of a health care company. Everyone in this country knows that we pay more than anyone in the world for our health care, but no one wants to do anything about it. There is way to much money flowing into doctors offices, and Washinton to stop they system we have today. Can you explain to me why it is that we have the most expensive health care in the world, but not the best?
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
10 Jun 09
"Republicmenu, would you consider Geroge W. Bush a socialist?"
After he bailed out the banks and auto industry it's hard not to say he's got some socialist bend to him. I have no idea what he was thinking, although that was the only socialist behavior I saw from him in 8 years. For Obama however, socialism seems to be his primary goal.
"When it comes to health care, our nations is the most expensive in the world by far."
The scary thing is that even our government spends more on health care than most socialist nations at the rate of roughly $6,000 per capita. Socialist spend roughly a third of that per capita so our government is doing something horribly wrong.
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
10 Jun 09
I don't think anyone is happy with the bailouts and it can't be laid solely on Bush's shoulders. It was a bad mistake all around then for Obama to continue with the bailouts was stupid.
As for health care something does need to be done. I'm not sure if I agree with universal health care but I think something could be done.
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
10 Jun 09
They are talking about penalizing for not having insurance now while making cuts in Medicare. My daughter is due to go on Medicare in the next year or so. What that will do to her social security I don't know. I imagine she'll be paying a lot more in premiums than those who currently receive it.
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
11 Jun 09
Wow! Welcome to myLot my fellow, peace loving American. I assume from the little I have read here that I can look forward to meeting you on the steps of the White House when we take OUR country back from this mob?
What's happening to this great nation today doesn't even seem real. What about the pay Czar. What the heck do we need any Czar for?
I feel like I'm dreaming...
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@TheRepublicMenu (290)
• United States
12 Jun 09
PrarieStyle, I am not new here. I have been with mylot for years. I just decided to come back to see what was going on here due to emails mylot sends out.
But thank you for you concerns anyway as I do write about politics and history all the time.
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@TheRepublicMenu (290)
• United States
18 Jun 09
Thank you so much for your kind words. I will see what I can do to fight the good fight.
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
12 Jun 09
Well welcome back then. I hope you stick around and become more active here, we could use more wise opinions like yours.
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@jen_barre (104)
• United States
10 Jun 09
Bravo! I love this post and enjoy reading the intelligent and well-informed responses....well MOST of them ;)
It is a scary world we live in right now...
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@4ftfingers (1310)
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9 Jun 09
Both the private and public health systems have their advantages and flaws.
But according to the World Health Organization's ranking of each countries health systems, the UK's is 18th best in the world, Canada's is at 30 and the US's is 37th.
@4ftfingers (1310)
•
9 Jun 09
France is first, followed by Italy and San Marino
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
@pratheep87 (1227)
• India
10 Jun 09
Yes there is nothing to surprise in Presidents steps for the growth of US. This is his duty and he is sworn to do something to US and also the world
@TheRepublicMenu (290)
• United States
10 Jun 09
Misskitty is back and clawing the eyes of the left wingers out.
lmao-
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
10 Jun 09
NO, he is SWORN to uphold and protect the United States Constitution, which he seems incapable or unwilling to do. The president of the United States of America is NOT sworn to do a damned thing for the rest of the world.
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
9 Jun 09
Hello RepublicMenu,
Many of us have been saying these very same things for a very long time, but as you've heard from my friends above, we were dismissed as racists despite the fact that we were not talking about anything remotely connected to ethnicity.
The media neglects to do their job of investigating and accurately reporting things that effect America to the people, initially I suspect, out of fear of being labeled racist and now it is because they are AFRAID OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Just now I heard that 0bama is appointing yet another "czar", this one in charge of what businesses are allowed to pay employees and NOT JUST in companies getting bailouts! They now want to control what EVERYBODY is allowed to earn, regardless of industry. I have a problem with that. Many of us are concerned by the breakneck pace our nation is being forced not just into socialism, but communism and fascism - appointing well over a dozen "czars" and adding more every day, is doing nothing to alleviate that concern.
We're so fricken screwed.
@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
9 Jun 09
PS I was on your friend list in at least one of my previous incarnations, I see you have me there from when I was fantasmfeline. I have also been MSV1016, AngryKitty, MSV1313, and AngrierKitty. LOL My name may change, but I rarely do.
@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
9 Jun 09
I've been here almost since the beginning of mylot, in 2005. I closed all accounts on my own before starting over, but only under the two MSV accounts did I close them after I discovered I could no longer post (the first for reminding a guy in India who was bashing the US that they still have the PLAGUE in India LOL and the second after running afoul of a religious fanatic). All the others I closed due to personal reasons, the original AngryKitty account got trolled when I was in the late stages of a very difficult pregnancy (baby & I are lucky to be alive) and was not up to dealing with all the aggravation. The rest of them I closed because I didn't like the name I'd chosen so I closed them to start over before I'd invested too many posts in them.
@ERICJONESZ (1)
• United States
10 Jun 09
To me OBAMA is a good prez so far, but it seems that he is only doing things for his native country, does anyone else feel the same?
