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| Macht | Jul 29 2010, 10:05 PM Post #16 |
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I love the whole 'OBAMA IS RUINING THIS COUNTRY, IT'S OVER FOR US.' I'll be honest to the point, he wasn't exactly a good president. People will say that's because of the recession but when he throws down billions of dollars, I expected results. Not even economists are certain his stimulus plans stopped the freefalling of the economy or slowing the freefall altogether. A majority of Americans have distrusted the government since LBJ. The whole Vietnam War brought their trust to the brink. Then came Nixon and he was at some point restoring trust but Watergate ruined that too. Americans haven't had a 51%+ favorable rating for the government since. It's also in our character to distrust the government as it is anyways. Europe my friends isn't collapsing solely on socialistic policies. The influx of North Africans / Middle Eastern peoples (Muslims in a sense) have helped unwind domestic tranquility especially in France. Their problem is actually a future problem the United States could face if we don't get our shit together and that's deficit spending. Since our economy is larger, we could clearly support more debt. That isn't the case in Europe where, what Iceland and Greece simply ran out of money? Ireland and Italy nearly went bankrupt? The worse part about it is because of the institution called the European Union, they were forced to bail them out respectively. Even England is having a debt crisis where the Prime Minister is forced to fly on a commercial airplane for matters of state. But I'm an Objectivist, I'll disagree day in and day out about social policies and why they're failures ultimately. But from what I am seeing is that on paper these policies are great insurances. However, people have forgotten and are unable to address the fact - they need to change as Society changes. When Social Security came about, very few people lived beyond 65. Even the predecessors to that, the Germans under Bismarck did it in the same fashion - they created social welfare but very, very few people were entitled to it and as a result the German Empire became at the time the best place to live in the world by all standards. Back to my point, to fix welfare and Medicare/aid we need to start revising the criteria. People easily live beyond 65. That needs to change to 70 or 75. But the political will behind changing it is low and the people would easily vote whomever out willing to do that. The Democrats are doing their best too to stop the Tea Party 'Republicans' from legislating such propositions too. Also, we'll never have national healthcare. Everybody would revolt before that happened. By means of political standards, even the Democratic Party is conservative by worldly comparisons. They know an agenda like that is impossible in this country. And with a conservative-backed Supreme Court it could easily be argued national healthcare violates the right to interstate commerce by shutting down an entire industry. Nevertheless we needed reform. I'm personally finding the Democrats lackluster and completely without aim. I'm equally furious at the Californian Democrats who have been for the past few decades they controlled the state blaming the Republicans. If there is any reason why we need a divided government, California is the reason for that. And now, the 7th largest economy in the world is about to fall apart and that ranking is about to be handed to Texas, the fastest growing state in the country. I'm voting against the Democrats this election. And what I've learned from the Wall Street financial reform bill, it does nothing. Regulation can't stop finance, it never does. It just makes matters worse and it gets repealed within a few years time. It's how it is everytime the bust rolls in. And Barney Frank should be shot. |
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| Macht | Jul 29 2010, 10:06 PM Post #17 |
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And most Americans are independents, not populists. Americans are not anti-elites |
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7:45 PM Jul 10