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Here Here SC!

I agree 100% with what sc from AZ posted. To add something to it dk of CA, perhaps you should run your posts through a spellcheck and grammatical check before you go after Dave Weber about his errors.

Dear dk of CA

As someone who has also read the U.S. Constitution and it's amendments (it's strongly encouraged in my profession), I certainly agree with you that President Obama has not sidestepped the U.S. Constitution, and it serves no one make accusations not based in fact as that tends to cloud the true issues. I also certainly agree that eight years of the preceeding administration's economic policies have been severely lacking to say the least, althought the root cause of the mortgage crisis which led to the global economic meltdown clearly originated in the Clinton era tampering with the banking industry to provide a veritable cornucopia of loan products to people who had no business getting a mortage. I just have two small issues concerning the accuracy of your public service announcement.

1) It is no accident that countries working under a free market economy have acheived a higher standard of living for each of their citizens than nations that do not. Furthermore, those nations that truly strive to get out of abject poverty do so through a free market more than any other system. History has shown that nations have tried to "spread the wealth" through socialist or communist ideologies, but only succeeded in spreading the poverty. I could debate this at length, but in the interest of space I'll just say the free market does need regulation, is not immune to abuse, but is still the best chance for the individual to provide for his or her own measure of success.

2) Socialism is defined as the Government controlling private industry, not as the Government providing services through taxpayer monies. The U.S. Armed Services, Postal Service, National Park Service, and public schools are not private industries, were not private industries, and defining them as such is grossly inaccurate. While private schools, delivery services, and even private militia, are known to have been present throughout history, they were predominately niche services not readily available to the largely poor general public. Health care, however, is currently a private industry, and would be considered socialized should the Government take it over. (At least you didn't mention public roads as an example of a socialist service. Every time I hear someone say it, I know the speaker is ignorant.)

Dear Dave Weber

I'm responding to your goofy post as a kind of public service announcement. I sincerely hope that you read this response, and at least reconsider your idiotic viewpoint. Based on your impeccable spelling skills, I'm assuming you probably haven't actually read the entirety of the U.S. Constitution and its myriad amendments. I have, however, and can tell you that the policies the OBAMA (please learn how to spell our President's last name) administration have enacted so far have not "gone against" any precepts or actual laws laid out or stemming from our Constitutional documents. President Obama stepped into office at the tail-end of eight years of absolute financial anarchy, based on the U.S. Treasury Department's penchant (under the last few administrations, including Clinton's) to hire up from the ranks of Goldman Sachs. Thus, we have a Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and totality of Federal economic policy that essentially serves the investment banking community and the super rich. The idea, laid out by Ronald Reagan, is that the free market is an automatically self-regulating entity that will necessarily correct for inequity and instability. This is capitalist mythology, and it's been proven absolutely wrong time and again. While an economy based mostly on unregulated free markets does serve the interests of some people very well (the top 1% of earners, to be exact), it has done very poorly in serving the needs of the other 99%. The evidence is before you at this very moment Dave. It is not remotely possible for an administration seven months old to have caused this havoc. The current president and his advisors merely put some rusty brakes on the huge bus that is the American Economy to keep it from hurdling over the cliff. The question of "Where is the money" is irrelevant at this point, especially considering how the last administration blatantly stole from the poor to fill the coffers of the rich and then blamed terrorism for the whole mess. Well, I've got news for you and yours: You're on the wrong side of history. This goofball notion that anything "socialized" is anti-American, then you've already drank the Coolaid the right wing passed out during the last two election cycles, and I can only feel sorry for you. Here are just a few of the other horrible, taxpayer sponsored "socialist" ideas that have been implemented in our country since its founding:

1: The Postal Service (courtesy of that notorious commie: Benjamin Franklin)

2: The National Parks Service (courtesy of that evil pinko Theadore Roosevelt)

3: Public School Systems (first implemented in Dedham, MA in 1643!)

4: THE ARMED SERVICES (that's right Dave, YOU as a member of the United Stated Armed Services, benefit from what is essentially a PURELY SOCIALIST system. That is, it is 100% taxpayer funded, and entirely self-contained. You also enjoy the best public healthcare system available in the country)

Any questions? Try the library. LEARN SOMETHING.