An Obama Revolution—or Not?

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We have enough already!

Dan of TX 9:38AM July 31, 2009

Many U.S. Presidents and their Administrations have customarily engaged in unlawful governmental conduct. In turn Many States governing authorities have adopted the same code of corrupt activity. Criminal governmental conduct applied to the administration of governmental services is responsible for subjecting numerous individuals to deprivations of their rights, theft from The Peoples Treasury, and damage to the functioning of public institutions set up to protect The people.
Dishonesty applied to the operations of Courts of law and law enforcement are the tools that allow governmental fraud, wast, corruption, abuse of rights and abuses of powers.
President Obama and His Administration will serve this nation well by exposing, acknowledging, and giving remedy to America's long standing culture of Judicial Corruption. Connecticut is a good State to start.

Phillip H Inkel of CT 6:32AM July 24, 2009

During past 10-15 years of "global economic" reform and "free trade" our Feds and financial clans have been successfully working on conversion of our system into monopolistic body with socialistic engine. They wanted to give birth to an ugly mutant and they did it. I call the new system Mastrubism, or you give it your name. It's partly socialism due to high spending on people at the bottom and free huge money for selected by government leading giants/companies in their industries. This reminds me Soviet Union/USSR a lot. We used to have full government control of all industries starting with manufacturing, then distribution to warehouses and ending with large government controlled chains of small and large stores/retailers. That basically what's going on now slowly but surely here in USA. Government taking over large giants by borrowing them fresh printed money which costs government almost nothing. This is hidden type of step-by-step privatization of these formerly privately own chains. This is why government was demolishing our normal capitalistic economy starting from 1970 by almost uncontrolled import of import cars and other products and making local manufacturers go out of business. It started with manufacturers, then professionals such as programmers and engineers in 2000 and up. Then the most deadly hit was introducing and empowering by credits and patronage "small business killer chains" like Walmart, Kmart, HomeDepot, Lowe's, Staples, Target, BestBuy, Sears, Marshals, Liquidator, Ikea, etc. They all say to us "Save More, Live Better" or "More Saving, More Doing". Oh yes! However what they not telling us, that we eventually will close most of our small businesses operated by us, our family members, friends, neighbors, etc. Who will benefit from buying from these stores? Mostly people in need who are on government assistance, people with stable jobs with stable companies, government employees, and similar individuals. If you have more money then you can spend per month you will survive without going to this kind of large stores which are basically working for government now. The goal here is to socialize the retail industry by slowly and surely killing small independent retailers with "price beating"/ "wholesale to public" concepts and tools. Who is wining here? Nobody, but government and its direct investors/clans. What it does to our Capitalism and USA market? It kills it. The first rule of Capitalism is to protect small businesses and local manufacturers from monopolists in their industries. There are has to be no blood sucking giants, if we want to preserve healthy capitalism and its creative spirit. Government was created to protect small businesses from giant monopolies and uncontrolled imports. It failed to do so and sold its soul to clans. Every smart and talented small business owner knows that it's impossible to fight a wholesale to public giant, and most of businesses give up to fight or just not being given new births anymore.

AC of NY 5:21AM July 19, 2009

Wake me up when it's over! Obama will go down as one of the worst presidents ever! He has taken this country down a path of compulsive spending! When has throwing money at a problem ever worked, never! You must first identify the root of the problem (too much government)and then go about getting rid of it, or in this case, decrease it dramatically!! We (tax payers) will be like slaves to this ever increasing government! State revenue comes from the private sector, when has penalizing them ever worked? How about this for a word picture? I am the mother of four children. My oldest daughter graduated from college, earned a four year degree and now reaps the benefits of employment. She and her husband work (for the private sector)hard all week long, receives their pay checks on Friday. The government takes approx 30% of their income save 10%, tithe 10% and uses the rest of their cash for student loans, living expenses and the such. The second daughter is married she is a stay at home mom and goes without extras so she is able to raise her family with values that are important to she and her husband, her husband works,(for the private sector) they live on a budget and live within their means. The third daughter works at a bank, (private sector) she is married to an Air Force Officer (governemnt job to protect our nation). They work hard to pay off student loans, and live well within their means. Our fourth son is adopted, his parents were not able to care for him, they got mixed up in drugs and alcohol, he was a ward of the state, living in foster care (government). We met this young boy and eventually adopted him. My husband and I are both self-employeed.
My question is, how many of us, is it going to take to pay off this stimulus debt? This debt that we are not even benefitting from? I know that in WA state the unemployment benefits have increased to $25.00 more per week, that doesn't help me in the least, infact I am sure my taxes will go up, somewhere,somehow, to pay for that benefit to the one that is not working!
Has the government ever heard the saying: "Don't bite the hand that feeds you."
I am sick and tired of the government taking more of my money to give to those that are not working. Is it my fault they are not working? Who is to blame for one not being employeed? Isn't it the person who is out of work, maybe he/she needs to go back to school (I can hear the excuses now), move home, in to your parents home and have them help you.
It seems to me, the people that are working should be getting tax breaks, incentives,and rewards, for their "good behavior."
Why do we constantly reward people who do not work, giving them government housing, welfare, WIC coupons, free medical, and reduced lunch rates? Why should any of us work, do we just want to be slaves to the government? Not me!
It is time we get involved in the political process, start holding your elective representatives responsible.
Run with the little guy!

Michele of WA 12:38AM July 15, 2009

What was with President Obama's speech in Russia -- as pertains to the cold war??
"Like President Medvedev and myself, you're not old enough to have witnessed the darkest hours of the Cold War, when hydrogen bombs were tested in the atmosphere, and children drilled in fallout shelters, and we reached the brink of nuclear catastrophe. But you are the last generation born when the world was divided. At that time, the American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose.
And then, within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Now, make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.
With the end of the Cold War, there were extraordinary expectations -- for peace and for prosperity; for new arrangements among nations, and new opportunities for individuals. Like all periods of great change, it was a time of ambitious plans and endless possibilities. But, of course, things don't always work out exactly as planned. Back in 1993, shortly after this school opened, one NES student summed up the difficulty of change when he told a reporter, and I quote him: "The real world is not so rational as on paper." The real world is not so rational as on paper."
I could have sworn the US and NATO had a significant role in ending the cold war. Guess I was just wrong! Glad President Obama squared us away!!

PappyHappy of CA 7:42PM July 11, 2009

Before he was President, RR was Governor He cut funding to many state agencies. As a city and then county Recall Reagan worker, I heard many facts from carriers of Recall petitions. A guard at a men's prison told me RR cut number of guards in all state-run correction facilities. Male rape increased--Not enough guards to insure prisoner safety. That long ago, water-cooler jars were glass. A young guard was ordered to refill a cooler. The glass bottle broke and opened an artery. Alone, far from a guard, he bled to death. Another carrier told me RR reduced number of state inspectors. Trenches with unbraced walls caved in on workers. Some sections of freeways and streets did not have oversight of correct mix of concrete, etc. Some of them collapsed under use and in quakes. As a regent, he "privatized" our Land Grant Colleges by imposing TUITION. His lending company pals still collect trillions from students. As governor and president, he DEREGULATED corporations. The damage men do lives after them. One of Obama's first changes of federal law makes employers pay men and women the same pay for the same work.

auradawnveirs of CA 2:30AM July 09, 2009

As a 47 year old man the same age as Obama (Dec 1961), an African American, and a small businessman, I believe Obama is the absolutely the right person for the job at hand. Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and again but expecting different results. In just six months, the administration has changed the tone of how the world views America, and I believe that the bar has been raised here as well in what we should look for in a political leader. "The people" have spoken and we now have to champion the changes underway and sponsor them from the ground up, otherwise we face an unraveling of it all later by regressives. I see the movement we're now in as the "re-Americanization" of America by those that believe we have had the wrong people representing us, poorly, for far too long. We are better than our reputation.

Eric of TX 11:39PM July 08, 2009

Obama put American roll back in to 20 years depression with his large budget deficit spending bills, with high volume of job lost, and amount of home lost due to job lost, contrast to Reagan i don't think Obama know what he doing at his job with his foreign policy neither. I think the Clinton and the GWBush period were the brightest point in American history and the Obama is probaly the darkest point in US history. American got best economy during the Clinton and best military during the GWBush. During the Obama administration we got nothing to be proud of Bank fail, Auto fail, Job lost, Home lost, and a big screw up in economy and military

ObamaNeedSomeJuices of CA 2:30AM July 06, 2009

1) There are no major terror attacks here
2) North Korean & Iranian nukes are thwarted
3) Universal health care is implemented
4) High-end taxes are increased for budget
5) Barack does not cheat on Michelle
That's about it, really. But it's a tough list, except for #5.

Muser of NM 12:59PM June 20, 2009

The only Obama Revolution that would possibly be happening is he is he is taking the U.S. to socialism and that will definitely go down in history as the worst administration ever seen. The one that destroyed the greatest country on earth. Democrats are overspending, overtaxing, over-bailouting, over-apologizing to terrorists, too many criminals in this administration and too much lying and secrecy. There is absolutely no bipartisanship, no transparency, no accountability and no sense to what is happening. It is time that we clean out Washington of these politicians who think they will run the country they think is best for the people. They don't listen to the voice of the people and a good example is this healthcare bill they want to shove down our throats. The majority of Americans are pleased with their health care and don't want Washington to touch it, but Obama goes aroudn touting that the world will end if health care is not made universal, just like he touted the world will end if he didn't get his 1.2 trillion dollars for the porkulous bill that has done NOTHING to help Americans in trouble, only to line the wallets of the democrats in congress and I can say democrats because not one single republican voted yes on it. So, with these people who have no clue running around saying it's the republicans fault, they need to stop drinking the Obama kool-aid and get a grip with life and reality and realize that this administration is the most corrupt, unethical, inept and unqualified ever to come down the pike and needs to be replaced in 2010 and 2012.

chloe of MN 11:42AM June 18, 2009