Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Obama's second term
Well, our newly elected president has just been sworn in a couple of days ago, and I am fairly shocked at what he said at his inauguration. I, like most people, was expecting a message of unity after a long and drug out campaign that deeply divided the country. Instead, we got a liberal drawn agenda driven speech that basically said my way or no way. Is this the proper direction of the office of United States president? He said that government was the solution to the problem, where as Ronald Reagan thirty years ago said that government is the problem. It seems America has gone in a full circle. What will we look like in four years? I don't know, but right now I don't like the way things are looking.
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Actually, the President said very plainly that government was not the solution to all problems, but pointed out the historical precedent when it HAS pushed the country forward in a positive way. Our "conservative" party has made this country an international joke. They spend trillions on war, tax cuts for the very wealthy, deregulate everything and crash the economy and then expect a Democrat to put cuts to entitlements on the table and cut his own political throat. He tried compromise. His health care law was based on Romney signed into law as executive! And its his most popular achievement in the state! They deny history and the failure of top end tax cuts to stimulate the economy, the overwhelming scientific consensus on greenhouse gases and climate, and have taken every possible opportunity to sabotage the government, blocking appointments that later pass the Senate with 90 votes and threatening economic terrorism on the debt ceiling to extort incredibly unpopular concessions from their opponents. Republicans are the problem- you can't put someone that hates government in a position of responsibility for making it work.
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ReplyDeleteIt didn't take the 'conservative' party to be a joke. We've been heading there for decades, since the end of the Cold War. The last decade simply gave people a valid excuse to openly admit what they always felt. As for Obama, no, he didn't say government was the solution for all problems. But he made it clear that it was the starting and stopping point for solving most of them.