Obama, in my humble opinion, seems to be as close to being a Marxist without admitting it directly as a person can be. His call for "spreading the wealth" by confiscatory means is not a tenet I can embrace.
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Our country is currently operating on marxist ideals.
We send our tax money to Washington.
The bureaucrats take what they want, give some to their buddies and special interest groups, then distribute the little that is left back to the states to comply with government mandated programs.
Isn't this "sharing the wealth" or "redistribution of wealth"?
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Our country is currently operating on marxist ideals.
We send our tax money to Washington.
The bureaucrats take what they want, give some to their buddies and special interest groups, then distribute the little that is left back to the states to comply with government mandated programs.
Isn't this "sharing the wealth" or "redistribution of wealth"?
I never thought of it in that light but I do believe that's correct. Who could have seen that 30 or 40 years ago?
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(Common sense is not so common.)
Voltaire
Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
Spreading the wealth of our collected taxes and doling our money out to various private, commercial banks.
Sen. Obama is not a Marxist.
GW has certainly been a dissappointment on spending and recently on the econoimc situation in both instances agreeing more with democrats than with the concervatives in congress....
you wont find me defending him on those issues.
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Ditto! It is my personal opinion that GWB will go down in history as one of our more disastrous presidencies. I'm not convinced, however, that either of the two main options we're being given will be any less disastrous. Both have more views and stands that I don't like than anything I can say I support - knowing that I'll be accountable to God for how I cast my vote.
Ditto! It is my personal opinion that GWB will go down in history as one of our more disastrous presidencies. I'm not convinced, however, that either of the two main options we're being given will be any less disastrous. Both have more views and stands that I don't like than anything I can say I support - knowing that I'll be accountable to God for how I cast my vote.
I dont think he will go down as one of the more disastrous presidents.
Things are really hot now and to be honest it is really hard to tell fact from fiction where GWB is concerned.
I think he will be much like Truman was. Truman went out quite dispised but with 40 years of hind sight, his stock is improving.
It is going to take some folk dying before GWB will be judged fairly.
being as objective as I can be, I think GW will go down some place right in the middle of the 2 term presidents. When you consider the difficulties he has had to deal with as president, on balance you begin to see things a bit different.
As for JM and BO, I agree that neither are great options. JM for me is just less bad.
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As for JM and BO, I agree that neither are great options. JM for me is just less bad.
And ain't that a shame, too! I'm appalled that voting for the leader of our nation comes down to voting for the "less bad" candidate, not for who we really believe is the best. And even hinting that one might vote for an alternative candidate brings up all the emotional rhetoric associated with "throwing away your vote." If I think about it long enough I might vomit!
In my opinion, the Islamic attack on Sept. 11 was not orchestrated by GWB but actually by Muslims. It happened while GWB was president and I think he did what he thought he should do. We can do a lot of second guessing now and there will be even more second guessing and Monday morning quarterbacking later but I think GWB acted on the collective intelligence of the U.S. and Europe and felt like we should take out Saddam Hussein.
As far as the economic crisis, GWB did not start that. We are now reaping what we sowed for years. Some called it the housing bubble and many knew it would burst in time. Under the Carter presidency it was decided to make housing available to more people. Lending institutions were pressured into making bad loans so more people could have houses. As money was freely available, houses were built larger and larger and sold for inflated prices. People were pressured into taking out loans that were larger than the price of the house. The frenzy began. More building, high appraisals, larger loans, etc. Some voices in government called for investigations into Fannie and Freddie and they were drowned out by those who were receiving funds from those two institutions. This couldn't last forever. Unfortunately for GWB, he was the President when the bubble burst. Since it happened during his term, he got blamed for the whole thing.
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