Originally posted by jaymanOriginally posted by guitarplayer673
I voted for him and I don't regret it at all, but I do think we desperately need to move past this two party system we've had for way too long.
good, then you can pay my extra taxes for the next 4 years. we just saw the executive branch of our government take over two major private corporations without so much as a shot fired. i'm not fond of a leader that tells me i'm too stupid to look after my own damn self ...
I don't agree with 100% of what the new administration is doing when it comes to dumping money into private companies, but the question was if I regretted voting for Obama. Knowing what I know now, I still would not have voted for anyone else on the ticket, just answering the question.
Originally posted by tracksix
If you say you are happy with any part of the US Government, then you apparently support socialism.
Even socialists know Obama
is not a socialist:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... inionsbox1
FTA:
"The first clear indication that Obama is not, in fact, a socialist, is the way his administration is avoiding structural changes to the financial system. Nationalization is simply not in the playbook of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his team. They favor costly, temporary measures that can easily be dismantled should the economy stabilize. Socialists support nationalization and see it as a means of creating a banking system that acts like a highly regulated public utility. The banks would then cease to be sinkholes for public funds or financial versions of casinos and would become essential to reenergizing productive sectors of the economy."
"The same holds true for health care. A national health insurance system as embodied in the single-payer health plan reintroduced in legislation this year by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), makes perfect sense to us. That bill would provide comprehensive coverage, offer a full range of choice of doctors and services and eliminate the primary cause of personal bankruptcy -- health-care bills. Obama's plan would do the opposite. By mandating that every person be insured, ObamaCare would give private health insurance companies license to systematically underinsure policyholders while cashing in on the moral currency of universal coverage. If Obama is a socialist, then on health care, he's doing a fairly good job of concealing it."