Comments on: Obama: The Great Leveler

By: hangnail

hangnail — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:44:54 +0000

wake up america! It’s all about the elimination of the middle class, and the reinstitution feudalism! thus the return to the dark ages, Lords-serfs, Haves-have nots. Fight back or die a slave,it’s that simple!

By: Paul -Indiana

Paul -Indiana — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:24:49 +0000

#55. Confused in Virginia-not. Many of us saw through that Chicago politician. I post that line fairly often and have only gotten a single affirmation. People are catching on, too late.

By: Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:09:44 +0000

Even Karl Marx understood that if all the wealth in a community was shared equally, withing a year there would again be rich people and poor people.

By: Pat J

Pat J — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:56:14 +0000

So Obama is the Great Leveler in wanting to removing a flawed and expensive missile defense system, eliminating nuclear weapons and trying to ensure space does not become a future battleground. And these are bad things? I say level away.

I would like to think that in the next 40 years or so I have left on this planet that humankind would evolve beyond war.

By: Confused in Virginia

Confused in Virginia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:41:43 +0000

tanstaafl, #49

Thank you. You’re absolutely right, it was Terry McAuliffe (and here you thought my user id was just a cute name I chose out of the blue ) Sometimes it’s hard to tell all of the Clinton people apart. They all sound the same.

Paul-Indiana, #48 – I did not vote for Obama. I saw through his BS right from the beginning.

By: Chuckt

Chuckt — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:37:04 +0000

Recommended reading: Liberty & Tyranny, by Mark Levin. An excellent guide to the socialist, class-warfare, destroy-the-USA direction in which Barack-n’ Hood & his merry men are fast taking us.

#49 tanstaffl:
Right on. Terry McAuliffe went down in glorious flames, just as he should have. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and Clinton, Carville & Co., ain’t him.
Hannity’s Liberal Translation did a great job on McAuliffe’s concession speech over the weekend.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:51:49 +0000

While Obama cannot “control” the nation for more than 8 years, the policies he pursues during his term can have lasting effects. He is already levelling much of the economy, and I would guess that ~50% of GDP is in some way directly or indirectly controlled by Obama, from banks to auto. Although GM is not that big as a single entity, the entire auto supply chain is far larger, and that is now affected by the decisions of Obama (and congress). If you add the aspirations of government health care, then government would control a majority of the economy in the short and medium terms, if not long term.

It is pure hubris to believe that business can be micro-legislated by congress, and micro-managed by an Obama-like executive. In making attempts to go down the path of socialism, we will have lost a great deal of time, and done great harm to the country’s reputation as an entrepreneurial economy. Obama cannot see the damage he is doing to entrepreneurs, because he believes that government regulation is an acceptable tool to manage risk, and he disparages risk as an economic means to an end. The presence of risk in the economy allows great success and great failure, but it should not be up to congress or Obama to decide the winners and losers.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:36:12 +0000

Kudos to JD for putting it out there in his post like it should be. All of Obama’s socialism rests (as it must) on the backs of those who work. Those who don’t work are simply promised the benefits that can be taken from those who do.

By: macko

macko — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:14:16 +0000

pardon me, optimistic

By: macko

macko — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:53:25 +0000

Delia;

Am I stretching it a bit or am I paranoid and delusional?
I’m a pretty optomistic guy so let’s hope this is all just a bad dream and I’ll be waking up soon.