In speech, Obama pushes activist Big government : Do you agree with Obama's BIG GOVERNMENT vision of America?
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In a spirited defense of government's role as a protector of society's most vulnerable people, the Democratic president signaled a determination to protect costly social programs that have been targeted by Republicansseeking to reduce growth in the $16.4 trillion U.S. debt.
In a series of implied jabs at uncompromising conservatives who have fostered gridlock in Congress and cast him as an un-American socialist, Obama essentially portrayed such critics as being outside the mainstream of U.S. politics.
"We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate," Obama said during his 18-minute speech.
Laying out a broad vision for his second four-year term, Obama delivered a speech that struck many of the themes that ran through his re-election campaign.
Cutting back on those "entitlement" programs is widely viewed as a significant part of reducing the budget deficit. Obama spoke favorably
RR had some great quotes concerning big government. Following are a couple of my favorites:
"There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
"I think the best posibble social program is a job."
Its a shame that for all of the accomplishments made, That in the end Freedom is only as valuable as the sales pitch.
just big enough to do the things that states cant' (or won't) do on their own...
just big enough to to the things that corporations can't (or won't) do on their own...
just big enough to ensure we are not challenged in the word (at least not from outside).
let them die in misery
let them eat cake.
they are the ones who have been using uncle sam as their benefactor.
we don't have lobbyists.... just democrats.
lord of the flys
that's mighty kind of you.
the "let them eat cake" camp has spoken.
it doesn't work... that's where gov comes in.