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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I don't think the problem is with the economic system in the U.S. (it's ingrained as a mixed economy, which is good). The problem stems from the world becoming a hell of a lot more competitive over the past 20 years or so. Combine that with a post–Cold War headache, a burgeoning debt, a global recession, and massive social changebrought about by communication technology, and you get conservatives who freak out like Glenn Beck is.
Rather than playing on America's strengths, he would rather stick to the formula of cut taxes, cut spending, but without any real plan. Yes, you need to balance the books, but America is already paying low taxes compared to other nations, and cutting taxes at a time where debt is one of your worst problems doesn't sound like a good idea.
It's like telling an individual to request a pay cut and spend a bit less to help pay for his debt.
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Or perhaps begin by demanding the government act responsibly with with our money and stop spending like an unsupervised child with its parent's credit card. Discipline begins with the individual. Honor, integrity, and compassion must guide our decisions. Until our leadership can demostrate these core competencies, what fool would hand them another dime? I'll take my chances with the free market anytime over a bloated undisciplined fat kid with his parent's ATM PIN (fat kid = Obama and congress).
If you want to better understand or classify the president's "isms", I'd look to the actions of Woodrow Wilson as an example. Obama is a classic re-branded Fabian progressive.