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In reply to the discussion: Obama says he'd be seen as moderate Republican in 1980s [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)36. "I don't think government can solve every problem". So if it's very wealthy people that you
can send $40 billion a month to buy their mortgage-backed assets so they don't lose money, or $16 trillion to support other greedy bastards after years of fraudulent and criminal speculation with people's lives so they can keep getting bonuses of $20 million dollars above their salaries, then government is useful.
But to encourage enough demand to help create 24 million jobs, or keep 50,000 families from being yanked out of their homes every month, or create opportunities by subsidizing higher ed instead of passing laws that make it more likely that one will be in debt for decades as a cost of a degree of debatable worth, or watching as food stamp usage or the number of people considered "working poor" or in poverty hit record numbers we haven't seen for decades, increase, or millionaires on the hill sit around their taxpayer provided lunch tables and decide how many old people they can cut loose from Medicare because they cost too much, then, suddenly, government can 't solve all their problems.
I understand, and don't give a flying rat's ass about the context of the remarks.
Our ideas of fair are very different.
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grahamhgreen
Dec 2012
#7
Pro-gay marriage, repealing DADT, equal pay for women, pro-choice all the way...
phleshdef
Dec 2012
#59
Which has fuck all to do with civil liberties. You are attempting to argue like a Republican now...
phleshdef
Dec 2012
#99
Yes, and the problem is we voted for a progressive Democrat! Government is the people, and
grahamhgreen
Dec 2012
#5
I recall when all those Rockefeller Republicans came out for gay marriage & legalized pot
Bucky
Dec 2012
#10
Come on, now ProSense. You know that they won't read the entire passage for context.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#25
Don't blame Obama that a moderate GOPer in the 80s might be considered a leftwing liberal today
andym
Dec 2012
#22
And yet. I didn't vote for any of them because, as moderate as they were, Dems were better.
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#39
"I don't think government can solve every problem". So if it's very wealthy people that you
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#36
So when a kid leaves school on Friday, and EVERYONE around them knows they won't have
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#48
Yeah, the hatred for anyone perceived as being to the left of Obama is palpable
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#61
No it's not it's a BAD thing. The country needs more than an 1980s Republican to face down
byeya
Dec 2012
#105
What we have gotten 'til now is not even moderate. It is right-wing.
woo me with science
Dec 2012
#50
uh, if he would have said like an eisenhower republican, I might have been more impressed
newspeak
Dec 2012
#68
So, wouldn't that position him as generally against the Social Safety Net?
NorthCarolina
Dec 2012
#70
Where's the action behind the campaign promise that he'd walk the picket lines with strikers
byeya
Dec 2012
#106
I was blocked from the Barack Obama Group for posting this article there.
UnrepentantLiberal
Dec 2012
#109
Obama is closer to the policies of Reagan than the current Republicans
Joe the Progressive
Dec 2012
#114