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I posted on Facebook the "Republicans 2012; Keeping millions out of work to get one man out of a job"
A friend asked why I liked Obama.
I replied: Although I do support President Obama the reason I posted the pic was less to show support for the President, but to show objection to the Republicans. I personally feel congress is acting more like spoiled brats rather than the elected officials of our country. I have seen opposition before but not like we are seeing now. Compromise has disappeared and yes I place this on the shoulders of the Republicans. Compromise is give and take, so far all I have see from most Republicans especially the Tea Party is all take and no give. I described it to a friend like this; It is like two people want to get together for lunch but they live 100 miles apart. They each insist on the other making the full 100 mile journey. Compromise would be bartering back and forth and reaching a meeting point so each will travel around 50 miles. To the Republicans compromise is meeting 1 mile from their house while the Democrats travel 99 miles, then making it sound like they worked so hard to travel the 1 mile (and made the Democrats pay for the gas the 1 mile cost). Yes, I feel President Obama is a good President, and can be great, but as long as Congress insists on reaching their number one goal of making him a one term President rather than looking after the needs of all Americans, except for the rich, we are doomed to fail. One last thing, all of those who are running for the Republican nomination scares the living daylights out of me, with the exception of Romney, but I am not sure if the Republicans will nominate him because he is Mormon, also he has shown he is for whatever the group he is wanting their vote want. When he was governor of a liberal state he was for a health care law, now that he wants the conservative vote he is against it, but if he found in the general election it did have popular support he would be for it again. I like a politician who can say “I was wrong” but not one who flips positions based on the latest poll.
He replied: Good points but I didn't see why you think Obama has been a good president. What has he done to be considered good? Why I think he's been a poor president...He has been anything but transparent. He campaigned on bringing hope and change and he's brought none of that. First instead of making our private sector one in which businesses what to invest, his policies have driven business away. Just two examples are Boeing who was blocked from opening a plant in South Carolina that would have brought hundreds of jobs to that area. A second example recently in the news is Gibson guitars was raided for having rosewood which our government says is illegal to import. Only Gibson guitars was raided but no other guitar makerwas and the justice dept says it was not for political reasons. Secondly, a health care bill was rammed down our throats when the majority didn't want it and much of it was negoiated by Demoocrats behind locked doors. All of that was during Obama's two years when he had a democratic senate and house which never passed a budget which also lead up to the negotiations you're were describing. The republicans held fast because Obama doesn't understand that at some point he has to stop spending us into oblivion. None of his stimulus plans and other ideas/experiments have worked for this economy. The proof is everywhere you look. Stores are closing right and left, businesses are afraid to hire because of the coming health care law and banks are unwilling to loan because they see little chance of getting a return on their investment. All of this is due to the economic climate that Obama's policies have created and the massive debt. I believe you spoke about "rich people". Stats show time and again that the top earners in this country pay far more than their share of taxes. So why is it that if someone has worked their butts off to achieve success that somehow the government is able to take more of their money to give it to someone who didn't work to earn it. One of our major problems in this country is no one wants to take personal responsibility for where they are in life or how they turned out due to the choices they made or didn't make. I'm by no means a rich person monetarily but if I were, the decision about giving/sharing should be up to me and not forced upon me by the government that time and time again proves it can not manage a single dime it receives. Now that I've said some things why I think Obama's been a poor leader, I will say that he's done some good with taking out terrorists who think of nothing more than finding new awful ways to kill americans. But, any president who is going to sue a state i.e. Arizona and Alabama for trying to protect itself against illegals is no president I could or would ever support. Just my .02 worth.
How would you all reply?
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