Do You Think Obama is a Socialist... Do You Care?

[HappySqurriel]

Khuutra said:

HappySqurriel said:

Khuutra said:

Happy, what do you base that statement on?

Edit: I mean the "if/then" fool then. The second sentence.

The role of the US government in people's lives is growing at a pace where the government will (potentially) grow more in the first year of Obama's first term than it has over the past 30 years ... Very few countries have expanded the role of the government at this pace, and I can't think of any which didn't devolve into dictatorships.

Rath is from New Zealand.

Edit: Also seriously more in the first year than in the past 30 years? You know that certain provisions of the Patriot Act scared me a Hell of a lot more than anything that Obama has proposed. For good reason!

You do realize that there were several attempted versions of acts very similar to the patriot act that were written by Joe Biden over the years, and the patriot act (along with similar acts) were supported by the Democrats ... On top of that, the Fairness Doctrine is a bill that the Democrats have tried to pass in previous years which gives the government the power to control the news you watch, read or hear and it is highly likely that this bill will be revived with the control the Democrats have over the government. I'm not trying to say that the Democrats are bad and the Republican's are good, just trying to reiterate the original point that for everything that is scary about the Republicans you can cite something that is equally scary about the Democrats.

Now, 30 years may be an exageration, but with how many bills and actions that have been taken over the presidency over the past 6 months that have expanded the role of government and/or given it new powers if the pace is continued it won't be much of an exageration.