Nik24 said:
lol, this comment alone disqualifies you from having a serious political discussion. Like fastyxx said, it is way to early to judge a presidency which barely finished its second year. I want to reiterate again that President Obama passed some of the most substanstial and influential laws in the first 20 months. ALL previous presidents failed in their endavour to pass a new health care and he did it despite facing a deeply hostile and radical Republican party. The US has the most expensive and ineffective health care in the world and even Republian presidents saw the need for a change.
Furthermore, he passed a law, finally delivering an overhaul of the financial institutions which caused the financial crisis. Again, the Republican party opposed it. Why? How can one justify this? So far they managed to stall a climate bill which is another CRUCIAL piece of law! The oil crisis in the gulf proofed how important it is to finally focus on alternative sources of energy.
And to people arguing that the president spends too much money, what is the alternative? During the Clinton years the US finally had a budget surplus but Bush managed to get us into two wars and even during a favourable economic situation the budget- deficit had become huge. The bailout was sadly necessary and with the law mentioned above, he tried to ensure that something like this crisis would not happen again.
I'm amazed how people can even listen to Fox news and their ridiculous reports. Every sane person, regardless of one's political affiliation, has to realize how dangerous and redical these people are. I suggest you watch The Daily Show in order to get a feeling of their insanity. Or even better, you coud actually try to understand the issues at hand and inform yourself about the political process in this country. |
The last president with a super majority passed far more bills then this one.
The greatest healthcare in the world, is in the US. There is no better quality of care anywhere. Period. The only issue with care in the US, is access. We have chosen to reduce the quality of our care to increase the access to it.
We have also chosen to reduce profit. Every major breakthrough in the last 50 years in medicine, was done in the pursuit of profit. To assume you can remove that from the equation, and have no effect on the outcome, is to not understand how the world works.
Obama passes a healthcare plan that most Americans don't want (and is unconstitutional). Why is that a good thing? He is elected to represent us, not to go against our will because he thinks he knows better, when he has not been right about most anything yet.
I am done. It's pointless. I will just move the hell out of here, and let you all deal with it.







