Obama was LYING all along about prosecuting MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

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Soleron said:

mrstickball said:
I hope that my friends even on the left are beginning to understand the ineptitude of our current president. He is like a black George Bush. Patriot Act, TSA, prosecuting drug dispensaries, sustaining wars, and so on.

The sad part is that this doesn't surprise me. He has literally no idea what he is doing. Fix Wall Street? Hire Goldman Sachs cabinet members! Anti-war president? Attack Libya! Fix health care? Give 'free' health care to the upper-middle class.......And so on.

Times like this remind me why I am voting for a pro-drug GOPer in the primaries.

Actual Socialism ------------------ European "Left" -- European Right ------------------------------------- Obama -- Bush

That's the way I've always seen it. Obama is still preferable (to me) compared to any possible Republican 2012 candidate, but is clearly in the same ideological bracket as the worst of past Republican presidents in terms of economic record and civil liberties.

The current opposition Republicans have shown zero willingness to actually cut spending or raise taxes. They have vague claims but they cannot name anything specific and significant they would cut.

American's don't really see it the same way.  For example, most Americans see David Camereon as more or less Ronald Reagan, which most republicans now aren't seen as conservative as Ronald Reagan.

What with security laws and stuff... outside of unniversal healthcare... i'm not sure how much the US is more "conservative" on.

The stuff that really bugs people about the patriot act for example is mostly stuff that's been legal in England forever.

Another example is that while lower... taxes are MORE progressive in the US then the UK.

That's just income tax too... I imagine it gets even more progressive when you consider that Income tax is only 29% of the UK burden and 44% of the US burden...  (US corporate taxes are a much higher percentage too...  UK Coporations pay of 4% of your taxes.  US is 14%).

Coporate tax is 26% (UK) vs 35% (US.)

 

I think you might get the wrong idea because you spent time in Texas right?  Texas is like America's "Romania" except... successful.