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Originally Posted by Rockin' Flames
Ya, Obama's made some real tough choices
- Implement policies that have increased the unemployment rates over 10% in the US. Something he said would not happen.
- Appoint General McChrystal to advise on what to do in Afghanistan, 3 months after the General's recommendation Obama still hasn't made up his mind on what to do
- Promised open and transparent meetings on the Health Care Reform and promised they would be on CSPAN, but all the meetings to develop the bills in the House and Senate have been behind closed doors and have certainly not been transparent
- Created Czars with questionable legal status to dictate salaries of private corps
- Increased American debt to new highs, which as a result has helped to deflate the US dollar
Obama is so focused on creating a socialized health care system in the US that he doesn't care about anything else.
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1. Knowledge of how politics and how the economy works will tell you that the unemployment rate can't be blamed on a President in his first year. These things take time. If the unemployment rate was dropping that wouldn't be Obama's fault either. He just hasn't been in office long enough to have that much of an impact.
2. Obama is the commander in chief. He has several people in the administration fighting for different ways of handling Afghanistan. McCrystal is just one of those people. I hope to hell a commander in chief doesn't just listen to one person when making a decision.
3. Not sure about this one. Is health care reform getting muddled down by the bureaucratic nonsense that Obama said he would change? Yes. Is it his fault? To some degree. He hasn't been very open with his role in the process, especially his chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel's role in trying to water down the legislation in order to secure "victory". But Congress operates in a certain way and Obama was never going to change that. That said, government has definitely been more open than it was under the Bush administration.
4. Of companies that asked for bail-outs because they pissed all their money away. They want the government's help? They will have to live with some governmental control. There should be more control in fact. We basically gave them the money with no strings attached.
5. Most of this year's deficit was due to Bush's spending not Obama's. And the part that is Obama's is mostly due to lack of revenue and not increased spending.