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Quote by: Xyzer The media is not noted for its accuracy.

How convenient for you, Xyzer. The mainstream U.S. and foreign press deluging us in news you don'tl like? Simple solution... they got it wrong, of course.

Heck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and FAUX News said so.
Obama's Debut on World Stage Yields Mixed Results -- FOX News, Apr.4, 09

Quote by: Xyzer Are we not just a few steps away from the oblivion of our free enterprise system?

Seems to me the free enterprise system is doing it's best to bring oblivion onto us. I suspect it's time to concede that Reaganomics has been a disaster, and that we need to put some sensible reins on the worst excesses of the free market.

Quote by: Xyzer Staggeringly Obama and his merry band of socialist thinkers have quickly incurred trillions of dollars of debt and yet they haven't even started on their professed desire to... blah, blah, blah

Y'know, before the invasion of Iraq, I warned everyone I could that it was a HUGE mistake.

But once we invaded, I shut my yap and kept it shut. The U.S. was committed to a course of action and as a loyal American, I figured that the best thing I could do was give Bush - and more importantly, the troops he was commanding - the benefit of the doubt and let events run their course.

And I kept my mouth shut and away from this board for seven months, at which point it was becoming increasingly obvious that I'd been dead right and I was free to say "I told you so!"

Xyzer, we know for a fact that Conservative control of our government was a bonafide, friggin' disaster, with massive debt, our military worn out, our global image destroyed, our people angry and divided, and our economy in tatters.

And you predicted otherwise. So why don't you give it a rest for a bit and let us see if Obama can repair the gawd-awful damage left by the Republicans.

Quote by: Rmnunez "I believe President Obama has proposed the most significant shift towards collectivism and away from capitalism in the history of the republic. I believe his budget aspires to not merely promote economic recovery but to lay the groundwork for sweeping expansions of government authority in areas like health care, energy and even daily commerce."

Good... Sen. Coburn's histrionics not withstanding. I daresay the past few years of unfettered free-market capitalism have ended in global economic disaster. Wouldn't you?

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