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In reply to the discussion: "Not going to happen"? Guess what: It already fucking happened. [View all]YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Obama is not a progressive .. he said himself that today he would be considered a moderate Republican .. I suppose he may be referring to Eisenhower .. no, maybe Nixon ..ha ha And what really scares me, is that he seems to lionize Ronald Reagan .. He says he wants to go after the loop holes that the rich use to hide their money and and not pay taxes, that he doesn't want to ''pay down the debt on the backs of the middle class and the poor" yet he wants to cut the very life-line that so many of us need in order to JUST SURVIVE. How about putting the money back into the SS trust fund that the government has borrowed over the last 30 years.
I don't hate Obama, I think his intentions are what he thinks is the best for U.S. citizens .. but wrongly so. One man, who is elected President of the United States, is not going to change the horrible state that this country is in. To the ignorant, those who only hear tid bits of information throughout their week, from other misinformed ignorant people, will be saying ''Obama's going to cut my Social Security, those damn Democrats .. can't trust them''. Now what will the Dems do before the 2014 elections, to reconcile his SS cut proposal? .. the Repugs are salivating!
Maybe Elizabeth Warren should run for president.