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Originally Posted by MrLabGuy
As for this administration:
Obama has broken more campaign promises than ANY president in my lifetime
Obama has spent more money in his first year in office than any president in my lifetime.
Obama has and plans to take away more freedom and add more government than any president in my lifetime.
You can't spend your way out of debt and our Country which was once the greatest in the WORLD is falling apart. More Debt and More Government is not the answer.
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Really? What is your source for the above statistic? I hear it repeated like a mantra, but don't know how to evaluate it. I found a somewhat independent site that is keeping score. What are you comparing these scores to, or do you have your own scorecard?
PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises
I figure that anyone who can keep many more promises than they break, and even more when you consider the compromises reached, is pretty much following the democratic and legislative processes.
No comment on the spending money, I think all US leaders spend too much money. We probably disagree on what they choose to spend it on, ie social welfare, corporate welfare, military conquests, etc.
Isn't GM paying back their loans early? Didn't one or more banks do the same? Just wondering if you are considering cash outflows, or net costs.
The suggestion that Obama is out to take away your freedoms is interesting, but it is so broad, and so oft-repeated, that it is probably worthy of a separate thread seeing as how this thread is about Glenn Beck, and the only connection is that he is one individual profiting from fanning the flames of that fear.