Which 2011 event defined America?
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Tax and spend by our wonderful president,omama
The inability of our government to reach some semblance of agreement, or just compromise on some portion of the debt ceiling crisis to avoid the debt rating. Both sides are to blame, because both sides' majorities rejected the final attempt. This will define and haunt American for many years to come.
The repeal of don't ask don't tell.
Ronald Reagen's TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS!
You should all run for public office.
Fact: Social security is self-funding.
Fact: Obama has spent in 1.5 years more than all the rest of the presidents combined.
Fact: Obama has appointed more "Czars" than any other president
Fact: Obama has signed into law the ability of the government to lock up any suspected terrorist (including US Citizens) indefinitely by presidential degree
Fact: Obama is the most radical president this country has ever had and beats out Jimmy Carter as the worst ever.
Read the book "The Forgotten Man" to truly understand the years leading up to and thru the Great Depression ending with the US entering WWII. Roosevelt and the New Dealers were Marxists, Communists and Socialists hiding under the name of Progressives and actually lengthen the Great Depression; not shortened it
Fact: The national debt tripled under Reagan and doubled under GW Bush.
Yes. Social programs take care of people but they also emove incentive for people t care fr themselves and puts the burden on the government.People want the best of both worlds – low taxes and government benefitsm Who pays for this?
blah blah blah i am by no mean a liberal and in no means a conservative but this one is for the conservatives do you people actually pay attention to the things you write? or do you just ignorantly post comments that fox news feeds you? you say Obama is creating a socialist state...how? didn't Franklin Roosevelt lead us out of the depression and help win world war 2 and he created "socialist" programs with something called the "new deal" one very popular program that came out of the new deal is something you may be very familiar with and will eventually be collecting one day get ready its called...wait for it...social security...OH MY GOD THE WRETCHED WORDS THEY'RE RIGHT IN THE NAME ITSELF "SOCIAL" SECURITY...those dirty democrats always trying to help people with there silly wacky crazy ideas...stop being a conservative fox news pansy and stop making dumb remarks you make the human species devolve just by reading your naive comments...
Obama hasn't got us completely into a Socialist State yet–But he is giving it his best shot–
And that's only so far. He plans to ask congress to raise the debt limit again. He is going to sink this country with debt!
Under Obama's economic policies, the national debt reached $15 Trillion
Fact: Bush-era tax cuts are the single biggest contributor to the national debt.
very true