[Renkluaf]

Obama learned well from the exploits of FDR. Use an economic storm to enhance the role of government in ways that cannot easily be reversed. Once a bureaucracy is born, regardless of the intentions, it grows like a cancer constantly attempting to extend its reach in order to justify its existance.

[Alberta's Child]

One big difference today is that people are more shrewd and self-absorbed, even if they aren’t very wise and their senses have been dulled by media overload. We live in an age where government and fellow citizens have become so intrusive and overbearing that more and more Americans would LOVE to be the “forgotten man.”