Every dog has his day?
Posted on 02/24/2010 4:54:50 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama rejects criticism of his agenda as "socialism" Photo 3:22pm EST
By Jeff Mason and Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launched a vigorous defense of his economic agenda on Wednesday, rejecting critics who call his policies "socialism" and insisting he aims to boost U.S. competitiveness abroad.
Speaking to the Business Roundtable, which groups some of the country's top chief executives, Obama called for support of his administration's efforts to overhaul financial regulation, revamp the health insurance industry and create jobs.
"Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market," Obama said in remarks that were set against a backdrop of unease in the business community about his economic policies and legislative priorities.
Businesses -- and opposition Republicans -- are wary of the Obama administration's regulatory zeal in areas such as healthcare and energy policy, and worry about a perceived tendency to increase spending rather than lower taxes.
Obama, a Democrat, said his efforts to enact sweeping legislation to overhaul financial regulations and set caps on carbon emissions to fight climate change were not aimed at thwarting businesses, and he reminded his audience that his $787 billion stimulus package included major tax cuts.
"We have arrived at a juncture in our politics where reasonable efforts to update our regulations, or make basic investments in our future, are too often greeted with cries of 'government takeover' or even 'socialism,'" Obama said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Great post.
“The Diary of Anne Frank” is on TCM.
Every dog has his day?
Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him. And so it is with Obozo...
No Obozo, you are a communist. I would never tag you with a little old socialist label.
Should read: "Obama, a socialist..."
Guy just can’t handle the truth.
Please correct the title to reflect, “Cocktoasten endorses and accepts description of Obama policies as socialist, calls for immediate resignation in lieu of prosecution.”
“by making our posts of honor places of profit”...which is what every single one of our representatives have done. Just ask Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad and all those who leave office multi-millionaires or obtaining sweetheart land deals. They get to keep their campaign war chests and then have gold plated retirement benefits that not many of their “subjects” can ever dream of having. Each and every single Senator or Representative today thinks of himself as a monarch in his/her own mind. Benjamin Franklin would be ashamed.
There’s an old saying “Fisherman always say their fish aint stink!!”
If it's brown and looks like dogsh*t, smells like dogsh*t,...it's probably dogsh*t!
Too Good!
“Fascism” fits better anyway, technically.
Socialism 101: Remove control of something from the private sector, and put the government in control of it.
Case Study: The actions of Hugo Chavez seizing the oil exporting, electric and water utilities, and agriculture industries from private sector, and putting the government in control of it.
Socialism 101: Price fixing leads to shortages.
Case Study: Under Venezuelas nationalization policies, oil production has steadly decreased, electricity and water rationing has been ordered, and food production has decreased.
Sorry Zero. You’re lies about not being a socialist = epic fail. If your not a socialist, why are you pushing for nationalization of our healthcare?
A few additions, darker than yours....
Trotskyites:
“Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky believed that because all national economic development was affected by the laws of the world market, a revolution depended on revolutions in other countries for permanent success, a position that put him at odds with Joseph Stalin’s ‘socialism in one country.’”
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Trotskyites
On Islam and anarchism
“Ali Shariati
An important and influential figure in the 20th century was Ali Shariati, one of the ideologues of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and of whom Jean Paul Sartre said: “I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be Shariati’s”. After the Shah’s regime took on a particularly vicious authoritarian note, Shariati was imprisoned for his lectures, which were extremely popular with the students, and was forced to flee Iran. He was assassinated shortly afterwards.
Although Shariati was not an anarchist, his vision of Islam was one of a revolutionary religion siding with the poor. He believed that the only true reflection of the Islamic concept of Tawhid (unity and oneness of God) is a classless society.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_anarchism
“Anarcho-syndicalism
“...is one of the major forms of social anarchism. The idea behind anarcho-syndicalism is to combine the economic methods of syndicalism with the revolutionary politics of anarchism. This leads anarcho-syndicalists to be involved in everything from small propaganda groups to mass revolutionary unions, always organised according to anarchist principles, on a decentralised, federated basis.”
http://libcom.org/thought/anarcho-syndicalism-an-introduction
That nose of his is gonna break off any day now from the sheer weight it.
FUBO!!!!!!!!
Apparently, it’s a heckuva lot easier to keep denying it than actually stop behaving like one.
“I am an ardent believer in the free market,” Obama said
Heh heh heh heh ... stop it, yer killin’ me.
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