Posted on 03/10/2010 8:31:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ST LOUIS, Missouri (AFP) Many Americans have lost faith in their government, US President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday, tackling a pervasive sentiment hobbling his hopes for enacting sweeping reform.
American suspicion of government was deepening, he said in a speech from the heartland state of Missouri, where he pushed his endangered health reform drive that has been branded by Republicans as a government takeover.
"People have lost faith in government -- they had lost faith in government before I ran (for president), and it has been getting worse," Obama said at a rally in St. Louis.
He quoted his political hero, US Civil War-era president Abraham Lincoln, as saying that the role of government was to do what needed to be done but could not be done by citizens themselves without help.
"That pretty much sums up my attitude," Obama said.
The president used the trip to roll out a plan to crack down on waste and fraud in federal health programs for the poor and senior citizens as well as other government spending, which he said amounted to billions of dollars per year.
"I don't accept business as usual... and the American people don't accept it either," Obama said, adding the plan would help cut massive long-term deficits casting a shadow over economic recovery hopes.
In many ways, Obama's entire political program represents a bid to show that government can work, despite inbred US skepticism about federal power and Republican claims that he wants to orchestrate a takeover of much of American life.
Obama has embarked on a fierce week-long campaign to secure crucial votes in Congress on his health care plan before he leaves on a trip to Indonesia and Australia on March 18.
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I’m sure they do, communists around the world are just
waiting for civil strife to break out to forment actions
that will be designed to create more stress on our
country.
Deficit of trust. That happens when you deal with liars.
That is a very creepy concept. Where in our founding documents or the writings of the framers of the Constitution does it say citizens should put their faith in government?
Note how he starts of bit of truth then follows up with snake oil.
LOL
I’m beyond agitated.
I’m laughing my ass off like a loony tune...and I can’t stop! I tellya this is a godam cartoon I’m seeing unfold! The whole country is on fire and I’m seeing keystone cops running around making it worse.
FAN THE FLAMES YOU JACKASSES!
ITS PURE HILARITY! I can’t help it. I just don’t givadam anymore.
That is an insult to Abraham Lincoln...and me.
I agree.
This guy is plooging way to hard.
US Tops Biggest Monthly Budget Deficit Ever ($220.9 billion)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468507/posts
They want to send in the 'peacekeepers' from the UN (the communist coffee klatch) to maintain order, and duhwon would welcome it. If we haven't by then, it'll be time to dig some things back up.
He has been running this ploy from the get go.
I’ve seen it before. FReepers should rate better than that.
What's stopping him from cracking down on waste and fraud? That's his job. The legislation's already done. Waste and fraud are illegal by definition. What a dweeb!
Muslims that pray together stay together.
Hey Bozo! Lincoln would have declared you an enemy of the Republic and then declared war on you.
LoL!
How the hell can one have faith in government, when that government has no fidelity to the Constitution?
Next up Obama campaigns against himself.... Liberal elites are enthralled... Yes he can.
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