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Americans have lost faith in government: Obama
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 3/10/10 | AFP

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: americans; bho44; bhofascism; bhosocialism; bhotyranny; bhovisit; biggovernment; democrats; faith; fifth100days; government; mo2010; obama; obamacare; socialism; socialisthealthcare; youlie
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To: mylife

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.


41 posted on 03/10/2010 8:50:13 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Brandonmark

Deficit of trust. That happens when you deal with liars.


42 posted on 03/10/2010 8:50:23 PM PST by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: NormsRevenge
"Faith in Government"?

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?

43 posted on 03/10/2010 8:50:29 PM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Liberty Valance

Note how he starts of bit of truth then follows up with snake oil.


44 posted on 03/10/2010 8:50:45 PM PST by mylife (Opinions...$1 Halfbaked...50c)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


45 posted on 03/10/2010 8:51:22 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mylife

That is an insult to Abraham Lincoln...and me.


46 posted on 03/10/2010 8:52:04 PM PST by unkus
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To: tet68

I agree.

This guy is plooging way to hard.


47 posted on 03/10/2010 8:52:21 PM PST by mylife (Opinions...$1 Halfbaked...50c)
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US Tops Biggest Monthly Budget Deficit Ever ($220.9 billion)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468507/posts


48 posted on 03/10/2010 8:53:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: tet68
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.

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.

49 posted on 03/10/2010 8:53:27 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: unkus

He has been running this ploy from the get go.


50 posted on 03/10/2010 8:54:07 PM PST by mylife (Opinions...$1 Halfbaked...50c)
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To: mylife

I’ve seen it before. FReepers should rate better than that.


51 posted on 03/10/2010 8:58:02 PM PST by unkus
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To: NormsRevenge
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,

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!

52 posted on 03/10/2010 8:58:18 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: NormsRevenge

53 posted on 03/10/2010 8:59:46 PM PST by Gritty (Governmentalization of health care cements in a permanent left-of-center political culture -Mk Steyn)
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To: NormsRevenge
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Muslims that pray together stay together.

54 posted on 03/10/2010 9:00:20 PM PST by cruise_missile
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To: Irenic

Hey Bozo! Lincoln would have declared you an enemy of the Republic and then declared war on you.


55 posted on 03/10/2010 9:00:45 PM PST by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: NormsRevenge

56 posted on 03/10/2010 9:00:45 PM PST by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: DigitalVideoDude

LoL!


57 posted on 03/10/2010 9:02:12 PM PST by mylife (Opinions...$1 Halfbaked...50c)
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To: NormsRevenge
"People have lost faith in government -- they had lost faith in government because of George Bush and it has been getting worse. Let me say this: You ain't seen nothing yet.
-B. Obam
58 posted on 03/10/2010 9:03:48 PM PST by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
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To: NormsRevenge

How the hell can one have faith in government, when that government has no fidelity to the Constitution?


59 posted on 03/10/2010 9:06:36 PM PST by VR-21 (Bring me my broadsword, and clear understanding. Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Next up Obama campaigns against himself.... Liberal elites are enthralled... Yes he can.


60 posted on 03/10/2010 9:07:06 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Americans understand Oppressive Big Government is modern day Slavery.)
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