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Obama: Limited Gov't That Preserves Free Markets 'Doesn't Work. It Has Never Worked'
CNS News ^ | 12/7/2011 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 12/07/2011 9:22:50 AM PST by Just4Him

(CNSNews.com) - In a speech delivered at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, on Tuesday, President Barack Obama argued that while a limited government that preserves free markets "speaks to our rugged individualism" as Americans, such a system "doesn't work" and "has never worked" and that Americans must look to a more activist government that taxes more, spends more and regulates more if they want to preserve the middle class.

"'[T]here is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. 'The market will take care of everything,' they tell us," said Obama. "If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes--especially for the wealthy--our economy will grow stronger.

"Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers," Obama continued. "But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty.

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1 posted on 12/07/2011 9:22:54 AM PST by Just4Him
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To: Just4Him
Did this schmuck ever read Democracy in America?

ML/NJ

2 posted on 12/07/2011 9:26:03 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: Just4Him

“....a limited government that preserves free markets “speaks to our rugged individualism” as Americans, such a system “doesn’t work” and “has never worked”...

The empirical evidence demonstrates thatyou are, YET AGAIN, WRONG!

EPIC FAIL.

It is overreaching government and burdensome tax rates that crushes economies.

You are naught but a Pedantic Pultroon!


3 posted on 12/07/2011 9:26:33 AM PST by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: Just4Him

At least once in every one of his speeches Obama proves he’s an idiot and proud of it.


4 posted on 12/07/2011 9:30:24 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Just4Him

Obama just gave his concession speech yesterday. Stick a fork in, his is cooked.


5 posted on 12/07/2011 9:30:56 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: ml/nj
I've included a copy of Wealth of Nations in my emergency SHTF supplies. He's obviously not read or studied much. Well, that, and he's a liar.

/johnny

6 posted on 12/07/2011 9:31:27 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: Just4Him

King Obama the communists black Muslim. And there are millions just don’t get it.


7 posted on 12/07/2011 9:34:59 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Vaduz

Not his fault, he’s just reading what’s on the teleprompter.


8 posted on 12/07/2011 9:35:18 AM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA: Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: ml/nj
Limited Gov't That Preserves Free Markets 'Doesn't Work. It Has Never Worked'

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Clearly what is needed is a Soviet-style, centrally-planned economy, because that is what has always worked best and would still be working in Russia if Ronald Reagan had not had the stupid idea that people prefer freedom.

9 posted on 12/07/2011 9:35:40 AM PST by newheart (When does policy become treason?)
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To: Just4Him

He loves to say things that just aren’t true, hoping his listeners will slavishly adore his words and won’t look elsewhere, where they might find the truth.


10 posted on 12/07/2011 9:37:15 AM PST by firebrand (It's almost too late.)
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To: Just4Him

I wonder if 0 passed out copies of “Das Kapital” to all who attended the speech?


11 posted on 12/07/2011 9:37:45 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Just4Him
A free market is the economic expression of freedom. So, when Obama claims that "free markets don't work", he's also saying that freedom itself doesn't work.

That's the major reason that it's imperative he be stopped from having another term. And I'm willing to accept ANY Republican, however flawed, who can do that.

12 posted on 12/07/2011 9:39:21 AM PST by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: Just4Him

bump for my Obama supporting, over educated, smug dumbass brother to read


13 posted on 12/07/2011 9:39:27 AM PST by saleman (!!!!)
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To: Just4Him
I will give Obama credit where credit is due.

In the face of overwhelming evidence, he stays focused on his Marxist goals.

14 posted on 12/07/2011 9:39:30 AM PST by Lazamataz (That's all.)
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To: Just4Him
Americans must look to a more activist government that taxes more, spends more and regulates more if they want to preserve the middle class.

Talk about systems that don't work - ask Europe how this is all working out for them.

15 posted on 12/07/2011 9:41:31 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (The Chicago Way isn't the American Way.)
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To: Just4Him

Hussein is no longer able to contain his communist beliefs.


16 posted on 12/07/2011 9:42:05 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Just4Him

Barry Hussein,

a clear and present danger to the Republic, Freedom, Natural and Common law.


17 posted on 12/07/2011 9:46:39 AM PST by Para-Ord.45 (+)
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To: Just4Him

Obama’s Big Government Keynesian economics are failing in Europe right now. This must mean he is stupid.


18 posted on 12/07/2011 9:47:41 AM PST by JohnBrownUSA (Don't Tread On America!)
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To: Just4Him
Oh yeah, they're "preserving the middle class" all righty, by making sure they'll never be rich. The regulations to "preserve the middle class" are designed and implemented by the extremely rich in order to keep the middle class from becoming a threat to them.

Zero is just a high-priced bag man for a claque of feudal fascists.

19 posted on 12/07/2011 9:47:51 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The Democrats are and always have been the Party of the Extremely Rich and the Party of Slavery.)
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20 posted on 12/07/2011 9:52:07 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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