Posted on 04/14/2011 11:33:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
US President Barack Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
The attack came a day after Obama savaged Republican budget plans and unveiled his $4-trillion deficit reduction drive that aims to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to preserve key social services.
The debate over fiscal policy will prove critical to the 2012 campaign and Obama sought to frame it as a "stark choice" between investing in the future or watching the country fall apart.
"Under their vision, we can't invest in roads and bridges and broadband and high-speed rail," Obama told a select group of the Democratic faithful at the second of three fundraising events in his hometown of Chicago.
"I mean, we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought -- that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure."
Republicans plans to shrink the reach of government is "not a vision that's impelled by the numbers" but a "choice" to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the rich rather than ask those who've been "blessed" to "give a little more."
Obama said his vision is of an ambitious, compassionate, and caring America "where we're living within our means but we're still investing in our future."
"If we apply some practical common sense to this, we can solve our fiscal challenges and still have the America that we believe in," Obama told supporters at Chicago's N9ne restaurant....
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Typical tactic of the left: accuse your adversaries of what you are doing.
I’m rather convinced that both Reps and Dems are in a race to the bottom, but they’re just arguing over which highway to take at this point.
Quite true. Alternatively, with luck, we could turn into Bulgaria circa 1974.
LMAO! I’m astounded that Obama has the audacity to even say that. So much for uniting the country right?
An inflationary cycle (which turn any country into a 3rd world one) has never occurred because of fiscal restraint.
EVIL, INSANE MARXIST.
Exactly!
Who’s our mouthpiece?
I guess he would certainly know, since he was born in one.
Wait. Our third-world president, with his third-world supporters and third-world policies, is accusing one of the few things standing, precariously, between our being in the first world and our falling into their third-world nightmare, of pushing us into the very place they want us to fall? He is absolutely sick in the head. Print more Monopoly money. Boost the names on the grain rolls. Let’s get this over with. Ave, Vandals. Ave, Goths.
The libs love saying what they are doing by saying it someone else.
With ideas like this, who needs enemies?
Since the Democrats would make the USA into a “fourth world” nation, if there could be such a thing, this will certainly be an improved destiny!
In Psychology, this is what’s called transference.
Sorry, but he’s partly right about the roads and broadband infrastructure (NOT RAIL THOUGH!).
That does not mean it needs public money but it does mean you may want to look at how infrastructure projects are undertaken in the context of “what’s the commercial benefit”.
Motorways are so vital to the British economy that fixing them when they’re damaged is as an investment. Private roads, on the other hand, tend to be ridden with potholes because the owners have other more important things to spend their money on.
In the UK, even the private sector says, the country cannot afford to bugger about waiting for a private company to decide that there’s a strategic value in this financial quarter to invoice an order by the 31st of May to do a job Q3, if that job is to repair a damaged motorway.
You saw it over in Japan, a private workforce fixed a broken highway in a fortnight.
Driving from Boston to New Hampshire, I saw potholes so big on the I93 you could bury an elephant in them. Presumably the same logic exists - the road needs fixing, someone’s gotta fix it eventually - but if you ONLY have commercial pressures in place, then maybe that job keeps getting bumped to the back of the queue because it’s viewed simply as an “expenditure” to the company, or maybe the margins are higher on other jobs.
It doesn’t have to be like that.
On broadband, I live in a village of a thousand people and we got fed up waiting for the big telcos to upgrade the 1980s telecoms infrastructure (at present we’re surviving on barely-better-than-dialup speeds).
So one of our enterprising residents contracted a company to deliver 50MBit fixed broadband for $40/month through a nice fat leased line. This has suddenly piqued the interest of the big boys who are now all rushing to upgrade us to fibre optic internet (or cable internet) before they lose our custom. By Christmas we will have 100mbit cable, 300mbit fixed wireless, and 512mbit fibre.
And this is a working class village in rural Yorkshire which, for the past 10 years, has been consistently told by Virgin Media, BT and the other big telcos, “as a village you’re just too small to be worth our time”.
One very small company, Rutland Telecom, is delivering fibre broadband to communities like ours who are STILL being told by BT that they aren’t commercially viable.
BT is chasing government subsidies. So is Virgin. Rutland aren’t. The company we’re using for broadband, isn’t.
Which illustrates the point.
You don’t need public money - sometimes you simply need small outfits threatening to take the big names out of the loop altogether and suddenly you’ll find those infrastructure projects that have been sitting on the shelves of the major contractors for years, being dusted down. But if you do that, beware of the big companies holding out the begging bowl.
November ‘12 can’t come fast enough for me. Where’s the fast forward button?
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