Posted on 04/15/2011 11:52:59 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (AFP) – US President Barack Obama accused his Republican foes of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country Thursday 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."
Republican 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 have been "blessed" to "give a little more," he said.
Obama said his vision was one 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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Third-world country?
Isn’t that oh-bamah’s master George Soros wants?
Oh, no....how will I sleep at night?
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If that's the worst thing that will happen, LET IT.
Whenever the liberals make accusations like this, it is an admission of their own agenda.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Either he has an extremely well developed sense of irony; or his skull is as dense as a block of granite.
Interesting, since when a Republican was in office we had lower unemployment, lower gas prices, lower taxes, a lower deficit, and less Arabs, I might add.
WHO is making the US a Third world country?
“Republicans will make US a Thir World country..”
..so says our Third World born president.
Perhaps he’s worried they might get us there faster than HIS administration is making us a third world country?
By printing fiat money out of thin freaking air at such a rate that other thrid world countries have done, creating hyperinflation and trillion dollar notes to buy a loaf of freaking bread?
By unchecked massive spending that has grown the country’s debt 50% in just two years, from 9 trillion dollars to 13.5 trillion dollars, and no end in sight to curb this behavior?
By allowing our borders to remain porous and let in any illegals that want to come here, causing problems, killing citizens in drunken car crashes and robberies and rapes, while prosecuting states that want to deal with the problem the federal government says it will not deal with, even though it’s explicitly listed as a federal duty in the Constitution?
By having an AG that only prosecutes certain classes of people and says they will not apply the law to other classes of people, if they are , in his words, “his people”?
We’re already a freaking banana republic. Tanking the economy and currency just smacks us down further to a third world country because that’s just a banana republic with no money and no bananas.
I hate mother f*****g marxists. In any form they take.
After Obama is finished, a “Third World” country starts to look pretty good.
Has anyone been to WalMart or a big city Emergency Department lately? We ARE a third world county already.
Somewhere Obama learned that the best defense is a good offense. So, while Obama is single-handedly turning America into a second-rate power, he says the other side's doing it. Anything to take the spotlight off what he's doing.
Hitler knew that your lie had to be a real whopper and had be repeated and (gullible) people would believe it
As I get older and older, I notice more and more that evil people consistently claim it’s the good people committing the crimes they themselves are doing.
I’ve found it is the most reliable way of discerning their true motives.
Too late.
It only took them for years.
Visit Detroit, or just wait till it moves to you.
Some enterprising Republican should make a board game, “US: A Third World Country by Obama.”
I’ve been saying the same all along....Strike out at Obama...not the GOP or Boehner.
Are Kenya and Indonesia 3rd World countries?
TOO LATE, OBAMA, YOU ALREADY HAVE
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