Comments on: The President Must Realize The "Socialist" Questions Are Fair

By: cf

cf — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:11:46 +0000

President Obama/Rahm Emanual are doing what they said they would do during the campaign, take your money & give it to your neighbors. If you work two or three jobs to pay for school or a home you can share your wealth. BTW President Obama’s parents both had numerous degrees. He seems to have created a distortation of the facts. “Vote Buying, Unions, Corruption, Nepotism & Taxes” is the ‘CHICAGO WAY’ (I am a resident of & was born & raised in Illinois ). Rahm in 1999, became a managing director at Wasserstein Perella (now Dresdner Kleinwort), Emanuel made $16.2 million in his two-and-a-half-year stint as a banker, according to Congressional disclosures.Emanuel was named to the Board of Directors for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (”Freddie Mac”) by then President Bill Clinton in 2000. His position paid him $31,060 in 2000 and $231,655 in 2001.[29] During the time Emanuel spent on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities.[30] The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) later accused the board of having “failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.” Emanuel resigned from the board in 2001 when he ran for congress

By: Econ Guy

Econ Guy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:25:38 +0000

Where can we find the list of college economics courses that Obama has taken, who taught those courses, and what grades he made? The answers and non-answers that he has given about socialism give me serious doubts about the depth of his understanding of economics. If I had said the stammering and stuttering kinds of things he has said, I would have flunked my sophomore-level classes. I’m not being mean to the guy, just honest.

By: JIm

JIm — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:50:27 +0000

I am not sure either party can govern, but I do know what to do about the current lack of leadership and disaster that everyone is talking about but doing nothing to fix, that is to vote all the members out of congress at the next election. I mean everyone of them. That is the only way to change this mess. Yes that may make it worst for the short term, but it will change the direction over the long run. Vote all of them out!!!!!

By: lazor

lazor — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:49:19 +0000

bush tried to reign in the affirmative action mortgage loans BUT the democrats who have been in charge since 2006 beat it down every time. barney franks, harry ried, cris dodd, and nancy pelozi forced banks to make these loans so they can do a news conference pound their chest and say LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE WE DEMOCRATS PUT IN HOMES

By: Proud American

Proud American — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:46:33 +0000

Obama is right, he is not a socialist. He walks like a marxist, quacks like a marxist, so he is a MARXIST not a socialist. Socialist is an understatement.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:49:46 +0000

Socialist, schmocialist. How about pragmatist? Where do we draw the line? Are public highways socialism? Are public schools socialism? Is a publicly financed police department and military socialism? Is public housing socialist? Are public hospitals socialist?

By: tidho

tidho — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:26:14 +0000

The solution to nearly all our problems is jobs.

Obama wants to raise taxes on small business owners to pay for entitlements. He refuses to lower corporate income taxes because he has entitlements to pay for. He wants to raise capital gains taxes because he has entitelments to pay for.

All of those things put the country at a competative disadvantage compared to China and India. We’re just going to continue to bleed jobs until someone is willing to risk the wrath of the poor majority and fix the root causes of our employment problem.

By: Not a media sheep

Not a media sheep — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:05:54 +0000

Wow it just amazes me that George inheireted Bill Clinton lack of action on many fronts and the press just skimmed over that! I don’t know if you folks have forgotten that George was in office just a few months when he/we received a welcome package called 911 and the Dem’s cried so hard about the lack of leadership and how could George have let this happen or even that George was behind it!

Now this Brian Sullivan believes that Americans are merely sheep and have no intellect in deciphering what a Socialist smells like when millions of us can clearly see it to the north in Canada and across the pond in Europe too!

Brian I find your article very bias and nothing short of pure rubbish and why can’t the Dem’s face up to their real part in this mess that they the Dem’s have run the Banking committee for longer then GW was is office.

By: J

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:53:12 +0000

Taxing the small business owners is not the answer. What makes it OK for “them” to be taxed? Most small business owners fall into Obama’s “rich” category, which seems to keep included a wider & wider range of incomes. That is THEIR money, earned by the means that our founding fathers had in mind. Who is the government to take it away?

You can’t help those who aren’t motivated enough to help themselves.

As my father always says–”I can spend my own money better than the government can”.

I want their hand out of my wallet.

By: J

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:48:02 +0000

I side with Adam–taxing those who stimulate the economy is not the answer. I don’t know if ppl realize this, but those falling into Obama’s “rich” category ARE the small business owners. What makes it OK for “them” to be taxed? We should all hope to be as successful as they are one day.

As one of my family members always says–”I can spend my own money better than the government can.”