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The nation is beginning to see President Barack Obama's "Hope and Change" programs emerge.
Already, he has tripled the deficit.
Five major U.S. companies are now government owned, in bankruptcy or shut down — all this after only five months.
His proposed health care reform will increase the country's deficit by trillions of dollars, while health care will become rationed with reduced quality of care — along the same lines as the Canadian and British government-run plans.
His proposed cap-and-trade legislation is designed to destroy the nation's economy.
While people worry about nukes in Iran and missiles aimed at Hawaii by North Korea, President Obama and his energy czar are busy changing light bulbs in the White House.
My "hope" is that others are as angry and terrified of that man and his "changes" as I am, and will join in protesting the madness.
George Jones, Otisfield

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FOOTIEMAK's picture

Well, the current majority

Well, the current majority in Congress is Democratic and the President, Obama, is as well. So all his wishes for our country will be met probably. President Bush did a lousy job and we wanted change and now we have it. We are headed down the garden path to higher deficits, national health, more control over our lives. Where are the promised jobs? Sure there are the ones created through the stimulas, but they sound very much like the ones created during the depression through WPI projects and they are not going to bring any money into the country. The National Health situation is even worse and is going to drive small business out or else limit the number of hours employees work in order to avoid the fines proposed for not carrying health insurance.
Big Business such as Walmart already do that type of thing. Obama's plan seems a lot like that in MA and will fine people who do not take health care offered. So that's another way to stick to the masses of people who would be covered if they got decent enough wages to buy insurance. So here we are with what we asked for--CHANGE. Sometimes change isn't so good.
I don't approve of Bush's antics nor do I think Pres. Obama is doing any better. He is a better orator and charmer but he is just as elitist and fits right in with all the other lawyers and millionaires running our government. He doesn't identify with middle America. How much time has he spent at the White House since he was inaugurated? Now he & family are off to elite Martha's Vineyard and so is the Secret Service, and staff. Whose paying for them, hmmm? Could it be us? No, he is no better than most politicians who are just in the game for power and control of the American People and who want rid of the middle class.
Again, I ask where are the new jobs? Nowhere on the horizon because we have no manufacturing base left and no reason for it to return. Remember the British Brain Drain? I do becaus a relative of mine, an MD, left for Australia as he said that he wanted paid more than the mailman. A lot of the cost of private insurance and health care is because of government mandates and malpradtice suits that are ludicrous. When you go to your doctor's office note the number of people working there who are not medically necessary but are there to do all the paper work involved. Health care in America is a sinkhole for unemployed people as there are no real jobs in this country to fill. Maybe soon there will be an American Brain Drain to China.
Obama's father seems to have been a Marxist and it seems that the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree. Remember the leaders in communist countries live well as do party member and the rest of the citizens do not. Well, again, we asked for change and now we sure have it; that is only small change will be in our pockets because we will pay for this change we asked for.

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Hulk's picture

. I'd say his plans are

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I'd say his plans are working out just as intended!

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momof4's picture

Is that you, Joe the

Is that you, Joe the Preacher? Thought I recognized your sanctimonious drivel...

Hulk's picture

It would appear that

It would appear that "dolositas" is the one that broke it!

eh, stuff happens.

verified

Mom would be right to

Mom would be right to putting a bullet in the back of any skull for anyone who does not agree with her. Makes me think that all of those who view the socialism hide behind a Nazi flag at night. They market it as destroy America however in destroying America that is in destroying voices. Not really viewing anything liberal as dangerous having an open mind is offensive to the Conservatives and whomever they choose in life. As for being a Republican it does not take to long to see the real neo-nazi, closed minded, and rote procedures which they use in establishing the next generations narrow minded thinking.

Joe Ziehm
Lewiston ME
Live the life that you want to, do not believe those who fool you, and always question. Conservatives want all three lines deleted and replaced with Communist rhetoric.

momof4's picture

Gil: Right there with ya,

Gil: Right there with ya, Pal. You've got it goin' on as usual. And Mad Dad, kudos to you. Very eloquently put. Unfortunately, those who lack common sense and understanding of how things should work are the very ones who elect the morons that mess it all up. After Obama bankrupts us, he will get us all annihilated while attempting to hug the bad guys. You guys' detractors have it bass-ackwards.......

verified

There goes Gil again

There goes Gil again reaching and to scared and afraid to place the Diebold plots together because it turns him into what he really is. You know something Gil you hardly care for anyone except for yourself save the breath you need it to weigh in on the other incoherent rambling as you quoted it. Oh, did you notice my mentions of quotes from sources wow fantastic is it not?

Joe Ziehm
Lewiston ME

Lil's picture
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I agree, v, Bush didn't do

I agree, v, Bush didn't do anything, except start the bailout ball rolling. When did the recession start, 12/07? When did dubya slink out of Washington? And wasn't the national debt around $5.6 trillion when Bush was inaugurated? And wasn't it around $10.8 trillion when he left? Now that's some fiscal responsibility!
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"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill

veritas's picture
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Jabba writes: Joe - Don't

Jabba writes: Joe - Don't look now but your ignorance is showing. NAZI is a German acronym for the National SOCIALIST Party. It is the current administration that takes us a step closer to that every day

Sorry, Jabba - reader you may be, but an historian you ain't!

Hitler had always been opposed to Socialist principles, but knew that the German people embraced them. He continued German social programs, but limited them only to German Aryans - Hitler argued that "capitalists had worked their way to the top through their capacity, and on the basis of this selection they have the right to lead." Hitler claimed that national socialism meant all people doing their best for society and posed no threat to the wealth of the rich. By rearming Germany, the Nazi Party effectively entered into a contract with corporate Germany similar to that enjoyed by our own military industrial complex; indeed, Hitler even supplied the slave labor to enrich the wealthiest of German industrialists.

The Nazis? Socialist? Give me a break!!!!

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When I was a young Sailor - I drank like a Sailor, fought like a Sailor, and screwed like a Sailor. Now that I am old and wise - I have a few scars, but many fond memories.

Hulk's picture

So "dolositas" proves the

So "dolositas" proves the point that Liberals/Socialists lie!

"The Nazis? Socialist? Give me a break!!!!"
Absolutely Socialists. You don't actually believe that Socialists Ideals are anything but a vehicle to gain power over the people?

Liberals/Socialists always point to their failures and say "well that wasn't REAL Socialism, REAL Socialism like we will institute would work!"

Your Ideology works just as it was meant to as proven by the likes of Stalin, Hitler, Castro and the up and coming Liberals hero Chavez!

Gil's picture

"It's all Bush's fault" How

"It's all Bush's fault" How much longer do you believe that mantra is going to play? Bush did not nationalize GM and Chrysler. Bush was long gone before the messiah took over the banks. Bush didn't decide to close down a detainment center housing terrorists and POW's during a time of war with no plan as to what to do with the inmates. Bush didn't spend over a TRILLION dollars that now lies on taxpayers to pay back for generations. That is if the bondholders (read - Chinese) don't decide to call the notes on a whim to destroy our economy. Bush didn't politicize the census by taking it away from Commerce and moving it into the White House. Bush didn't suggest that ACORN, a group coming closer and closer to federal indictment on voter fraud, to run the census. Bush wasn't the one lying when he stated that we absolutely had to pass the stimulus to keep unemployment below 8%. It's at 9.5% now. Your boy king needs to step up, and if he won't then you blind lemming followers need to, and own up to the mistake of electing this liar, this loser, this inexperienced, Socialistic fool who is going to ruin this country.
"A government big enough to give you what you want is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson

mad dad's picture

To Lil and Joe. I'm sorry I

To Lil and Joe. I'm sorry I forgot to ask you to note that Ca. seems to have a slight financial probem with a Republican Gov. and the House and Senate controlled by guess who--- DEMOCRATS. In fairness I have to opine that the same situation could occur if the parties were reversed. Actually I would like to see a government where there was no majority, which would cause everyone to work together for the benefit of the people . The one party system we have in Washington and in Maine is not a healthy situation for my way of thought.

jchick's picture
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We haven't had a legitimate

We haven't had a legitimate two party system in years, perhaps decades.

Recent political events have blurred the party lines to the point where they are difficult to distiguish. Regardless of party affiliations, there's one thing you can always count on: a politician will say whatever they think you want to hear in order to get your vote. Once in office, they'll do whatever they please, "The People" be damned. There are very few exceptions.

The Founders envisioned a government where our representatives were truely representative of the people at large, and in the early stages it was so. Instead, we have a government of career politicians and elitists who have no clue what the people struggle with from day to day. The "issues" only become important to them on the eve of the next election, when once again, they promise to fix everything that's broken.

This has been coming to a head long before Bush, Clinton, HW or Reagan took office. You have to look all the way back to the early 1920's when the seeds of socialism were first sown. The resulting weeds of socialism have all but choked the life out of the Tree of Liberty.

John A. Chick

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (January 6, 1816)

Lil's picture
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I think republicans created

I think republicans created the current "one party" system by being too whacked out to get elected. And the ideology of the last 8 years didn't help.
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"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill

verified

A Democratic congress with a

A Democratic congress with a Republican senate good luck on understanding those little issues Mad Dad and how many times Bush had used this. Remember the cut backs on education? Do not want to Mad Dad? Okay, so let us see it like this the no child left behind was devised as part of the substandard European educational model. As a matter of accord we have broken the educational system by budget cuts. Which the senate embraced and several conservatives have as well. Dang it Mad Dad we lost art centers but no, no that is okay for you arts not that important, music is dangerous, art makes us a nation of weak drivels, and no it is okay that was a Democratic congress. Ted Kennedy embraced the idealogies because Bush had promised increases in budgets and we were welcoming of it. In the underlying articles lying being the present tense then we discovered the tax cuts and budget cuts. As a future educator for all of those who embraced the cuts and think art and music are not important thank your local Conservative senators and just remember how low the scores of children are tied to the Conservative angles of the budget cuts for the arts. Oh, yes the Republican senate and congress along with Gingrich was also a part of that. Guess being in envy of art and music makes it okay to cut.

Joe Ziehm
Lewiston ME

mad dad's picture

Lil. Something for you to

Lil. Something for you to peruse. Geo W had a Democratic Congress in power the last two years of his term. His father who ran on a"no new taxes" campaign had a Democratic Congress that took care of that promise. Also Clinton balanced the budget with a Republican Congress. Do you get it? CONGRESS (the House and the Senate) pass the laws that run the county, not the President. The President is a figurehead that either takes the credit or the blame for what Congress does. This also works at the State level. Look at the states that are all in finanicial trouble, especially Maine, "As Maine goes, so goes the Nation", I sure hope NOT.

verified

Racism shows its traits when

Racism shows its traits when denial of the past is to major a step to glimpse toward in the future. Remember it was Bush who has brought us down this road. Facist little conservatives I have no pity for you and would rather cut you off from the party completely. Bush was already in this process and the progressive "programs" I'd love to cut the conservatives off completely from the party Lil. There little tactics and propaganda machines have come to an end. We cannot blame George W Bush he is white, one of us, and works for the working man right in that time and span to many family farms and businesses have been shut down. It has been nice knowing that side of the Republican party but alas I have been called a RINO now it is time to factually point it out Conservatives are neo-Nazi facists who hate the factors they got what they asked for strife and unending debates within their own party. Mom of two yet again I do not care and yes would cut off the conservatives from attending all party functions and force them into finding their own conventions and their own candidates for Conservatives and their dangerous ideological propagandist machines.

Joe Ziehm
Lewiston ME

Hulk's picture

Somehow JoeAlzheimer I don't

Somehow JoeAlzheimer I don't think English is your first, second or even third language. Could you make less sense?

"Conservatives are neo-Nazi facists who hate the factors they got what they asked for strife and unending debates within their own party."

And you sir are a sub moron who couldn't put together
a cogent sentence if your life depended upon it!

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Jabba's picture
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Joe - Don't look now but

Joe - Don't look now but your ignorance is showing. NAZI is a German acronym for the National SOCIALIST Party. It is the current administration that takes us a step closer to that every day.

MomOfTwo's picture

I'm with you George Jones.

I'm with you George Jones. The way this administration is dealing with this recession we'll still be in it when 0bama is defeated in 2012. It can't some soon enough.

mad dad's picture

I guess I'm stupid, I can't

I guess I'm stupid, I can't see how the government can spend itself out of debt. If I tried it I would just get deeper in debt. Is this a big DUH. Oh yes, maybe I can hire a few czars to advise me how to spend my money I don't have to start with.

Lil's picture
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Yeah! And he's unionizing

Yeah! And he's unionizing Acorn to come and get your guns! Teabags! Who was pres when the recession started?
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"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill

Hulk's picture

And who has made it worse

And who has made it worse and continues to do so?

And pay attention Lil Duke, it's no longer Acorn!

Just like Liberal has been changed to Progressive.

You people never change your tactics just your name!

Govt2Big's picture
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Mr. Jones is right, and it

Mr. Jones is right, and it has become very clear that Barack Hussein Obama is dragging us toward Socialism and Communism. While the liberals probably like what he's doing, I believe he's destroying the USA.

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