I think he is getting a bad rep because he was elected during an economic crisis.

I think some people like him solely because he's black and some people dislike him because he's black. And others form their own opinions.

people 50 years ago would have bet their life that there wouldnt be a black president and look now

i dont give him much credit right now cause hes doing a bad job but if by some miracle he can fix the economy or something then great

but as of now i dont want to become a socialist society and i would appreciate it if he would stop trying to make it that way

i think bush lead us to a bad economy and people want Obama to be a miracle worker. It takess more than a few months to fix everything.

I know (not think) that President Bush was not the reason our economy failed and I also know that obama isn't a miracle worker despite

everyone's thoughts and hopes

im not going to , but im sure that someone could make a pretty good argument that he contributed

it was actually a lot of the congress that was dominated by the democrats...that wouldn't do half of what he wanted anyways

research it if you want to know

i know that some of it has to do with congress, im just saying that bush isnt comepletely innocent

no...no one said he was either

you probably aren't completely innocent either when you think about it...I just hate it when people automatically say Bush because

he really wasn't the beginning of the problem

i agree...bush isnt to blame completely to blame, becuaes he was put in a terrible position with 9/11 and starting the war and everything

completely to blame*

and i do believe that everything he did was because he had our best interest in mind, plus he's only human

and i think the same goes for pres. obama because he's been put into a terrible situation what with the economy in ruins

and people expecting him to do something about it right away

every president is put into a bad situation and they never handle it the way people want them to

it shows that everyone is human and we just notice the faults of the presidents more because they are constantly in the spotlight

they still do a bad job!

and despite weather he's the best for the job or not, it's still going to take a while to get the US back on track

polotics istoo confusing

is too*

I agree with Carolyn! everyone needs to remember that Obama has only been in office for four months.

did u hear he got a dog

it looks sooooo cute

yea...it doesn't really matter how long he's been here or not...hes already spent way more then anyone

soo... he is doing a good thing and trying to fix the economy... not to mention that his stimulus plan where he is spending "all

my opinion remains the same

the money" is a continuation of Bush's TARP

and yes the dog thing does not belong in this plurk

yea and i didnt ever agree with throwing money at the economu

economy*

i dont think that it really helps

in the short term its bad for the middle and lower class, but in the future it puts money back into circulation within thhe country..

how is he changing the style of gov't?

first of all socialism has to do with changing the economay NOT the gov't...

secondly if he thinks it works, he might as well do it... I mean we need a slution badly

*solution

SOOOO its an economic system

ummm no that would be COMMUNISM... if you have the communism idea of 'share everything' but apply it economics, then that is socialism.

they're not the same

uh yeah i did and I manitain thst SOCIALISM is economic and communism is political... the right wings throws the word socialism

around all the time to scare people and make them think obama's trying to make us communist

people don't understand the difference

I don

't

But I do think that Obama is asmart guy... and he wouldn't do something as stupid as try to make america communist

socilism isn't that big of a deal anyway... besides bringing us "closer to communism" what else is bad about it?

but what is wrong with integrating a little bit of socialism into our gov't? it's not like he's trying to be Stalin... he's basiaclal

ly saying that the worlds wealth is concentrated too much in the upper class and that the pooe need some of the money that the rich have but

don't need.

well IF he is taxing thw middle class more than the rich... that's not socialism at ALL, that straight up capitalism

secondly, from what I've heard he's giving the middle class tax breaks ... I just read a speech that he made today...

true, from taxes, but also from inside the government... we can't complain about both being in debt AND having high taxes because t

he money has to come from somewhere

(by the in debt I mean the government being in debt)

hahah ok sorry if I got a little cutthroat debating is intense.

ok?

next thing is that the money coming from "inside" the government is also tax money...

there is no inner government money haha

but also debt is bad because the more debt our country has the more we are in debt to other counties because we barrow from them

and the more we take and don't fix the more other countries have control of us which is not good and that is why it is important to pay off

debt because we will never be able to get money from anyone if we aren't good and payback aka reliable

and our country is democratic with a free market economy...that is captitalism

becoming socialist is not what will fix the economy...letting businesses take care of business is what will fix the economy eventually

it will spring back but by throwing money at the economy/the stimulus plan and all that won't help...that is the tax payers money in the end

and another problem in his plans to help "create" jobs is that all these jobs he's making to build roads and bridges and all that is first

of all not important things...and second of all eventually (probably when he isn't president anymore unemployment will go up again because

when all these jobs are finished there will be a bunch of people that were "saved" by him that won't have jobs

and they most likely will be out of a job when a diff president is in office...so it is kind of like he is putting of the problem to another

president

i love obama

he is the best

if you seriously love obama and think he is the best you really must not watch the news too much

if you realize what he is doing and what he has done, i dont think you would love him like you do. or at least you shouldnt

amen mary

personally, thought he was all talk.... all this change, as he stated....... you can figure the rest out -.-

all talk? you mean all reading off a teleprompter

Socialism isn't the same as applying communism to the economy btw

Socialism is where the government takes complete control over the economy and dictates which compnies receive what resources

Pretty much the CEOs of every company are now government employees.

With socialism the government doesn't have to be fair and share everything equally

Often in socialism the government exploits the workers and take all revenue into its treasury for use

That's one of the ways that The Germans were able to successfully fuel such a long offensive in WWII since they were able to seize all

profits from Germany's companies

capitalism is economic not a form of government like communism btw

it may be true that socialism is interconnected with communism.... but do any of you honestly think that obama is going to try to convert o

ur system of democrcay into communism? I don't think he's THAT radical.

its looking that way

i dont think he is trying to do that but i do think that he is somewhat doing that without really knowing what he is doing

Interestingly enough, many of the systems that we already have in place are socialist. For example, the school tax system.

Everyone pays money for a school tax regardless of whether they have childern that go to school or not. that is socialism.

um not really so much entirely...

yeah... basiacally any tax system that has to do with the public- school taxes like I said before, highways, etc... They all

use theconcept that everyone helps to benefit the country as a whole... is that's not socialism, I don't know what is

it isn't socialist (yet) you're right luke and other person that is talking (i have no idea who you are)...that isn't really socialism

i guess you could say it kinda seems like it because everyone has to contribute but it isn't really socialism

Yeah I wouldn't say that taxes are socialist because they contribute to the health of the country as a whole but taxes are just like

maintainence fees really to keep government run public services open

Public services that everyone agrees are vital to the well-being of a first world country.

I would say socialism would have to be taken farther into a system of government control of the economy

I think you have that a little backwards Rush communism is where the government takes complete control of the economy.

socialism is a mixed economy. while communism is a Command economy.

were def not socialist or communist yes there has been ? as to will obama lead us to this but yea

well socialism isn't complete control. They still let the companies decide what they want to do but they basiclly decide which companies

survive or die.

Sweden and Finland are socialist democracies

Did you know that if you sold your company there that they will take every last penny of what you sold it for

Sweden also has a lot of alcoholics and one of the highest suicide rates

coincidence? Idk