Obama Thinks Big Government is Cool

Obama says his job as president will be to make government "cool again." That's just a liberal's way of saying "make government bigger and more powerful."

Our government is MASSIVELY WASTEFUL and thus has failed to respect the taxpayer in nearly every responsibility it has ever been given (much of which is outside its Constitutionally limited powers).

Here are my sources:
CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS
http://www.cagw.org/site/DocServer/CAGW-Pig_Book_08.pdf?docID=3001

MEDICARE
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/business/21medicare.html?ref=todayspaper
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR20080612039...
http://www.nhcaa.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?webcode=anti_fraud_resource_centr&...

POSTAL SERVICE
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_postal

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11066

PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
http://www.heritage.org/research/Education/bg2179.cfm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344190,00.html

CONGRESSIONAL LEASED CARS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/nyregion/01cars.html?_r=1&ref=automobil...


BARACK OBAMAS EARMARKS
http://taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=1321...
http://obamaearmarks.com/

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[CesarManiaX]

If you want more troops overseas, your asking for big government

If you want to ban gay marriage, your asking for big government

If you want to ban abortions, your asking for big government

If you approved the bailouts, your asking for big government

smaller isn’t better, and size does matter.

It’s more efficient government that we need.

[ensignbay]

@CesarManiaX "Efficient" and "government" are incompatible. Government governs best which governs least. That's because government by it's very natures, cannot do things cheaply, efficiently, or effectively as the private sector. There are a very few enumerated powers in the Constitution which government can and should do. Beyond that, it has proven time and again to fail miserably.

[Chamdar7000]

You act as if Big Government didn't already exist before Obama (let alone that it would go away if McCain won).

[FlavorRed]

He still has a valid point though. Obama and McCain aside, our government is way too big and continues to grow. I look out my window and see the Communism and Fascism in the air. It's sad.

[boonw]

The last thing I am going to say is that you are failing yourself as a citizen if you only vote for a party depending on their spectrum. When you do that you effectively remove the competitive nature, and create an environment that takes away the need for the party to be run both efficiently and effectively. Politics should be treated like a business, not like a game. You can have retards leading either party, dont forget that.

[boonw]

@ensignbay

"is indebting each of us for generations to come"

I find it funny you say this, because the party which has created the defeceit as it is now.... was the conservatives. When bush was in power, he cut taxes in high prosperity and spent borrowed money instead.

If you criticize a the liberals for increasing the defeceit, you are a HYPOCRITE unless you criticize the conservatives for creating the majority.

[boonw]

@ensignbay

"From how many citizens does the govt take money for politicians to spend on self-serving unconstitutional projects?"

You know what, the stupidity of this argument is astounding. You want to live in a good country, you NEED to pay taxes. Roads, clean water, and services cost money, they are not free. If you dont like having to chip in for the costs to keep the country moving, you can move to Somalia.

Everything has a cost, quit bitching that you need to chip in your share.

[boonw]

@ensignbay

"Anyone can go to court if they have been treated wrongly thru the Patriot Act."

Well you can now, originally the patriot act pretty much said that the government can deprive you of basic rights without a warrant. Those two guys I mentioned didnt even get to contact either their family members or the canadian authorities.

Now however, they do have to get warrant.... due to revisions done to the act by Obama.

You cant look the other way for your preferred party.

[boonw]

@ensignbay

"How many people have been wrongly and innocently imprisoned or spied on?"

I am canadian, so they dont go into depth unless there is a canadian stuck in there. This was actually the case for one canadian who got accused of killing an american with a hand grenade (he was later confirmed to be nowhere near the site in question at the time of the event, and had to put up with waterboarding). In addition another canadian citizen was wrongly deported to syria without notification.

[ensignbay]

@boonw How many people have been wrongly and innocently imprisoned or spied on? Anyone can go to court if they have been treated wrongly thru the Patriot Act. The ACLU is ready and waiting to sue. How many? None in 8 years of the Patriot Act?

From how many citizens does the govt take money for politicians to spend on self-serving unconstitutional projects? EVERY citizen. The govt tells us what kind of toilet and lightbulb to use AND is indebting each of us for generations to come.

[boonw]

@cicio428

That always get me. Far right wing nuts are always paranoid about the government trying to take their freedom, and get angry when the government tries to take over by telling companies they cant put lead in our paint or mercury into our toys... but then they go and support an act which gives the government legal right to spy on anyone at any time and imprison them without a warrant.

[cicio428]

@ensignbay Limbagg, Beck, Castro, Stalin, ensignbay, Republican Tea Party, Palin, Paladino or "Crazy Carl", CHINA, all the rest. America is freedom. The shining city on the Hill as Mr. Reagan said. America is a nation that never gives up as President Obama has said. We are a great nation. The Marxist views of the Republican Tea Party will never work. All of you are miserable. If you don't like it here then go to China.

[cicio428]

@ensignbay You want one party rule. You would be happy in China! Or with Castro in Cuba!

[boonw]

@ensignbay

cont: the only place that the government has really cut back in recent years is in our enviornmental standards for oil production. This is mostly to try and encourage development in the tar sands.

"The result: as your govt size has decreased, your economy's growth has increased"

No, it hasnt. It really hasnt made a significant change in size.You cant really say the economy is growing though, its declining in some places and booming in others, mostly due to shifting comodity prices