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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: i-node who wrote (143678)6/14/2014 7:04:42 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
>> Liberalism has gotten a bad name in this country.

Of course it has. It doesn't work.

Look at Obamacare. A total mess, ruined the best health care system in the world. It has destroyed many lives in its six months of implementation. And it will continue until the Court fixes it or we get this nitwit out of the White House.


LOL. The best health care system in the world for those who could afford it.

Look at Social Security. $10 Trillion in debt.

But, but, but........that's what Carson wants to do with health care........a SS kind of program:

When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account, to which money can be contributed, pretax from the time you are born, to the time you die.

en.wikipedia.org

Look at Medicare. Between 50 and 100 Trillion in debt.

Yeah, 50-70 years in the future:

politifact.com

So what are Rs in Congress doing now about it..........NOTHING!

Look at public sector unions: Unfunded pension obligations bringing down liberal cities all over America.

Uh.........many of those cities are solving the problem. Not the end of the world.

Look at unions: General Motors.

GM's problems had little to do with unions and lots to do with mgmt.........mgmt run by Rs. Ironically, GM was going under until Obama saved it. Rs wanted nothing to do with it. What that would have done to the American manu. base......I don't even want to think about it.

Look at the "War on Poverty": Poor, young blacks killing each other in major cities all over the country.

Yeah, young blacks who are the children of the poor blacks who migrated from the South because they couldn't get a decent jobs and were faced with discrimination. Notice how everything comes back to conservatives.

Look at Education: We're spending more money than ever at the federal level and education in the country just continues to get worse.

Its hard for kids to do well when they are hungry or living out of a car. And once again, we can thank Rs for that BS:
America Spends a Lot of Money Per Student The U.S. ranks fifth in spending per student. Only Austria, Luxembourg, Norway, and Switzerland spend more per student. To put this in context: the Slovak Republic, which scores similarly to the U.S., spends $53,000 per student. The U.S. spends $115,000. The PISA report notes that, among OECD countries, “higher expenditure on education is not highly predictive of better mathematics scores in PISA.”

Socio-Economic Class Plays a Larger Role in the U.S. Than in Other Countries Fifteen percent of the American score variation is explained by socio-economic differences between students. Less than 10 percent of score variation in Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Norway is due to socio-economic differences.

The U.S. also has a lower than average number of “resilient students,” which PISA defines as “students who are among the 25 percent most socio-economically disadvantaged students but perform much better than would be predicted by their socio-economic class.” On average, seven percent of students are considered resilient. Thirteen percent of of students in Korea, Hong Kong, Macao-China, Shanghai-China, Singapore, and Vietnam are “resilient.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/american-schools-vs-the-world-expensive-unequal-bad-at-math/281983/

Look at political corruption: Democrats around the country are soaking in it.

Dude, you clean your pols act and I'll worry about the Dems. Hell, almost weekly we read about another R pol caught with his hand in the kitty.
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