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To: i-node who wrote (613711)	5/29/2011 7:40:28 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587726

"He came into office very nearly a socialist. " Only in the fevered imaginings of the extreme Right. It had no basis in reality. I will grant you that he wasn't a complete servile lapdog for business, but that is a totally different thing. It isn't something that is strictly binary. "The first year of his presidency proves this, with the enactment of Obamacare and the waste of a trillion dollars on a failed liberal economic program. " Neither of those were socialist. For one, the ACA is about as pro-business as you can get. Much of it was a gift to the insurance companies. A socialist bill would have been totally different. And the stimulus was likewise very pro-business. A large percentage consisted of tax cuts, which were ineffective in that environment. The rest was payments that resulted in money going into the pockets of businesses. "Anti-business? Of course. The BP witch hunt" Now that is hilarious. It was far from a witch hunt. By BP's own records, they violated industry best practices, remember the things you said everyone followed in a given industry?, and it blew up in their face. What was supposed to happen, everyone just say "oopsie" and nothing happens? I will grant you that Smirk would have handled it that way, but... It isn't anti-business to insist that a company take responsibility for their actions. It is anti-American to not do so.