The radical right wing has one thing correct about Obama … he is adamantly opposed to individual freedoms.
This has been well reflected in Obama’s love of the Kennedy/Bush massive federal mandate on local schools known as No Child Left Untested/Behind/Whatever and Obama’s willingness to mandate we all purchase health insurance that supports the well heeled CEO’s of corporate Unamerica.
Here’s bit more:
The new federal steps, which do not require congressional action, include:
_ Making it easier for small companies to set up 401(k) retirement savings plans in which all workers are automatically enrolled unless they ask to be omitted. Employers can set default amounts of each worker’s pay – perhaps 3 percent – to automatically be deposited into the accounts without being taxed. Workers can raise or lower the contribution levels, and they choose how to invest the money. They will pay taxes on the money only when they withdraw it as retirees, when their tax rates are likely to be lower than when they are working full-time. A similar process would apply to savings plans called SIMPLE-IRAs.
_ Allowing such plans to automatically increase the amount that workers save over time unless the workers object.
(Obama expands workers’ retirement savings options, RawStory, 09/05/09)
(Yeah: love the headline about expanding choice over an article describing the degradation of such.)
Obama is doing a fine job of carrying on with the cheney/bush administration: expanded war, Wall Street/bank/insurance co bailouts, governmental secrecy, all the above and more.
The wing nuts are correct … Obama is about militant and controling government melding with corporate leadership … the definition of fascism. They just haven’t figured out that Obama is their very own.
Rama, with this attitude 2010 will be 1994 all over again. Do you think that the people in Canada, England or Germany had this attitude when they fought for Universal Health Care and other social programs? Right now there is a social war goin on in the country. Its the conservative, religious right against the center left, liberal left. If we want to have social progress in this country we are going to have to take what we can and fight for more. Obama is the most liberal president we have had in decades, and yes he isn’t perfect. But you know what, who is? He is better than George Bush or Bill Clinton and he has the ability to acomplish more than any president in recent history. Before you trash Obama and the Democratic Party, look at the alternative and ask yourself if its really that Bad. Imagine Palin care, I have a feeling thats a thought that turns your stomach! Lets stick together and do our best to guide Obama and the Democratic Party in the right directon. And lets be thankful we are not talking about healthcare under a McCain administration! It could be a lot worst!