Comments on: The Odd Couple: 5 unfortunate similarities between Bush and Obama

By: Jonathan Woods

Jonathan Woods — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:48:58 +0000

Re: Mike on #1 & #2 problems:

YOU ARE SOOOOOOO RIGHT! Hats off to you.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:27:14 +0000

The #1 problem is the country being directed and controlled by a central bank.
The #2 problem is a federal government that doesn’t know it’s limits and continues to write laws it has no authority to write. Or spend money it has no authority to spend. Or place restrictions it has no right to create.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:06:08 +0000

Deregulation? The Federal Register stands at nearly 80,000 pages costing American business an estimated regulatory tax of over $1.1 Trillion. Our medical and financial services industries bear the brunt of those regulations and the result? Financial failure of both sectors with hospital bankruptcies and bank failures and in the case of the medical market escalating costs and declining services.

So what does the government call for? More regulations! My what a shocking surprise. Dismantle the free market with excessive regulations, disrupting and crippling it and then call for even more regulations because the already intrusive regulatory climate is not intrusive enough.

Gee, I wonder if the government call for regulatory expansion of an already heavily regulated market has anything to do with increasing the power and reach of government and their capacities?

Naaah……they are just looking out for the common person. You know, like they always do. Right? I must be insane to suggest that our altruistic politicians would have anything other than the well-being of the public in mind I guess.

Sorry, my bad.

By: octarock

octarock — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:10:47 +0000

Isn’t deregulation the biggest reason we are in this mess? Oh yeah but good idea to let that keep going ??? huh?

By: dlr

dlr — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:17:28 +0000

Yes, I agree with you entirely. Bush and Obama seem like clones to me. And on more things that spending. I can’t tell any difference in their Foreign Policy – latest reports are that Obama is only going to withdraw about 90,000 troops from Iran – out of about 125,000 in country, so ‘End the War in Iraq’ isn’t going to happen in his administration any more than it would have if we had had four more years of Bush. Obama also hasn’t made any effort to get rid of the Patriot Act and the various and Bush’s various and sundry abridgements to our civil liberties. Indeed he is working hard to avoid investigating or prosecuting anyone for torture. He is continuing the Bush Administration policy of targeting individuals for assassination far from any field of battle, and without providing any proof to the world that they are guilty of anything – the simple assertion that they are ‘terrorists’ is all that seems to be required. And one reads in the paper (Glenn Greenwald at Salon) that his Administration is carrying on a hitherto secret Bush Administration policy of also assassinating American citizens abroad who the Administration deems to be ‘a threat to Americans’ – a new low point as far as I am aware in the erosion of our civil liberties.

By: Colorado

Colorado — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:23:39 +0000

And the Obama foreign policy – WWBD.
What would Bushie do.

By: Same Animal, Only Bigger

Same Animal, Only Bigger — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:04:23 +0000

[...] Team Bush-Obama. [...]

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:10:28 +0000

It’s about time someone is pointing out how similar these two presidents really are.