2011-03-08, 09:56 PM
kanevaldier Wrote:Just have to start here since the question was asked. You are right, change does take time. That said Obama is well past the half way mark on his first and hopefully last term and the only thing he has changed is the national debt. His administration has created not only the highest debt in our history but the highest debt of all our presidents combined. If that wasnt enough, his proposals if passed would only serve to increase that debt to an even more unmanagable amount.
While you are right in saying that other presidents have gone against the constitution, no other president has done so to the degree that Obama has. He is far more hurtful to this country than he is good for it. Most everything he has had pushed through the houses while the dems controlled them both were very much unconstitutional and even more to the point even the courts have stated that on several occations. Now should the constitution have an expiration date? No. That is why we can ammend the document as long as we dont change the principles that it stands for.
Just have to say that the highest debt is caused because of past presidents and interest rates. Looking at here (yeah I know it's Wikipedia, just look at the sources they cited), Obama only created a 3.53 * 10^12 debt. Reagan created a 2.23*10^12 debt (albeit in 8 years). Now, you're probably like "wtp Reagan pulled a lower debt you idiot" but keep in mind the huge interest rates that is higher when the debt is higher.
Also, Bush created a 4.35 * 10^12 interest rate, although I do have to admit it was in 8 years, but the only reason Obama created the highest debt because he is the most newest President. Besides, Reagan and Bush were both Republicans-they dislike deficit spending. It's surprising that they like laissez fair yet have such huge debts.
And while you probably are exaggerating, there's a helluva lot more Presidents who broke the Constitution (or at least more laws) more than Obama did. Nixon, Johnson, Clinton...and even this one article here says Bush broke the Constitution, ha ha).
And about his reckless spending...laissez-faire economics, from time and time again, didn't really work. Didn't work in the 1920s, and while it could've helped the economy in the 1980s, Reagan kinda screwed that up. Deficit spending (arguably) worked after the Great Depression, so that's probably why Obama is trying it out. He probably won't change methods as he is a Democrat.