Why do you support Obama?
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Anonymous
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I'll always vote democratic.
I like having a job. Where else can I get paid 140K+ to implement poorly conceived IT projects of dubious value that the federal government is either unwilling or incapable of doing on its own? If all the Tea Party types take over, I am afraid that we can all kiss the 3% unemployment rate here in N. VA goodbye. Sure, raise my taxes and tell my children what they can eat for lunch but at least I’ll still be employed. |
Anonymous
I am in it gov contracting also but have more self worth because i could be employed in private or whatever market, it skills should be portable unless you suck |
Anonymous
If the tea partiers win, you can just open your contracting proposals in Word and do a global replace of "reduce supply chain costs" with "spy on muslims". And do another replace of "improve cycle time" with "stop mexicans at the border". |
RantingAtheist
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Just want to note that the explosion in outsourcing government work to the private sector is a pure function of post-Reagan GOP policies. We've heard forty years of unrelenting anti-government propaganda in that direction, and it's worked. Huge bureaucracies are going to have some inefficiencies. The only thing less efficient is decoupling any other consideration but profit from the system. Most government agencies are meritocracies to a great extent, and have a mandate to provide a public service. They answer to elected officials. They're not money-making ventures. Private contractors exist purely to extract wealth from the government. And that's a right-wing innovation. |
Anonymous
Please tell me what he has done? Unemployment, Food stamps, wellfare, and gas prices are at all time highs. He is turning his back on Israel and ally of ours and not dealing with a soon to be Nuclear armed iran... How on earth could u support such an unqualified presidential failure |
Anonymous
Didn't know Republicans cared. All you people seem to talk about is sluts, abortion, whether Mormons are real Christians, immigrants, birth control, gay people, another war in the middle east. |
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I wouldn't say he's done nothing. To name a few things that I appreciate: Got Osama, ended "don't ask, don't tell", getting troops out of Iraq, removed restrictions on stem cell research, balanced the Supreme Court. Not to say I approve of everything he has done/is doing (nor have I with any president), but I disagree when you say that he has done nothing. I also disagree that he is turning is back on Israel- how is he doing this exactly? |
Anonymous
+1 my life was much better under bush, you can argue he got us in this mes but the same policies would've got us out of this mess. Note how quickly and effectively bush got us out if 911 and .com crash, no one seems to remember. |
Anonymous
Do all liberal women have to either look like men, are really ugly or both 
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Anonymous
What are you smoking and do you have a medical license for it? Quickly and effectively got us out of 911???? Does either Iraq or Afghanistan feel quick or effective to you? As for the dotcom crash? When he got to office, the NASDAQ was at 4500. When he left it was at 1700. Since Obama got in office, it has risen to 3000. Bush was the greatest wealth destroyer in the history of American politics. Tanked both stock markets, tanked the housing market, got us into two wars, added 4% to unemployment, added $4.5 trillion to our debt AND his tax cut is the gift that keeps on giving. |
Anonymous
First, Bush actually did not finish the 911 business. President Obama did. Remember, our friend OBL survived the Bush 2 Administration, despite 911 being his deal. BTW. No Americans were killed during the Obama authorized mission to take out OBL. As for Iraq, Bush created that mess, and did not get out of that mess. BTW. Afghanistan and Iraq were among the longest wars in US history. Pretty impressive record on the part of Bush II. WWI and WWII were shorter for us. Second, Presidents take office in late January. One can always debate when a President should be responsible for what happens in the first few months of his Administration. But, using February 1, 2001 as the starting point for the 8 years of the Bush Administration, Bush II resulted in a net increase in jobs of only 1.1 Million. That means over the 8 years of Bush 2, there was a net increase of 1.1 Million jobs. That number includes both private and public sector jobs. If one focuses on the private sector only (ie, the proper Republican view presumably), the 8 years of Bush II resulted in a NET LOSS of 500,000 private sector jobs. Now, one might say that Bush II realistically can't be responsible as of February 1, 2001, which was only a few days after he took office. Okay. But, if one uses some later month like March, May, June or July 2001, Bush II's job numbers look even worse. The first part of 2009 produced huge monthly job losses. The fact is that 1.1 Million net increase in jobs is the most favorable measue of Bush II. BTW. |
Anonymous
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Clinton caused 911 due to sacrificing defense and intelligence funding for a surplus in government funding.
note the chart and how bush fixed the first recession even with the double wammy of 911 and .com crash. obamas policies or just the perception in the business world of obama had caused the economy to go the wrong way Everyone hated bush and blames him for everything, when we look back at this in 20 years we will learn obama was the problem and bush was not bad at all 
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Anonymous
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I support Obama because of Romney
I just do not like him Romney does not have a magic wand to bring back jobs. He does not even care about the poor. And his wife thinks they are not rich |
Anonymous
Cool story bro, really reasonable |