Comments on: One-Third of 18-24 Year Olds: Obama Is Abandoning Progressive Causes http://www.scoopdaily.com/2009/11/04/one-third-of-young-people-obama-is-abandoning-progressive-causes/ Fresh Lens on the 44th President Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:23:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Aaron Sales http://www.scoopdaily.com/2009/11/04/one-third-of-young-people-obama-is-abandoning-progressive-causes/comment-page-1/#comment-1675 Aaron Sales Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:29:26 +0000 http://www.scoopdaily.com/?p=8747#comment-1675 It seems that anyone who has any experience with the world outside of academia would realize there are people who know how to create wealth, for themselves and others, and those that act to support those who know how to create wealth, the typical employee. The government spends the money it takes from those who have created the wealth, it does not create any wealth, only recycles the money it has collected to provide protection, services and infrastructure to the general population. When the wealthy who know how to CREATE additional wealth have more, it benefits the entire population, when they don't, jobs are lost and the country as a whole suffers. Additional government programs adding government jobs only adds to the greater suffering by taking more from those that have, which in turn reduces their ability to innovate and create new private sector employment. The current situation and route it seems Obama is taking the country seems to me that it will accelerate a downward economic spiral. It seems that anyone who has any experience with the world outside of academia would realize there are people who know how to create wealth, for themselves and others, and those that act to support those who know how to create wealth, the typical employee. The government spends the money it takes from those who have created the wealth, it does not create any wealth, only recycles the money it has collected to provide protection, services and infrastructure to the general population. When the wealthy who know how to CREATE additional wealth have more, it benefits the entire population, when they don’t, jobs are lost and the country as a whole suffers. Additional government programs adding government jobs only adds to the greater suffering by taking more from those that have, which in turn reduces their ability to innovate and create new private sector employment. The current situation and route it seems Obama is taking the country seems to me that it will accelerate a downward economic spiral.

]]> By: Tim Koranda http://www.scoopdaily.com/2009/11/04/one-third-of-young-people-obama-is-abandoning-progressive-causes/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 Tim Koranda Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:24:21 +0000 http://www.scoopdaily.com/?p=8747#comment-1661 It appears as if we elected another Clinton at whose doorstep we can lay the repeal of the Glass-Steagal act, which, had it remained in place, would have prevented the banking crisis and subsequent depression. To make matters worse, Obama has the same people advising him. I hope Obama will come to understand that the problems the country faces will not yield to centrist solutions. He is going to have to go the FDR route and come up with a new deal that benefits everyone, not simply the richest one percent that he and Clinton democrats perceive to be the center. It appears as if we elected another Clinton at whose doorstep we can lay the repeal of the Glass-Steagal act, which, had it remained in place, would have prevented the banking crisis and subsequent depression. To make matters worse, Obama has the same people advising him.

I hope Obama will come to understand that the problems the country faces will not yield to centrist solutions. He is going to have to go the FDR route and come up with a new deal that benefits everyone, not simply the richest one percent that he and Clinton democrats perceive to be the center.

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