Same Old..Same Old by Dr. T

He's supposed to be the "next Messiah..the Agent of Change"...yet whatever comes out of Barack Obama's mouth sounds all too familiar. It's recycled sludge my friends, this guy perceives himself a tanner FDR. Its the New Deal... Great Society rolled into a trillion dollar tax and redistribution scheme. Same old, same old Democrat shell game. The problem is, the press is on this guy's side, spinning his Marxist agenda as compassionate, just and refreshing. Yeah, about as refreshing as a flat soft drink. When are folks going to understand that the founders knew the perils of big government? That their policies were always in favor of individualism and freedom? Freedom means not depending on government to take care of you. Once you agree to the nanny state you relinquish your freedom. This is what has been happening over the past 60 years. As government has grown beyond all reason, so have entitlement programs, added regulation, added taxes and fees and yes...less and less freedom. The nanny state accomplishes this take over very cleverly. Under the pretense of caring for the citizenry, more and more restrictions have been established. The more power the government has over it's citizenry, the more totalitarian it becomes. As it stands today, our government bears no resemblance to that which our framers intended, it is in fact a direct contradiction. What drives all of this isn't a fervent desire to care for the citizenry at all...it is simply to have the citizenry so needy that power remains in the hands of the politicians, such as Barack Obama. The more he promises to ease your pain, the more skeptical thinking Americans should be. When he tells you that we must conserve, we must be less selfish, we must consume less, he is in fact chipping away at your individual freedom. I'm all for paying my fair share of taxes but I am not for punishing wealth nor creating jealousy and anger toward those who have it. Barack Obama claims he wants to level the playing field. He is misguided. The playing field is there for anyone who endeavours to work long and hard to accomplish their particular dream. If you think we have a bad economy now, I can assure you that redistribution will totally collapse it.