Well I think he will do better than Bush.. Bush had lowest approval rating of ANY previous president, even Nixon...
That's only because the public at large only knows the now. A huge amount of the population that voted in the last election know no president before George H W Bush. I disagree with A LOT that George W did, but he wasn't the worst. What about Hoover, Grant, or Harding? Wm H Harrison lasted a month. People don't know their history. Approval rating means 0.
Also Obama is building the government
Exactly why I will never vote for him. Gov't is plenty big enough, and people need to look back into the USSR and Cuba or even China if they think bigger is better in terms of government. If anything he needs to decrease its size. I do think I'm taking your statement a bit out of context here. I think your meaning was something like "he is building his team" instead of "building the government".
instead of getting cabinet members that are friendly with him and each other.. he has filled it with opposites and strong opinionated members..
He is filling it with all Bill C's people.
As for tax on Firearms and Ammo .. I see nothing wrong with that.. it's not like he is taking away the right to bear arms, which the government has already done slowly over the generations. How many guns and ammo do you need? The tax should be alright.. imo
He may not be techincally taking away the right, just making it that much harder for people to exercise the right. He can put a 1,000,000% tax on guns, and while you technically have a right to have one, who can afford to pay $3,000,000 for gun?
Look back in history.. the rights we had, and no longer have. slowly the government takes them away.. little by little.. each generation grows up with less rights and more restrictions, but they don't know it, because they never had them.. I don't know where this is leading, if it is going towards socialism.. but we lose a lil bit of our rights each year it seems... I am a smoker, now you can't smoke in public buildings, even have to be so many feet away from them.. in some states it is ilegal to even smoke in public on a sidewalk.. also look at the tobacco taxes.. omg outrageous.. eventually I think they are going to make tobacco illegal or so ridiculously expensive..
Remember prohibition? Amendment 18 - where they made alcohol illegal.. that failed miserably and thus amendment 21 where it was made legal again.. well i think they learned from that.. and now with cigarettes they decided to slowly fade them out via high taxes and slowly taking away smokers rights..
The government is controlling, and it's not just cigarettes - look around .. firearms have been restricted, alot of stuff has, that never used to be.. Kinda scary if you think about it..
Believe it or not , the Michigan Militia pointed out these facts to me, but yes, they are a bunch of nut jobs - yet they do make a point.
-Zig
Agreed. This is exactly why I will never vote for Barrack Obama, or anyone like him. The reason we keep losing rights is because our government is making us dependant on it. We are in the government's proverbial pocket. The gov't convinces us that it is going to do all these great things for us, they just need to pass the Patriot Act, or some huge bill with a bunch of pork in it. Once these things get passed, they never go away, and more are always added. This is why we have fewer rights all the time. Each generation doesn't know what they are missing, and then they lose even more rights. It's like the saying that if you put a frog into boiling water, it will jump out immediately, but if you put it in warm water and turn up the heat, it will stay there until it boils and dies. In 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a magnificent speech where he said , "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! "
We are nothing but sheep, and Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama have proven that you don't need to have to have substantive ideas to get elected. You just have to be charismatic and hope the people don't second guess you. Politicians in both sides lie all the time and get away with it only because the people of this country allow it to go on.
This is probably my favorite 30 minutes of video I have ever seen.
