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from me, born and raised in socialism/communism (Cuba) until age 14 and then came here... yep! old prover: "if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck... it IS a duck!"

Why ask this question? You know you are going to get two sides, one saying yes and the other saying no. We were already socialist, it's just people don't seem to know what socialism is. The government has been taking your money and giving it to other people for over a century. Public schools, welfare, law enforcement, fire protection, farmer subsidies, social security, medicare, disability, higher education grants, and the list goes on. Adding 30 million people onto public insurance that they'd be paying for isn't really much more socialist than we already are.

Yes. When it comes to economic issues he is a socialist. Democrats tend to be socialists and Republicans tend to be fascists. It is your choice which one you prefer. In the end they are both pretty much the same. The socialists want the government to take control of all private business so they can own you. The fascists want the government to give hand jobs to the corporations and other affluent individuals so these people can own you and the government can get more money in taxes.

he bows to other countries leaders

he apologized to the world for nothing

he's making america weaker

by 2012 America will have no respect anywhere

then Return Of The Conservatives will happen

and michelle obama truely looks like a man

In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx argued that the government would be taken over by businesses who bought all the leaders. The people would be unwilling to take this oppression, and would rise up and overthrow the now corrupt government. In its place, the people would install a new government by electing representatives to a Congress-like committee, put term limits on those representatives, and then shrink the central government until it no longer existed. Now which party argues for that?

Now that we have taken a look at Socialism/Communism, let's take a look at Fascism. Some tenets of Fascism include getting rid of unions, jailing Communists, jailing homosexuals, cutting taxes on businesses, de-regulation of the financial markets, keeping the military at peak efficiency, encouraging and quite often forcing religion into government and into schools, and an extreme patriotism that believes only the culture of that country has any worth and so should be "given" to other countries. Hopefully they will see the superiority of the culture, but if they don't then it should be forced on them through any means necessary, including war. Now which party does that sound like? Does that really sound like Obama to you?

47 czars in the Bush Adminstration. The Bush Administration spreading $3 trillion of American wealth all over the Iraqi countryside. The Bush Adminstration providing ACTUAL government-run healthcare (current proposed health insurance reform does not actually give ANY control to the government) to the Iraqis at YOUR expense. Bush gutting Medicare and Medicaid to try and pay for the Iraq War. Also tried to gut Social Security of the $1.64 trillion in its trust fund by saying it didn't exist ("Social Security is broke," remember?) so that he could also use that money to try and keep the cost of Iraq down. When that failed, trying to gut Social Security of money by taking that $1.64 trillion he said didn't exist out of the government treasury bills it was invested in, and...wait for it....wait for it...investing it in GOVERNMENT TREASURY BILLS! Man that cat must have been on one hell of an 8-ball that day. Almost as bad as the one he was on when his father gave the commencement speech at his graduation.

But I digress. Obama's also drastically CUT the deficit from Bush's spending. Upcoming is proof of that. First up are the Democrat numbers (which focus on budgets), then the Republican numbers (which focus on deficits); but both are covered. And no matter which number set you go with, they BOTH find that Obama cut the deficit by $680 billion.

And if you have a problem with what I'm about to put down, remember that the Republican numbers (which also show Obama cutting spending) I got from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck. If you think it wrong, then tell those losers to quit lying. If instead you trust them, then accept what they said and by extension accept that Obama has cut the spending. Here you go...enjoy!

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According to Democrats, Bush's 2008 budget was $3.1 trillion, Obama's 2009 budget was $3.4 trillion.

However, more info is needed. First up is that each budget has to deal with the previous year's surplus/deficit. In 2007, Bush left himself a $500 billion deficit for 2008; but in 2008 he left Obama a $1.4 trillion deficit. That is a $900 billion advantage Republicans gave Bush over Obama.

Bush also ignored the costs of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Estimated cost of the Iraq War last year was $10 billion a month--$120 billion last year. Afghanistan was $2 billion a month--$24 billion. So $144 billion needs to be added to Bush's budget to cover the wars.

And Bush's bailout is actually counting against Obama. The government's fiscal year ends on September 30th, and the new one begins on October 1st. Well, in mid-September of last year, Bush tried to pass a $700 billion bailout. He failed. House Republicans voted it down. So $150 billion in REPUBLICAN PORK was added to attract those votes, and it worked. The Republicans caved and passed the now $850 billion bailout; but they did it in October when the new fiscal year, Obama's fiscal year had begun.

So we redo the two budgets--all numbers in trillions

Bush:

3.1 (Bush's starting budget) + 0.9 (Bush's deficit advantage) + 0.144 (the wars) + 0.85 (Bush's bailout added back to him) = $4.994 trillion (Bush's real budget)

Obama:

3.4 (Obama's starting budget) - 0.85 (Bush's bailout) + 0.787 (stimulus) + 0.41 (omnibus) = $3.747 trillion (Obama's actual budget).

4.994 (Bush's budget) - 3.747 (Obama's budget) = $1.247 trillion Obama saved

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Republican numbers: all numbers in trillions

0.4 (Bush's starting deficit) + 0.85 (Bush's bailout re-added to him for same reason as before) =$1.25 trillion (Bush's actual deficit)

1.42 (Obama's starting deficit) - 0.85 (Bush's bailout) =$570 billion (Obama's actual deficit)

1.25 (Bush's actual deficit) - 0.57 (Obama's actual deficit) = $680 billion

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Go back to Democrat numbers. We found that Obama saved $1.247 trillion. However, this didn't take into account Obama's actual deficit of $570 billion. So we need to subtract Obama's deficit from his savings to account for Obama's deficit.

1.247 (Obama's savings) - 0.57 (Obama's deficit) = $677 billion

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So using Republican numbers, we found Obama saving $680 billion.

Using Democrat numbers, we found Obama saving $677 billion.

Both groups are telling the truth, but leaving out certain parts to make their own party seem better. However, when the math is done and we find ACTUAL spending, in both Republican and Democrat numbers Obama winds up spending approximately $680 billion LESS than Bush...even AFTER the stimulus and omnibus were counted against Obama.

I get sick to my stomach every time I even think about all this. This adm. is spending our future into oblivion.