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| Dennis Prager: 'Trust is Gone' |
| 2015-03-18 |
| [A Nation Beguiled] I have been broadcasting for 31 years and writing for longer than that. I do not recall ever saying on radio or in print that a president is doing lasting damage to our country. I did not like the presidencies of Jimmy Carter (the last Democrat I voted for) or Bill Clinton. Nor did I care for the "compassionate conservatism" of George W. Bush. In modern political parlance "compassionate" is a euphemism for ever-expanding government. But I have never written or broadcast that our country was being seriously damaged by a president. So it is with great sadness that I write that President Barack Obama has done and continues to do major damage to America. The only question is whether this can ever be undone. This is equally true domestically and internationally. Domestically, his policies have had a grave impact on the American economy. He has overseen the weakest recovery from a recession in modern American history. He has mired the country in unprecedented levels of debt: about $6.5 trillion -- that is 6,500 billion -- in five years (this after calling his predecessor "unpatriotic" for adding nearly $5 trillion in eight years). He has fashioned a country in which more Americans now receive government aid -- means-tested, let alone non-means-tested -- than work full-time. He has no method of paying for this debt other than printing more money -- thereby surreptitiously taxing everyone through inflation, including the poor he claims to be helping, and cheapening the dollar to the point that some countries are talking about another reserve currency -- and saddling the next generations with enormous debts. With his 2,500-page Affordable Care Act he has made it impossible for hundreds of thousands, soon millions, of Americans to keep their individual or employer-sponsored group health insurance; he has stymied American medical innovation with an utterly destructive tax on medical devices; and he has caused hundreds of thousands of workers to lose full-time jobs because of the health-care costs imposed by Obamacare on employers. His Internal Revenue Service used its unparalleled power to stymie political dissent. No one has been held accountable. His ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya. No one has been blamed. The only blame the Obama administration has leveled was on a videomaker in California who had nothing to do with the assault. In this president's White House the buck stops nowhere. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Champ will be gone in two years, but the Democrats who enabled him will remain. Ergo, no, the damage cannot be undone. In fact, Pelosi, Reid and friends will be working hard to preserve the damage done so far and to commit more. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2015-03-18 19:04 |
| #3 "O" will not be removed from office until Congress finds the cojones to do so. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-03-18 16:13 |
| #2 Less lazy, anyway. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-18 14:31 |
| #1 He is right. And hate to say it, but let Hillary be president and it will get worse. She's more evil than he is. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-03-18 13:47 |