Speak Out: OBAMA - THE ANTI-PRIVATE SECTOR PRESIDENT

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• Placing people with government experience into government positions, what an absurdly strange concept. Note that the comparisons with previous administrations leaves out about one half of the cabinet positions because including them would have made differences much less striking.

  In any case, the claim that having minimal "private sector" experience disqualifies government officials (because of their "lack of REAL world" experience) is as ludicrous as maintaining that commissioned military officers cannot lead soldiers because the officers lack REAL enlisted experience. Or that men obviously cannot be parents because of their lack of REAL child-bearing experience.

  Furthermore, we can all appreciate the excellent economy that was left by former President Bush's administration with it's 53% private sector experience. President Obama inherited their REAL world accomplishments such as skyrocketing unemployment, a housing market in shambles, Wall Street running wild, quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan and a burgeoning recession, to name just a few of our problems at the beginning of this year.

  I would suggest that most normal Americans do not believe in the paranoid tirades that claim the country is coming to a horrible socialist end. Problems can and will be overcome, and the nation will continue to exist very much as it has for the past centuries.

  -- Posted by commonsensematters on Tue, Dec 1, 2009, at 8:29 AM

• Yeah, if only the government was full of private sector people, like in George W. Bush's administration. Then everything would work out just swimmingly!

  Are you people capable of saying anything that isn't a hyperbolic cliche you overheard on AM radio or Fox News?

  -- Posted by FSM06 on Tue, Dec 1, 2009, at 9:22 AM

• James,

  Are you referring to the Bushbama administration? I recken we may finally realize some of that promised "change" tonight.

  -- Posted by Lumpy on Tue, Dec 1, 2009, at 10:06 AM

• Cause and effect, good folks. And just what has the Obama administration done to correct and improve EFFECTIVELY all of the supposd errors of previous administrations?

  Looks like the actions taken have only made matters worse. Of course, the American people are wising up to the Washington game and will make some dramatic changes in November 2010.

  Come the Revolution!

  -- Posted by voyager on Tue, Dec 1, 2009, at 10:31 AM

• Criticizing Obama is not the same as praising Bush as some always believe. I was tired of Bush and am tired of the never ending references to him.

  -- Posted by D'oh on Tue, Dec 1, 2009, at 10:44 AM

• Here is the problem.

  The concepts people on here discussing are legit concerns. However, most of the people raising these concerns are insincere. They will go on ripping Obama for expanding government. And when he is out of office, they will go ahead and bury their head in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong. Then, blaim the "liberal media" for anything negavite.

  -- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Tue, Dec 1, 2009, at 12:59 PM

• A lot of people won't (or can't) see a possible problem with this ... Or perhaps are so insecure about their own knowledge and expertise regarding government that ...

  I wish a group of common-sense, average Americans could go into DC and start slashing ... departments, personnel, etc., by about a fourth or more. We seem to have more federal government than we actually need, and definitely cannot afford ... and now few of our top officials have no clue concerning 'average Americans' and their needs (not desires, but needs).

  'Experience' might be trumped by ... those who are not career politicians or jaded government employees in positions in which they may ... or may not ... have any real, everyday expertise or comprehension of ... You know, the Real World ... the one in which we live?

  '... the nation will continue to exist very much as it has for the past centuries.' might be a little out-of-touch, in view of our nation as it was even a few decades ago, versus as it is now and as it may be in the future.

  To continually look back on Bush's administration does seem to prove that hindsight is 20/20 ...

  Perhaps he is going to reduce the size and scope of the welfare/warfare state. Growing it would be no change from the previous administration.

  -- Posted by James Nall on Tue, Dec 1, 2009, at 10:27 AM

  Amen, James ... "And just what has the Obama administration done to correct and improve EFFECTIVELY all of the supposd errors of previous administrations?" Amen, voyager ... "Criticizing Obama is not the same as praising Bush as some always believe. I was tired of Bush and am tired of the never ending references to him." Amen, D'oh ...

  -- Posted by gurusmom on Tue, Dec 1, 2009, at 5:21 PM

• It's disturbing how so many have this incessive need to blame the other guy and his cronies when things are bad and tout their guy and his cronies. The problem is less the people involved and more the difference in the applications of our laws between the various classes of our society. Our politicians, large company leaders, and our judges see nothng wrong with bending the law to further their own aspirations, safe in the knowledge that if caught, they will never be treated as the common citizen. It is argumentative to say that more regulation of the banking industry would have prevented the problems we are seeing today. No one has a crystal ball. Handing over citizen's taxes to avoid a collapse only ensures that the future will come with further risk-taking on their part. If it can be shown that criminal neglegence was involved on the part of those involved, then give them the maximum penalty allowed, regardless of private or governmental stance. Once we the people get involved with finding the solutions to the problems, then we will see change we can believe in.

  -- Posted by non-biasedphilosopher on Wed, Dec 2, 2009, at 3:19 AM

• Splain to me agin, just what branch of the military was that there Private Sector in?

  -- Posted by Hugh M Bean on Wed, Dec 2, 2009, at 3:19 PM