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The Real Barack Obama

BK24 Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 10:30 AM

We won't get the old America back as long as America's conservatives consider it perfectly all right to vote for a liberal just so long as he's not registered as a Democrat. If you vote for liberal candidates, you get a statist government & a dependent society. If you doubt it, look around you.

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The Real Barack Obama

A recent poll shows that 85 percent of middle-class Americans believe they're worse off now than they were 10 years ago. Yet shockingly, just 34 percent of those people blame Barack Obama. More Americans blame Congress (62 percent), banks (54 percent), corporations (47 percent), former President George W. Bush (44 percent) and foreign competition (39 percent).

Why the disconnect?

These folks aren't entirely wrong. Congress did nothing about an out-of-control Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for a decade, and allowed the Federal Reserve to inflate the currency all the while. Banks played along with the regulatory regime in...

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