Mitt Romney in a heartbeat. Obama is the second worst president in history behind LBJ. He has driven up the national debt, more people are out of work, he has stalled the recovery with things like Dodd frank and has socialized healthcare with obamacare.
Bush added a far greater percentage to the national debt. When he took office, we had a budget surplus, and his tax cuts and spending turned that into the biggest budget deficit we've ever had. The national debt was 10.66 trillion on the day bush left office, so he roughly doubled the debt, and thats only counting his years in office, not the policies like his tax cuts that are continuing to add to the deficit to this day. The biggest contribution to the debt has been the bush tax cuts, the second has been going to war with nearly every country in the middle east EXCEPT the one that the majority of the people that attacked us were from. And then there was the fact that Bush never actually counted what the Iraq and Afghanistan war costs, and thus the national debt didn't count them. Has the national debt increased a lot under Obama? Yes, but, but the vast majority of it has been due to Bush policies, and in fact, had Obama changed absolutely nothing and just continued what Bush was doing, the national debt would be higher.
Secondly, thinking Obamacare socialized healthcare shows a willful ignorance. Sure, it makes for a nice bumper sticker for your car, but it's not even close to accurate. First off, there is a big difference between health insurance and health care. Obamacare passed rules on regulations on how much health insurance companies are allowed to screw you over. For example, I've almost always had health insurance, occasionally switching to different ones due to work situations. A little while ago I switched insurances, and a few months after that, I got sick and ended up in the hospital for a week. Had certain provisions of Obamacare not recently come into effect, my insurance would have been allowed to just drop me, and not only that, they would have been able to tell the hospital that they would cover me, and then refuse to pay after it was all done, so I would have been on the hook to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for treatment I technically could have gone without. Seriously, health insurance companies used to employ people whose specific job it was to look at claims, and if they were for procedures that were too expensive, go through they're file and find a reason to drop them. Google rescission, check out some of the stats on what insurance companies did to women who got breast cancer, and tell me that a policy like that should be legal. What about preexisting conditions? Should a baby born with a minor heart murmur never be allowed to get insurance? What about women? Before Obamacare, in many states, women would have to pay more for the same coverage as men, and even more than that if they've ever been abused. That's right, being beaten by your spouse is a preexisting condition. And those are just a few of the egregious policies Obamacare has stopped.
And then, there is the fact that you use "socialism" as if it is objectively bad in every situation. Here's a fun little passage I like to show people:
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal power utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the Nation Aeronautics and Space Administration.
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent via the US postal service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After work I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshall's inspection, and which has not plundered all of its valuables thanks to the local police department.
I then log into the Internet which was developed by the Defense Advance Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD and because the government cant do anything right.
I have nothing against limited government. However, too much government destroys wealth. Government run amok is socialism. Once Obamacare is fully implemented going to be a flop. The costs are sky high. Government can not distribute health care efficiently because it does not have to compete. Competition brings prices down. People will end up having to wait months and months even to get crappy care. They can't get private care because they can't afford to pay more taxes. Plus our national debt will rise even higher.
P.S. DARPA didn't create the internet. It may have contributed some to the effort, but it sure as hell didn't create the internet.
Do you even know what socialism or Obamacare are? Like I said, willful ignorance. Look up what Obamacare actually does before arguing against it, because it in no way allows the government to distribute healthcare.
the government setting regulations on what people (even corporations) can do is not government run amok. Before government regulations, tobacco companies were allowed to run ads that said 4 out of 5 doctors recommend smoking a pack of camels a day to live longer. Cildren's toys were made with led, and buildings were made with asbestos.
Yes the internet probably would have been created eventually without DARPA, it would have taken a lot longer and it wouldn't have been centralized so it would have been a lot worse. no one is saying the government does anything and everything better than private corporations, just that sometimes you need both. republicans are saying that everything would be better if it was privatized and government does nothing but harm.
