Posted on 03/10/2010 8:31:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ST LOUIS, Missouri (AFP) – Many Americans have lost faith in their government, US President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday, tackling a pervasive sentiment hobbling his hopes for enacting sweeping reform.
American suspicion of government was deepening, he said in a speech from the heartland state of Missouri, where he pushed his endangered health reform drive that has been branded by Republicans as a government takeover.
"People have lost faith in government -- they had lost faith in government before I ran (for president), and it has been getting worse," Obama said at a rally in St. Louis.
He quoted his political hero, US Civil War-era president Abraham Lincoln, as saying that the role of government was to do what needed to be done but could not be done by citizens themselves without help.
"That pretty much sums up my attitude," Obama said.
The president used the trip to roll out a plan to crack down on waste and fraud in federal health programs for the poor and senior citizens as well as other government spending, which he said amounted to billions of dollars per year.
"I don't accept business as usual... and the American people don't accept it either," Obama said, adding the plan would help cut massive long-term deficits casting a shadow over economic recovery hopes.
In many ways, Obama's entire political program represents a bid to show that government can work, despite inbred US skepticism about federal power and Republican claims that he wants to orchestrate a takeover of much of American life.
Obama has embarked on a fierce week-long campaign to secure crucial votes in Congress on his health care plan before he leaves on a trip to Indonesia and Australia on March 18.
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Naw, dude, they’ve lost faith in you! (Those that were dumb enough to have had any in the first place.)
That picture looks like one of the Geico cavemen.
Was that the artist’s intent?
It's towelheads like you, Mr. False President who cause us to be that way. (Notice I didn't sat "feel", Mr. Un-President?)
Feelings are what you run on and that is what will eventually eat your lunch, Mr. Falseoid. Americans feel, but they also think and your own acts will bring you to earth once enough thinking has occured and feelings change.
I didn't vote for you because I saw what you were....and were not.
Please go sit down next to yo Daddy, Soros and give him a big kiss.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest, coupled with narcissistic personality disorder. Or maybe it’s the other way around .. the NPD causes the cognitive dissonance.
this idiot just doesn’t get how the American system works.
smaller government means less intrusion.
less intrusion means the people are more free to do what they want.
what people want is to make a living for themselves and their families.
thus, by getting out of the way, the government will allow the people to actually push the country forward. government cannot do this... only the people can.
This is sad. There is a complete disconnect between his ego and the fact that he happens to be our government's Chief Executive. He really doesn't see himself as being on the inside. This man has to be the laziest President this nation has ever had. He can't even picture himself as someone who works towards restoring that faith in government. Instead, he complains as if he has no involvement in governing.
Priceless!
Narcissism on steroids to an infinite degree.
Lincoln could sell a watermelon.
Not a real reply to your post but I will continue. Regardless of the present day state of appearance I would like to add the following.
I have been married to a “blue collar” man for the last 30 years. He would never wear a “wife beater” t-shirt under a dress shirt. He would never present himself in such an ignorant manner.
I’m searching for that quote...
I did find this one!
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
Abraham Lincoln
and this one!
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
Understood. I was raised to be independent and not subject to controlling people. The government removes that ability.
“”People have lost faith in government — they had lost faith in government before I ran (for president), and it has been getting worse,” Obama said”
Seriously???
I’d insert the Godzilla facepalm pic but I can’t find it.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Ya tink?
Master Yoda says, regarding faith in government:
“Lose, I could not...what had, I did not.”
“Anger, fear, hope and change...the dark side are they. Easily do they flow, quick to join in a fight.
“If once you start down the dark left path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will...as it did Obi-Wright’s apprentice...”
I saw the stat on HotAir today where even if you use the bogus numbers the WH is relying on and accept them as the gospel, all of the projected "savings" that we're going to get by passing Obamacare over the next ten years were spent in 17 days last month.
They are destroying our country.
Obama makes fundamental attribution error. Social Psych studies show that when people experience success, they attribute the cause of that success to their own efforts or personal characteristics. When they experience failure, they attribute it to external factors (i.e., Bush, people who don’t listen, etc.).
We have faith in God, not government.
“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
- Thomas Paine -
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