[QUOTE="jshaas"][QUOTE="DroidPhysX"] Romney raised fees and taxes to balance the budget, same with what Obama is doing. Romeny was also in favor of the stimulus BEFORE obama took the election in '08. > Regulation If Obama was a supposed staunch regulator like I've been hearing, he would of nationalized the banks years ago. Obama is more of a neocon and pre-Bush2 republican than anything else.DroidPhysX
The major difference with what Mitt did in MA is that he did it on the state level. His state supported what he was doing. Obama, and the like, are trying to do this one-size-fits-all approach and force every state to adhere. The POTUS, nor the Federal Government, have the power to do this. But, for some reason Obama is immune to the laws of the Constitution. Our government was never meant to be a top-down approach. It's supposed to be run from the bottom up. The only responsibilty of the Feds is to secure our country with a military. The nationalization of the banks happened with the bailout. Now, the Feds have a piece of every bank that was forced to take money. Yes, they were forced. A local bank where I live tried to reject the bailout funds... the Feds wouldn't allow it. Now, banks are being choked out of existence due to regulations impossed with the bailout. And conservatives support a liberal governor in massachusetts
Either they intentionally choose to forget Romney pushed for the MA mandate among other things or they really are indeed a shell of past conservatives. Never heard of a presidential candidate governing with liberal ideologies, both socially and fiscally, be so revered by the supposed conservative electorate.
>Banks being choked out of existence
bahahahaha. If anything, they're becoming stronger and stronger. In the last 15 years, huge amount of regulations have been repealed on the banks. (Glass Steegal being the biggest). Also, the Feds have chairmans who work or who have worked for the banks. Essentially, the banks are bailing out the banks.
Again... the plan Romney put in place in MA was accepted by the people of MA. They wanted it! On the state level, that's completely fine. Obama can't force people to do something they don't want to do. He doesn't have that power... although he doesn't seem to know that he doesn't have that power. Also, were already covered by other individual mandates... seat belts, immunizations, etc. 
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