Reply #11: Well, speculation aside, I agree - it's worthy of speculation. [View All]

[Deja Q]

The 1960s were an upheaval; the 1970s saw people wanting to lead a less worrysome life. Most of the media reflects that, what with shows about the 1950s, "The Waltons", "Little House on the Prairie", et al...

That is defined as excess?

Now the 1960s allowed people to the freedom of self-exploration and discovery.

It also allowed "free love". And the birth of not just many children out of wedlock, who in turn had their own problems, but "free clinics" to pay for the diseases all the happy hippies bestowed upon each other.

And if that's the reason why, I sure as hell agree with Mr. Obama 100%. People need to treat their bodies better. They need to treat others' bodies better.

So is respect and hearing one side of the story before lashing back with canned, parroted remarks like a militant trollop.

Deregulation was a mistake; China being the ultimate result as their lack of regulation has allowed numerous defective and deadly products to be bought by the world. Surely far greater than just the US alone, and in a "global market" and "globalization" everything, the market would do well to decide that some regulation isn't as evil or as costly as once claimed.

Entrepreneurship isn't a bad idea either; but not everybody can be their own business and big box stores, now doing local services, are pushing more people out of what used to be livelihoods that allowed them TO prosper as entrepreneurs. And what's left; most people will say they can do their own work. So it's no longer "free trade" or "fair trade", but "no trade, so now what?" If we take that hyperbole to its most grandiose conclusion.

But, yeah, his admiration raises an eyebrow, but I think there are other perspectives. I wonder if Obama wants people to look for meanings other than the flat-nosed inferences (e.g. "he quoted Reagan therefore he wears a swaztika along with the rest of them" and other bullshit remarks like that), or to be knee-jerk reactionary (a trait I am trying to ditch and it isn't easy at times...)

After all: "We want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.” I dunno about you, but I sure as hell miss the freedom to use my skills to generate a healthy buck and live for myself, rather than finding an employer who may or may not give a shit about me or any other worker...