Friday, March 27, 2009

Is this Country slipping into Socialism?

Do we the people really believe that Obama’s administration is pulling us into Socialism or dictatorship, or is this just the Republicans trying to complain about something else? On AMERICAblog one of its editors John Aravosis blogs that Republicans are throwing complaints at just about anything just so they can complain. Aravosis is a highly acclaimed journalist who has won many awards for his achievements and focuses his writing in D.C since he is also a political consultant. Aravosis is trying to reach an audience that shares his beliefs and also ones that may not. He wants to show anyone who is willing to listen and able to vote what his views are and how he believes they are correct. In Aravosis’s blog he shows a video clip of Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity stating that by the Obama Administration attempting to infiltrate into corporations to gain control of its CEO pay and other things is this administration pulling this country into Socialism or dictatorship. Aravosis finds this claim of these two men to be very hypocritical of them. He finds it to be funny how these men complain about what the Obama administration is trying to do when they in fact supported the Bush Administration when they were justifying spying on Americans. These men did nothing but bad talk the Constitution but now they are trying to imply that these Obama administration actions are unconstitutional. Hannity and Gingrich in the video clip claim that by the Obama administration wanting the right to limit executive pay (even for those corporations who are not receiving a bailout) and seeking the right to seize firms in order to benefit bills they want passed by using the reconciliation process is eliminating the need for the Republican vote and is wrong and unfair. Aravosis believes these men are wrong and unjust in their view and he fully supports what this administration is wanting and trying to do. He says “by passing this legislation it will be easier to stop a depression”, and considering his background in politics this could be true, even if we do not agree with it. Aravosis feels that these men’s logic is “Taking rights away from citizens is patriotic, but taking rights away from corporations is dictatorship”. He feels that they are extremely hypocritical and have no sense to their argument at all. Aravosis says support this administration because all they are trying to do is keep us out of another great depression. Do I agree with our government being able to go in and control aspects of our countries corporations? Absolutely not; but his blog was more or less showing how in the last 8 years they were ok with doing many unconstitutional things, now they want to yell and scream at anything Obama and his administration wants to do that may change anything.