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Why is it the British are saying this, and not the American media?
From the Telegraph:
- Obama's Economic Plan: “economy Would Be Much Better Off” With More Government Workers
I am a Benevolent Slave Owner Maybe we can just dispense with the Free Economy altogether, and the government can just hire everybody. President Barack Obama – citing the job losses since he took office — said “the economy would be much better...
- Let Them Eat Cake?
Daily Mail: Is Michelle Obama's spending 'spiralling out of control'? First Lady 'insisted on $4m trip to Hawaii when her husband wanted local vacation' Barack Obama 'wanted trip to Camp David, Maryland' But his wife 'didn't...
- Hey! Remember This From A Year Ago?
Has ANYTHING changed? For the better, I mean? A YEAR! Telegraph: The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown By Nile Gardiner The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of...
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Daily Mail: Obama accused of 'double standards' as family are pictured skiing... just days after telling Americans to sacrifice their own holidays By David Gardner Last updated at 10:35 PM on 20th February 2011 President Obama has been accused...
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Washington Examiner: President and family on multi-million dollar Christmas vacation in Hawaii By: Mark Tapscott 12/29/10 5:04 PM Editorial Page Editor President Obama and his family are enjoying a delightful Christmas vacation with friends and family...
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UK's Telegraph: The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people
Why is it the British are saying this, and not the American media?
From the Telegraph:
It is the kind of impunity that has been highlighted on the world stage this week by Michelle Obama’s hugely costly trip to Spain, which has prompted a New York Post columnist Andrea Tantaros to dub the First Lady a contemporary Marie Antoinette. As The Telegraph reports, while the Obamas are covering their own vacation expenses such as accommodation, the trip may cost US taxpayers as much as $375,000 in terms of secret service security and flight costs on Air Force Two.
The timing of this lavish European vacation could not have come at a worse moment, when unemployment in America stands at 10 percent, and large numbers of Americans are fighting to survive financially in the wake of the global economic downturn. It sends a message of indifference, even contempt, for the millions of Americans who are struggling just to feed their families on a daily basis and pay the mortgage, while the size of the national debt balloons to Greek-style proportions.
The First Lady’s ill-conceived trip to Marbella and the complete disregard for public opinion and concerns over excessive government spending is symbolic of a far wider problem with the Obama presidency – the overarching disdain for the principles of limited government, individual liberty and free enterprise that have built the United States over the course of nearly two and a half centuries into the most powerful and free nation on earth.
It is epitomised above all by the President’s relentless drive towards big government against the will of the American people, and the dramatic increases in government spending and borrowing, which threaten to leave the US hugely in debt for generations. It is also showcased by Barack Obama’s drive towards a socialised health care system, which, as I’ve noted before, is “a thinly disguised vanity project for a president who is committed to transforming the United States from the world’s most successful large-scale free enterprise economy, to a highly interventionist society with a massive role for centralized government.”
- Obama's Economic Plan: “economy Would Be Much Better Off” With More Government Workers
I am a Benevolent Slave Owner Maybe we can just dispense with the Free Economy altogether, and the government can just hire everybody. President Barack Obama – citing the job losses since he took office — said “the economy would be much better...
- Let Them Eat Cake?
Daily Mail: Is Michelle Obama's spending 'spiralling out of control'? First Lady 'insisted on $4m trip to Hawaii when her husband wanted local vacation' Barack Obama 'wanted trip to Camp David, Maryland' But his wife 'didn't...
- Hey! Remember This From A Year Ago?
Has ANYTHING changed? For the better, I mean? A YEAR! Telegraph: The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown By Nile Gardiner The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of...
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Daily Mail: Obama accused of 'double standards' as family are pictured skiing... just days after telling Americans to sacrifice their own holidays By David Gardner Last updated at 10:35 PM on 20th February 2011 President Obama has been accused...
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Washington Examiner: President and family on multi-million dollar Christmas vacation in Hawaii By: Mark Tapscott 12/29/10 5:04 PM Editorial Page Editor President Obama and his family are enjoying a delightful Christmas vacation with friends and family...