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To begin with it was Paulson and Bernanke who started bailing out the big banks, so let's not dump all of that in his lap. Unbridled allowance of corporate mergers by the FTC has led to "Too big to fail" and I would be all for breaking up many of them.
He inherited two wars, a massive financial screw-up, and Boehner and McConnell, about as much as any single human being can manage at one time.
He also inherited our assinine system of presidential appointees so he still has not staffed many, many departments of the government.
The idea that we can 'give' (impose?) democracy to other nations indicates a total ignorance of our own history - no one gave us democracy - well we are actually a republican democracy and not with a capital R, although they did appear to believe they ruled by divine right.
I would imagine that items such as No Child are pretty low on the list of things needing to be done, but I agree it was a failure.
Hey, I am from Canada, you won't get an argument from me regarding Single Payer (and that is not socialism, it was implemented by the Conservative government at the time), most Americans would not recognize a socialist if one bit them on the arse. You are right to worry as 65% of personal bankruptcies are caused by catastrophic medical expenses.
I am quite satisfied with what he has done to date, the pork part was beyond his control as passing the budget was important and he got no help from his own party, Pelosi and Ried are more of a hindrance than help. As are many Democratic Congress critters and senators.
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