just want to say that i take absolutely no personal offense at any remarks of those who do not agree with me...but i stand by my opinion of obama...i have lived in socialist countries and see us heading in that direction at breakneck speed, and also at break the bank speed. these are not the values and traditions which made America great. and those who cannot realize that this whole economic crisis came about because of democratic insistence that everyone should be able to buy a home they cannot afford and that fannie mae and freddie mac needed no regulation (i can still see barnie frank insisting on this when Bush tried to regulate them) have no informed knowledge of basic economics. as for social security, if we who worked had been allowed to invest our own funds plus the funds our employers had to pay into it, most of us would be better off now. instead those funds were plundered for other projects and the system is nearly useless as a retirement fund. and consider the cost to the taxpayers of administering this program. the only job growth which obama seems to take credit for is such things as paying states to keep teachers, firemen, police etc which the states cannot really keep paying for indefinitely, and neither can we...also government jobs such as new IRS agents, which will do nothing to increase our productivity, only infringe more on businesses while unemployment in the private sector rises to socialist country standards.