>Anyone with a lick of common sense and a healthy distruct of government would take the position that this might be a disaster (or might not) but the overwhelming track record of the goverment is that they underestimate costs and overestimate efficiencies.

It's not different over here and with many other governments. Their main objective is to be reelected in the next election. They rarely care for the long term goal as they will not benefit from it. It's even more the case in the US because the president is limited to 2 mandates (wich I approve).

>There's unbelievable arrogance coming out of Washington these days and an attempt to shutdown opposition. And that's why all hell is starting to break out. You might disagree with me but I have the right to disagree and that's a fundamental right that seems lost to Obama and his minions.

I don't follow what's going on at Washington every day, so I can't comment on that. From what I read on the forums and the news, it seem to me that the US is divided in two, either you're a fervent Democrat or a fervent Republican. There's few peoples in the middle ground. Each side seem to reject any ideas comming from the opponent and some of them are nearly frantic about it. So it's hard for an outsider to sort out the real news from all the noise around it.

Obama have his flaws and he took some measures that deceived me, but I'm still convinced that he will be better than McCain would have been (he can't do worse than Bush, that's for sure). From what I read sometime from some hardcore Repuplicans, it look like critics I would anticipate if it was Kim Jong-il running the country.