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Originally Posted by dante2308
As I said Pikens is free to try to become dictator of America. LBJ and Ike didn't get us off oil either and in terms of legislative victories in health care, energy, and financial reform, this president is far more capable than either.
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Well, LBJ got in there and got Civil Rights, Medicare and Medicaid and put a man on the moon and this-that-and the other. He didn't mind doing the unpopular, he just let the chips fall where they may and when people said he had to go he said, "All right" and went. Where Johnson messed up was on Vietnam which you couldn't win, like most of these other wars and whatnot. He just said let Nixon and his people have it if they are so great, and of course they messed it up even worse.
Now Ike, he got the country moving. When he came in you could hardly even drive from one end of the country to the other, much less with a bunch of tanks, so he said "Let's build the greatest highway system the world has ever known" and the rest is history. Ike was also on top of that situation with the military industrial crowd and so forth and nobody was going to sass him since he'd been a 5-star himself.
As to the cap and trade thing, the problem is people don't get it, as you can tell from the emails going around and Gov. Palin and so forth. The average person just sees it as some big government thing, more taxes on the working man and what have you.
As the president you have to break it down where people know exactly what they are being asked to do and can understand why. Take Obama when he was running, he was telling everybody to keep their tires pumped up. But when is the last time you heard him say that? You have got to get out there every few weeks with some new thing that people can understand and deal with. Such as, "My fellow Americans, let's all bite the bullet and get our tires pumped up, by the end of this month we will have cut our oil needs by 4%." Then you say something like, "My fellow Americans, we must all sacrifice to make this country great, so you all get your houses insulated right and send the receipt up here to my right hand man and he will cut you a check back for half of it." Then you just keep on. The next month you tell everybody they have got to chip in and cut their driving by so much and tell them how much oil that will save. Most people will do the right thing if they understand and you keep after them about it.
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