Barack Obama in Can't Is Not an Option, by Gov. Nikki Haley
On Budget & Economy:
OpEd: Each bailout revealed more of Washington's inside game
TARP opened the floodgates for a wave of unaccountable spending that flowed out of Washington. Soon afterward, President Obama bailed out the auto industry to rescue big labor. His allies in Congress passed the
$787 billion stimulus bill, most of them without having read it. And he forced through a trillion-dollar health care takeover. With each bailout, more and more of us felt we were getting further and further from what
America was meant to be: a free and striving people with a limited and accountable government. Instead, Washington was revealing itself to be an inside game, with the rules fixed to benefit the establishment.
The rules favor the well connected, while the rest of us in flyover country pay the bills.
Source: Can't Is Not an Option, by Gov. Nikki Haley, p.115
Apr 3, 2012
On Health Care:
OpEd: ObamaCare passed by constitutionally suspect tactics
Barack Obama was muscling his trillion-dollar health-care bill through Congress. The more Americans learned about the president's plan, the less they liked it. So the president did what he'd said he wouldn't do and went around the American people.
Throughout the winter and early spring of 2010, he and his allies in Congress resorted to backroom deals, and constitutionally suspect tactics to force the bill through Congress.
It was everything that was wrong with government on full display: the arrogance of the establishment, the bullying tactics of the feds, and the absolute disregard for the taxpayers who would be paying the bill.People in South Carolina were outraged by
what they were seeing in Washington. As far as I was concerned, the health-care law was a part of the same DC mentality that had given us the bailouts: Don't fix the problem, just throw it back on the taxpayers and have them pay for it.
Source: Can't Is Not an Option, by Gov. Nikki Haley, p.122
Apr 3, 2012
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