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Republicans will make US 'Third World' nation: Obama

by Mira Oberman
Fri Apr 15, 12:57 am ET

CHICAGO (AFP) – US President Barack Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.

The attack came a day after Obama savaged Republican budget plans and unveiled his $4-trillion deficit reduction drive that aims to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to preserve key social services.

The debate over fiscal policy will prove critical to the 2012 campaign and Obama sought to frame it as a "stark choice" between investing in the future or watching the country fall apart.

"Under their vision, we can't invest in roads and bridges and broadband and high-speed rail," Obama told a select group of the Democratic faithful at the second of three fundraising events in his hometown of Chicago.

"I mean, we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought -- that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure."

Republicans plans to shrink the reach of government is "not a vision that's impelled by the numbers" but a "choice" to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the rich rather than ask those who've been "blessed" to "give a little more."

Obama said his vision is of an ambitious, compassionate, and caring America "where we're living within our means but we're still investing in our future."

"If we apply some practical common sense to this, we can solve our fiscal challenges and still have the America that we believe in," Obama told supporters at Chicago's N9ne restaurant.

"That's what this budget debate is going to be about. And that's what the 2012 campaign is going to be about."

The events in Chicago were Obama's first fundraisers since he officially launched his bid for a second term on April 4 and were expected to raise about two million dollars.

Analysts predict Obama -- who raised a record $750 million ahead of the 2008 election -- will build a billion-dollar war chest this time around.

Money won't be enough to win, senior advisor and 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe told a crowd of 2,300 supporters gathered in a ballroom at Navy Pier ahead of Obama's speech.

"If only the people who normally vote in presidential elections vote in this election it will be too close," Plouffe said as he urged supporters to get more people involved in the campaign.

"You've got to get these people to get involved and to vote so we can make sure that we succeed in this election."

Obama established his 2012 campaign headquarters in Chicago, the first time a presidential reelection campaign was not based in Washington.

He told supporters it was so the campaign would be "rooted in your hopes and rooted in your dreams" instead of influenced by Washington pundits and powerbrokers.

Obama reminded the cheering crowd of the sense of hope and possibility they felt when they celebrated his election as the first African American US president in Chicago's Grant Park.

"And yet, even as we celebrated -- you remember what I said back then? I said our work wasn't ending, our work was just beginning," Obama said.

"We've still got business to do. We are not finished.

"We've got to reclaim the American dream for all Americans. That's the change we still believe in."

Barring a dramatic turn, no major adversary from within his party is likely to challenge Obama, who turns 50 in August.

As for who might run against him from the Republican Party's ranks, uncertainty reigns.

Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney have taken the first official steps toward candidacy, while conservative former House speaker Newt Gingrich and even real estate mogul Donald Trump have hinted at challenging for the Republican nomination.

In less than a month, the 64-year-old Trump has jumped from 10 to 19 percent support among Republican voters, tying with former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, according to a CNN poll released this week.

Republican officials worry that the crowded field of possible White House hopefuls could end up helping Obama, who could be vulnerable as the US economy sputters its way out of its worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110415/pl ... 0415045805

Look who's talking about turning the US into a third world nation. Obama leaves our borders wide open forcing strapped taxpayers to foot the never ending health care and other costs on millions of third worlders illegally here and the the thousands of impoverished and uneducated third world hordes illegally entering the country every week. They bring third world diseases long ago eradicated in the US along with a culture of violence, lack of respect for our laws, drunk driving and molestation of women and children because they hail from countries where the age of consent is 12 and rape and molestation is considered an act of manhood. They come from toilets of countries where the law of the jungle prevails and they are forced to do what it takes to survive, including theft and fraud of identities and property which they continue to do here. They assault citizens including veterans demonstrating against this Mexican owned and run government demanding secure borders and enforcement of all immigration laws. How about looking at yourself in the mirror Mr Obama before you cast aspersions elsewhere.

Talks about double speak propaganda! Unbelievable! This regime would have made Joseph Goebbels blush...

He's right-by making the middle class disappear-but the Demo's will do the same thing-by letting illegals stay and proliferate. Either way you slice it, it cuts both ways.

i think it's wrong to continue to charge the rich more ... they already pay something like 39% in the higest tax brackets ....HOWEVER , eh we need money from somewhere , so might as well shake them down ..

As i see it the entire economy is doomed , completely doomed ...i have no problem with extend and pretend , if the world wants to keep playing this game where they give us goods for our funny money , well i say let's keep at those suckers ...

Where obama is wrong is with amnesty , we need all the resources in this country for AMERICANS .... if we can throw them out that will leave more for our people ..

Define rich? I was told that the taxes were aimed at people who have an income of 200k or more. That puts most small business right in the middle of a huge tax hike.

This might sound crazy but how about Obama and Congress all take a pay cut? We don't need to increase taxes, we need to stop giving La Raza and other hate groups millions of dollars a year. We give the UN and other foreign countries way too much money. Make Brazil gives us back the money Obama gave them to develop Brazil oil and let our oil companies use it.

The spending cuts are there, they just need to grow a pair and force it through.

sugarhighwolf wrote

Define rich? I was told that the taxes were aimed at people who have an income of 200k or more. That puts most small business right in the middle of a huge tax hike.

I agree and it seems such a convenient way to squash them completely..we can't have that entrepreneurial spirit flourishing can we?!

The problem with "tax cuts for the wealthiest" is that they wind up paying LESS taxes in porportion to what the middle and lower classes pay-that's not fair. And the only "trickling down" that happens in Big Business is usually something yellow, not something green!! Getting rich of the tax cuts for the wealthiest won't make the wealthy unwealthy, it just may mean they can settle for three Lear jets instead of four.

Yeah, the gov't needs to cut out all aid to the illegals-changing Medicare for legal residents instead is a scam!!

Before the last Bush changed everything the ultra rich paid their fair share of taxes and they still had way way more than the rest of us. And please remember that it is the ultra-rich who have the most political power and want illegals to stay and keep coming, so they can make a cheap buck in business while the rest of us suffer!! Do you guys REALLY want them to pay less taxes so you and I wind up paying more in the end?

He's doing what most politicians do, use tax money to buy votes. In his case he supposedly wants to take it from the so-called rich. But if the truth be told the so-called rich will just pass the increase on to everybody else. I's just a razzle dazzle. Unfortunately a lot of people don't understand basic economics. They think they can get something for nothing.