There were times during the 'Hope, Change, Yes We Can!' bullshit campaign that I kept asking how the hell is he planning on paying for all of this?
The problem isn't Democrats or Obama though. It's where they get their power from. Same thing with the neocons.
They give people what they want. Republican social conservatives wanted a holy war with Muslims. Any muslims, didn't matter if they were terrorists or not. War brings out a strong sense of nationalism which overpowers our common sense capacity to reason.
The progressives like Obama have managed to cultivate a cult of personality around this guy. I was thinking about it last night. George Washington was a hero of the revolution, he was an outstanding thinker, businessman and leader of his community. An architect of the republic.
And no one in his era, deified him as Obama is deified now. In retrospect, the Founders all get a lot of love and respect, but at the time, they weren't treated like Kings or holy men. People weren't so naive and stupid.
Anyway, Obama gets his power from a very uneducated and unaware public, trained by TV to treat life like reality TV. I have a friend in Washington State, she wrote me that "Obama will finally give us health care".
Like Bush and Cheney were denying it to people. That they were sitting on it, refusing to give the people TEH HEALTH CAREZ.
When I asked her, given that the budget deficit is soaring, the debt is soaring, and the long term entitlement obligations are 20 times annual GDP, how it will be paid for, she said nothing.
These people actually believe the government, like a messiah, can "give people stuff". For free.
They believe that Obama is more qualified to hand out jobs than the foreman on a construction site with 20 years experience.
The big problem is that there are a lot of stupid sheeple for the parasites to feed on. And they all get to vote, even if they are on welfare, and their vote counts just as much as yours does.