Is Barack Hussien Obama purposely trying to destroy the US economy?

[Husar]

Is this the one thing stopping you from visiting me?

well, it might make visiting you a lot easier.

High speed trains? Why? America is a big place and we use cars here. Its just not practical and considering how crappy Amtrak does, why continue a failed course.

Well, if Americans actually think scenes like this and this are preferable to relaxing in a train that takes you to where you want to go, then I don't really know what to say.
I know in certain areas that don't have a very dense population trains don't make sense but I doubt they want to connect swamp village one in Alabama with desert tent three in Texas.

I don't know my friend, it would appear that there are more and more people dependent on the government and Mr Hussien Obama promised them the world wrapped up nicely in government wrapping paper.

Didn't he say at his inauguration speech, that it will take hard world from all Americans to get out of the crisis, that he cannot do it alone and that he just wants to guide people while they work harder?
I found that pretty funny considering what guys like you and maybe some of his voters expected so I remember it very well.

For the love of God, give the man a little while. See what he actually DOES.

Yes, I actually supported bushe when he was first elected, he seemed to be a christian etc. but it didn't take me very long to realize that I was a bit naive and his words were more hot air, I was finally convinced when he admitted to lying about his casus belli for iraq that he was not nearly as good a man as I initially thought. Maybe Obama will follow a similar route, but I hope for the world and the USA that he won't.

However, I recognise that the global economy is predicated on the infinite growth of consumerism, which means (to this layman) finding ways to spend again without limit. Thus the stimuli.

That is something that worked well but I think is ultimately flawed because unless we start colonising other planets we cannot grow infinitely and thus the system stops working at some point.
The trouble of course is finding a system where numbers don't have to grow all the time for it to work and that noone is willing to do so and most would probably call me a looney while counting their millions.