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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  who've been "blessed" to "give a little more."............................>>>>......................>>>>.......................http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110415/pl_afp/usvote2012obama_20110415045805

I remember well the speech of why we needed the 875 billion stimulus bill passed so we can rebuild our infrastructure thru all those shovel ready jobs that were never there. Instead they used the money to repay all those people who donated to their campaigns so they could spend the money on their pet projects that created zero jobs. Now they want to spend/waste more of the taxpayers money on programs like education that they have been throwing money at for years with very poor results.

This country was well on it's way of being a third world county for the past 2 decades. Obama will just clinch the deal!! Perhaps we'll have jobs answering India's computer question calls for Dell and Gateway....perhaps?