This further underlines a point I've been trying to make with fellow students at the university for a long time - that President Obama is a social liberalist rather than a social democrat or democratic socialist.
Correct. The president is no social democrat or democratic socialist. I wouldn't consider him even a Christian Democrat (though that's something exclusive to continental Europe)
If the president does indeed have a vision of activist government I'd say its more premised on facilitating 'cradle-to-grave' opportunity
He's probably somewhere between the welfare state liberalism, of the center, and the neoliberalism, of the right. I hear no clarion calls for 'leftist' populist protectionism, while I find it shocking that big business has not created one
net job since 1977
Republicans of course stopped much of what Obama wanted to do as far as redistribution of wealth.
Income inequality also flourished under Clinton and Carter.
You chumps are great at talking about income inequality of course.
Hasn't it been that way, more or less, since the Oil Crisis of 1973 brought the curtains down on the Golden Age of Capitalism - aka the post-war economic expansion?
Republicans of course stopped much of what Obama wanted to do as far as redistribution of wealth.
You mean taking the top two rates of income tax back to more Clinton era, fiscally responsible, levels of 36% and 39.6%, on individuals earning >200k and joint-filers earning >250k. Nowt 'radical' about that
