3.7 Obama's critics are right

The author of this article completely disagrees with Andrew Sullivan from the previous blog. Whereas Sullivan thinks Obama has dome so much for the country, David Frum thinks that Obama is the worst thing that has happened to the nation in a while. Frum agrees with all of the critisims that Obama has. 

Frum believes that Obama is spending way too much federal money. Frum also believes that Obama is a Kenyan socialist who is reorienting the country toward more dependence on the federal government. He feel that Obama is saying "this job is too hard for me, " because of the Senate not approving his nominations to the Federal Reserve Board. David Frum does not feel that Obama is a very good president.

1. How does Frum argue that Obama is creating a welfare state?
 Frum argues that Obama is creating a welfare state by refering to Social Security judges.  The Social Security Administration has been awarding more and more disability pensions: with unemployment higher, more people are seeking help—and with jobs scarce, more judges are saying yes.
2. How does this create a snowball effect within the federal government?
Of course, as the federal government manages more and more disability pensions, it must hire more judges and administrators to hear and process those requests. Federal hiring has been more than offset by layoffs at the state and local level.
3. How does Frum argue that Obama is tampering with the market rather than using economic incentives to change behaviors of consumers?
Frum says Obama is raising taxes on important products and the letting consumer choose how to conserve that product.
4. How does Frum characterize "Obamacare" differently than Sullivan did?
He says that Obamacare is causing the government to spend more money on healthcare than what it`s been spending.
5. How was the situation in Britain in the 1990s similar to what Obama is doing to America now?
Over the decade, the public sector provided more than half of all the net new jobs in three of the four main economic regions of England—and 80 percent of the net new jobs for women.
6. How should Obama have handled the economic stimulus in response to the recession of 2008?
Obama should have hired more Federal Reserve Board members to deal qith the monetary problems or recession.
7. Obama does not control what the Federal Reserve does, but how has he influenced it?
He nominates the members of the Federal Reserve Board
8. What will Obama's biggest foreign policy issue be in the coming election year?
Germany’s unwillingness to work with or trust Obama's administration’s ideas for saving Europe from itself.