He's probably the best president you've had since JFK (whom I only like for his attitudes to space exploration) lmao. Your country blames him for the debt the US has (which isn't even that much compared to your GDP which is all that matters really) and acts like they're in the same situation as Greece (and if you cut your military expenditure by a few billion, that debt would be corrected immediately),
the wars they're involved in, and then blames him for going into wars. Obama tries - he has Bush's shitshow to mop up and a congress or whatever that blocks everything he tries to do.Like, what do you want out of a president? Getting mixed signals. He's better than Hillary or Trump, one of which will most likely be your next leader - and God help you all when one of them assumes office.
And for the record, I'd gladly take Obama over Cameron - our Prime Minister - who burned a £100 note in front of a homeless man and got a little too intimate with a dead pig just to get into a rich man's club and is causing people to kill themselves because of his budget cuts. I'd also have him as somebody to replace our Chancellor - who is addicted to cocaine and pretty much supports human trafficking.
TBH I like Obama. Yeah a lot of people blame him for shit but its stuff that he didn't even start. Its stuff from previous presidencies. Also GOP Propaganda will ALWAYS try to make a democratic person look bad even if what they're doing is good or bad.
Okay, not really, but when he said the UK should stay in the European Union it made up people's minds - that we should stay in it. Most people here think "oh, they tax us harshly and sue us just so we can cross freely over borders?", but it's so much more than that -
it has the largest GDP in the world, it's a superpower alongside the US,, and it stops European countries from fighting. This is important - we've ripped eachother up throughout history just because 'oh, they're not the right kind of German', 'oh, they're slav',
'oh, that one time ancient tribes who gave birth to us went into that one place gives us the right to commit genocide there and take it'. This happened in the 90s in the Yugoslav wars. We need somebody to unite us, to find a common purpose. When Obama said we should stay in it, this made up people's minds that we should stay in it. This is important.
Plus it kind of just lets me walk into any country I want to because I'm a European Union citizen, so... yay for when I have the money to go travel Europe or move out of the degenerate mess that is the UK.
Glad too :) There's a war on cash going on all over the world. Governments wants to track everyone and control their spending. Right now they're making it illegal to have above a certain amount of money. That limit gets smaller every day. Also they're talking of getting rid of large bills.
It's a complex, sneaky, and maybe some what boring attack on a huge freedom we all take for granted. So whenever I see political discussion, I try to raise awareness and maybe we can keep our freedom.
Basically they want everyone in electronic money so they can tax you for saving when they want everyone to spend, or tax you for spending when they want you to save. But those politicians will tell you it's to track criminals (criminals will just use bitcoin or gold or trade)
Also big banks love the idea. They can collect money from every transaction anyone makes anytime. Transaction fees you know? Basically everyone but every day good people win.
The big banks make more money, government gets more control, criminals will adopt a more sneaky storage of wealth, and you and I get screwed in every way. Use cash folks! Otherwise it will some day go away. What a dark day it'd be.
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