You mean other than appointing a "pay czar" to control CEO pay and Wall St. bonuses and that sweeping new entitlement called "Universal Health Care"?
The "pay czar" is only there in so far as they are getting government money. It is not a permanent thing. It is saying "taxpayers are giving you this money in the middle of a deep recession, you're not going to Cancun with it." Now that the banks are paying TARP money back, they are moving out from under the constraints of the "pay czar" who will soon not be working anymore. The 10 or however many big banks that are getting TARP money in no way represent widespread wage and price controls.
CEO pay and bonuses in every non taxpayer controlled institution are still privately set. Obama has not proposed to change this.
I can't count the number of times you have had it pointed out to you that Obama has no designs on controlling the economy from any objective reading of the facts.
I hear so much from Palin and Brown and everyone else on the right about the "socialist bailouts"(that they supported) are you really capable of holding a vehement anti wall street view while at the same time opposing restrictions on how they spend taxpayer money? That's ok, its just shows the lack of logic on the right... Obama is a socialist and a Wall Street pawn at the same time. That is impossible, but strongly believed by Scott Brown.
Health care reform is NOT an entitlement program. That is just a fact.
Legal Definition of Entitlement Program
Entitlements are given to everyone who meets a certain set criteria w/o any discretion as to the level of funding by Congress. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
Setting up competitive exchanges and giving some sliding scale subsidies that are subject to change and conditioned on a number of things(not just age or income level like entitlements) is NOT an entitlement program.
Neither you nor anyone else against the health care bill has shown you understand any of what is actually in the bill. The main parts:
1.)You like your current health care, you keep it.
2.)Competitive exchanges for consumer choice. Helps reduce costs. Private companies participate, its not government run.
3.)Prohibitions on the denial of coverage for preexisting conditions, on dropping coverage arbitrarily, etc.
4.)Individual mandate and subsidies to make policies more affordable for consumers and small businesses. Tax breaks for small business to buy health care. A modest assessment on large corporations who do not make reasonable contributions to employee health care.
5.)Pilot programs on preventive care, medical malpractice reform, pilot programs on changing the payment system, etc are all put in place with an explicit goal of implementing the reforms that are found to save money.
6.)Improvements in Medicare quality for seniors and increased payments to physicians. Cuts in unnecessary, wasteful medicare advantage plan.
7.)The whole deal reduces the deficit by $132 billion over 10 years, CBO speaking, not me.
1-7 all have widespread popular support when Americans are polled.
1-7 have all been proposed at one time or another by Republicans.
1-7 in no way represent socialism or a new entitlement to anything.
1-7 were part of what the new Republican hero Scott Brown supported strongly in Massachusetts.
The people support what is actually in the bill.
They do not support what you and your friends say is in the bill, but no one would, that's why you say it.
I've heard that a few times and it has never got answered.....I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the talking points sites are down tonight.