For starters, he could have chosen more
Posted By: MTfromLA on 2009-06-06
In Reply to: Ridiculous. - Just ridiculous....
reputable cabinet members to help him make decisions, such as his treasurer. A man who cannot even figure out how to run TurboTax and manage to pay his personal income taxes to go to China and tell them we are in great shape financially! This the country that is lending us all the money that we cannot repay and he is over there saying all is well!
This czar situation has gone out the roof. More than has ever been heard of! What, 15, 16 now? Why does he even need a cabinet? These czars are responsible to no one except O. How is this justifiable? Of course, I'm sure O reports from them to whoever bought him, be it Soros and his group or whoever has the $$.
The big car corporations and banks could have gone bankrupt or failed before billions of our $$ were poured into them. Our government is not intended to be bankers and car dealers, etc. As far as I know, O is the first president in history to fire a CEO of a major corporation in the private sector.
The O administration promised so many jobs to be saved and so many to be created with all this stimulus being spent. Where are they? New numbers show 9.4% unemployment, highest in 20+ years and Biden bragging from the White House today about the numbers looking better. Why, because they had predicted loosing 500,000 jobs in May and we only lost 350,000. I haven't figured out how to count saved jobs yet, and I don't believe O has either.
I cannot think of a lot of promises he made during his campaign that he has followed through with yet. And yes, he has to grow up any day now and accept responsibility for what he is doing and quit blaming GWB. He is still even blaming GWB over in Egypt this week in his big teleprompter speech. Yes, while H. Chavez says Oh, Fidel, Comrade Obama is going to be further left than you and me!
No, I have no answers what needs to be done. But, I can see what doesn't need to be done any more. Also, I believe he needs to seek advice from better sources than he is at present.
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How are these for starters???? There are a WHOLE lot more in there. sm
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mapplethorpe is pleased, remember crosses in jars of urine?
$650 million for digital-TV coupons.
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters.
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers.
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish.
well, for starters -
My daughter (2 children) got back $6800 this year and that was after they held out something where HR Block misfigured last year; my sister (2 children) gets back $6000 a year and since she is entitled to a full refund of her withholding taxes during the year it is perfectly legal not to have any money withheld from your check at work. That is just 2 examples that I can give you that I know 100% what they got.
Neither one of them qualify for food stamps - say their income is too high, but they definitely get that EIC. My daughter makes about $9 an hour and my sister makes about $13 an hour. My daughter also pays in $164 a week in childcare and cannot get any help with that because they say she makes too much money (even though her actual income is only $360 a week). Cannot get medicaid because they say she makes too much money and health insurance where she works for just her coverage - no children - is $400 a month.
Oh yeah, one more, my boyfriend's "baby mama" works just enough every year to put her right smack in the middle of the charts so that she can get the maximum amount of EIC and then she quits work and lives on foodstamps and family the rest of the year. She gets enough money back that each year she takes a nice trip (while unemployed and using foodstamps and living on child support) and buys a newer model car every year with the cash she gets.
Ummm....for starters
managed to assemble more than a dozen transitional economic advisors in 3 days, and I am certain he will not confine himself to those guys before it's all over. He has a 15 cabinet positions, 6 cabinet-level administrations positions and 3 Level 1 Executive Schedule offices to consider.
He's not been sworn into office, so there is not a whole lot he can do directly except to articulate his intent. No time for ego for a man who is preparing to face one of the greatest challenges as president in the history of our country. BTW, the Office of the President Elect has been around since 1963...not O's idea.
BECAUSE THEY DON'T PAY TAXES for starters...
You don't want govt sticking it's nose in your churches' business but you'd stick your hand out for funding?
The 19th amendment for starters...sm
Before the Nineteenth Amendment, most states only granted men the RIGHT to vote. Suffragettes - those who campaigned for a woman's right to vote - were successful in 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Encouraged women campaigned for women's rights. Several women's organizations requested an Amendment that guaranteed Equal Rights. (Congress actually proposed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, but it expired under its own terms in 1982 since three-fourths of the states had not ratified it.) However, after gaining suffrage, women lost most battles for equality.
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Women's Suffrage in the United States in 1919, before the Nineteenth Amendment
Violation of International law for starters, Louise
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The next president will be chosen, but not by you sm
The people that take the time to vote will decide the election and you will not be one of them. It is not a predetermined thing. Take the few minutes that it takes and exercise your right to vote.
I would have agreed with if he had chosen...
Ridge or Lieberman.....but I think he'll do just fine with Gov. Palin.
he was voted in - she was chosen... nm
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Do you really think that Obama would have chosen...sm
Biden for his vice president if they were not on the same page? Oops! I forgot that is what McCain did, a moderate maverick, against the religious right for all of his career.
If he had chosen Powell...
all we would be hearing is about how Powell went to the UN and "lied" about the "faulty intelligence" that took us into Iraq. Powell has said that no one lied and it was indeed faulty intelligence and he believed it too...and the same people who are here lauding Powell since he endorsed Obama probably are the same ones who said Bush lied men died. Opinions are based totally on what side of the political fence someone is presently standing on. LOL. Sigh.
Maybe so...but what if the chosen religion
Do you want the Koran read in schools? Do you want the Torah used to make government decisions?
Remember when you invite religion into politics, that not all religion is christianity. Be careful what you wish for.
This is why I don't think relgion has any place in politics.
What if the chosen religion is not your
Do you want the Koran read in schools? Do you want the Torah used to make government decisions?
Remember when you invite religion into politics, that not all religion is christianity. Be careful what you wish for.
This is why I don't think relgion has any place in politics.
God's chosen people for what?.......nm
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So do the chosen one's choice in associates...
like flies to crap...would you really want a state trooper patroling who would use a taser on an 11 year old, threaten to kill his father in law and also drank in his patrol car?
If McCain had chosen Powell for VP...sm
the race would be a LOT closer right now. Stupid choice John.
Biden was chosen Obama's running mate
for the following reasons:
A. He's had his face in the public trough for half a century and so has lots of connections and many favors he can call in for his boss.
B. He has zero charisma and so cannot challenge Obama for the worship of the masses.
C. He is a complete dips**t, and so poses no intellectual threat to his boss either.
The guy is the perfect ''second banana''. And I love that during the primary campaign Biden kept insisting that Obama had insufficient experience to be president. Now Biden, with a straight face, has to work for the man. That must really chafe, but at least he caught the bouquet!
Sure starting to look like she wasn't fully vetted and chosen last minute as a token female...nm
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