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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Jim on December 06, 2008, 07:09:59 PM
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by way of trying to help "the economy" (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16258.html)
well, at least the illegal alien economy
President-elect Barack Obama added sweep and meat to his economic agenda on Saturday, pledging the largest new investment in roads and bridges since President Dwight D. Eisenhower built the Interstate system in the late 1950s, and tying his key initiatives – education, energy, health care –back to jobs in a package that has the makings of a smaller and modern version of FDR's New Deal marriage of job creation with infrastructure upgrades.
The president-elect also said for the first time that he will “launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen.â€
“We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms,†he said in the address.
The president-elect is bringing new elements of his domestic agenda into his economic recovery plan, committing to a path toward giving every American access to an electronic medical record as part of an “economic recovery plan ... that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives.â€
Obama had talked in the campaign about lowering health care costs by investing in electronic information technology systems, but not in the context of the economy.
Well Wall Street should tank now. After having run screaming away from his populist crap up til now, all he has is the failed policies of FDR to give us.
Chinese computers do you think ?
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Apple computers seem to be the preference of most public schools. Most PCs are pretty much of Chinese origin, anyways, thanks to Bill Clinton.
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The Treasury must be buying printing presses by the dozens in an effort to prepare for barack's spending.
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"We won't just throw money at the problem," (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/12/06/obama-wont-just-throw-money-problem/) Obama said in his weekly radio address and Internet video. "We'll measure progress by the reforms we make and the results we achieve -- by the jobs we create, by the energy we save, by whether America is more competitive in the world."
I'll believe that when I see the price tag for all these new promises.
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The old New Deal made things worse.
Yet this idiot thinks it will be different this time?
What an asshat.
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Notice this is from the government. The US is creating jobs, not business. That means this is a temporary fix, and all the employed masses will need to find real jobs after the New Deal is Done. This sounds good in a sound bite, but who's going to pay for all of this? the taxes required for a war, bailouts, and all of BO's spending will ruin the country.
Liberals is so stupid.
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Bread and circuses, circa 2009. I guess people never read deTocqueville.
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Public works programs, figures. I think Barack Hussein Obama has given up on pretending to be JFK, now he wants to be FDR, Keynesian economics on steroids. The defecit is going to go through the roof from what it currently is, until he "stimulates" the economy enough (by nationalizing key industries) until he can hike tax rates after the Bush cuts expire in 2010. The only thing he will cut is defense, and he'll be sorry.
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Wonder if he will get all of those chronically unemployed, welfare people into some of these jobs. There may be a tiny sliver of good idea in there.
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Wonder if he will get all of those chronically unemployed, welfare people into some of these jobs. There may be a tiny sliver of good idea in there.
Don't even think so. If you feel so inclined, might I suggest you read "FDR's Folly"?
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Wonder if he will get all of those chronically unemployed, welfare people into some of these jobs. There may be a tiny sliver of good idea in there.
you think for a second he'll make his voting base go to work?
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you think for a second he'll make his voting base go to work?
Of course! Omarosa said he'd make them go to work, didn't she?
(Do I even need a /sarc tag?)
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you think for a second he'll make his voting base go to work?
Sure. He just won't pay 'em. Last I heard he still hadn't paid all his campaign workers.
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Actually not a bad Idea. Where the problem arises is How it is paid for & how it is accomplished IE govt mandates such as mininum wage levels, hiring quotas etc etc.