Hmmmm, preparing for the economic challenges AHEAD...
Posted By: sm on 2008-11-10
In Reply to: Way to go Bush! (sm) - Just the big bad
DHL said it was making the cuts to improve profitability and "to prepare the company for the economic challenges ahead."
The company said this latest action would add $1.9 billion to its restructuring costs, for a total of $3.8 billion over two years, most of it during 2008. The company said the cuts would reduce the annual operating costs of DHL U.S. Express to less than $1 billion, from its current cost of $5.4 billion.
DHL is owned by the German company Deutsche Post World Net.
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The IDEA of:
- Full employment.
- Shorter work week.
- Guaranteed minimum wage income for all adults.
- Universal social benefits to include health care, child care, vacation time and lifelong access to education and training.
- Programs to ensure gender equality.
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Sam's preparing another avalanche of AB posts.
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Unity!...not! They are also preparing to beat the
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What the heck? Gibbs challenges
We have the right to freedom of speech. We all know we do not want Obama to fail, but do not socialism or even communisim. I call it a threat. Maybe (from teh post below) Russia is right how United States is going to fall around 2010. So sad. I even read our new Treasury guy agrees we should not tax the rich right now because we need them to help our economy.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/04/gibbs-takes-gloves-challenge-reporters-hosts-cross-obama/
Jim Cramer. Rush Limbaugh. Rick Santelli.
What do they all have in common? Most likely, none of them is getting invited to the White House Christmas party.
All three media personalities have been singled out by President Obama's press shop in the course of less than two weeks. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, in doing so, has shown an unusual willingness to spar with cable and radio hosts who take shots at his boss.
The rebuttals have ranged from playful ribbing to disdainful scolding.
Talk show host Limbaugh has drawn the most ire from the White House. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called him out on Sunday for saying he wants Obama to fail, after Obama told Republican lawmakers not to listen to people like Limbaugh several weeks ago.
Gibbs followed up Monday, calling on conservative pundits to challenge Limbaugh on air.
"Do they want to see the president's economic agenda fail? You know, I bet there are a number of guests on television throughout the day and maybe into tomorrow who could let America know whether -- whether they agree with what Rush Limbaugh said this weekend," Gibbs said. But then he took a shot at those who applauded Limbaugh during his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington over the weekend.
"You know, I'd like to think, and I think most people would like to think, that we can put aside our differences and get things done for the American people. We'll say, in watching a few cable clips of Mr. Limbaugh's speech, his notion of presidential failures seemed to be quite popular in the room in which he spoke," he said.
Gibbs repeated his call for Republicans to speak up on whether they agree with Limbaugh Tuesday. Limbaugh has said that while he wants Obama to fail, he doesn't want the economy to fail.
Donald Rieck, executive director at the Center for Media and Public Affairs, said the Obama team, which studies have shown received far more favorable press treatment during the campaign than its rivals, is apparently having trouble acclimating to a more critical press post-Inauguration Day.
"If they're going to do this, to jump like that every time someone says something provocative about them, it's going to be an awfully long tenure for Gibbs, because there's a way to let this roll off your shoulders," he said.
Gibbs didn't stop at Limbaugh, who Democrats eagerly claim speaks for the Republican Party in the absence of a clear leader. (House Republican Leader John Boehner asserted Wednesday that the White House was intentionally elevating Limbaugh to distract from their budget.)
On Tuesday, Gibbs also responded to a question about CNBC host Jim Cramer's claim that Obama's economic policies represent the "greatest wealth destruction" by a president.
"If you turn on a certain program, it's geared to a very small audience, no offense to my good friends or friend at CNBC," Gibbs said.
Gibbs tried to hedge at first, saying, "this is where I have to probably be careful," and "I'm not entirely sure what he's pointing to," and "I'm going to get in a lot of trouble."
That was almost certainly a reference to the last time he went after a CNBC reporter -- Rick Santelli.
In late February, Gibbs responded at length to Santelli's on-air rant at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in which he stirred up traders by shouting that the government was promoting "bad behavior" with its mortgage rescue plan. "This is America," he said. "How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills?"
Asked about the segment, Gibbs said: "I'm not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives. But the America people are struggling every day to meet their mortgage."
He said Santelli argued "quite wrongly" that the plan was ineffective and concluded by inviting him to the White House for a cup of "decaf" coffee.
"I would encourage him to read the president's plan and understand that it will help millions of people, many of whom he knows. I would be more than happy to have him come here and read it. I'd be happy to buy him a cup of coffee -- decaf."
The press in the room laughed at the quip, but Santelli later said he felt personally threatened by the White House.
Still, Gibbs said Tuesday he did not actually get in a "lot of trouble" for singling out Santelli.
"There are very few days that I've had more fun," Gibbs said.
As challenges mount ardor for Obama cools
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28720894/
Hmmmm.....
your post sounds a lot like a description of Obama to me. If Obama does not have prepared questions and answers, he stutters a lot and says "um" "er" "you know" -- O'Reilly was canned last night, completely scripted. Try watching him without the script. Believe me, we've noticed.
....and really, your "leash" comment is really stooping a bit low, don't you think?
Hmmmm....
Found this on a blog:
Woodland
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This Hillary dem is voting for McCain because of this: I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.- John McCain 2005 Legislation failed. The failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have been averted IF Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 had been passed. Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 only had three co-sponsors : Elizabeth Dole, John McCain and John Sununu. For Nancy Pelosi blaming the GOP is downright an insult to ALL of US TAXPAYERS! http://beltwaysnark.com/2008/09/16/john-mccai... - oversee-fannie-and-freddiein-2 005/ http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd... Gee, and who did the now Government financed mortgage broker Fannie Mae give its money to when it wanted to influence a politician? OpenSecrets lists the top three politicians in which FNMA invested from 1989 to 2008. Top Recipients of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008Name Office State Party Grand Total Dodd, Christopher S CT D $165,400 Obama, Barack S IL D $126,349 ($6000 came from the PAC) Kerry, John S MA D $111,000 What about McCain? The folks at Fannie Mae didnt show him a lot of love. According to Open Secrets: McCain, John S AZ R $21,550 (all from individuals). Oh yeah, and who tabbed the former head of Fannie Mae to head up his Vice Presidential search team? OBAMA, thats who. Back in May Barack turned to Jim Johnson, former CEO of Fannie Mae. The Congressional democrats have ruined our economy. Bye, bye, dear party. I am moving to the fiscal conservatives. The social issues are not important to me at this time. |
Hmmmm.......... sm
and this is your business how? Seems to me as though you have little room to tell me to mind my own business, Shirley.
She asked the question and I answered it.
Hmmmm
Interesting, because he predicted in the early 80s that there would be low inflation and falling oil prices and there was (while Reagan was in office).
Those were bad things?
Hmmmm...
Barack Obama is doing something constructive for general public by being a community organizer. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are just blowing smoke up your butts. Sorry...there is no comparison!
Hmmmm....
The article says one thing, the caption under the picture says: Break from protocol: Michelle Obama puts her arm around the Queen, who reciprocates, as the pair chatted after a group picture of the G20 leaders was taken.
Michelle went first and the queen 'reciprocated.' (That being-gracioius thing again.) Fairly sure that's what I saw on the video, though now I cannot find the complete video on the internet anywhere, just bits and pieces of it.
Hmmmm......(sm)
When was the last time you saw me, any liberal, or any liberal media promoting violence?
Hmmmm......(sm)
Bush screws up the economy (or at least doesn't take any steps to fix it).
Obama works on fixing the economy.
Bush started 2 wars (one of which was/is bogus).
Obama is working to end those wars and bring peace to the region.
Bush had prisoners tortured.
Obama has stopped torture.
Bush talks to other countries in a threatening tone (remember the axis of evil?) and then doesn't have a clue why nobody likes us.
Obama talks to people like they are human beings and respects other cultures, and the results are astounding.
Bush talked about healthcare.
Obama will do something about healthcare.
Bush goes overseas and he's greeted with the sole of a Nike.
Obama goes overseas and is liked and respected.
Bush never held Israel to its agreement to stop settlements.
Obama has already noted that this will be enforced.
There are a few things like the patriot act and LGBT issues that haven't been dealt with yet, but I would say that overall Obama is the exact opposite of Bush. Keep in mind, as he has only been in office for 5 months, he still has at least 3 years and 7 months to go. A lot can happen in that period of time.
hmmmm....
Bush screws up the economy...
look again at Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If you care about the truth. That is what screwed up the economy.
Obama is fixing the economy...? By tripling the debt in his first 5 months? How do you think he is going to recoup that? By just raising taxes on the rich. I know you are too smart to buy that.
Bush started 2 wars...geez, there is that chestnut. Congress started 2 wars. Bush by himself, as goofy as he was, cannot start wars by himself. Obama promised to start withdrawal from Iraq immediately. As soon as he was elected it became 16 months and they would LOOK at withdrawal. Now it is 23 months and they will look at withdrawal. Face it...he said it to get elected. And he as upped the ante in Afghanistan, and we have more troops there now than we did when Bush was in office. They are looking mighty similar to me. Bring peace to the region? That will never happen. Arabs cannot even get along among themselves. They have not been able to throughout history and whether we are there or not there will not be peace in that region. Come on. I know you are smarter than that. We are only over there because they brought the fight to us. Even Obama says we belong in Afghanistan because that is where bin Laden is (supposedly). Even HE thinks they brought the fight to us. Do you listen to what he says?
Bush had prisoners tortured. Matter of opinion. I don't call waterboarding torturing. It beats having your head cut off and waved in front of cameras. If waterboarding even one of those terrorists kept another attack from happening on our soil or anywhere else (and something sure did), then I say waterboard them. The effects are not lasting, it isn't permanent like having your head hacked off with a dull knife...sighhhh. And how do you know Obama stopped it? Because he said so? lol.
Bush talks to others in threatening tone and then wonders why no one likes us.
Well, you got me there. Bush did do that, Obama for SURE doesn't. I have to side with Bush on that one. I don't care if they LIKE me. I want them to think I might slap them silly if they attack my country. They are still going to buy our goods, come here for medical care (I do reports every day on kids from ALL the arab countries being brought to childrens hospitals here for care...that ain't gonna change), etc. Why is it so important to you that other countries "like" us? France has never liked us. The minute we liberated them in WWII they were yelling get out of our country. And these people are people you care if they "like" us?? Come onnnn big bad. I know you are smarter than that.
Bush never held Israel to its agreement to stop settlements. Hmmm. Has anyone ever held Hamas to its agreement not to slam Israel with rockets on a daily basis or send suicide bombers through the checkpoints? Oh, that doesn't count, because they are only killing Israelis?? Yes, I would expect Obama to side with Hamas. That is his heritage, or had you not noticed? As I said before...he doesn't give a rip what happens to Israel...as it seems, do you.
The patriot act? He voted to extend it as a senator. And now that he is Pres, that will change? And you believe it, because it said it? When he has gone back on the war, gone back on transparency...I know you are smarter than that.
Nope, Obama is NOT the exact opposite of Bush. He mimics him to a great extent. Probably because a lot of the same strings that pulled Bush pull him. ANd I know you are smart...so why not compile ALL the information and look at it objectively. DOn't look at what he SAYS, what he PROMISED...look at what he has DONE and what he HAS NOT done. The truth is there...if you want to see it.
I said the same things to folks about Bush by the way. There are only a handful of things I think Bush did right...and a whole lot of things I think he did wrong. I am still waiting for a right thing from Barry from Chicago.
Hmmmm.
I don't know why any of these things O has done is a surprise to anyone.... all anyone had to do was look at his history, his HUGE lack of experience, his VERY liberal way of looking at things, the Muslim country he was raised in (govt ruled), the harsh racist remarks he made in his book AGAINST white people, to see where he would take the country and exactly what his agenda would be.
He is a racist man for one thing. He is Muslim... he is someone's puppet and they knew it is why he suddenly appeared on the scene, money poured in from NOWHERE it seems, and waalah!!!! he is now our president. Strange isn't it? No executive skills or experience WHATSOEVER. He promised the moon, which anyone with half a brain knew was a sackful of ______(you can fill in the blank)!!! Sure he would LOVE to legalize marijuana; after all, he LOVES drugs and openly admitted to using drugs for YEARS!!! What a shocker there!
Guns...... well, he was raised in a country where guns were banned (only govt and their military dictatorship ran militia had guns)... NO SHOCKER THERE!
Smoking.... hmmmm.. HE is the one who wans to stop smoking; therefore, he has deemed it necessary for ALL MANKIND in the U.S. to stop smoking, simply because HE IS READY TO STOP SMOKING. Gee!! WHat a shocker! If he still wanted to smoke, believe me that tobacco would be the last thing on his mind to regulate and regulate to death!!
He promised no lobbylists.... he has SURROUNDED himself with lobbylists from day 1 ... what a liar!!!
No pork.... well, we all know what a lie that was...
Line by line...... what a joke!!
Anyone with half a brain knew they were NOT going to see tax cut... I don't call $25 extra in your check a taxcut by the way.... another LIE!!
That $250K or more will be the only affected by taxes....... HA!! Another lie! How in the he!! can ANYONE think all his social programs and free handouts to those who feel "entitled" NOT be paid for by you and me?! There aren't enough RICH in this country to pay for all those freebies. And secondly, only someone born being told that RICH is bad and govt is great actually feels that way...except for the lame followers he has suckered into his way of thinking.
RICH is not a bad word. How many poor people do you know who employ anyone? I don't! I'm glad there are rich people out there and most ALL of them have actually worked their way to their status. What the heck is wrong with hard work and making lots of money... the only people who think it is wrong are those that actually believe they will never be rich, so heaven forbid anyone else is....
Your freedoms are being QUICKLY taken away with Obama.... he says one thing and does another, so for all those that try preaching what he said he wouldn't do, please save your fingers protesting.... he is a liar! plain and simple...
He will not save you from yourself. Heaven knows we need a crook to save us. His wife is very questionably a crook; just take a look at her $317 THOUSAND dollar job at the charity hospital in Chicago, where she committed deeds that would have gotten anyone else ARRESTED and criminal charges brought against. But, with litlte 'ol hubby being in the senate, they quietly brushed that criminal activity under the table and just done away with her position. Poor little Obamas! BTW, for those that didn't bother to hear the facts about this family, SHE was the one pushing to dump poor patients (mostly blacks) out the door of the hospital and into surrounding hospitals, all the while taking MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars from the govt for charity patients, which she was fraudently using....
Not to mention being "mentored" by Rev Wright and his hate speeches, racist speeches....whatever you wanna call them!
Murdering late term babies.... he's all for it and even said he would like to think if his daughters found themselves in that situation that they would have "options" available to them. What the heck does that tell you about what he thinks about morals and human life?
Not only is it business as usual in Washington, it is a free for all bananza of crooks and thieves and "special interest groups" unlike anything this country has ever seen before. Don't get me wrong, Obama is just the puppet, someone else pulls his strings.... but the real powers that be knew he would be the perfect little puppet to pull the masses of lame brains in so they could try to get away with their agenda...
Ah, there's that factcheck.....hmmmm
Don't forget that factcheck.org is part of the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania and is funded by the Annenberg Foundation that employed Obama in Chicago.
Strange bed fellas, aren't they?
Hmmmm....well, if that's the case........
he should butt out of N. Korea and China and the "Asian" countries shouldn't he? N. Korea is threatening with attacks "if" we interefere but that hasn't stopped Obama from speaking his peace about what he thinks they "should" do.
Same for Iran. He can help support the 70% population in the streets by simply saying he supports they attempt to be heard and listened to by their govt!!
'Mind your own business' hasn't kept Obama quiet about N. Korea or China....
Iran has nuclear weaponery as well!!
This is nothing more than him not wanting to speak out against his Muslin brothers.... plain and simple.. and you have to ask yourself why. Why is he willing to be so quiet about this when he has no problem yammering on about Asian countries. Yea, let's all just pretend we don't get it.
What that does tell me is Obama has NO problem with oppression of those folks over there... after all, he is attempting to do the same thing here and if we don't get him out next election, he will have taken this country down a horrible path, if he doesn't railroad those same efforts in here beforehand.
Don't care if you agree or not. The very fact that he has orchestrated his little govt in the private sector BIG TIME and is now trying to do the same with healthcare speaks volumes for those who are not sucked in by the O fest that many are now shaking their heads, crawling out of their little brainwashed brains, and wondering what the he!! were they thinking when they voted for this guy!!
hmmmm....four against one....sure feels like a gang to me....lol
I really don't care to engage in dialogue with four or five people on this board whose only goal at the moment is to ridicule Sarah Palin, in every context imaginable. And not to mention, the current conservative poster on the board, which at the moment happens to be me.
So bye all....I know I've been civil and polite to everyone here.
Can you say the same?
And by the way....Sarah Palin is worth her weight in gold. Can't change my mind, no matter how much you trash her.
Carry on.....
hmmmm, funny, maybe it is too long
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml
Not sure why the entire link does not come up, but at the end it should be /main4476173.shtml
Hmmmm, pure dung? Definitely an
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HMMMM...over 16,000 signed petition
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Hmmmm.... so homosexuals AREN'T forcing their
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Hmmmm, I didn't realize war veterans fell into
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While you are at it, why don't you go ahead and
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I think we should look ahead instead....
of continuing down the path that has led to our destruction. We need alternative energy. By continuing to depend on oil, we create the need for products that run on oil. We need to stop, think and listen. No more party BS. I am fed up. We can all call each other names, puke on our representatives and all that does is fuel (no pun intended) more frustration. There are some extremely intelligent entities out there who LOVE what is happening to our country and who have probably engineered our failure to a very great degree. I don't think we can depend on Washington. We will have to depend on our own ingenuity and sacrifice in order to regain ORDER. I restrict driving as much as possible - unfortunately, I am oil-dependent in that regard. We have to give up our old way of living (in excess) and resort to more practical means. Instead of buying that new IPOD, buy more groceries and hoard. You are still putting money into the economy, OUR economy, if you buy American.......which is getting harder and harder to do. Support your local butcher. Save-A-Lot is almost entirely US grown and packaged. Read labels. Anybody else have any suggestions to support our country?
You go right ahead,
we won't miss you a bit. Seriously.
We need to go ahead and whip a$$ and get out from over there.
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Keep on, go ahead. Just keep digging....
you are digging a hole your candidate will not be able to climb out of. Do you not think that all the mothers of teens who are pregnant or have had pregnant teens or were pregnant teens themselves are going to vote for a man who they think feels the way you people are posting?
Go right ahead. You will kill his candidacy. More power to you. Put it on billboards. Chant it in the streets. Take out TV ads. I wish you would.
go ahead...continue...
....being rude.
Life's too short to be so full of hate, directed at every member of the opposite viewpoint.
But as you say, the silence is deafening....maybe you need a hearing aid??
he's currently ahead in Virginia, too -
What are you talking about? Go ahead
bigots, racists, and prejudiced because the RNC spent $$ on clothes and Obama told Joe he wants to spread the wealth.
OMG! Are you serious? Go ahead, elect O
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I say go ahead if that's what works for you.
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Go ahead continue to talk about which you know nothing about
Go ahead, then, continue to talk about what you know nothing about other than news reports and slanted history books and we, who truly know a bit more about jewish issues and Israel will sit back and continue to smile and, of course, like I said in my previous post, there are always courses in the local synagogue that you can take. Join a jewish discussion group either in the net or in your home town, that is if your home town even has a jew in it, and learn the truth. Not what is being put out there by radical orthodox jews. Those are the ones that you see fighting in Israel to stay in Gaza. The radical orthodox jews. Sharon, as much as I dont like him, is right in what he has decided. It is unfortunate but it is just and right.
Go ahead and defend a racist
even if it's so out of character for a liberal.
Go ahead Ann whine with dignity...sm
In 2000, Gore won the popular vote HANDS DOWN!
It all came down to Florida where Bush took the state with a mere 500 votes more than Gore. Had the disqualified ballots were counted Gore would have took Florida. This did not stop conservatives from ranting and raving about their percieved *epic* victory. Matter of fact, conservatives picked their heads up high and boasted so, one would have thought it was a landslide win calling democrats whiners.
So go ahead Ann and whine with dignity, Nov 7 was a victory for dems nonetheless.
I have my shield up so go ahead FLAME AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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McCain ahead according to Gallup...
Gallup Daily: McCain Moves Ahead, 48% to 45% September 7, 2008
go ahead, dig the hole deeper for him...
don't you pay attention to your own candidate? He DOESN'T want to run against sarah palin. He is saying it, Axelrod is saying it, and their followers keep right on attacking her, which invites comparisons to HIM. LOL. Perfect.
obama ahead by 15 points
Talk is cheap. See, I can just pull statements out of my bellybutton also.
obama is ahead in all major
polls. Sympathy not required.
Go ahead and ignore it, and vote to put the fox in...
control of the chicken house. I verified each one of those facts. Why don't you do the same? Look up the bills that were blocked. Listen to what the people were saying? Music was all you got out of that? Lord, no wonder we are in the shape we are in. Bless your heart.
Go ahead and trust Obama, then.
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Not to worry. Obama is ahead
The sky will not be falling on December 15th.
Looking Ahead to the Obama Presidency.....sm
Looking Ahead to the Obama Presidency
Written by John F. McManus
Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:40
Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's own records and agendas show the direction they have in mind for the nation.
Without doubt, the election of Barack Obama is historic because he is the first Black American selected by voters for the highest office in the land. Indeed, the election of an African-American to the presidency by a nation with a majority white population may be unprecedented, and the fact that this is possible should be a source of pride for all of us, regardless of whether Obama himself was a good or bad choice.
An articulate and confident young man, Obama's presence in the White House will be welcomed by many. Along with his oratorical skills and appealing vitality, his family will remind older Americans of the John F. Kennedy era when a telegenic and appealing wife and two charming youngsters accompanied the newly elected president into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
What will the Obama presidency be like? Throughout a campaign stretching back for almost two years, the Illinois senator regularly employed the word "change," and the word even morphed into "change we can believe in." The posters, oratory, television ads, and pronouncements of several Obama staffers repeatedly issued unspecified pledges that this new and different candidate would alter the course America was following.
"Blueprint for Change"
But how would America's course be altered? Even though the American people could have read online what an Obama-Biden administration promised, most failed to do so. Much of the agenda, albeit without a lot of detail, is contained in Blueprint for Change, the 83-page document subtitled "Plan for America" issued by the Obama-Biden team. As we shall see, the "change" envisioned by the Blueprint includes more government at home and a continuation of our interventionist foreign policy abroad.
Of course, America has been moving in the direction of more and bigger government for decades, regardless of whether a Republican or Democrat has been in the White House. Obama hopes to move us even further in the big-government direction. What kind of change is that?
Even many Americans who recognize that Obama will push for more government at home believe that he will end our interventionist foreign policy because of the opposition he has expressed to the Iraq War. But this conclusion flies in the face of his proposal to transfer troops to Afghanistan (in essence transferring the Iraq War to a different theater) and his support for international arrangements, including expansion of NATO.
Please consider the following positions as they appear in the pages of the revealing "blueprint" document and judge for yourself how much change there will be and whether the recommended "change" would be a good thing. (Comments following each quoted item are ours.)
"Emergency Economic Plan to Inject Immediate Relief into the Economy." Both Obama and Biden voted for the $700 billion bailout (along with John McCain). More bailouts will likely follow.
"Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families." Government giving money to everyone, as was done with the 2008 rebate, doesn't solve any problems. These funds either have to be printed (the root cause of inflation) or borrowed, likely from China, which puts our nation's neck in a noose. The interest that is compounding on our already enormous debt is a toxic time bomb. The government will eventually resort to massive inflation to pay the debt or collateralize the debt with American assets; in which case, those now holding our bonds will end up owning America.
"Invest in the Manufacturing Sector." America's manufacturers need relief from the stifling array of taxes and regulations, and from the steady erosion of the dollar brought on by debilitating inflation, not government handouts that are always followed by government control. A 2006 study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute entitled "Ten Thousand Commandments" found that the federal regulatory burden on U.S. businesses amounted to $1.13 trillion. This burden is killing American businesses, productivity, innovation, and jobs.
"Create 5 Million New Green Jobs." This will be done, says the Blueprint, by investing "$150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial scale renewable energy," etc. In other words, politicians and bureaucrats would create government jobs and subsidize private-sector jobs that should be financed by the private sector (and would be if they were economically viable). Government should get out of the way and let free Americans create jobs.
"Create a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank." This promise includes an infusion of $60 billion more in federal spending.
"Give the Federal Reserve Greater Supervisory Authority." The Federal Reserve, which already wields enormous, unconstitutional powers, is a destructive engine of inflation and should hardly be given greater authority. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman has recommended, it should be abolished, not enhanced.
"Pressure the World Trade Organization to Enforce Trade Agreements." Granting the UN's WTO even more authority is another step toward global governance. The WTO is already exercising judicial jurisdiction over sovereign nations, overruling national laws and legislatures, including the laws and the Congress of the United States. Congress and President Bush have weakly protested these usurpations and then meekly accepted them.
"Guarantee Affordable, Accessible Health Care for Every American." Healthcare costs have risen dramatically because of already existing government intervention. A national healthcare system would swell the cost while making healthcare hard to obtain, as such plans have done everywhere they have been instituted.
"Barack Obama has fought for comprehensive immigration reform." Ultimately, what this means is amnesty for as many as 20 million illegal aliens in our nation.
"High Quality Zero-to-Five Education." The Obama plan actually calls for "early care and education for infants in a Zero to 5 Plan," more government for K-12, federal support for afterschool programs, and more grants for those who move on to college.
"Double our annual investment in foreign assistance ... to $50 billion.... Invest at least $50 billion [annually] by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS." With record deficits and a soaring National Debt, America is, in effect, giving away borrowed money.
The above constitute only a sampling of the pledges for more programs, more spending, and more government powers contained in the 83 pages of the Blueprint for Change. And the official Obama-Biden Internet website provides several hundred more pages of details, all pointing toward plans for a vast expansion of the federal government. Less than a week after the election, Georgia Congressman Paul Broun (R) told an audience in his district the president-elect shows "signs of being a Marxist." Perhaps Broun had read the Obama-Biden Blueprint, a rather obvious call for socialism in the United States. And perhaps Broun knows that, in addition to Marx's well-publicized association with communism, Karl Marx is also the godfather of socialism.
Although he didn't mention his own party, we should point out that Rep. Broun's criticism of Obama's apparent Marxist bent applies also to many Republicans. In fact, in October, President Bush and many Republican members of Congress rolled out the Socialist Express to push through the bailout package. Take it from Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, a self-proclaimed socialist, who congratulated Bush for joining the socialist club, and then chided him and his allies for applying a double standard. "How many times have they criticized me for nationalizing the phone company?" he asked. "They say, 'The state shouldn't get involved in that.' But now they don't criticize Bush for having nationalize[d] ... the biggest banks in the world. Comrade Bush, how are you?"
Expanding the UN
The United Nations Association of the United States is the most determined promoter of the UN within our nation. Early in 2008, its leaders sent a questionnaire to all presidential candidates. Barack Obama displayed his strong commitment to the world body and to its various sovereignty-compromising programs in his responses, some of which follow:
"No country has a greater stake in a strong United Nations than the United States."
"I have pledged to create a [UN-promoted] cap on carbon emissions in the United States."
"I fully support the [UN] Millennium Development Goals."
In the year 2000, the 189 member nations of the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals, a program of eight goals to aid developing countries. Our share of funding these goals could total hundreds of billions of dollars in just a few years. Senator Barack Obama introduced S. 2433 in 2007. Labeled the "Global Poverty Act," this proposal seeks to require our nation to "achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of the people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than one dollar per day." Five months later, Senator Biden offered minor amendments to the bill as he co-signed it. Obviously, these two senators and the handful of others they have enlisted to back their proposal believe the American people should pony up enormous sums of money sought by the UN in another program that would empower the world body and further enrich corrupt foreign dictators while doing little to improve the plight of the world's poor.
Based on their stated positions and track records, it is reasonable to expect that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and the team they will select to staff the new administration won't even consider less government and a mind-your-own-business foreign policy to be options. Their agenda, if implemented, would speed the growth of the federal government, accelerate the surrender of America's independence, and hasten our nation down the path toward submergence in what internationalists euphemistically refer to as "global governance" by various supranational institutions, of which the UN, the WTO, and the IMF are among the most noteworthy. For more information about the power brokers who have helped formulate Obama's agenda and who will be running the Obama-Biden administration, see "Behind the Obama Agenda."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/543-looking-ahead-to-the-obama-presidency
"Oh, please".. yourself. O said, "yeah, go ahead".
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Economic Downfall sm
When you have 5 minutes, watch this; it's causing quite a "furor" in the online community! =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmcf4Y3lGM
Economic definitions.............
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
Depression is when you lose yours.
Recovery is when Obama loses his.
Go ahead and spout gt if makes you feel better
however, you are only making a fool of yourself along with the namby pamby liberals who write stuff like this.
I put the person (& country) ahead of the party - so this
Go ahead...if you voted for "O" he promised to have it ready...
get right on down there and sign up. You'll still get your tax cut...even if you don't pay any.
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