Obama Pledges to Secure 2.5 Million More Jobs by 2011

I need a job!!!!!!

Maybe it’s rethoric, but there is less incentive now to do just that now that he has been elected president. As a US citizen I am impressed to what he has already accomplished: among other things, to bring people together who once were his rivals. Good job! Keep up the good work. Still he needs to prove himself, but at least there is confidence which is what this country currently needs in this crisis.

Sounds like a rework of FDR’s New Deal to me! Why is it that he cannot have an original thought? Demos are forever plagiarizing ideas.

Wonderful. Obama is going to blow a trillion dollars we don’t have, meaning we have to borrow more money from hostile countries, so he can grow the size of government in the name of creating jobs. We don’t need more government leeches sucking on taxpayers money.

Hey wait 2.5 million jobs? we are still waiting for the heavens to open and Celestial Angels singing praise to Obama…

Dems needs a class in accounting 101. Corporations do not pay taxes – they collect them. Taxes are a business expense and added to the cost of the item just like materials. Cutting taxes to corporations is not a loophole, it makes our products competitive in price thus creating jobs. We have the highest corporate taxes in the world and we wonder why businesses leave the country. And as for the government “creating jobs” we will look like thesoviet union with everyone working for the government and nothing getting done. Wonderful. Dems abd Obama are just visionaries.

Bring the troops home spend that money HERE!!! And maybe this economy would recover BHO!!! Employing people to spy on their neighbors in the name of the enviroment is just as bad as Bush getting us to do the same over a persons religion or ethnicity!!!

It’s easy to tear down Obama – but at least he’s making an effort to do something. There’s been no one running the helm of our economic ship for some time now. Short of investing in the nation’s future – what’s an alternative plan. It’s great someone is talking about a vision of our country two years from now. I don’t remember anyone speaking about the future of the average American over the last eight years – I guess it was just supposed to happen.

its amazing ,but for once the american voter made the right choice.
GO OBAMA !!

any jobs created under his plan for 2yrs will be of the minimum-wage variety and nothing for us skilled-level workers to compete for.and at best this will not help much,this guy is grasping at straws,on this issue and after 2 yrs this economy will still be in the toilet,

We have a job shortage and we’re giving the jobs that Obama is describing to illegal immigrants. At least in California, Nevada, N. Mexico, Arizona and Texas. The overwhelming majority of workers building roads and new developments don’t speak English and Spanish is required.
We’ve had a major increase in illegal immigration since Obama started campaigning/pandering to immigrants promising them amnesty, increased wages and benefits, subsidized housing and free education. Bush did nothing to stop it either.
We have enough poor and unemployed citizens of our own. We can’t afford to add 25 million uneducated, poor immigrants at this time. They’re already costing taxpayers over $100 billion a year.

sc superman , your job is outsourced because you want +$35/hr to do what someone else CAN DO for $2/hr ,in bangladesh.
dont blame obama for not making a job for you ,blame the companies who sent and continue to send your kind of job overseas to get bigger profits.
he at least has a plan, what plan (other than unlimited/unchecked corporate welfare via taxbreaks loopholes and lately ,taxpayer funded bailouts ) did the republicans offer for the last 30 years?
this guy has more vision than anyone since jfk , i like his style immensely already.

SC Superman
any jobs created under his plan for 2yrs will be of the minimum-wage variety and nothing for us skilled-level workers to compete for.and at best this will not help much,this guy is grasping at straws,on this issue and after 2 yrs this economy will still be in the toilet,
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Well… do you think you are going to be better off if you leave Bush in office?
What is your skilled solution?

GREAT GRAN IN MO : any jobs this guy creates are going to be of the garden variety [meaning minimum wage type jobs andthis not going to help the economy one little bit they need to focus on lon term projects that pay a decent wage.but this must be the farthest thing from their minds at this point. this guy is going to raise taxes on everyone and it will not be long in happening he lies through his teeth and i dont trust him one little bit.:

Its so nice to have a grown up in the oval office. I am very optimistic about our future. You know Obama has his detractors worried when they’ve been reduced to calling him “drug addicted” when our current president is the only one who has been arrested for being under the influence. WE MADE A GOOD CHOICE AMERICA!!!

I know how much hope Obama is bringing by the amount of whining by the intellectual Bush supporters.
Posted by: mr sleepy | Nov 22, 2008 3:24:59 PM
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I sell Hope here.
1 cent per Hope. Any takers?
Make a wish, and I’ll give you a Hope for 1c

jhw539,
There were 100 US Senators, and there was only one who wrote exactly Zero legislation.
There are now 99 US Senators, and they all have written a legislation.

expecting :”There were 100 US Senators, and there was only one who wrote exactly Zero legislation.
There are now 99 US Senators, and they all have written a legislation.”
I’m sorry, I don’t listen to talk radio so you’ll need to actually present your full thought rather than speak in rightwing shorthand. I really don’t know what you’re talking about. You can go to the federal law books and see the Lugar-Obama signed into law in 2007. None of the senators running for President were active legislators during the campaign. I’m not sure if you’re just ignorant of the facts or if there is a laundry list of qualifiers that you’re leaving out that makes your post merely deceptive rather than lying.
I’ve already stated that I’m more impressed with Obama’s body of law work in IL. And, frankly, I like fewer laws. Passing useless feel good legislation like McCain’s finance reform (which he personally made a mockery of with his $30k+ per plate dinners to fund not his election, oh no he banned that practice, the money went to the “RNC Committee to Elect John McCain”) is a waste of time. Heck, I’d be really impressed by a legislator who started pruning back useless law.

Sounds like good ideas to me – and basically what he ran his campaign on. You’re getting what you voted for with Obama so far.
And by the way, all this criticism of Democratic ‘overspending’ . ..
Here’s how the Republicans ran the government (into the ground).
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
$421 Billion OVER BUDGET (2002)
$555 Billion OVER BUDGET (2003)
$596 Billion OVER BUDGET (2004)
$554 Billion OVER BUDGET (2005)
$574 Billion OVER BUDGET (2006)
This includes RECORD overspending.
At least “rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil . . . ” sounds like a good focus for overspending.
Better than “lining the pockets of Bush and Cheney’s oil, banking and military/industrial family pals”. Can you say “Bush’s Saudi friends” boys and girls?

When is Obama gonna start spreading that wealth around? I got bills to pay.

Watch and see, B.O. will give Americans the same kinds of jobs he created in Chicago….none.

evonaix:
send you bills to Bush and Cheney . ..
Here’s how the Republicans ran the government, and spent all your money.
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
$421 Billion OVER BUDGET (2002)
$555 Billion OVER BUDGET (2003)
$596 Billion OVER BUDGET (2004)
$554 Billion OVER BUDGET (2005)
$574 Billion OVER BUDGET (2006)
Thank God for those ‘conservatives’.

mariposa, you think President-elect Obama is getting ready to roll the tanks into Mexico? Get real.

Pevros- you forgot to mention the last 2 years when the Democrats controlled the Congress. Over $500B each year. BY the time Obama and the Dems get done, the budget deficit will be triple what it is now. Obama is a loser and just more of the same. This stuff about ” change” was total nonsense and with his Clinton appointments and projected government spending, we now back to the future.

Again, this guys speaks like a parrot perched on a stick. The expectations are high and believe or not get ready for disappointment.His “change” cabinet are Clinton’s croonies including Hillary and some will have a hard look in Congress confirmations. Make no mistakes these new jobs are goverment created and temporary in nature.

Job creation? Jobs are created when there is a need for them, if Obama simply dropped some taxes on corporations, small businesses and people everywhere would this not spur economic growth which then the local and state governments could use to build infrastructures as they see fit? If people had more money in their pockets would they not go out, buy a car, pay their mortgages and debt on time and buy stuff that other people make? Obamas plans seem to either take money from one side and hand it over to someone else or have the government print more of it up which makes the dollars we earn eventually worth less.

david:
Where did the Republicans think this money was coming from? The moon?
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
$421 Billion OVER BUDGET (2002)
$555 Billion OVER BUDGET (2003)
$596 Billion OVER BUDGET (2004)
$554 Billion OVER BUDGET (2005)
$574 Billion OVER BUDGET (2006)
This includes RECORD overspending.

max:
Republicans had control of White House AND CONGRESS for these years:
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
$421 Billion OVER BUDGET (2002)
$555 Billion OVER BUDGET (2003)
$596 Billion OVER BUDGET (2004)
$554 Billion OVER BUDGET (2005)
$574 Billion OVER BUDGET (2006)
Sorry, you can’t blame it on the Democrats when Republicans controlled Congress and White House.
Nice try though . ..

expecting: “It was twenty years of work in the making, but our Greatest Leader got the credit.”
Again, because Republicans seem to require repetition of very simple facts:
“Except for those laws he personally wrote and lobbied hard to get passed that are on the books in IL right now (I like the requirement that police videotape interrogations and confessions in civil cases, and now they’ve seen how Obama implemented it, so do BOTH prosecutors and civil rights lawyers). I’ll ignore easy stuff like the Lugar-Obama nuclear proliferation law on the federal books, that is small change compared to the legislating he did in IL.” -JHW
Someone stated: ” Actually, he has no record of any accomplishments except public speaking and campaigning.”
My reply to that is above. Using REALITY how can you agree with that statement in light of the actual laws Obama personally wrote and is on record as being responsible for the passage of well before he entered the spotlight?

Hey ABC! Where is the question mark after the headline?

Foolish Americans are those who voted for McSame and still support the Republican policies that ran our economy into the ground..How foolish can people be to support something or someone that destroys our country. Heaven help us all and thank God for helping us to get rid of those Republicans..they are all rich and don’t care about middle class and poor Americans..good riddance! go away and stay away! Republicans make me sick!

Whats stupid is all the people who voted for this inexperienced slick politician from Chicago.
In Europe the call it socialism
In the US we call it welfare
Obama calls it change

Foolish Americans are those who voted for Obama and still support the Democrat policies that ran our economy into the ground..How foolish can people be to support something or someone that destroys our country. Heaven help us all to bear with 4 years of the same crooks like Frank and Dodd, Pelosi and reid and most of all the liar Obama!..they are all rich and don’t care about middle class and poor Americans..good riddance! go away and stay away! Liberal democrats make me sick!

Obama is a good man with a good heart! I admired that man more when he decided against using the fireworks on election night to celebrate..I admired him more when he let bygones be bygones and forgave Joe(Judas)Lieberman which helped him keep the chairmanship for a powerful committee..I admired that man more when he forgave Palin for saying all those nasty,dirty lies about him..I admire him for reaching out to Hillary and Bill after they dogged him during the primaries..he did not say any unkind words about Hillary during the primaries..he stuck to discussing the issues..and people admired him for that..I admire the way he seeks counsel from people who are experts before making a decision(quite unlike our current president)..Obama is a good man who loves his country and wants to make a difference..If the Republicans don’t try to put blocks in his way..that man will turn this country around and may be the best president that we have ever had. Obama is a good man who don’t deal in hate and retribution and getting back at people who don’t like him..he believes in all Americans working together regardless of differences..What a man! If America support Obama and his policies then this country will turn around and be the beacon that it once was to this world. God bless Barack Obama and God bless these United States of America!

DAMOCLEASE:
HAD A JOB BUT WAS LAID OFF!!!
ECONOMY, HAVEN’T YOU HEARD!!!!

Republican policies are help the rich and hope the money will trickle down to the poor(voodoo economics) and war..Democrats policy is that of investing in the middle class and growing the economy and do not get involved in a war unless its absolutely necessary..no wonder the clinton years were prosperous and the Bush years have been a living hell for most Americans…Now we have will have a president who will invest in the middle class to grow the economy..invest in rebuilding America and creating jobs..invest in educating our youth..invest in energy..and turn this sinking ship around..Obama is a smart man and loves his country and will make a difference if the Republicans don’t play politics and try to put blocks in his way…Obama will be a great president! 54 million Americans and the rest of the world know that..I have never seen anything like this..the whole world is excited about this man and the changes that he and his brilliant cabinet are capable of making to impact the economy of our beloved country and by extension the whole world..as one foreigner told me “When America sneezes the whole world catches a cold”..The world is looking to America for leadership which was void for eight years..Obama understands the kind of leadership that America and the world are looking for and he will provide that leadership. Obama is a good man! God bless Barack Obama and God bless these United States of America!

It’s time to ignore the negative people. Obama has done more in just getting elected (gave hope) than most people had for some time. They want attention and don’t waste your breath. Let these miserable people stick together. If they wanted McCain to win they should have done more. Remember what McCain said, Americans don’t like sore losers, so ignore them because they just want to drain you of your energy to focus on problems. We know we have problems and don’t need them to remind us. Let those in charge now work on solutions. IGNORE THEM. If we all ignore the haters they will only have eachother to remind themselves of what hasn’t worked. We are a step ahead. We already know what hasn’t worked and support Obama 100%. Bye haters

Zorra, you are right! lets ignore the Republican nation destroyers and support Obama the nation builder! God bless Barack Obama and God bless America!

And how, exactly, is he going to create jobs? And who is going to pay for them? Current corporations aren’t going to, because he wants to increase the taxes on them. Which means he plans to use that money to create these jobs… and guess what will happen? The current corporations will lay off even more people because they won’t be able to afford to keep them employed. We will probably end up with a net decrease in jobs.

Stanley – I thought Democrats were supposed to be inclusive? All I keep reading is that if you didn’t vote for Obama that you need to leave the country. How is that being inclusive?

ellbells930, Its okay if you did not vote for Obama..this is a democratic country but when you hate the president elect so much that you want him to fail at the expense of our country..in otherwords..you care more about the Republican party than you do for your country..I have a problem with that! The fact is that the Republicans have damaged our country’s economy and Barack Obama is going to fix it..because he is a smart man who will surround himself with smart people who love this country and want to turn it around. God bless America and good riddance to the Republican so called leaders!

Ok so where does he plan to crap out all these jobs in the next few years. From his own lips he said this “We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead.”
1. Just where will he get all the asphalt and concrete to rebuild these infrastructures at a time when we are told there is a major shortage of asphalt and asphalt products to make it in the US.
2. The way to fix school is put in teachers who care about kids not a pay check and let them discipline the kids since they seem to not be getting that at home. Just building new larger schools is not the answer.
3. Wind farms and solar power do very little yes they are free but the overall impact is very little how about we go NUCLEAR POWER instead!!!! Put more plants into production faster learn from the French and reprocess used fuels to put right back into reactors and limit overall waste to be stored.
4. As for oil dependency make car makers retool and build the cars they should have been building decades ago to get us away from oil use. They played to he tune of Big Oil and all those years of kickbacks have hurt them now they want bailouts. I say no to that crush the UAW they have done nothing for the workers yet lined there pockets with money. Then cut pay 50 percent for auto workers but give them better health and retirement

The economy is tanking, and the Stock Market has a free fall, dropping 30% since Pres 0bama was elected.
Bush and the Congress, while Pres 0bama was still a voting member, decided to bail out the bankers and insurers with a trillion dollars, that’s 1,000,000,000,000 dollars.
Yet, when the real Middle class who builds the economy came to town, asking for merely $25 billion, to save more than 4 million jobs which could potentially be lost, the Congress refused.
Pres. 0bama kept his cool silence in his hole in Chicago.
Pres. Bush was equally clueless, silent in his Oval office.
There are about 60 days left; Bush is not capable of forming a new policy, a new direction, a solution for the economy.
The problem is our Greatest Leader’s. Do you think he understands it?
He kept his cool silence, waiting for his turn in 60 days, watching amusingly the market fall, joining happily with his Southside pedestrian on your loss in the stock market, asking for his advice on the economy.
Sadly, I am not surprised at all that our Greatest Leader is clueless.
Help! The Country needs leadership.
Help! The Market needs reassurance for direction.
Help! Only Senator Clinton can save us.

Exactly how much “hope” does it take to pay my mortgage? Reading through these posts, it appears that’s all I have to work with.
Seriously, 90% of you don’t really have any idea what Obama’s policies are. You’re repeating the talking points and buzz words, but you really don’t know. Can’t say I blame you because at this point, I don’t think even Obama himself knows what his policies are. I can guarantee this. . . . the more he gets briefed on our security and economic status, the more his policies will look like GW’s and the less chance there is that all those promises he made in his campaign will ever come to fruition. For starters, there’s no way in hell you’re going to gain 2.5M jobs as you substantially increase capitol gains tax, and raise income tax on $250K incomes. I employ 20 people and my business ultimately initiates from the $250K plus income bracket, and if you follow the money, you’ll probably find that most of your jobs also initiate from those $250K plus incomes.
He WAS the media sweetheart, but now that McCain is gone, and Bush is winding down, they need something to write about. Just because they did everything within their power to get him elected, doesn’t mean they won’t tear him limb from limb when things aren’t going well and they need a story. It won’t be long before he’s being blamed for things like the weather just like GW. The difference is, Obama is thin skinned and will enter into a state of shock when the media turns on him. Then what?

2.5 Mil over 3 years BIG deal, over 8 million jobs were created under the Bush Administration – Promises, Promises, Promises, Promises, making promises one thing BO appears to be really good at, and the Press is more than glad to go along with it. Public work projects… heheheh I can see it now, more PORK barrel spending, where are the SPECIFICS BO….

What the hell is Bush doing?

Government spending sure didn’t do anything to overcome our economic woes. Hell, Bush should be the darling of the left with all the hyper spending he did. I hope barry doesn’t think that raising taxes will help heal our economy.
This notion that a president has anything to do with creating jobs is a bit far-fetched. It is the small business owners who have the greatest impact on job growth. As soon as the tax monster gives the small business owners a break on corporate tax, capital gains tax and regulatory taxes, the sooner jobs will open up. I own a small business and that is the best scenerio to real economic growth.

You cannot fix a problem caused by living on borrowed money by borrowing more money. How dumb is it to make debt payments by borrowing more money? Obama has no solution and not a clue what to do because he doesn’t grasp the cause of the economic problem which is living on borrowed money and calling it prosperity. This has been going on for 25 years and it finally caught up with us. If somebody says they are going to spend their way out of the problem, we are truly in for a rough ride. BTW, the price of gas was $1.59 today so do I credit Bush with bringing the price down? You all blamed him for raising it. Remember? it was all Bush’s fault.

jwench- with the cabinet he’s picking I trust Obama more than I trust Pelosi/Reid.I think the left wing of the Democrats have taken over Congress. The big question is will Obama lead or will he follow orders. We will see.

jwench- with the cabinet he’s picking I trust Obama more than I trust Pelosi/Reid.I think the left wing of the Democrats have taken over Congress. The big question is will Obama lead or will he follow orders. We will see.
Posted by: jschmidt | Nov 22, 2008 8:59:02 PM
Pelosi and Reid are idiots. I think we will see Obama lead. His picks have been well thought out and he has some good people coming aboard. I am just glad the Bush II years are coming to a close.

jschmidt….I feel Obama is following orders, because of all the former Clinton appointees..Media reports say President-elect Barack Obama has selected Eric Holder as his Attorney General, and that Holder may already have accepted the offer. Holder, as Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno during the Clinton Administration, said that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right, but instead protects the right to have a firearm when serving with a militia. After leaving office, Holder stuck to that assertion when he signed Janet Reno’s brief to the Supreme Court in the Heller case, which stated, “The Second Amendment does not protect firearms possession or use that is unrelated to participation in a well-regulated militia.”

Jwench: I bet you don’t even know what the federal reserve does….I bet you don’t know who it is. I bet you don’t know why the new treasury secretary is going to take us down the same path that led us to total breakdown. I bet you don’t know that Bush and Obama are twins seperated at birth. Change? B.S……same old, same old….

jwench – This request is a bit childish if you recall the last 8 years. Although 41 was a disappointment in several domestic areas, the bashing never stopped. Know-it-alls? You have got to be kidding? There are a ton of people who could have done a better job than the past 3 presidents. The problem is that they probably didn’t want to take the pay cut.
It can be argued that we know exactly what doesn’t work! Since FDR’s new deal, the problems that the hyper social programs were designed to fix ARE STILL HERE! When barry mentioned the change thing, I truly was hoping for some ‘real’ change. You cannot change directions with the same people holding onto the same theology that has ALWAYS FAILED!
Not easy but certainly a simple concept don’t you think?

You know we actually might be able to reduce unemployment if we deport everyone that is in the US either on a work visa or here illegally….. Since it is estimated that there are 12 million illegals here working, numerous illegals that are getting free education, free health care and free social security benefits….vis the vote that the Dem’s did last year to extend SS benefits to illegals…Yes Obama, Reid, Dodd, Kennedy voted to extend.. Pelosi did not because she sees what the illegals have done to California….That will be the ONLY thing that I will ever say nicely about Pelosi.

Wow, its astounding to see the ‘right wingers’ still attempting to use fear and smear against President-elect Obama.
It didn’t work during the election and it won’t work now – people are sick of this nonsense from the ‘right’.
It’s also disturbing to see the same type of low grade intellectual approach prejudging his administration before it even gets in the door.
Oh well, I suppose you don’t have anything better to do.

You know we actually might be able to reduce unemployment if we deport everyone that is in the US either on a work visa or here illegally….. Since it is estimated that there are 12 million illegals here working, numerous illegals that are getting free education, free health care and free social security benefits….vis the vote that the Dem’s did last year to extend SS benefits to illegals…Yes Obama, Reid, Dodd, Kennedy voted to extend.. Pelosi did not because she sees what the illegals have done to California….That will be the ONLY thing that I will ever say nicely about Pelosi.
Posted by: 55Mariposa | Nov 22, 2008 9:30:03
There is one problem with that. There are Americans that think they are too good to do those menial jobs that the illegals do.

So what’s wrong with construction work? My husband is an electrician who does a lot of work for our city and new roads means more work for him. Building new roads, bridges and upgrading our schools means a lot more than just digging ditches. There are many involved.

Obama truly waxes poetic with his words of hope and vision, the melodious song is made of something part Disney and part Hollywood- and there lies the harsh contrast with truth and reality.
America once used to pride itself on the rugged self-reliance of it’s people. Our country was never a panacea but it was full of promise that if you were honest and you worked hard, a piece of well earned American pie was yours to have. Then came the stock market crash in the late 1920′s and the Midas touch of government programs along with it.
The promise of being cared for by the government began to replace the promise of what freedom and hard work could bring…and sadly we now have a large sector of American society who claim entitlement to the golden touch of government to absolve them of their responsibility and grant them prosperity. Mr. Obama’s proposals thus far have indicated that he is no different than all the other social reform presidents before him; he is just as charismatic and full of the starry eyed hope of government based prosperity as his like minded predecessors.
It is only when we as a country wake up and realize that it isn’t government who holds the keys to the door of our prosperity but our own hard work and responsibility, then and only then will we ever rise again to be the truly great country we once were.

bo, you missed my point! I am not asking Republicans to leave the country..Republicans are Americans too..I am simply asking the Republicans to take a hike from anything that has to do with running the Federal Government..Republicans have damaged this country’s economy with their stupid,nonsensical policy of trickle down economics..Knock,Knock! It doesn’t work especially when you invest in wars and neglect investing in the development of the country economically, infrastructurally etc..That is what I mean when I tell Republicans to “hit the road jack”. Republicans are bad for the country’s growth and development. I am not a democrat..I am an Independent voter but wisdom has thought me that the democratic party is better of the two evils on the question of putting the country first and investing in the middle class to grow the economy. I am not an Iraqi..or Afgan..I am an American jack! and charity must begin at home..take care of America before running around trying to police the world. Obama understands that and that is why he will be an excellent president if the Republicans don’t try to put a block in his way.

AnaB…there is nothing wrong with Construction workers or construction work, it is very hard and demanding work. Down here in Texas the only ones that are brick layers are mexicans. The Bricklayer Union could only supply a masonry company with 25 masons. Unfortunately the company needed 100 brick layers and had to go non-union.
Posted by: 55Mariposa
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I guess maybe it comes down to where you live. We are in Iowa and while we do have Hispanics here, they are not the majority. And my husband is in a non-union shop, so we don’t deal with unions personally.

I thought that Obama would have surrounded himself with businessman and not career politicans…. At least a business man knows what it takes to run a company. A politican only knows how to spend OUR hard earn tax dollars.
One other thing to think about.. Do you know that over 15,000 people are killed by Drunk Drivers and who knows the number of people that are injured or have lost a limb in the U.S. each year?

AnaB…We are overrun down here in Texas. One out of 4 motorist do not have car insurance. Out of 130 brick layers and helpers, 100 are hispanic. The youngest non-hispanic foreman is 45 years old. If a business doesn’t post the “prohibit concealed handgun” sign in English & Spanish then a business can’t prevent someone from carring a concealed hand gun into their business.
Our childrens school district which enrolls about 60,000 students in now a minority rule school district. 45% hispanic, 30% white and 10% black 5% Asian. We spend more on ESL (english as a second language) students than we do on whites and black students. Parkland Hospital in Dallas Texas, receives 5- 8 million dollars every quarter from the Federal Gov’t for reimbursement for the illegals that are using the county hospital and “can’t” afford the hospital bill. In one hour, Parkland delivered 50 babies, Parkland says that 70% of the babies born in their hospital are to illegals. Now you can see why Texas & California have a little attitude towards illegals. I won’t even mention about the drug cartels that are in the DFW area. It is frightening.

Stanley most of the problems during the Bush adminstration can be traced to Democratic Congresses past meddling in the economic affairs of business. Try as they must the Dems have caused much of the havoc we are facing now. From CRA in the 70s to Franks and Dodd blocking Fannie regulation.

Stanley..only thing that I will agree with you is that we need to take care of ourselves first and then the rest of the world. However, we did a cut and run job during Clintons Admin on Somilia and look what happen to that country. Do we leave Kenya, and other African countries to be taken over by the Muslin extremes? But Obama has already made the following promise during his campaign, that we must help the rest of world and be peace keepers. Peace Corp program that pays $30k a year.
Obama wants to legalize over 10 million illegal mexicans that are taking jobs from our welfare receiptants down here in Tecas. So if Obama wants to create 2 million new jobs but he is going to legalize 10 million illegals….gosh the math doesn’t add up to 2 million jobs created…

Obama wants to legalize over 10 million illegal mexicans that are taking jobs from our lazy asz welfare receiptants down here in Tecas. So if Obama wants to create 2 million new jobs but he is going to legalize 10 million illegals….gosh the math doesn’t add up to 2 million jobs created…
Posted by: 55Mariposa | Nov 22, 2008 10:41:22 PM
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Our Greatest Leader Pres 0bama has no comment on the need of helping the 4 million plus autoworkers and suppliers who are facing losing their jobs. He voted to give $150 billion bailout of AIG, $30 billion Morgan Chase, $300 billion mortgage, $700 billion banking.
Yet he refuse to support a mere $25 billion to save the 4 million autoworker jobs.

AnaB,
It’s the Leadership that the country needs, the Market needs, and the economy needs.
There is an absolute vacuum of leadership any where in Washington or in Chicago.
It’s our Greatest Leader’s problem. He is willing and capable of letting everything slide to a bottomless hole, by keeping his cool, his silence.
He does not need to do and he cannot do anything as a Pres, but he has his mouth to tell you how, specifically, he will lead.
It’s not “Believe In” time, not “Hope” time. It is “Solution” time, specific solutions, one by one; exactly what and how he is going to doit .

Lazy to think:
I believe he supports bailing out the auto industry

55Mariposa,
“maybe” – that’s the key word that tanks the Stock Market. Just this uncertainty of “maybe” that our Greatest Leader created. Because it is maybe, the Stock Market tanked 30% since our Greatest Leader is destined to LEAD.
Maybe, he would lead. Maybe, he does not know how and what to lead.

55Mariposa:
In my opinion, they make way too damn much money!

In my opinion, they make way too damn much money! Posted by: AnaB
Yes I agree with you and maybe OUR Congress can understand WHY so many of us don’t want OUR taxes going towards overpaid CEO’S, executives and UAW workers.
Posted by: lazy to think …..
“maybe” – that’s the key word that tanks the Stock Market. Just this uncertainty of “maybe” that our Greatest Leader created. Because it is maybe, the Stock Market tanked 30% since our Greatest Leader is destined to LEAD.
Maybe, he would lead. Maybe, he does not know how and what to lead.
I think Obama is extremely smart and he has outwitted and out played everyone in the U.S. that fell for his “Change” and “Believe” crapp.

I think the Dem’s figured out that Hillary couldn’t beat McCain, so they made a deal with Obama and Hillary…. Why so many former Clinton advisors on Obama’s team? Why did Obama lie to everyone about not having Lobbist in the White House but it is OK to have Bundlers in the WH? Just the say way B.Clinton convince everyone that oral sex IS not sex.

If 2.5 million jobs are added, but 2.5 million illegal immigrants who will work for much lower wages come over the border in these two years, then how is this a gain?

Obama has made a lot of promises to many groups. He got elected and needs to prove himself, there is no more voting “present”. He now owns a majority in the Senate and Congress and they will rubber stamp his agenda for the first year. He has 2 years to turn things around or he’ll get booted out in 4. Here’s my prediction. The American public has a short memory and are fickle.. The media will only support him for so long and then they will begin printing the stories they should have printed and investigated prior to the election. The Clintons and their inside moles will leak information and wreak havoc to his administration. Biden will become Nostradamus and an international event will drag Obama down because he will have to take an unpopular position and commit our troops, troops will die and he’ll be hounded by code pink and the far left. He’ll want to tax and spend to creat jobs and then the Congress fearing their own re-elections will have to turn on him. The preasure will be mounting, his wife Micheal will go on Oprah and have a breakdown. Pass the popcorn this is going to be a fun 4 years to watch this trainreck!

2.5 million new jobs—and freaking bush is traveling around the world promoting free trade—-is he already lining up where to send the new jobs.—it is people like walmart that are ruining our country with chinese junk–and destroying out economy with a massive trade imbalance—and freaking bush wants more.unless we get trade and big oil under some kind of controll we will see our country get far worse than it is now—remember that when you spend your money in the import junkyards.

Finally a president who understands that if we’re going to spend $10 Billion a month, it should be on building bridges and roads in AMERICA, not flushing it down the toilet in IRAQ.

THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF MONEY LEAVING OUR COUNTRY —MUST STOP—WE COULD HAVE HEALTH CARE AND MOST ANYTHING ELSE NEEDED—–BUT TRADE MUST GET UNDER CONTROLL–AND THE FREAKING IRAQ WAR MUST END.

Jobhunter, sorry, but being a full time blogger is not looking for a job. LOOKING for a job is a full time job in and of itself; I’ve been there

2.5 million government jobs paid for by tax payers money complete with union affiliation and free health care. Sounds like a way to insure a dem victory for the next couple of decades.

Dems – This difference is HOW they spend money. It is all summed up in “If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day (The Democrats). If you teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime (The Republicans).”

Problem is…. Americans don’t want real work…… we have farmers in our area begging for workers…. only ones that are applying are the illegal Aliens……….. just think….. if they kick out the 11 million illegal aliens….. they could put a LOT of Americans to work….

EllsBells writes, “Dems – This difference is HOW they spend money. It is all summed up in “If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day (The Democrats). If you teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime (The Republicans).”
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This is the problem Ells. You now say it’s NOT the spending but WHERE we’re spending it. (This is the kind of thing Republicans like to say when people start looking at the ACTUAL numbers which show the Republicans have an open check policy towards spending and borrowing money.)
Let me ask you, do you now WHERE the money is being spent? Right now there are literally MILLIONS of “White” Americans who honestly believe the deficits are the result of government handouts when in ACTUALITY they are not.
If you have issues with the welfare system you clearly aren’t in tune with certain realities. The system is designed to protect children. CHILDREN. Are we to assume that you believe the CHILDREN should be homeless, without food and shelter BECAUSE they were born to low-lifes, short-sighted or simply unfortunate individuals?
You’d have far more money in YOUR pocket if you didn’t buy into the whole trickle down economics bs.

Perusing-Through…why should Bush do anything…he already is being blamed for everything when the Dem’s control Congress. I say let Obama and his massive team of people figure out the best course of action. If Bush does anything now, it could mess up Obama’s plan of action. Any way let Obama have the headache, Bush got 9/11 and now Obama will have the economy that the Dem’s created.

tonya… don’t you find it funny that Obama has hire several former Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac CEO’s? Especially since one of these individuals made over 30 million in one year as CEO of Fannie Mae…. Obama has outwitted and out played everyone…now we all will get to pay for their mistakes.

Let’s clear this up..It’s ALL Bush’ fault. This war is costing US millions(billions?) of dollars. And as soon as we leave whatever religion or militant style group is the strongest WILL take over. My Uncle was in Vietnam, left leg shot off, hand shot THROUGH, he was 18 and there one week when he was ambushed. He said the same thing. You can’t save a country that don’t want to be saved. They have too many extremist religions over there. And I want my nephew and cousin to come home in one piece. Useless War. Vietnam all over again.

Let’s create 2.5 million jobs.. and we’ll do it by hammering every business in sight. But, I have to give Obama credit.. for once he made a promise that isn’t a lie. He is going to create 2.5 million new jobs.. in China.

Barry O
when are you going to start paying my mortgage and car loan? start spreadin’ the wealth around! i got kids man, daddy needs a new pair a shoes!

It is truly amazing and quite sad that so many posters here just can’t get over the fact that the country wants to go in a different direction. You had 8 long years of having it your way, and look where that got us. Most of you talk about increased spending, but nobody mentions how much we are wasting in Iraq. It will go down in history as the most ridiculous waste of money in the history of mankind. Also, what if the absolutely best case scenario unfolds in Iraq, which is that it becomes a free and democratic society. It can’t possibly last because the people who live in that country hate each other. I only hope that this wont be our story one day. JOHN MCCAIN AND THE REPUBLICANS LOST!! THE ELECTION IS OVER!!! I would rather do my deficit spending in this country fixing collapsing bridges and crumbling roads and building wind farms, and maybe even nuclear power plants, than sending it over to a hopeless wasteland where there can really never be a victory or peace. There will never be another U.S. ally such as Israel in the Middle East. The Iraqis will turn on us as soon as we leave. In fact they have never liked us and have already begun turning on us. If all of the money we spent on this war had been spent in this country, we would be just as safe as we are now, even if Saddam was still alive and in power, and there would be an economic boom going on. The money spent over there was blown up in smoke and we have nothing to show for it.
Now let’s talk a little bit about taxes. Nobody is talking about raising anybody’s taxes. The Bush tax cuts will be allowed to expire, as Congress intended when they passed them, and people making over $250,000 will pay more. Boo hoo hoo. What are you doing with that extra money now? How much are we really talking about, and how will your life be affected compared to the millions of people who are out of work? We need to have more compasion for our fellow man, and those of us making more than $250,000 should be thanking our lucky stars for being in that position and realize that it could all change in the blink of an eye, and one day we might be one of those who benefit from the higher taxes that will have to be paid.

[What if the absolutely best case scenario unfolds in Iraq, which is that it becomes a free and democratic society. It can't possibly last because the people who live in that country hate each other.]
In response to that, if you read peoples posts, it seems to me that alot of people in our country hate each other too. I read news and comments daily, and so many people seem to show division and hate..for one thing or another by throwing blame into the comment rather than simply making their statement.
Divisions because of political stance, color, gender, status, religion.. when I read a comment that has any kind of attack in it, it automatically makes it an invalid point to me.
We could find ways to agree and fix problems, rather than do what the candidates did and argue and point fingers. How does that accomplish anything positive? We are all human and all live on this planet and all have the same basic needs..and it’s getting down to that.
So, the election is over. We are all equal now..lets come up with solutions and unite, rather than become the great divide! Our future depends on solutions and unity.
Everyone has their own style, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, etc., which might offend others. We don’t need to throw all that into comments whether on a board or in person, if we have a point to make and want to be taken seriously.
Times are troubling enough and we need to band together and help find solutions. We are in deep water and the solutions the experts have come up with haven’t worked yet, the news is worse every day, even with their daily solutions and bailouts.
So it’s up to us guys and girls, maybe they will read what we have to say and think outside the box on solutions.