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“our most urgent task upon taking office was to shore up the same banks that helped cause this crisis”

he purposes charging the banks a modest fee and extending unemployment. I have nothing against that; i didn’t want the banks or wall street to get one red cent to begin with. But i do purpose that his modest fee isn’t going to amount to a hill of beans, in the end he will cave to the bigwigs.
many of the banks that received tarp wanted nothing to do with it. They were forced to take monies they did not need and pay interest for the "privilege". Virtually all of the banks have already repaid the government. Yet the claim is that they need to pay a fee, set at 40%, to ensure all of the monies paid out are returned. Looks like the banks are going to have to fork over more money to pay for the cars!


truth be told he didn’t raised income taxes,
but has no compunction against raising taxes on businesses. But who pays those taxes?



again wtf! Let’s use the same plan that hasn’t been working to fix things? They won’t even hire more “strippers” at the club where i had to go back to dancing at to make ends meet so i could stay in school.
the president's position on "stimulus is that it saved 2,000,000 jobs and the only reason we have the problems we still have is they did not spend enough. Know anybody that hires on main street that got money and hired?



talk is cheap; i will believe this one when i see it. He should have given all of the stimulus money to the small business to begin with.
can we call this tarp ii?


i am all for that. Let’s rebuild the entire infrastructure of the country. Now show me where and how you plan to pay for it.
The tampa high-speed railroad is his corner stone? Who exactly is paying for that? He already has me dancing naked for drunks to pay for school, i can’t afford to pay for his toy train that no one in tampa wants. How about you spend that money to rebuild the failing roads instead and make cheaper cars that don’t use fossil fuels. A statewide mass transit system isn’t a feasible solution on the scale it would take in a state like florida.
high speed rail, in a country like ours is a laudable goal. But government controlled? Think amtrak. Things like this work when it is convenient for joe citizen, and george boss can make a dollar providing the service. What is not understood about rail is that as a user you can only go where the rails go. Something decided by someone else. Once i looked into taking the family to las vegas. Didn't want to drive and air fare was too high. Bus took two days (don't remember the cost), train took three days, cost as much as air, and we arrived in vegas by bus from california! Ended up driving, day and a half. Definitely less than cost of train and plane and quicker than bus.


ok here i agree, i am all for converting my home to not have to rely on the power or water companies and keep our business from running off to other countries just so they can increase their own profit margin. To bad that goes directly against the water and power companies wishes not to mention the big foreign investors; gee i wonder how much money he thinks i have to do all this, will i have to go into porn to pay for it.
my power company has brought up the issue of getting power from green sources. They are asking me to voluntarily increase the money i give them for that purpose.
A plan already exists that would not only bring all those companies that left home but would have a bunch of foreign companies moving their operations here. It is called fairtax. All those off shore bank accounts would come home as well!


blinks! Punishing the banks?!?, no of course not, we know how much he loves them….because he rewarded them!!!
you don't think the fee to pay back government funds given to other indusrties is a punishment!?!?


allmost spit up my coffee......my, oh my how he has changed his tune here, looks like big oil and coal have their fingers deep into his pockets now.
how else do you expect to reduce dependence on foreign oil? Btw you do know we export oil?


so much for what little bit of government money i can get for school, porn is looking better and better.

good luck getting through the four year peerage and liberal indoctrination system our colleges have become.
but then if you can't pay off your loans in 20 years they will be forgiven, is that not a subsidy? Why only ten years if you go into government service?


i must give him credit for saying we need to re-vamp the insurance industry. Fat chance of that actually happening, i bet coal and oil are not the only ones with their fingers up his ass.
i believe that is what the health bill is supposed to be. Too bad it is so bad!


careful here, he is suggesting that if our elected officials do not agree to do it his way, that he is going to do it anyway somehow. Dangerous ground people and it’s exactly this kind of thing that led the republic upon which we based our own to end up under the tyranny of an empire.
you do realize that executive orders only apply to executive agencies?


like what? Sidestepping our political systems check and balances through executive orders?

Oh wait i know something that will change things.

Next election we have…if a candidate is listed as a republican or a democrat, we just simply wont vote for them at all and instead throw our support to one of the other people who have been trying to get in who are from a whole different party or are independent with real fresh ideas as opposed to the same ole two party tug of war!
it really would be refreshing to see a new manner of business. A year ago the president said no more earmarks and then signed a bill chock full of them! I agree fire them all!!!


how about this, we don’t allow monetary political contributions at all!
then all you are going to get is the likes of herb kohl or maybe even george soros!


wait a second; didn’t he himself get elected this very way? Don’t get me wrong, i don’t agree with the courts decision. I just wanted to point out the inherent irony this time. Allowing corporations to openly spend as much as they wish just brings what has been going on anyway out into the open. But again i say we shouldn’t allow money into the process at all!
it is wrong for corporations to spend funds on issues but perfectly correct for unions to do so? Don't you see a free speech issue here?


the whole two party only thing wouldn’t be nearly as polarized if the media wasn’t feeding off building tension where it wasn’t and excluding representation of other views; which is something i am sure they will do reverently once they start “spinning” this speech into what they want it to say.
or staking a position for the candidate they prefer instead of actually reporting the issues!


including the day he gave this speech.
the president has been campaigning for his job for a little over three years now!


in other words he means that he is perfectly willing to continue following in his predecessor’s footsteps and go even further, especially if he can convince the russians and chinese to back our hegemony if we decide to invade either of these two so called forces of “evil”.
i believe this is called diplomacy. I do not know about iran but i do know that kim il can qualify as evil.

then he goes on to say why he supports american imperialism all the while calling it something else and window dressing it under the veil of democracy. Sounds surprisingly like the speeches given by different archons when athenians formed their own empire except our banner is supposed to be civil rights violations.
imperialism!? How so?


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