White House advisers promise sharper focus on jobs !

[tech2101]

Well you see , I do think Obama is a socialist, hence the socialistic picture , included in my post !

You have no idea what a socialist is do you?

Why don't you come up with an original thought. Post a short informative essay on why you define our President as a socialist.

 

[Ralph]

For the umpteenth time...

Copying material from another source without attribution is a violation of board rules and U.S. copyright law. You may copy a "teaser" quote and post a link to the source.

Also, once again...debate the issues. Attacks against other members will result in suspensions. Posts have been deleted.

 

[SparrowHawk]

Can't We ALL just get along?
Rodney

 

[Garfield1966]

I agree that we can debate whether or not bailing out the banks, auto industry were good decisions or not. I am on the fence. Bailing them out with out a sound restructuring plan was not a good idea but letting them go under I believe would have been catastrophic for the economy. Secondly I do not see any indication that DC is controlling the car industry here in the US or stifling competition. Same with the banks. Several banks have already paid back the money they took.

On the flip side, we do have a school system that is public, fire and police, The US military is Federal, US parks, museums .... etc are all examples of state or federal run entities that no one seems to have a problem with. No one seems to claim that they are socialist or that the people who initiated the ideas were socialist.

As for the health care debate. The WH plan is getting in on the coverage side. They are not forcing out and carriers. They are providing an alternate insurance and requiring that everyone have coverage. Personally I disagree with that entire idea but I do not believe it come anywhere close to socialism either. They should have focused on the health care end of it and placed cost restrictions and coverage requirements on the carriers.

I think the job market is screwed. We have been falling behind for so long that I do not know how long if ever it will take to recover. Our lower education system is in shambles and a majority of advanced degrees are going to foreign nationals degrees going abroad. I do not have any ideas on this one. The US has lived beyond it's means for so long that now someone has to pay for it.

 

[southwind]

More, Bigger Government = Socialist !

And by Nobama and his Posse raising the debt limit today, by 1.9 Trillion Dollars and of course before the newly elected Republican Senator could be seated, they can create an even bigger government !

You cannot spend your way out of debt !

National un-employment rate > 10 %..................thought we paid all that money to keep it below 8% ?

Looks like his plan is working..........................

 

[Garfield1966]

Were you just as angry when Congress upped the debt to $9 trillion under Bush or was tat OK and this debt is just too high? How about wen Reagan was on a spending spree? Were you up in arms then too? And this is different how? I don't think it would have been a good idea to let thousands of more homes foreclose or to let the car companies go tits up. Yes the deserved it for getting in over their head with the homes and for building crap cars but the economy would have been worse off IMO so that takes cash.

Yep his plan is working about as well as the Iraq war plan and the Afgan war plan. Gee, I don't think any president other than Obama has had a pan that failed. Yea, I have a bridge to sell you if you believe that.

 

[tech2101]

Obama Averages 57% Approval in First Year in Office

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama averaged 57% job approval during his first year in office. Compared with the first-year averages of other presidents elected to office since World War II, Obama's average ranks on the low end, tied with Ronald Reagan's, but better than Bill Clinton's historical low of 49%. [another two term President]

Reagan was considered a failure and a sure one term President.

We do not have many people who have studied history here???

While the nation takes stock of Barack Obama's first year in the White House, some perspective might be gained by considering a similar point in an earlier administration.

President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office in 1981, with the economy on the downslide and the unemployment rate at 7.5 percent. The deficit grew - and so did the number of unemployed.

On his first anniversary in office, the unemployment rate stood at 8.6 percent, and it kept growing. We didn't get into this crisis overnight and we won't get out of it overnight, the president kept saying...

...By 1982 it was an axiom in the White House that Reagan, like so many of his modern predecessors, would be a one-term president. I believe that Reagan will not run again."

The unemployment rate peaked at 10.8 percent the month of the 1982 mid-term elections, when Republicans lost 26 seats in the House...

...Today, Reagan is regarded as a transformational president who, as Obama noted during the 2008 primaries, "changed the trajectory" of American politics.

Full article here