WillowTree
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He can't fix it. He dosen't even know what "it" is. Now who does that remind you of??
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We had all better hope that he can fix it.
We had all better hope that he can fix it.
So that's why you voted him into office? So you can HOPE for things? Why didn't you vote for someone who has the experience to fix them instead?
I agree that Obama is in way over his head, I said he would be when he began his campaign. Now he's starting to waiver in his lies. One day the stimulus will work, then it might. One day he'll create jobs, then he'll create OR save jobs. It's pathetic that people are buying his bullshit still. He's wasting millions of dollars pushing for Americans to support something they don't want to support...and he's not even sure it will work himself.
Sickening.
What does it say of people when all they can do is speculate that policies that worked in the past will not work today. If all people were conservative republicans we would still be living in caves. Actually they still are. Imagine if FDR or JFK or LBJ listened to the negative words of the do nothings? We would not have had the golden age of America, nor a man on the moon, nor freedom that really meant something. Sad people these naysayers.
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man." Richard Feynman
So in other words he doesn't care if it works, but is hoping it works.
I don't know ... if it were me in his shoes I would be showing no doubt and no fear, but the longer this goes on it seems he is unsure himself!!
What does it say of people when all they can do is speculate that policies that worked in the past will not work today. If all people were conservative republicans we would still be living in caves. Actually they still are. Imagine if FDR or JFK or LBJ listened to the negative words of the do nothings? We would not have had the golden age of America, nor a man on the moon, nor freedom that really meant something. Sad people these naysayers.
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man." Richard Feynman
definition of insanity
doing the same shit you've always done and expecting a different outcome
So by increasing spending and cutting taxes as obama is doing is different from any other administration how?
How about we try something that has never been done before like cutting taxes AND cutting government spending at the same time?
Hell I'd be just fine if taxes were left right where they are for the time being IF and that's a big IF the government would make an honest effort to reduce spending.
What does it say of people when all they can do is speculate that policies that worked in the past will not work today. If all people were conservative republicans we would still be living in caves. Actually they still are. Imagine if FDR or JFK or LBJ listened to the negative words of the do nothings? We would not have had the golden age of America, nor a man on the moon, nor freedom that really meant something. Sad people these naysayers.
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man." Richard Feynman
How about we try something that has never been done before like cutting taxes AND cutting government spending at the same time?
We had all better hope that he can fix it.
I "hope" that by the time my daughter is old enough to pay taxes, it's less than 65% ......
When your daughter figures out how badly we wasted away money to leave her holding the bag, she and those of her generation are going to demand government spending is cut to the core, including senior's benefits.
So in other words he doesn't care if it works, but is hoping it works.
I don't know ... if it were me in his shoes I would be showing no doubt and no fear, but the longer this goes on it seems he is unsure himself!!
What horseshit. He never said he doesn't care. That is your partisan intepretaion to attack him. I heard he is also a lesbian.
What does it say of people when all they can do is speculate that policies that worked in the past will not work today. If all people were conservative republicans we would still be living in caves. Actually they still are. Imagine if FDR or JFK or LBJ listened to the negative words of the do nothings? We would not have had the golden age of America, nor a man on the moon, nor freedom that really meant something. Sad people these naysayers.
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man." Richard Feynman
definition of insanity
doing the same shit you've always done and expecting a different outcome
So by increasing spending and cutting taxes as obama is doing is different from any other administration how?
How about we try something that has never been done before like cutting taxes AND cutting government spending at the same time?
Hell I'd be just fine if taxes were left right where they are for the time being IF and that's a big IF the government would make an honest effort to reduce spending.
What does it say of people when all they can do is speculate that policies that worked in the past will not work today. If all people were conservative republicans we would still be living in caves. Actually they still are. Imagine if FDR or JFK or LBJ listened to the negative words of the do nothings? We would not have had the golden age of America, nor a man on the moon, nor freedom that really meant something. Sad people these naysayers.
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man." Richard Feynman
definition of insanity
doing the same shit you've always done and expecting a different outcome
So by increasing spending and cutting taxes as obama is doing is different from any other administration how?
How about we try something that has never been done before like cutting taxes AND cutting government spending at the same time?
Hell I'd be just fine if taxes were left right where they are for the time being IF and that's a big IF the government would make an honest effort to reduce spending.
And Obama is going to cut spending. Wasteful spending.
What would you rather hear?
That the economy "is fundamentally strong", and there is no recession like Bush Jr. told us and then the last 6-8 months, it blows up, or, being told that the economy is a mess, they're trying to fix it, and because of the fuck ups of the past admin, they don't know if they can fix it yet?
Or......McStupid telling us that he can fix the economy in 4 years?
Me? I prefer honesty to being lied to.
Saddam was gone in six months. It's a good thing you idiots weren't around during WWII. We'd have surrendered right after Pearl Harbor.
While I'm at it it has never worked before what the hell makes you think it will thie time. Tell me one thing Obama's doing that's completely different from Bush. Oh wait there is one thing, He put a tax cheat in charge of the IRS...
As Crisis Loomed, Geithner Pressed But Fell Short
Before Timothy Geithner became Treasury chief, he regulated major U.S. banks. Now he says: "We're having a major financial crisis in part because of failures of supervision."
By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Jeff Gerth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 3, 2009; A01
In September 2005, Timothy Geithner made one of his most visible moves as a supervisor of the U.S. banking system. He summoned the nation's top financial firms and their regulators to streamline an antiquated system that threatened Wall Street's boom.
Billions of dollars worth of financial instruments known as credit derivatives were being traded daily, as banks and investors worldwide tried to protect against losses on increasingly complex and risky financial bets. But the buying and selling of these exotic instruments was stuck in a pencil-and-paper era. Geithner, then head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, pressed 14 major financial firms to build an electronic network that would cut backlogs and make the market easier to monitor.
Geithner's summit, held at the New York Fed's fortress-like headquarters near Wall Street, was a success. By fall 2006, the new system had all but eliminated the logjam, helping derivatives trade more efficiently. One financial industry newsletter honored Geithner as part of a "Dream Team" for his leadership of the effort.
Yet as Geithner and the New York Fed worked to solve narrow mechanical issues in the derivatives market, they missed clear signs of a catastrophe in the making. When the housing market collapsed, derivatives stoked the fires that ignited inside some of the biggest banking companies. The firms' failure to assess an array of risks they were taking has emerged as a key element in the multitrillion-dollar meltdown of the global financial system.
Although Geithner repeatedly raised concerns about the failure of banks to understand their risks, including those taken through derivatives, he and the Federal Reserve system did not act with enough force to blunt the troubles that ensued. That was largely because he and other regulators relied too much on assurances from senior banking executives that their firms were safe and sound, according to interviews and a review of documents by The Washington Post and the nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica.
A confidential review ordered by Geithner in 2006 found that banking companies could not properly assess their exposure to a severe economic downturn and were relying on the "intuition" of banking executives rather than hard quantitative analysis, according to interviews with Fed officials and a little-noticed audit by the Government Accountability Office. The Fed did not use key enforcement tools until later, after the credit crisis erupted, according to its records and interviews....
Scary ....
Obama bluntly told a Florida town hall yesterday that if his plan doesn't work, "then you'll have a new president." But that could mean four very painful years for the country.
washingtonpost.com
So in other words he doesn't care if it works, but is hoping it works.
I don't know ... if it were me in his shoes I would be showing no doubt and no fear, but the longer this goes on it seems he is unsure himself!!
Saddam was gone in six months. It's a good thing you idiots weren't around during WWII. We'd have surrendered right after Pearl Harbor.
While I'm at it it has never worked before what the hell makes you think it will thie time. Tell me one thing Obama's doing that's completely different from Bush. Oh wait there is one thing, He put a tax cheat in charge of the IRS...
The facts are simple. Money that did not exist being lent to people for promises of mentary payments for which the money did not exist CAUSED THE F-ING PROBLEM. Obama doing the same damned thing at the nationa;/international level is going to fix this HOW?