tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18608760407984188202024-02-07T19:38:16.083-10:00Channeling Barack Obama™We Started Out Neutral, but Something Went Awry Along the Way.....Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-15096459720012781272010-03-09T05:17:00.007-10:002010-03-09T05:49:07.819-10:00Why It Makes ECONOMIC Sense.........to Pass the Healthcare Reform Bill NowThe Major Objections to the Bill are both economic and political:(1) Economics: Cost, especially in relation to the National Debt(2) Politics: Government's Role in Personal MattersWhat Are the Deficit-Creating Costs of the Current Healthcare System?We taxpayers pay for all of the healthcare now. We just do it in a way that we can’t afford.The Money That Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-62127266233029444352009-09-06T01:48:00.013-10:002009-09-21T13:12:12.978-10:00The Republican Medicare MythFor Pretty Much the Whole Year since the world economy fell apart under the stewardship of former President George W. Bush, the Hot Air Force of Conservative American media combined with congressional and gubernatorial Republicans have taken what pleasure they can find in shooting slings and arrows at current President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress.It's Like Shooting Donkeys in a Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-74951398929366684132009-08-31T11:15:00.005-10:002011-09-14T17:43:00.888-10:00The American Capitalist’s Serenity PrayerGod grant me the serenityTo accept the profitable munificence of privately run companies;The courage to change for those services that government can best provide;And the wisdom to know the difference.–attrib. unknownChanneling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-24157801532879480492009-04-20T12:15:00.009-10:002009-04-21T08:58:26.834-10:00Citizens to Own Shares of Rescued Wall Street Companies“WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top economic advisers have determined that they can shore up the nation’s banking system without having to ask Congress for more money any time soon, according to administration officials. “In a significant shift, White House and Treasury Department officials now say they can stretch what is left of the $700 billion financial bailout fund further than they hadChanneling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-37434112655545448632009-04-01T00:11:00.005-10:002009-04-01T13:12:33.776-10:00What Took Them So Long? (The April Fools!)Key Features of the Alternate Budget Proposal put forth today by the Republicans as an April Fool’s Day joke include:Tax cutsA simplified income-tax systemA freeze on domestic spendingThe persistence of market-based health-careA repeal of most of the spending in Barack Obama’s recently passed economic stimulus bill*It Comes as No Surpise that we get the same old, tired stuff....The Proposal Is a Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-81652879375170759072009-03-31T00:58:00.004-10:002009-03-31T09:59:36.417-10:00Tomorrow's National Joke (or) Cat Stuck in a Tree Once MoreIt Would Be Funny, If It Weren’t So Pathetic:Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Republicans will release an alternate budget proposal to the Nation.And Tomorrow, April 1st, as Every American Schoolboy Knows, Is:April Fool's Day!These Are Serious Times in America. Millions of Americans find themselves and their families in straitened circumstance.And Yet the Republicans Keep Working to give us the laughs. Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-76366806722846792292009-03-28T12:31:00.013-10:002009-03-28T14:30:25.838-10:00The Constant Carping of the Conservatives (Part 2)When Is a Budget Not a Budget?Earlier This Week, the Republican House Minority Leader, John Boehner of Ohio, released an eighteen-page pamphlet which he presented as an alternative budget. The presentation was a sad spectacle. It was presented as an argument against President Barack Obama’s assertion that the Republicans had not presented an alternative budget. But the “budget” that Congressman Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-8996450772120964362009-03-27T13:41:00.025-10:002009-03-28T14:31:43.785-10:00The Constant Carping of the Conservatives (Part 1)The Persistent Republican Mistake Conservative American Economic Theory Tells Us that government spending never achieves anything good for us. That big-government efforts always fail. And what’s worse, that big programs always prolong the economic downturns that they are meant to resolve.The Loudest Example of This Theory is the alleged failure of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” effortsChanneling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-64079737518330231392009-03-26T00:05:00.011-10:002009-03-26T00:05:00.367-10:00The Fear FactorScience Has Recently Explained the odd behavior of the United States under the administration of former president George W. Bush.It Seems That Conservative People are generally more fearful than liberal people.Apparently This Is Scientific Fact. (Let’s ignore for the moment what conservative Americans think about “science” and its “facts.”)It Was Conservative Fear that got us to invade Iraq, in Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-81661419896747418732009-03-23T00:46:00.016-10:002009-03-24T02:43:28.909-10:00What's Taking Him So Long?[They say a little facetiousness never hurt anybody.....]How Many Weeks Does It Take to Fix a Country? For Barack Obama, it's been more than two months!Enough Is Enough!President Obama: Your Time Is Up. Your fifteen minutes are over....If You Can’t Get the Job Done Before the Quarterly Financial Reports Come Out, maybe we should get someone else.Fifteen Minutes of FameSoup-Can Artist Andy Warhol Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-69173526659666377072009-03-18T00:48:00.009-10:002009-03-18T10:55:44.761-10:00Outrage Is Easy.........It’s What Got Us into this Mess in the First Place.You May Be Too Young to Remember, but when the anti-Conformist message of the Beatniks became the anti-War, anti-Establishment, free-love revolution of the 1960s, mainstream America freaked out.Then, When Lyndon Johnson’s Efforts both to sustain the Vietnam War and to rid America of racism and poverty proved to be too much, the result was Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-90775944138345448292009-03-13T17:18:00.002-10:002009-03-18T10:58:06.931-10:00Nailing the Doors Shut While Burning Down the BarnFollowing Six Solid Years of Republican Government of the United States, the barn is on fire and the horses have fled. How will America respond to the crisis?Last November, the American People Chose a Course of Action. We voted to go after the horses, round up all that we can, and bring them back to the barn. After that, we will work on rebuilding the barn. And then this time we'll make sure to Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-16947347188906409142009-03-10T00:02:00.019-10:002009-03-10T14:54:32.358-10:00NEWS FLASH! American President Says Nation Needs to FocusDATELINE: Washington, DC–If he had been speaking earlier today at a previously disclosed location known as “the White House,” the nation’s newest president might have issued a statement similar to this:What America Needs Right Now Is Jobs, and the security that a regular paycheck provides. Give Americans jobs, with some sense of job security, and we can all get back to work. We can put this Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-68283319386863047642009-03-09T00:15:00.008-10:002009-03-10T12:38:59.662-10:00A Rock-Thrown Letter About Voter I.D. in TexasRecently We Received a Copy of the Following Letter, wrapped around a brick thrown through the window of our Austin, Texas, offices:Dear Texas Senator & Fellow Stalwart Republican:Thank you for focusing your energy on purifying the electoral races of the American voter here in Texas, with the Senate Bill 362.The idea that somebody might steal a true American’s vote and sneak illegal ballots Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-67257437292717728602009-03-02T00:59:00.010-10:002009-03-02T08:57:18.922-10:00To Spend or Not to Spend.....Is Not the Right QuestionA Simplified Primer on Spending,Consuming, Saving, and Investingby Ed Warshawer,Special to Channeling Barack Obama™Until our leaders and pundits learn the difference in the ways money can be spent, the U.S. will continue to wrestle with the simplistic, ideological issue of whether “to spend,” like a Liberal Democrat, or “not to spend,” like a Conservative Republican.We go round and round, and we Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-77090246481170292042009-02-17T00:35:00.011-10:002009-03-02T06:37:46.999-10:00A Modest Mortgage-Solution ProposalForget Bailouts, Bad Banks, and Toxic Mortgages Assets. Here’s a new idea for solving the housing-mortgage crisis:The Department of Mortgage-Crisis Resolution*Let’s Insert the Federal Government Between the Homeowner and the Mortgage Company. With its long-term investment horizon, this is truly something that really only the Federal government can afford to do.Homeowners in Sub-Prime, Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-27973286458223947802009-02-13T11:03:00.019-10:002009-02-15T07:45:13.388-10:00Doesn't Anyone Else Remember Republican Budget Blow-outs?Throughout the Last Century of America’s History, it has been the Republicans who create massive debt and Depression, and it is the Democrats who bail America out.Republicans Still Debate the Effects of FDR’s “New Deal,” despite the job growth that was created once Franklin Roosevelt took office. The unemployment rate in the four years from 1933 to 1937 shrunk by about 40%—forty-percent job Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-47035583726903635272009-02-10T00:34:00.000-10:002009-02-10T00:34:00.503-10:00The Best Time to Buy What You Can't Afford.......Is When There's Something That You NeedNo Matter the Price.So Long as You Need Jobs, to rebuild confidence in the national economy, and to resume the upward growth of the American way of life, you might as well invest in something that you need, but that there will never be a better time to afford.The Catch-22 of Mass Transit, outside of such urban centers as New York and Chicago, is that youChanneling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-80970430391598905592009-02-09T01:40:00.001-10:002009-02-09T10:57:34.629-10:00Not All Jobs Are Created EqualAt a Time When Americans Call for Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, it's tempting for the Democrats to give us what we want. The form of those jobs seems hardly to matter, and considerations of the expense—when it all comes out of money that we no longer have—seem irrelevant.That's the Sticking Point for Republicans, who believe that the only legitimate means to create jobs is to cut taxes. Lower and lower and Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-77865058338076639212009-02-08T18:14:00.009-10:002009-02-08T18:41:06.235-10:00Why a Spending Bill Just Won't Cut ItAs a Nation, Most of Us Seem Not to Understand the difference between consumption and capital investment: Those roads and bridges add substance, where tax credits and tax cuts are the true short-term wastes.What Matters Most Right Now is not how much tax we are paying, but whether we are earning a paycheck at all.We're Losing Our Jobs. We're afraid of losing our homes, or at least our home Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-3512726274444235362009-02-02T01:32:00.009-10:002009-02-09T11:26:50.733-10:00The Audacity of Speaker PelosiAs a Representative in Congress, Nancy Pelosi has a California congressional district as her constituency. But as Speaker of the House, she represents the entire United States. In that regard, she owes it to the overall population to show some consideration for what we, the people, want.The Stimulus America WantsThe American People Want a Stimulus Bill that looks like a stimulus bill:Build up theChanneling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-10978430121873129012009-01-30T09:48:00.025-10:002009-02-09T11:27:32.307-10:00The Audacity of DisdainWhat Have You Heard from Your Republican Congressman about the stimulus package currently working its way through the Federal government? What doesn't he like? What would he change?What Conservative Ideal Would He Apply to make this stimulus package better?What Changes Would It Take, to get your Republican Congressman to Take Action on behalf of the American people?What Has Your Republican Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-64317180488632786122008-11-30T13:35:00.001-10:002009-02-17T08:09:03.555-10:00What's Wrong with This Picture?If You Don't Know What's Wrong with this person's idea about the relationship between making “more than the minimum payments" on her credit cards each month, then you don't understand how we Americans got into the financial mess we're in.It's Never Too Late to Learn. But it's long-past time to get started.Recommended Reading: The book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki, is a fun, Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-80055757849296402422008-11-22T00:34:00.004-10:002008-11-30T13:03:18.184-10:00Sentimental Value Is Not Lost on Us: What Does Your Insurance Company Do For You?Recently We Received This Piece of Advertising Mail from a familiar source. In a previous era, we would not have thought much about it at all. But now that we all seem to be investors in this insurance company deemed to be absolutely essential to the well-being of the world financial markets, it was a hard advertising pitch to ignore.“Sentimental Value is Not Lost on Us,” either. We never knew Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860876040798418820.post-15935994801207640762008-11-21T00:34:00.010-10:002008-11-22T04:34:22.289-10:00NEWS FLASH: The New York Times Attacks President Bush Again![From the pages of today's edition of The New York Times:]“Global Forecast by American IntelligenceExpects Al Qaeda’s Appeal to Falter”“WASHINGTON — A new study of the global future by American intelligence agencies suggests that Al Qaeda could soon be on the decline, having alienated Muslim supporters with indiscriminate killing and inattention to the practical problems of poverty, unemployment Channeling Barack Obamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217215247991380609noreply@blogger.com0