Check this link. Obama did not state Fact.

http://www.cato.org/special/stimulus09/alternate_version.html

check this site to see just exactly how many economist disagree with Obama

if I hear one more time. . .

not 20 days into this new administration, the Dems are trying to load the US with a $1.2 trillion+ (yes trillion, there is at least $300 billion in interest you must account for) stimulus package, that seems to resemble more like a Christmas wish list.  

If I hear a Democrat say that G.W. Bush was a bad president because of a the debt, or if I hear one say that the republicans got us into a massive amount of debt.  I will Punch them in the gut, I wont even warn them or say anything, I'll just do it.

This is really getting old, where Dems yell and scream about the wrongs of the republicans, then they do the same things themselves, only they do it all the way.  I have only seen more partisan efforts as a result of Obamas efforts. 

Obama has dropped from a 96%+ approval rating to a 70!  I think that people are starting to see it already.  And it is only 14 days!!  

I would have loved to see Obamas face when he got his first security briefing.

Obama:  You mean they are serious about trying to kill us?  They really do want to kill us?  I thought that they were just bluffing, and that you republicans were just making it all up to get ahead.  Crap, I gotta act like Bush and keep those wire taps!  *Thinks to himself: It's ok the media wont do anything about it, they still think I can walk on water he he he.

So Obama followers, I hope he does some better work in his next 100 days or he will meet Bushes approval rating in his first 100 days.  Oh not that wouldn't be good.

p.s. I still hope that I am wrong about Obama, and I hope that he does good things.  It is just not looking too good.  I don't want America to pay the price of Obama not doing a good job.

DC Weather Wimps

Wow! I agree with Obama 100% on something. He referred to DC Residents as "weather wimps" and I must say that I agree with his statement.

The fact that DC schools, and Offices close at the slightest bit of snow is absurd. As a former Chicago Resident myself I understand where Obama is coming from. Chicago is quite possibly one of the coldest places I have ever been. I know that EVERYONE says that about their state, and town, but unless you have gone trough an average Chicago winter you don't even know. A bad one would literally kill many people who are not from there.

in my 5 five year tenure there as a school attending resident I never once saw my school get canceled on account of weather. People here say it is because we are not equipped to handle the snow. Well that is not the reason at all. Chicago deals with it just the same as we do here, the people just know how to drive in it, and they are not wimps.

Picture 10 degree with a windchill that pushes it to -10 or more. (if you have never experience a -10 degree windchill, it is worse that 30 below) 3 feet of show with ice below it, and me standing at the bus stop to wait on the bus along with every other resident of Chicago. And yes, we still go out during recess when it is that cold. You just wear a coat. (and a good coat I might add)

Now picture this. 23 degrees and windchill at 19 degrees, 1/4 inch of ice with 1 inch of snow. and everyone is sitting at home and the whole city shuts down. by 10 am the roads are fine, and people still don't go anywhere.

well I knew that Obama and I had to agree on something, and here it is. DC residents are wimps compared to a Chicago one. (referring to winter)

bailout FACTS (not opinions)

Stimulus Quick Facts

 

  "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson

 

 Total Cost of Stimulus Legislation: $825 billion

•   How does this compare?

                  - In 1993, the unemployment was virtually the same as the rate today (around 7%). Yet, President Clinton’s proposed stimulus legislation *only* contained $16 billion in spending

 

                  - The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government.

 

                  - This legislation nears a trillion dollars. President Reagan said the best way to understand a trillion dollars is to imagine a crisp, new stack of $1000 bills. If you had a stack four inches high, you’d be a millionaire. A trillion-dollar stack of $1000 bills would measure just over 63 miles high.

 

                   - In $20 bills, a trillion dollar stack would be 3150 miles high. That’s about the distance between DC and Trujillo, Peru.  

• President-elect Obama has said that his proposed stimulus legislation will create or save 3 million jobs. This means that this legislation will spend about $275,000 per job. The average household income in the U.S. is $42,000 a year.

• This bill provides enough spending to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.

• This bill will cost each and every household $6,700 in additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.

• Although this legislation has been billed and described as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, but only three percent ($30 billion) of this package is for road and highway spending.

• Much of the funding within the proposed stimulus package will go to programs which already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the draft bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which already has $16 billion on hand. And, this year, Congress has plans to rescind $9 billion in highway funding that the states have not yet used. 

• Deficit spending will not expand the economy. If that were true, then the current $1.2 trillion deficit -- the largest in history -- would already be rescuing the economy. $800 billion more will not change that.

• Trade groups state that every $1 billion in highway “stimulus” can be spent creating 34,779 new construction jobs. But Congress must first borrow that $1 billion out of the private sector. The private sector then loses or forgoes roughly the same number of jobs.

• Japan responded to a 1990 recession by passing 10 “stimulus” bills over 8 years (building the largest national debt in the industrialized world). Their economy remained stagnant and their per capita income went from the second highest in the world to the tenth highest.

Don't worry Obama, it is ok for yooouuuuu

So there were countless organizations that got all over G.W. Bushes case for wire tapping without a warrant.  In fact it ranged over the entire board.  Law makers, Journalist, columnist, average people, and on & on & on.  

So I am hearing now that our BELOVED and glorious Barrack Obama is going to be keeping this law and NO ONE IS SAYING A FREAKIN THING!!!  Classic undermining of a conservative president.  Even at the expense of national security.  Makes me sick that I can see this and it is happening so fast.  I want to give our glorious Barrack a chance, I do, I really do.  It us just getting harder and harder to do so.  I fear what he is going to do to our country.  We will lose what we are built on.  What our founding forefathers really wanted for our country.  

More Barrack hypocrisy coming later (I am sure it will never end)

Thanks Obama

I don't have much time so I will be brief.  

Thanks Obama!!  Lets spend our way out of Debt and economic woe with 850 Billion Dollars!!  I have debt myself, so I think that I am going to spend my way out of it too!  I just want to make sure that if I try that and it doesn't work that you will bail me out.  I am all about a free handout I don't deserve.  Please give it too me!  It will make me feel better if you do.  

Also what else do you plan to do for me?! you know I could go for some food stamps so I don't have to spend my hard earned money on things like food.  I would much rather spend that money on things like move tickets, DVD's, That new Blue Ray player to go with my 52 inch 1080p HD TV I just got.  Oh Obama, you are the answer to my prayers!  I can do what I want and have no worries about it.  I won't even have to worry about how I am going to pay my mortgage payment now!

We the people . . . are really kind of sad (Wall-Mart Employee Trampled)

This past weekend on black Friday a Wal-Mart Employee was trampled to death by shoppers trying to get their Wii, Playstation, Sweet new Ipod or some other device or item that was knocked down 25%.  I am absolutely disgusted with the type of person that would think "oh my Gosh I MUST get to that thing first!  The person behind me will help the person I just stepped on! MUST GET IT FIRST!!!!"  Now I know that I am exaggerating a a bit, but the point stands that it is sad that this happened, and that it happened so people could SHOP!!!!  

The following is an expert from the NY Times about it.

"The throng of Wal-Mart shoppers had been building all night, filling sidewalks and stretching across a vast parking lot at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y. At 3:30 a.m., the Nassau County police had to be called in for crowd control, and an officer with a bullhorn pleaded for order.

Tension grew as the 5 a.m. opening neared. Someone taped up a crude poster: “Blitz Line Starts Here.”

By 4:55, with no police officers in sight, the crowd of more than 2,000 had become a rabble, and could be held back no longer. Fists banged and shoulders pressed on the sliding-glass double doors, which bowed in with the weight of the assault. Six to 10 workers inside tried to push back, but it was hopeless.

Suddenly, witnesses and the police said, the doors shattered, and the shrieking mob surged through in a blind rush for holiday bargains. One worker, Jdimytai Damour, 34, was thrown back onto the black linoleum tiles and trampled in the stampede that streamed over and around him. Others who had stood alongside Mr. Damour trying to hold the doors were also hurled back and run over, witnesses said.

Some workers who saw what was happening fought their way through the surge to get to Mr. Damour, but he had been fatally injured, the police said. Emergency workers tried to revive Mr. Damour, a temporary worker hired for the holiday season, at the scene, but he was pronounced dead an hour later at Franklin Hospital Medical Center in Valley Stream.

Four other people, including a 28-year-old woman who was described as eight months pregnant, were treated at the hospital for minor injuries.

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Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them, Kimberly Cribbs of Queens, said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared, she recalled.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They kept shopping.” "  Here is the link to the article 

I leave it up to you all to decide what you think about that. 

Is it really that big of deal that this happened?  Is it really just an "accident?"  

P.s.  This is NOT Wal-Mart's Fault, and the Union in that area that is attacking Wal-Mart for this is pathetic for trying to capitalize on this persons death from uncivilized people that came to shop there.  too bad the people responsible can't be prosecuted because it will be to hard to prove anything.