Barack Obama

[franalexes]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853

Some people are starting to figure it out.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by franalexes

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853

Some people are starting to figure it out.

Its a big problem to bail out our neighbors with billions but it was not a problem to spend billions destroying Iraq and killing thousands of our boys and Iraq citizens?

[franalexes]

You think we should bail out the crooked bankers and wall street first?

[randolph]

Originally Posted by franalexes

You think we should bail out the crooked bankers and wall street first?

Those guys should all be in jail!

[franalexes]

Originally Posted by randolph

Those guys should all be in jail!

But they are not. They are in the Carribean on a beach, writing checks to the Democrat National Committee.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by franalexes

But they are not. They are in the Carribean on a beach, writing checks to the Democrat National Committee.

Franny get your gun, we are going after them.

[CreativeMind]

Originally Posted by franalexes

But they are not. They are in the Carribean on a beach, writing checks to the Democrat National Committee.

Yeah, gotta love Obama feeling our pain.
Hey, Big O, how about paying some of your OWN bills?
Or will my tax dollars go to bailing YOU out as well?

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
February 20, 2009

Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park -- despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.

"The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us,'' Peter Scales, a spokesman for the city's Office of Budget and Management, said Thursday after questions from the Chicago Sun-Times. "We're reaching out to them this week."

Stacie Paxton, a spokeswoman for the Obama-controlled DNC, explained the reimbursement delay by saying, "We are still looking at various costs and bills.'' She would not say whether parts of the bill are disputed.

The city spent $1 million on police protection for the rally. The Office of Emergency Management and Communications racked up more than $120,000 in expenses, including $19,500 paid to police official Neil Sullivan to quarterback election night logistics.

In late October, Mayor Daley assured that the cash-flush Obama campaign would reimburse the city for every penny spent on the rally. "We have a financial crisis," he said at the time. "The City of Chicago could not afford $2 million on this because we're gonna be laying off people, cutting back. That [cost] would really be unfortunate. It's a huge cost to the City of Chicago.

"This is not a presidential visit. This is a political event, and they've agreed to pay for all those services -- all the expenses of that. ... It's costly, but they raised quite a bit of money. There's no [shortage] of money in that campaign."

The day after the Nov. 4 election, Daley was asked again whether the Obama campaign would pay up.

"Yeah. I don't know why you're so negative. What is this? He just won for president, and you say, 'He's not gonna pay his bills,' " the mayor said then.

On Dec. 9, the day the Sun-Times disclosed the $1.74 million tab, Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt referred questions to the DNC. Paxton confirmed then that the rally was a "DNC-sponsored event" and that the party was discussing the itemized bill with the city.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by franalexes

But they are not. They are in the Carribean on a beach, writing checks to the Democrat National Committee.

Franny get your gun we are going to the Caribbean.

[randolph]

Dear CommonDreamer,

When Congress passed the George W. Bush $700 billion bank bailout plan, the goal was to rescue our banking system by propping up the banks that deregulation had allowed to become 'too big to fail.' We now know that the bailed out banks didn't use our money to start lending more - rather they paid out big bonuses to executives and bailed out the banks' shareholders. In return for our money the American people got nothing.

We, the people, became majority owners in many of the major banks. But we have no voice in the way the banks are run. If taxpayers are footing the bill for rescuing the banks, why shouldn't we get ownership, at least until private buyers can be found?

Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman calls this a "a classic exercise in 'lemon socialism': taxpayers bear the cost if things go wrong, but stockholders and executives get the benefits if things go right."

Yes, we get f++++d regardless who is in the Whitehouse.