Barack Obama

[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.

[randolph]

On top of everything else we are now going to spend $600 million dollars in Gaza to repair what the Israelis did! FuXXXXXed again!

[TracyCoxx]

WTH???
1. It's not our responsibility to magically solve all the world's problems.
2. The Palestinians brought the destruction on themselves by breaking the cease fire. They're responsible for their predicament.
3. Why can't the Palestinians make the repairs? If they can't afford to, what's the difference? We can't either!

Will the Obama administration please, for once, do something that makes sense?!

[CreativeMind]

Originally Posted by randolph

On top of everything else we are now going to spend $600 million dollars in Gaza to repair what the Israelis did! FuXXXXXed again!

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

WTH???
1. It's not our responsibility to magically solve all the world's problems.
2. The Palestinians brought the destruction on themselves by breaking the cease fire. They're responsible for their predicament.
3. Why can't the Palestinians make the repairs? If they can't afford to, what's the difference? We can't either!

Will the Obama administration please, for once, do something that makes sense?!

I hate to break it to you both, but you'd better get used to MORE of this happening in the days, weeks, months and years to come, especially with Obama in office and the rest of the world -- especially socialists -- SO in love with him and feeling he's some sort of cult figure. Or as conservative columnist Michelle Malkin correctly notes, we now live in the age of a "savior based economy."

So what's next? A Global New Deal? Gee, guess who Europe and other poor countries 'round the world are gonna expect to pick up the tab for THIS one!

CNN
February 22, 2009

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- The world needs a "global New Deal" to haul it out of the economic crisis it faces, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom said Sunday.

"We need a global New Deal -- a grand bargain between the countries and continents of this world -- so that the world economy can not only recover but... so the banking system can be based on... best principles," he said, referring to the 1930s American plan to fight the Great Depression. Brown was speaking as the leaders of Europe's biggest economies met to try to forge a common position on the global financial crisis ahead of a major summit in London in April.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the world's response to the global financial meltdown had to be profound and long-lasting, not just tinkering around the edges. "Europe wants to see an overhaul of the system. We all agree on that. We're not talking about superficial measures now or transitional measures -- we're talking about structural measure, which need to be taken," he said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the host of the meeting, urged nations of the world to work together to fight the problem. "Confidence can only be restored if people in our countries feel that we are pulling in the same direction and have understood that we really must learn lessons from this crisis," she said.

** Translation: America will pay for this!

And she proposed that a new institution grow out of the crisis, "which will take on more responsibility for global [financial] mechanisms."

** Translation: But the EU will be in charge and America has to do what we say!

The Europeans say they have agreed international financial markets must be regulated more thoroughly. That also means stricter rules for hedge funds and credit-rating agencies. European and world leaders have been holding frequent summits as they struggle to cope with a financial crisis that has affected banks, homeowners, businesses and employees around the world.
advertisement

London will host a meeting of the Group of 20 nations in April. The G-20 includes the G-7 leading industrialized nations -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States -- as well as the world's largest developing economies: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey, plus the European Union. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund and the president of the World Bank, plus the chairs of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and Development Committee of the IMF and World Bank, also participate in G-20 meetings.