Obama '08?

It's because I calls em the way I sees em; and you are dumb. You continue post drivel that has no reality in them except in your own brain.

When you get down to earth like everybody else on a2k, I'll have no need to continue challenging your ignorant posts that arrives at conclusions nobody else agrees with.

You lambast Obama as if you have some crystal ball that nobody else has; how do you know his programs are all failures? How do you know that Obama's presidency is a failure before he has finished his first 100-days in office?

You also arrive at conclusions about economics that even skilled economists do not claim. What's your background in economics? You seem incapable of the simplest concepts about economics, and yet you post drivel as if you have some insight that nobody else has.

You are a joke. Quit making stupid comments, and I'll leave you alone.

That's one; when Foxie produced some evidence that Obama's claim about 95% will get a tax cut, I not only wrote Obama about his lie, but I also told him he has lost my trust in him.

95% of those workers who pay taxes will see their tax cut.

Obama has included "workers and their families."

Recovery's Missing Ingredient: New Jobs

By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 22, 2009

Despite signs that the recession gripping the nation's economy may be easing, the unemployment rate is projected to continue rising for another year before topping out in double digits, a prospect that threatens to slow growth, increase poverty and further complicate the Obama administration's message of optimism about the economic outlook.

The likelihood of severe unemployment extending into the 2010 midterm elections and beyond poses a significant political hurdle to President Obama and congressional Democrats, who are already under fire for what critics label profligate spending. Continuing high unemployment rates would undercut the fundamental argument behind much of that spending: the promise that it will create new jobs and improve the prospects of working Americans, which Obama has called the ultimate measure of a healthy economy.

"Our hope would be to actually create some jobs this year," Obama said in an interview with The Washington Post in the days before taking office.

Obama has defended his economic approach -- which includes the $787 billion economic stimulus plan and record investments in health care, alternative energy, education and job training -- as necessary to stabilize the shaky economy and point the way to job growth.

So far, the White House has counseled patience even as the political debate surrounding its economic policies grows more urgent. Officials point out that job growth will not come until robust economic expansion takes hold, which they expect will happen as stimulus funding works its way through the economy. Still, the flagging job market is likely to stir calls for further stimulus efforts as polls show voters growing increasingly wary of federal spending in the wake of a costly series of financial- and auto-industry bailouts and amid current efforts to expand health-care coverage to the uninsured, which is estimated to cost at least $1 trillion over the next decade.


With many forecasters projecting unemployment to remain above 10 percent next year and not return to pre-recession levels of roughly 5 percent for years after that, Obama is likely to be confronted with defending the effectiveness of his economic policies as the nation endures its worst employment situation in a generation.

I think we need to be realistic, and wait about six more months (after December) to see how this stimulus plan has any leg to stand on!

At least the job loss trend looks promising for now

A little bit of realism is called for.

The hype of hope clouded the realism and look what it got us...