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corysub -> RE: Soros And Volker Say Economy Not Near Bottom Yet (2/23/2009 10:54:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: outlier
Yes Vendaval,
Or as The Onion put it on Nov 5th.
Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."
Sad to think that Obama fought so hard for the job with his eyes closed it seems, if you believe this stuff. Heck, people here, including you and me, agree on not a heck of a lot but I think it was unanimous among us that the economy which started to get hit in the financial community in 2007, was in the shitter from the beginning of 2008, if not before....Didn't have to read the headlines...just open the 401K statement...
It goes back to the concerns expressed during the primary. We now have a President who has unbelieveable skill in rallying masses of young people, aided with a rock and roll opening act, but lacked any realworld experience in business,management, and economics. Hillary waved the flag as to who would be ready on "day one"...and the gal was right. What did Obama expect the job of President to be....just writing checks from people who work to people who don't? And what is this BS about "Black Man"...what difference is that supposed to make to turn focus on his color? Is that an excuese? He is a "man" who came to Washington with an "agenda", not a plan. You can see it in the day to day reactions to headlines, trial baloons, same old democrat class warfare, tax the rich, screw business, be Green and Mean...and, as any good street community activist knows, keep telling people how terrible the establishment is, talk it down, and rally the troops for action. ... and this is what he is doing as we head towards depression. There is zero confidence building in his words. Who would have believed that this government would push through a trillion dollars of so called Stimulus and it only makes people more worried. And now we get an article intimating that once again the "black guy" got screwed...What a patronizing liberal answer to any question involving race.
He was played by Pelosi and Reid....and is responding now to the backlash with "summit" meetings after the country has been put on a solid footing of "pork and waste". Instead of business stimulation, we get a package initially approaching a "trillion dollars" and the major beneficiary is big government on the federal level, and irresponsible Governors who did not make the tough, necessary decisions in the past. Those roads and bridges did not detriorate over night...the pols were all asleep or passing out checks to a bloated bureacracy instead of watching the store.
When that call does come at 3:00 A.M. in the morning, I would not be surprised if he checks caller ID and if it's Geithner...just let it ring to the "beep" and voicemail.. Meanwhile, the economy, is going beep, beep, beep...and heading towards..."flatline". Maybe Gibbs will get up there and announce that they are going to cut the salary level of the bankers to $250,000 and show those bankers who is captain of this ship as we head full speed towards a field of economic glaciers.
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