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Hi Bob,
    I am happy to hear your perspective on all this. The way  I see it, the 
problems
we have now are far older than the past administration and the blame should  
be 
shared by Republicans, Democrats, big business, wall street and others.  
There 
will not be a quick fix for a problem that took this long to build up, I  
would be 
happy if Obama lives up to any of the economic promises he made. I fear a  
typical
Democratic administration that spends, spends, spends on new programs when  we
can't afford to pay for the ones we have now. I am a big believer in  
balancing my checkbook
and not spending what I don't have. If we can balance the budget, and not  
kill us all
with taxes to do it, then great. The thing to remember with the spending on  
the war 
is that most of the money either went to pay our soldiers and was deposited  
in their 
bank accounts and spent by there families back home, or paid US companies  to 
make
the things needed in Iraq and employed thousands of Americans to do so. We  
did not
dig a hole and bury billions of dollars, most went into the economy. Just  as 
any other
war boosts economy, so did this one. When it ends, the jobs created for war  
support will
go away and hundreds of thousands of National Guard troops will return  home, 
many 
with no jobs, so unemployment takes a hit. Everything we do to fix a  problem 
has some
fallout of it's own. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
 
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 11/6/2008 1:16:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
bobmcalister AT gmail.com writes:

none of  you know me. I live in jackson miss...which is predominantly black
.   I did vote for Obama, as a means to change.  If we were the domcracy  some
profess us to be, then we would have a number of candidates on the  ballot,
instead of the media chosen two.  I was in kroger this morning  looking for
the discounted steaks, and engaged an elderly black woman in  conversation ,
as she had returned the discounted piece of steak to the  counter, saying the
4 dollars was just too  much for her to pay ...I  asked if she worked,
Yes....she get any help with food stamps...nope....she  works.   does she get
any help with housing..nope...health care  ...nope...any help at all ? from
my neighbors, she said.  but , she  added, she knows families in her own
neighborhood who do NOT work...have  housing, food stamps, checks every month
, and do not have to wring their  hands about the costs of food.   what is
obama planning for her  ?  how many years would it take to get anything done
? if anything  should be done?

so......I went on to the deli , ordered breakfast, took  it to the counter by
the window to eat.   A black lady , kroger  employee, sat down next to me.
good mornings out of the way , she  sighed....and said "glad that is over
with "....I smiled...said we have a  new leader now ...and everything will be
better.  She commented that  it would take years to repair the damage that
Bush had done to the  US.....the trillions in Iraq, the economy , the greed
on wall street, and  the corruption of the local businesses.  ( who are ALL
owned by  foreigners...she said )

me....I think amerika is headed for the  dumps....broken, and bankrupted
...morally and financially ...and a real  revolution is all that can save
this country.  the only reasonable  solution to the economic mess is one I
heard the other day ...from a  Democrat....that we shuld forget the bank
bailouts, take that money , cut  everyone with a social security number a
check for his/her portion and  deposit that into a checking account for every
body in the US.

would  increase the banks assets...altho not measurable.   would have  an
immediate economic impact on business locally ...and we would do  something
other than write checks to companies who are too big to fail  ....

makes too much sense  tho


bob


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