President-Elect Obama Pledges Help to States in Economic Downturn
Not everyone believes aid from the federal government—or raising taxes—is a good idea. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, two Republican governors, Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Rick Perry of Texas, urged their colleagues to avoid the temptations of tax hikes and a federal bailout. "The federal government is not only burying future generations under mountains of debt," they wrote. "It is also taking our country in a very dangerous direction—toward a 'bailout mentality' where we look to government rather than ourselves for solutions."
For the time being, anyway, their words seem to have been drowned out by the standing ovation their fellow governors gave Obama today.
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Help American workers, not the special interests
Mr. Obama has talked about creating 2.5 million jobs but yet our country is on track to legally import just about the same number of foreign workers over the next 2 years. And on top of this he said he supports a "pathway to citizenship" (AKA AMNESTY) scheme for the 12-20 million illegal aliens in our country. This is NOT "change we can believe in." We tried the same type of amnesty in 1986 which just excerbated the problem and led to more illegal immigration. I hope Obama has the guts to stick up for American workers, enforce existing immigration law, oppose all forms of amnesty, and tell the ethnocentric and cheap labor special interests to stand down.
it's all in the logic
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
America can't be the worlds most advanced Democracy and
have absolute Freedom at the same time. Contradiction?
After all Demos means People and Cracy means to dictate.
The American people have a very special dictatorship:
Of the people, For the people, By the people.
America is the world first and most advance Republic,
in this millennium of Charlemagne 800AD to 1800AD
It is run by elected Representatives of the People.
Their job is to be "All Things to all people".
Now try rubbing the chest and patting the forehead
at the same time. Possible? Not with over 200 million people.
The batton of the Roman Empire, was passed to America.
Almost to the day in 1789, a whole millennium later.
It's time to take a rest and recover.
Let the world take the responsibility for cleaning
up the mess which America inherited, from Europe.
I think Mr. Obama can take you forward,
if you have the courage
Nationalize Exxon
A good way to provide much-needed funds would be to levy a retroactive windfall profit tax on oil companies.
Since the last eight years have seen an unprecedented transfer of wealth to the richest among us, the best way to recoup some of the stolen funds would be to nationalize the profits of the thieves.
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