Top Dem: Obama Plans to Run Against Bush Again in 2012

yeah i have a question there is a lot of things going on in this world that i don't understand when obama became president bush left him a big mess and it takes more then four years to clean it up i don't care what nobody says because every president we get they are all the same they don't do nothing for the people that are poor. like they say the rich keeps getting more rich and the poor keeps getting more poor and struggling in this world, what is anybody doing about that. i work to jobs and i still struggle with my bills i cant even see a doctor when i'm sick because i have no insurance because supposible i get paid to much. and it is to expensive to see a doctor nobody is helping with that this thing sucks is not right i am not rich i need help i get sick sometimes i cant even got to the hospital because i cant pay them back and disable people should get more benefits like qualify for housing faster instead of waiting for an old person to die for they could move in. no one isn't doing anything at all every person in this world likes to talk good crap. don't say that your'e going to change the world because you people do not do anything for us poor people you people care about youre selves and getting more money why dont you do something about that

Jessica d of FL 11:55PM February 09, 2012

no obama no bush no obama no bush

Jonathan of CT 11:45PM February 09, 2012

yeah i have a question there is a lot of things going on in this world that i don't understand when obama became president bush left him a big mess and it takes more then four years to clean it up i don't care what nobody says because every president we get they are all the same they don't do nothing for the people that are poor. like they say the rich keeps getting more rich and the poor keeps getting more poor and struggling in this world, what is anybody doing about that. i work to jobs and i still struggle with my bills i cant even see a doctor when i'm sick because i have no insurance because supposible i get paid to much. and it is to expensive to see a doctor nobody is helping with that this thing sucks is not right i am not rich i need help i get sick sometimes i cant even got to the hospital because i cant pay them back and disable people should get more benefits like qualify for housing faster instead of waiting for an old person to die for they could move in. no one isn't doing anything at all every person in this world likes to talk good crap. don't say that your'e going to change the world because you people do not do anything for us poor people you people care about youre selves and getting more money why dont you do something about that

Jessica Deleon of FL 11:39PM February 09, 2012

Obama's latest economic fix will kill the very jobs it’s meant to create. The universal statutory command to "Buy American" is not capable of rigorous enforcement, which brings us to another problem with the bill: It allows its legislative mandates to be waived when the head of the relevant federal agency finds that its enforcement is against the "public interest," including in hard to calculate cases where such deliberations increase project costs by 25 percent.

This process only adds to the cost of legislative enforcement. The real jobs created are for government bureaucrats who determine, under rules to be promulgated later, whether the rule or exception applies. The provision has it exactly backwards. The correct piece of legislation should provide that no recipient of funds (assuming there are any) should be allowed to impose "Buy American" preferences—ever.

Section 5 makes the same error as Section 4. One of the lasting shames of American law is the Davis-Bacon Act, passed at the height of the depression in 1931. It guaranteed the payment of "prevailing," i.e. union, wages to workers on government jobs. For those with short memories, the 1931 statute was introduced to keep "itinerant colored workers" from the South from underbidding union workers in the North.

The bill only gets worse. Sections 101 and 102 of the Act continue the policies of giving temporary payroll tax cuts and temporary tax credits to employers who hire additional workers. Cutting taxes, of course, is just fine, but the temporary nature of the cuts is wholly counterproductive. The Obama administration has two unflattering views of employers. First, they are cunning ogres who have to be watched lest they exploit or cheat workers. Second, they must be economic lightweights because they are willing to make long-term hiring commitments on the basis of short-term tax credits, like the one offered in the AJA.

craig smith of FL 3:19AM December 22, 2011