Obama Asks for Patience on Economy, Unemployment

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I have been hearing that president Obama is trying to pass a bill to stop income taxes. Is that true? If so when does this plan take affect?

latonya Cox of MS 6:23PM August 06, 2009

SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE 7/30/09
I worked in Manchester England for a short time starting in 1960, I still have
My tonsils and caught a bad sore throat shortly after arriving in England. It
Was necessary to see a doctor at the hospital, emergency room for it.
This part of the story needs your un-divided attention, The emergency room
was set up with about 20 open front booths arranged in a semi-circle at the back
of the room, as we the patients come in we were seated in these booths. When
all the booths had a patient, the nurse left the room and brought the Dr. in and seated him at a half moon shaped desk in the center of the room, with a note pad.
Now he turns to the patient at the end to his right, points to him and asked what’s
Your name?, what’s Your problem?, how long has it been this way?, he then turns to his note pad and writes on the notepad. He then repeats this routine around the room. Neither he nor the nurse approached a patient for any reason. He then gave the nurse the note pad and she gave everyone their prescriptions and we were all done. I don’t want anything to do with this kind of health care.
I met a friend that I bowled with and became good friends with his family, I had
evening tea with them often. One evening while I was visiting, the old program called Dr. Ben Cassey came on T V and after we watched the program and it was
off, I said that’s a good show, isn’t it. I didn’t tell you that my friend’s father was a
medical Doctor, and he jumped to his feet and said to me sternly, don’t refer to that program as a show. This show was playing out in the U S at that time and new to England. Shortly after that I saw the English version of the T V guide and it had a
good write-up featuring the Ben Cassey show. It told how they would intentially mismatch symtoms and diagnose’s, in order to avoid liability, So that viewers wouldn’t self-diagnose their problems. I could’t wait to give my friend the Doctor the book. On my next visit to their home The Doctor was waiting on me at the door and proceeded to bless me out, for giving him the book. He said you don’t know it, but I have learned a lot from that program. Do you hear what I’m telling you he asked? I have to ask you the reader, the same question. Do you hear what I have
told you? These doctors in socialized medicine are poorly trained, and have no incentive to continue their studies and stay up to date. We have the very best doctors in the world. To change that would be like the ford Edsel, not a change for for something better.
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james cunningham of NC 4:00PM August 03, 2009

Someone said there was no precedent, but actually, there was; it was The Great Depression, and it was a lot worse (although some us are too young to have actually experienced it, outside of reading about it in the history books).
Please don't state that this current financial crisis was "unprecedented," because the precedent was way worse, to be honest.
That said, stocks are rock bottom, bargain basement cheap! Gen-X and Gen-Y, let's all make the most out of it, and if no one's yet done so, open a Roth IRA and just sit tight knowing that you've got a lot of time on your side to ride this out and watch new growth occur in the future. This is the time to buy cheap and hold for the long term, because things will improve over time.
Just avoid the Bernie Madoff types. Vanguard is the way forward (no load funds).

Angie Koutrotsios of IL 6:30PM July 29, 2009

He should stop promoting his own agenda while millions of Americans are out of work. At at time we need help he starts a lot of new projects but never finished nothing. Stop all Guest worker visas like H1b and this will open up a lot of jobs for Americans and Permanent Residents.

debug of CA 5:04PM July 27, 2009

THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO ARGUE ABOUT OBAMAS MISHANDLING OF THE ECONOMY. BUT THEY HAVE VOTED FOR BUSH NOT ONCE BUT TWICE INTO OFFICE STARTING A WAR WITH TWO COUNTRIES. NOW HOW SMART IS THAT FOR A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT. IT TOOK EIGHT YEARS TO CAUSE THE DAMAGE, IT WILL TAKE EVEN LONGER TO UNDO THE DAMAGE. YOU TELL ME WHO IS THE SMARTER ONE.

EDDIE BRICKHOUSE of FL 2:41PM July 27, 2009

How long will it be before the country's ills will belong to Obama, rather than having been inherited from the Bush administration?

Jill of CA 7:11PM July 26, 2009

everyone said he would do wonders well he has. he has spent more in 6 months than all of the other ones combined. maybe instead of the car dealers he should think of people who have tried to save and spend wisely.what happened to helping the american people. on the route we are taking china will own us...

melissa of AL 4:01PM July 26, 2009

repulicans take to denial as a way to save themselves,but the truth is that they did nothing in bush's eight years of disaster,and expect obama to do nothing too.if not for his stimulus package america would have been worse for it.give the man sometime.

amaechi kelechi justin of CA 10:24AM July 26, 2009

Anybody who thinks that the Unprecedented Disaster inherited by the last admninistration can be fixed in 5 or 6 months... is off their rocker! Get Real! Basically, the job losses are the delayed reprecussions of the downturn. The Prez said in January before he was in office, that the worse was yet to come before things got better! he also said that the stimulus would slow down the economic downturn, and help to save and create jobs. It did just what he said it was going to do! Any of you out there were either Not listening to what the Prez said, or you're in denial.
It's going to take a long time before the economy begins to grow and a sleuth of new jobs are created.
I trust the prez and it'll just take time. Go Obama!

teri of WA 5:53AM July 26, 2009

Obama has said that almost immediately the stimulus would take effect.with shovel-ready projects. Now he says we must be patient. Obama is a neophyte,and id way over his head. America is suffering because of it.

Richard of CA 6:41PM July 24, 2009