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US President-elect Barack Obama says he wants his economic team to find ways to generate 2.5 million new jobs during his first two years in office.
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He said his economic priority would be a two-year, nationwide effort to "jumpstart job-creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy".

Ageing public infrastructure would be rebuilt, Mr Obama said, adding that his administration would look quickly at developing and building sources of renewable energy, such as wind farms, designed to "free" the US from its "dependency" foreign oil.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Here's a bit of it.

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US President-elect Barack Obama says he wants his economic team to find ways to generate 2.5 million new jobs during his first two years in office.
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He said his economic priority would be a two-year, nationwide effort to "jumpstart job-creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy".

Ageing public infrastructure would be rebuilt, Mr Obama said, adding that his administration would look quickly at developing and building sources of renewable energy, such as wind farms, designed to "free" the US from its "dependency" foreign oil.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7743571.stm

No details yet on how this is to be done.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Originally posted by whozit:
His recovery plan is to raise taxes on everyone who makes over $250,000 or $200,000 or $150,000. Barry and the Gaffe Master keep changing the number.

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Originally posted by whozit:
His recovery plan is to raise taxes on everyone who makes over $250,000 or $200,000 or $150,000. Barry and the Gaffe Master keep changing the number.

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Let's get absolutely real for a moment there, W. Do you make $150,000 a year? Does anyone related to you? Do you even KNOW anyone that makes that much?
I'm just wondering why you care...


The filthy rich Chrisisall

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Though half that debt we can attribute to all of those who have come before them.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
And don't even start in on the horseshit about "well, Bush had things that came up that couldn't be foreseen." EVERY President has shit come up that they didn't count on, so that's trying to rely on that excuse to cover his numerous fuck-ups is just weak tea.

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Originally posted by Riverlove:
Why does Detroit have to come back to DC with a "Plan" to get a measley $25 billion, but AIG, Citicorp, and Fannie can keep the same lousy, possibly criminal management in place with NO plan and get 100's of billions?

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Why does Detroit have to come back to DC with a "Plan" to get a measley $25 billion, but AIG, Citicorp, and Fannie can keep the same lousy, possibly criminal management in place with NO plan and get 100's of billions?

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Madame Geezer and I were just talking about the same thing. A failure of any one of the Big Three will put hundreds of thousands of "Main Street" folks out of work. While a failure at AIG or Citi would put some "Main Street" folks on unemployment, it would also impact the most important constituants of Congressfolk, the big campaign contributors.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Originally posted by Riverlove:
All the pigs feeding at the Govt. trough is quite an ugly sight.

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Who do you think you're talking to K?

If you paid attention at all, I was one of the loudest against Bush and what he's done since I've been here. I'm not defending him or his administration. I'm trying to make the retarded proles stop blaming this on a single administration and make sure they spend the next 4 or 8 years awake instead of falling back into apathy now that their savior is here.

Get real.

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Originally posted by Riverlove:
Why does Detroit have to come back to DC with a "Plan" to get a measley $25 billion, but AIG, Citicorp, and Fannie can keep the same lousy, possibly criminal management in place with NO plan and get 100's of billions?

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Madame Geezer and I were just talking about the same thing. A failure of any one of the Big Three will put hundreds of thousands of "Main Street" folks out of work. While a failure at AIG or Citi would put some "Main Street" folks on unemployment, it would also impact the most important constituants of Congressfolk, the big campaign contributors.

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It's really quite fascinating to see. Democrats, the Party of power in the Congress, the Party of The People, seem to be putting Wall Street robberbarons' priorities over the needs of the working folks. I can almost hear the screams coming from the Left if it had been Republican Congressional leadership championing the Wall Street bailout cause, but amazingly its' the Democrats. I support saving the Big 3 due to the vast numbers of potential lost jobs, but all the other bailouts must stop. Capitalism doesn't come with a guarantee. You screw up, you're history, or at least that's the way it should be. All the pigs feeding at the Govt. trough is quite an ugly sight.

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