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After coming off of a boost in ratings from his efforts in reaching across the aisle, President Barack Obama has at least two more years to make good on campaign promises and commitments to the American people about doing more to bolster the dwindling economic outlook.
Based on polls, town-hall meetings, and media reports, the current consensus is that more jobs are needed in order to jump-start the economy. The concern centers on ways the administration can build on the bipartisan support it received recently. During that rare moment, Obama succeed in passing certain health care provisions once the Bush tax cuts were resolved.
Obama's New Year's resolution, based on his weekly address, is to do what is necessary to build jobs in the country. Let's take a look at what has to happen to maintain his marginalized support from Republicans:
• Domestic jobs - Obama has to find ways to prevent jobs in the country from going overseas where wage demands are not at a premium.
• Balance act - Facing a Republican-controlled House and a Democratic-controlled Senate, the president must find more ways to concede his party's agenda to garner continued support from the Republicans.
• Gas Price/Alternative Energy - Analysts believe that with the growing cost of oil, companies will merely pass the cost on to consumers in the form of higher retail and service costs. This translates to a tightening up of the economy as consumers avoid large purchases like homes and cars. As China increases its demand for oil, the U.S. must find alternative forms of energy, according to the Huffington Post.
Obama's New Year's Resolution has all the elements of good intent. After all, every sitting president often has to contend with the economy. It becomes a thorn in their side that is characterized by a deficit. It's nothing new.
However, after coming off an unprecedented recession since the Great Depression, our economy cannot be tested any time soon as the shock of it all is still lingering in the minds of Americans.
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Comments: 27
I have posted this already here before You guys should stop complaining because, one the health care we have now isnt as good as it was supposed to be. also the law has just been signed so give it some time. so if u want to say u have the right to choose tell that to ur congress men or state official. If you do not have insurance and need one You can find full medical coverage at the lowest price check search online for "Wise Health Insurance" If you have health insurance and do not care about cost just be happy about it and believe me you are not going to loose anything!
I don't want Barry Boy's Socialism! Simple as that. Bush was bad enough and had enough of his own agenda with the wars and oil, but Barry Boy takes the cake.
I don't want the government in my health, what is so hard to understand about that?
I don't want my medical records in a government database, what's so hard to understand about that.
Mooch
They have nice neat packages of health care for them and and their families, that we pay for.
My husband had cancer surgery a year ago, Colo-rectal. We have insurance that we and his employer pay for. We are still in debt up to our eye balls that we may or not be able to pay. I have my own health problems, which I have to ignore because we can't afford to pay for them.
How are they going to replace the retirement funds we used to have before the banks and Wall Street went to hell? Before they, the standing government decided that their financial friends deserved to be spared over the people that actually provided the money that they stole and blew on bad investments?
I got laid off a year ago which put a real crimp in our budget. We are now being sued for the debts he incurred getting sick. Because of my health problems, no one wants to hire me. I'm still very good at what I do. So what now?
I have sold everything I could but my wedding ring to pay down our debts. I have no pride left, no physical possessions to speak of and no future. I have applied for early SSI, I'm 62 and lost a size able chunk of future SI doing so. I have worked since I was 12 years old and have nothing to show for it.
So please someone explain to me how the Congress is going to help us? Doesn't matter which party. Just tell me how they are going to help me and the majority of "Boomers" who built this country are finally going to get back what "we" built?
Sorry for the sour grapes. I'm just truly sick of all the excuses by "both" parties. All show and no results. I do not give a tinkers damn for your political differences. You are there to help, not hamper the forward movement of the people that elected you. Quit your damned arguing and get on with it! Bunch of sissies!
I think all of Congress should be cleaned out, lock stock and barrel. Term limits should be imposed, and maybe we could get some people in there who give a rip. There should be limits to the salary that they have, as well as not being able to vote them a raise. Let the voters decide if there should be a raise. Simple as that.
Of course Barry Boy is going ot ignore the oil exploration, if he explores here in the states, he and his buddies can't make millions down in Brazil.........He's no better than any politician that has been in that white house in the past 20 years!
As far as what is going to happen to get this country back on track? Probably not as much that needs to be done. Simply put Barry seems to care more about other countries and their citizens than he does about the citizens of the United States. Obama is fast tracking the demise of this great country......
Sad thing is, I'm beginning to wonder if its too late to turn around.
Mooch
What needs to be done to "get us back on track" is for us to say no to the federal machine that has their buerocratic hands in every aspect of our lives. Hell, they mandate everything you can do, from the amount of water your washing machine can use to what you can say in public. They approve drugs that can kill us because they don't care about you.
If not for the EPA fuel prices would be half of what they are now, HALF! Pollution is at it's lowest level in our history because "federal" tax and trade incentives have sent our factories and technology (and jobs) overseas. We don't make the pollution because we don't make things anymore but we must go "green" to save the earth while the countries that get our jobs (and pollution) don't have restrictions on pollution.
The money that buys your vote, through the controlled media, is money from the banks and corporations (like Wall Mart and BP) that spend billions on politicians and marketing to keep you believing the image that they fabricate.
There was a time in this country when the state, county and city had control of our laws. We have let federal payoffs and bribes take over our local governments and thus our control of our lives! You are a cow to becontrolled and milked, a slave to the system.
Barry was born and adopted in Indoneasia and was elected because the media sold him as someone that should be president, even though his only experience was as a lawyer for ACORN, an organization that has been proven to be nothing more than organized crime hiding behind race.
The only cure is for states to take back their power by saying no to the federal bribes, in the form of grants, and for us to wise up to the Republicrat/Demopublican illusion and start doing some research before we vote. The media is controlled by the same money that buys our polliticians so we need to tune out the spin from the controlled media.
And last but not least, because the media is controlled, if you do some research you will find that we have more oil than all of the middle east and Russia combined. They are hiding the vast reserves that are in this country. If all "our" oil was used we would not need to import ANY for generations and gassoline could be about $1.20 a gallon.
Clinton was effective with a Republican Congress and Senate.
Also, the price of gas is still very low, this is all due to speculation again. There is no rational reason for gas to shoot up like it has.
I am not happy when filling my tank costs $50, which is hit about a month ago, and now it is up to $60 in another month.
We can thank Wall St. for this one too. Is there anything these people do that helps us, or do they just drive up prices and themselves bonuses for it?