Barack Obama's empty promises"
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inverse1 year, 3 months ago
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Bush raise our national debt to such an extent that is far more damaging than to merely raise tax. It is a future tax with interest compounded. It would be interesting to see what kind of effective tax (the additional tax we need to pay if we have to pay off Bush's deficit spending )will be.
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Klarissa1 year, 3 months ago
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Obama will invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce.
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Obama will create a program to directly engage disadvantaged youth in energy efficiency opportunities to strengthen their communities, while also providing them with practical skills in this important high-growth career field.
Obama will double the federal Jobs Access and Reverse Commute program to ensure that additional federal public transportation dollars flow to the highest-need communities and that urban planning initiatives take this aspect of transportation policy into account.
Obama will work to ensure that ex-offenders have access to job training, substance abuse and mental health counseling, and employment opportunities. Obama will also create a prison-to-work incentive program and reduce barriers to employment.-
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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Itg could all be paid for with less than 10% of our military budget - you know the one where the Pentagon has "lost" trillions of dollars.
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'America's Outrageous War Economy!'
Yes, America’s economy is a war economy. Not a “manufacturing” economy. Not an “agricultural” economy. Nor a “service” economy. Not even a “consumer” economy. Pentagon can't find $2.3 trillion, wasting trillions on 'national defense'.
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mesodude1 year, 3 months ago
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That's easy. It doesn't have to get any larger (and could get smaller). We just need to go after all the waste, fraud, and abuse the GOP has been ignoring in corporate America, Defense spending, Homeland Security (what a horror), etc. We need to shift the emphases from among different areas. Immediately take back those billions in subsidies to oil companies (which we all know are basically kickbacks to GOP campaign coffers) and spend that money on alternative energy research and development.
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So many things we could do (large and small) to recover money wasted under Bush and GOP leadership. Actually fund NCLB, pay for ALL children's health insurance upfront (so we aren't paying more down the road when they have to go to the emergency room because they couldn't afford to see a dentist). So called "abstinence only" programs? SLASH. Tens of millions of dollars saved immediately (and that's just what we'd save in domestic dollars currently being wasted on such silliness). End no bid contracts (so we can see how cons (who love to claim they get everything they have through hard work and fair competition, blah blah) like Monica Goodling behave when they actually have to compete with the best of the best for their supper. This is just scratching the surface. Obama and Biden have a tough job ahead of them. Bush and Republicans have really reamed this country out. ;-(
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 3 months ago
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There you go again thinking like a liberal. Did less federal spending ever enter your mind? Cut half a trillion dollars per year in useless programs and pork and use it to pay off the debt. Let's look ahead and figure out what to do about the debt instead of looking back at every administration since Hoover in the 1930's that caused the debt and never repaid it. Has congress ever paid back their IOU's to social security? (trillions of $$).
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ADAGUY1 year, 3 months ago
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"Cut half a trillion dollars per year in useless programs and pork and use it to pay off the debt."
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!/2 trillion dollars a year will barely pay the interest on the debt. (providing the rates don't go up.)
I'll be the first to agree, there are a lot of places where the budget could be cut. The first that comes to mind is America's generosity with Disability claims.
But getting congress to agree on which ones to cut is a real trick.
Our governor cut medicade for the needy. After he got done, if a family made $75.00 a week, they made too much to qualify for medicade.
But he did not cut the existing salaries for the state legislators, nor did he try and stop any scheduled pay increases.
Thank You Matt Blunt! (what a guy)
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