The action Americans need by Barack Obama ( a letter to you, from him)

Let's hope it works.

Look everybody, a President that can complete a sentence!!! Hooooo ray!!! We're saved!!

No seriously. If you want to understand the Obama Stimulus Plan a little better, read the article at the link. It's pretty plain language to explain a complicated situation. He keeps it "positive", as usual. He leaves out the Obstructionist tactics of the Republicans in Congress. They are clearly putting Power over People and the Party before Country. I hope you all see that. Don't believe the spin. If you have any questions please email me here at Current. If you would like to engage in a rational, truthful debate, by all means contact me. If all you have are criticisims and Rush Lame-baugh's comedic talking points, keep them to yourself. Don't poison my mind with that garbage.

Bansheewail, over and out.

I think that EVERY working American person should NOT have to pay ANY bill for a month. THATS the economic stimulus I need.

Blek!

"In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive"

This is the type of dialogue a president should have with his people. Transparency is the change needed to restore faith in the government. Admit when you're wrong. Defend your policies. And let the American people decide for themselves. President Obama has restored my faith in the future.

It's a very intriguing plan that on the surface seems to work but unfortunately despite the president's flattering words to the public it's mostly temporary.

Infrastructure projects end and businesses that don't work still fail despite the amount of loans that you give them.

Educating teachers is great but you need to address that in it's own piece of legislature. The entire systems needs to be taken down and rebuilt. Public school was not originally designed to do what we ask it too.

I agree with some of the items in the President's ideas that have been imparted into the new stimulus bill but it's too much. Spending tax payer money to boost a failing economy is like screwing someone to keep them from losing their virginity to someone else. In the end they were still screwed.

Bad businesses need to fail. That way more efficient ones can rise up and take their place. That's how free market enterprise basically works. There's much more in it but I won't go into all of it.

Stop spending my money on things I didn't vote for.

Obama is off to a rocky start. No matter what happens he is somewhat damaged politically by these opening blunders. He has nominated all Washington insiders for his cabinet, which I find disturbing. More depressingly, he seems to think that the American people have even a tiny shred of respect for the wishes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. He has the power to separate himself from these two idiots and should use it.

Most depressingly, though, is his Bush-like 'doomsday is here if we don't do what I want right now' mentality.

He can turn it around. At this point I wish he'd step back, take a deep breath, and start over on this stimulus package, writing it himself with his advisors. It's going to take years to dig out of this mess, a week or so delay is not the end of the world.

54321 obama you need to step to the plate. you are up.it is your turn . it is our turn.you seem a bit on the unsure side. i am not.make a move baby.

Thanks for the link, I was hoping to read this today.

Woot! for a president who finally gives the educational system some funding.

Now if Congress would just take the 110 billion in pork out of the bill it would be excellent. As the saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Obama has some good ideas, but Congress is still the same bunch of corrupt fat cats as always.

I think Obama's message needs to be about cost savings, job creation, and the knowledge that you will be safer if you do lose your job. Because these are very real affects of this bill.

The health and education measures save money from state coffers freeing up states to expand hiring in the short term and preventing massive layoffs from State and local agencies and millions being forced off of the unemployment, food stamps, housing assistance, medicare/medicaid, and COBRA programs at a time when there is almost no hope that they could find employment. That would drive up healthcare costs for everyone else and expand the unemployment numbers even further forcing a longer and more protracted contraction of the econemy

Many of his measures are either designed to bring down prices for needed services such as healthcare in the hopes that the increase in disposable income generated by lowering those costs, and the increase in consumer confidence generated knowing that there is a safety net bellow them will allow them to make the leap of faith and start spending again.

Couple that with cost savings and job creation from the energy components of the stimulus package, twenty billion in tax credits for green energy production. Eleven billion in modernizing our grid. Weatherizing four million low income homes and you get a stimulative affect. You have long term infrastructure improvement coupled with job creation and long term cost savings creating disposable income

With education in the stimulus. You have an expansion of the pell grant program at a time when student loans are at a standstill and families are sacrificing education or forestalling it. Thats a cost to our econemy that is hard to calculate but very real. It means more people in the unskilled labor pool vying for jobs that are already stretched to thier limit, which means more unemployment and a contraction of wages. It also means a great loss for our long term sustainability as a nation. Couple that with the job creation that occurs by modernizing 10,000 schools accross the country, and the cost savings acrued by making those schools mor energy efficient and you have a combined impact greater than the money applied which means long term stiumulus.

thanks for sharing Bansheewail. I really hope this works out

Fight the POWER!!!

I've tried calling my senators' offices, but the lines have been tied up by Rush Limbaugh's dittoheads. I did send them email, and I did write a letter to the editor of our local paper.

I hope something is done. I'm about to get laid off. I need a job to pay my car note and gas so I can get to school and back! My college is an hour away from home. I don't want pity. I want a job!!!!!!

I love how we rushed the first stimulus package under Bush through Congress so quickly and the money had no oversight. Hell i STILL have no idea where that money went. However, Obama's plan actually has oversight and MOST of it is going to public works programs to make MILLIONS of jobs and yet not a single member of the GOP voted for it in the House. The Republicans must live just to suck on the nuts of big business. Honestly its sickening.

I must say he is a sort-of fair as being president so far, but we must urge him to keep improving, until we are competely satisfied with his decision makings..

Wow! This means I can continue to write in my normal relatively run-on style as I always do, because apparently the president does the same thing; only using semicolons as breaks.

Kick ass.

Regardless of what anyone wants to say good, bad, ugly or politically, I appreciate the fact that Obama is a communicator, since honest, open communication is the key to any successful relationship.

How is it the problem that people keep there own money.
How does spending a trillion dollars we dont have shorten a economic down cycle.Economy is a cycle it goes up it goes down hard or soft it always comes back around this is political fearmongering to shove the socialist marxist democrat agenda down our throats before anyone starts paying attention. oh wait 52% of you voted for the goverment to control everything never mind Change and Hope baby change and Hope!

I think they should wipe out all credit card debt in America!

Economic crisis was planned, yall thought this was all a coincidence? The presidential candidate that wanted a voluntary standing militia got a depression in his lap. What do people do when there is no work to find? Join the military.

Yes.... just a coincidence that right when the financial crisis has made huge impact (3 million job losses?), the man with the plan comes into office. If it makes you sleep easier at night, then keep on thinking that it's only a coincidence.

"we will create OR save more than 3 million jobs" i say we bring it around OR learn to barter