OBAMA can't keep his word.

[2500 HD]

Obama said he would review items Line by line to make sure there were no ear marks!!!!

Said he would weed out pork barrel spending

Said the public could review any bill for a minumum of 2 days before he signed into law.

Hasn't done anything he stated during his campaign.

VIDEO PROOF ON FOX NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pine Mt Beagles]

WELL IT'S ONLY BEEN JUST OVER A MONTH,
AND YOU KEEP FOR GETTING FOX IS NOT A NEWS CHANNEL IT IS A COMEDY TALK SHOW.I THINK WE SHOULD WAIT ABOUT---8--- YEARS,THEN WE CAN LOOK BACK FOR ANOTHER -8- AND SEE WHAT WENT WRONG..
RUFUS

[2500 HD]

No it's been 8 months or more of promises to voters that some how beleived a politician so he could get in to office. Since being in office for over a month he has not kept his word. "I promise to the American people" Obama repeatily said, but all that has taken place is broken promises. Every time Obama opens his mouth the stock market falls, alot of times 300 points. Economic America is obviously concerned( according to the markets). Why aren't you!!!!!!!!!!

It's funny how liberal's overlook details that are so easy to point out when the shoe is on the other foot.

[Rabbithoundjb]

Its been more like 18 months of promises 2500. Pine likes to make jokes about fox news because the truth hurts. It was easy to bash Bush but the shoe is on the other foot now.

[2500 HD]

I was being conservative

[tinymwoods]

We waited 8 years with Bush to see what was wrong, why do it again? Bush was bad for America. Obama may be worse, atleast for me. HR45 scares me. It is the begining of taking our guns. I don't think anyone on this board wants it to pass. Obama said what people wanted to hear to get elected, like they all do. The sad part is so many people actually belived him. The scary part is so many people still believe him. He lied, that is a fact, no matter where you hear it ( http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/03/ ... newssearch )
This on Pork Spending from CNN: "Obama also had harsh words for conservative critics of the stimulus plan who have argued that it contains needless pork barrel spending. "If we agree on 90 percent of the stuff, and we're spending all our time on television arguing about 1 percent, 2 percent, 3 percent of the spending in this thing, and somehow it's been characterized in broad brush as wasteful spending, that starts sounding more like politics, and that's what right now we don't have time to do." Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-Louisiana, speaking to reporters after the meeting, highlighted items such as $1 billion in added spending for the national census and $50 million in federal spending for the arts." http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/23/ ... index.html
Says the same as Fox but nicer to Obama. Says pork is OK as long as it is only a small portion.
Pine Mtn, you think we could have handled "just over a month" of more Bush? I don't. If he has lied and broken all these promises in just one month, what does the future hold? McCain was not the right answer. Obama was not the right answer. Let's not lift one up and look where we came from. Let's let him lead us where we want to go. If he isn't, we need to make our voted leaders help.
Obama's tax increases also hurt me. I manage (not own) a small 5 store Farm Company. I make less than $25,000 a year. The guys that work for me make even less. We have alot of expenses and buisness is bad. Real bad. Add on top of that I have to give a raise to all the employees come July. I won't get one. Middle class? Nope, low class and lower class. We are a Co-op and there is no fat cat getting rich from this. Our tax laws have changed as well. As a company we sell over $10 million every year. This is enough to bump us into a higher tax bracket under the new tax laws. Before we got some breaks because of expenses, depreciation, etc. Now, we have lost most of them. I am going to be forced to cut one of the 6 employees that work there and maybe a part time as well. How is this helping America? If it continues we will be out. Then everyone will have to go to Tractor Supply (the Wal-Mart of farm stores) an hour+ away. Is this helping America? I will bet anyone here I will be in worse shape in 4 years from a personal and financial point then I was in July. Any takers?

[Pike Ridge Beagles]

At the end of Obama's first term many who voted for Obama will begging for W. to return. Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing. When the masses around the world deify an American president who came out of nowhere with no experience, I think this should be a warning sign to most with a background in anythng theological or intellectual.
Even the very elect will be deceived.

[2500 HD]

Obama's tax increases also hurt me. I manage (not own) a small 5 store Farm Company. I make less than $25,000 a year. The guys that work for me make even less. We have alot of expenses and buisness is bad. Real bad. Add on top of that I have to give a raise to all the employees come July. I won't get one. Middle class? Nope, low class and lower class. We are a Co-op and there is no fat cat getting rich from this. Our tax laws have changed as well. As a company we sell over $10 million every year. This is enough to bump us into a higher tax bracket under the new tax laws. Before we got some breaks because of expenses, depreciation, etc. Now, we have lost most of them. I am going to be forced to cut one of the 6 employees that work there and maybe a part time as well. How is this helping America? If it continues we will be out. Then everyone will have to go to Tractor Supply (the Wal-Mart of farm stores) an hour+ away. Is this helping America? I will bet anyone here I will be in worse shape in 4 years from a personal and financial point then I was in July. Any takers?

Almost in the same boat. I'm in residential construction. As of right now we have no new work signed up for this year. Trying to bid on a couple of jobs, but the phone is dead!!!!!!!!! Hopefully when the weather breaks it will ring. Every potential customer all have the same coments, " Obama is scaring the he[[ out of us", "Really want to do the project, but scared of whats gonna happen since Obama was elected" , "probally can build, but if Obama raises taxes like he says we won't be able to afford it" I no for a fact that we are gonna have a rough time making it in the next 4 years. There is no good outlook for the job market in the near future and if things were to turn around it will take people years to get back on thier feet before the housing market could recover. Let alone the deflation that is taking place, houses are appraising for way less than it is costing to build, there for the people have to come up with the difference or they can't build. NOT GOOD. Looking at a huge income loss and big tax increases.

Reguardless of what I'm dealing with, Obama did not keep his word to those that voted for him, wether you like it or not his feet should be held to the fire.

[bluegrass]

Slight correction there Ed...the Bible says that "...if it were possible, to deceive the very elect...."


I dont think Bible believing Christians are going to be fooled by this guy or the next one to come (you know who it is). But he will be persuasive enough that were the elect not shielded by God's grace and the Holy Spirit, they COULD be decieved...



You are correct in your analysis however.



Tony

[tommyg]

WELL IT'S ONLY BEEN JUST OVER A MONTH,
AND YOU KEEP FOR GETTING FOX IS NOT A NEWS CHANNEL IT IS A COMEDY TALK SHOW.I THINK WE SHOULD WAIT ABOUT---8--- YEARS,THEN WE CAN LOOK BACK FOR ANOTHER -8- AND SEE WHAT WENT WRONG..
RUFUS

Fox tells it like it is,i'm sure that MSNBC-CNN-ABC-NBC- AND ALL THE REST are party bias. I bet you listen to whoopie don't you Pine Mtn. Obama will never be relected. Like is said before you are a joke along with Whoopie and Obama. Just checked Rufus Fox is still #1 in the rateings. Fair and Balanced with no Spin. Oriley loves you Rufus.

[Pike Ridge Beagles]

Fox News is fair and balanced IMO. On the other hand, MSNBC is a disgrace to journalism and I predict they will fail because of their obvious biased reporting.
Many liberal newspapers are going under. People are getting tired of the liberal biased drive-by media and are no longer supporting it. This is a good thing.

[Pike Ridge Beagles]

The Obama Economy
As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame.
As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem.

Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence -- and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth.

The Democrats who now run Washington don't want to hear this, because they benefit from blaming all bad economic news on President Bush. And Mr. Obama has inherited an unusual recession deepened by credit problems, both of which will take time to climb out of. But it's also true that the economy has fallen far enough, and long enough, that much of the excess that led to recession is being worked off. Already 15 months old, the current recession will soon match the average length -- and average job loss -- of the last three postwar downturns. What goes down will come up -- unless destructive policies interfere with the sources of potential recovery.

And those sources have been forming for some time. The price of oil and other commodities have fallen by two-thirds since their 2008 summer peak, which has the effect of a major tax cut. The world is awash in liquidity, thanks to monetary ease by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. Monetary policy operates with a lag, but last year's easing will eventually stir economic activity.

Housing prices have fallen 27% from their Case-Shiller peak, or some two-thirds of the way back to their historical trend. While still high, credit spreads are far from their peaks during the panic, and corporate borrowers are again able to tap the credit markets. As equities were signaling with their late 2008 rally and January top, growth should under normal circumstances begin to appear in the second half of this year.

So what has happened in the last two months? The economy has received no great new outside shock. Exchange rates and other prices have been stable, and there are no security crises of note. The reality of a sharp recession has been known and built into stock prices since last year's fourth quarter.

What is new is the unveiling of Mr. Obama's agenda and his approach to governance. Every new President has a finite stock of capital -- financial and political -- to deploy, and amid recession Mr. Obama has more than most. But one negative revelation has been the way he has chosen to spend his scarce resources on income transfers rather than growth promotion. Most of his "stimulus" spending was devoted to social programs, rather than public works, and nearly all of the tax cuts were devoted to income maintenance rather than to improving incentives to work or invest.

His Treasury has been making a similar mistake with its financial bailout plans. The banking system needs to work through its losses, and one necessary use of public capital is to assist in burning down those bad assets as fast as possible. Yet most of Team Obama's ministrations so far have gone toward triage and life support, rather than repair and recovery.

AIG yesterday received its fourth "rescue," including $70 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program cash, without any clear business direction. (See here.) Citigroup's restructuring last week added not a dollar of new capital, and also no clear direction. Perhaps the imminent Treasury "stress tests" will clear the decks, but until they do the banks are all living in fear of becoming the next AIG. All of this squanders public money that could better go toward burning down bank debt.

The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy. Health-care stocks have dived on fears of new government mandates and price controls. Private lenders to students have been told they're no longer wanted. Anyone who uses carbon energy has been warned to expect a huge tax increase from cap and trade. And every risk-taker and investor now knows that another tax increase will slam the economy in 2011, unless Mr. Obama lets Speaker Nancy Pelosi impose one even earlier.

Meanwhile, Congress demands more bank lending even as it assails lenders and threatens to let judges rewrite mortgage contracts. The powers in Congress -- unrebuked by Mr. Obama -- are ridiculing and punishing the very capitalists who are essential to a sustainable recovery. The result has been a capital strike, and the return of the fear from last year that we could face a far deeper downturn. This is no way to nurture a wounded economy back to health.

Listening to Mr. Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, on the weekend, we couldn't help but wonder if they appreciate any of this. They seem preoccupied with going to the barricades against Republicans who wield little power, or picking a fight with Rush Limbaugh, as if this is the kind of economic leadership Americans want.

Perhaps they're reading the polls and figure they have two or three years before voters stop blaming Republicans and Mr. Bush for the economy. Even if that's right in the long run, in the meantime their assault on business and investors is delaying a recovery and ensuring that the expansion will be weaker than it should be when it finally does arrive.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html

[Tim H]

That is a very well written concise and accurate piece.