What has Obama done for black people?
Obama doesn't care about black people...that is obvious, he just uses them to gain political points....what has he done for any of them ??? And for once I agree with something Summertime said,obama has helped white people...rich white people...he cares nothing for the poor..black,white,brown or yellow...nothing ! I wonder what Summertime thinks she knows...that the rest of us would be surprised about ??,she is hilarious ! "You'd be surprised " lol lol lol !
What is the difference between Bush's stimulus and Obama's?
I'm a little lost here. Early last year, Bush sent out $152 billion in stimulus checks. He then followed up at the end of the year with a bait-and-switch bailout package costing $700 billion. I say bait-and-switch because it was advertized to us as the repurchase of toxic debt to free up the financial system, and ended up being investment money and 'bonus' money to Wall St. Now Obama is doing his own stimulus package. $787 billion. I may be wrong here, but the money is going to be spent on tax relief, social security hikes, unemployment hikes, infrastructure, housing, healthcare, education, energy, automobiles, security and law enforcement. Please tell me why. Why are the Republicans having a fit at this effort? To me, the 2nd stimulus is an easy sell. It will create jobs, get the country out of its funk give us a few extra dollars in our pockets. The goal is not to make a few people mega-rich at everyone else's expense, but to improve the country and allow a decent standard of living for more people. It may contain a little bit of 'make work'. It may mean a bigger government that would need to be trimmed down at a later stage. But it is an effort that in my opinion is better spent than $100,000 office makeovers and multi-million dollar bonuses and executive jets for a few. This recession/depression was caused by the greed and stupidity of the financial giants. It was their bad decisions who allowed loans to people who couldn't afford them. They built the house of cards and they deserve to pay the price for their own mess. But I didn't participate in this mess! Now they get bonuses and keep their jobs, while I get small handouts from the government, massive losses in my retirement plan and the risk of unemployment. I really think that these supposedly intelligent Republicans need to get over their compulsion to be contrary. Their solution did not work. They don't have a solution put together that has the far reaching effect that the Obama solution provides. The Republican way is to put trust into financial institutions that have proven themselves to be untrustworthy. Can anyone tell me why the Bush/Republican bailout is superior overall to the Obama/Democrat bailout?