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I am sorry


but our votes mean nothing,they just want us to feel like it does.
all I see is this world getting more and more screwed up,and all they give a damm about is that they have money.they do not give a damm about us

I have never even registered to vote,never will.

sorry you feel that way...I have voted every time since I was old enough to do so..I think you maybe selling yourself short...

not one bit


I am just one of the people who see through there lies,I have seen this world go from a good place to live to a place where you cant even let your kids play in there own yard.



bush done every thing wrong and messed up a lot of things.


Obama is gonna make it worse,and you could see this from the start

So, cast your vote a DIFFERENT way.

They are 'giving' back $13 per week so that we will be more likely to spend it.

What would it say to them then, if a large majority of people deposited $13 every week into their bank accounts and made sure it was known?

my kids play in our yard...there are still people out there that truly care..they can only take that from us if we let them...I still would rather live here then anywhere esle in the world...

Maybe it is time for a third political party that does not play the games of the GOP or the DNC!


All of Obama's "Experts" are over educated SHI* HEADS!

Their policies are not based on practicality or reality.

Obama should have been suspending all unnecessary spending until they addressed all of the financial leaks of congress!

Well America, you voted him in!



So where are all of the pro Obama folks?

Hiding themselves in shame?????

they are spending our money.......OURS.



then they give us little to nothing back of OUR money

yes...it is time we stand up and do something more than crying and stomping our feet like children..

yes

because they know whats happening and whats gonna happen

The Obama supporters are hiding in their corners greedily trying to figure out what they are going to spend their whopping extra $13 on....

well damn said....

the prob is we can not get the whole world to stand up and do something.I am sorry

but a few people are not gonna do one thing

Cigarettes

Hmmm perhaps.. then maybe the idiots will smoke themselves to death and we won't have to worry about them voting Obama back in next term!

plus I aint crying about it.


I am just stating my opinion
and what I see as the truth.

How long has he been in the office...What do you want him to do come to your house and ask what your problems are...Im gonna jump out on a limb and say their is alot more important things going on right now....And you didnt vote...Hmmmm...Wouldnt vote for idiots...then who isnt a idiot lady...Why didnt you run..Ya got all the answers

I'm amazed at how many people in this thread didn't vote for him, I figured after the first 2-3 anti-messiah posts this would be overrun by rabid obamamites going crazy and cussing everyone out, I guess they're mad at him too? what an interesting development What I'm wating for is for all this to somehow come back to being blamed on Bush, 'cause we all know that everything sucks and it's all his fault right???

edit: I'd still LOVE to know where his birth certificate is (the real one please), where he got over 200 million in campaign funds (?!?!), and how on earth he passed a security clearance too, I guess celebrity trumps everything or?

plus

on the news he game a black lady a new house/////







how many people on this earth need a place to live???

People have organized protests that have been very successful to overcome many different things.

sit-ins, boycotts, marches

Today we have the internet and sites like these. We can reach millions quickly.

For the record, here are a few of the items in the stimulus package that left the GOP so greatly offended, per BusinessWeek.com:

$30 billion for a smart power grid, advanced battery technology, and energy efficiency measures.
$20 billion in tax incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency over the next 10 years. Tax credits for families that purchase plug-in hybrid vehicles of up to $7,500.
$5 billion to improve the energy efficiency of more than 1 million homes.
$6.3 billion for increasing energy efficiency in federally supported housing programs.
$3 billion for the National Science Foundation for basic research in fundamental science and engineering. $1.6 billion for the Energy Dept.'s Office of Science, which funds research in such areas as climate science, biofuels, high-energy physics, nuclear physics, and fusion energy sciences . $8.5 billion for the National Institutes of Health, including expanding good jobs in biomedical research to study diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, and heart disease.
$7 billion for extending broadband services to underserved communities.
$87 billion over the next two years in additional federal matching funds to help states maintain Medicaid programs.
$53.6 billion for a State Fiscal Stabilization Fund-$40.6 billion to local school districts, which can be used for preventing cutbacks, preventing layoffs, school modernization, and other purposes; $5 billion as bonus grants for meeting key performance measures; and $8 billion for public safety and other services.
Higher education tax credit increased to a maximum of $2,500, and makes it available to nearly 4 million low-income students by making it partially refundable
Increases the maximum Pell Grant by $500, for a maximum of $5,350 in 2009 and $5,550 in 2010.
$200 million added to the College Work-Study Program.
$1.1 billion for Early Head Start.
$1 billion for Head Start.
$2 billion for the Child Care Development Block Grant to provide child care services to an additional 300,000 children in low-income families while their parents go to work.
$13 billion for Title I grants to help disadvantaged kids reach high academic standards.
$12.2 billion for special education grants.
$29 billion for modernizing roads and bridges. $18 billion for clean water, flood control, and environmental restoration investments.
$5 billion for improvements in Defense Dept. facilities.
Child tax credit expanded to allow families to begin qualifying for the child tax credit with every dollar earned over $3,000.
Earned Income Tax Credit expanded by providing tax relief to families with three or more children and increasing marriage penalty relief.
New, partially refundable $2,500 tax credit for families. Temporarily suspends taxation of some unemployment benefits. Tax credits for hiring recently discharged unemployed veterans and youth that have been out of work and out of school for the six months prior to hire. New bond-financing program for school construction, rehabilitation, and repair.
Increases unemployment benefits for 20 million jobless workers by $25 per week.
Increases food stamp benefits by 13%.
$100 million for Emergency Food & Shelter to help local community organizations provide food and shelter; $100 million for formula grants to states for elderly nutrition services including Meals on Wheels; and $150 million for the Emergency Food Assistance Program to purchase commodities for food banks to refill emptying shelves.
$4 billion for job training including formula grants for adult job training, dislocated worker job training, and youth services (including funding for summer jobs for young people).
$500 million for Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants to help persons with disabilities.
$500 million to match unemployed individuals to job openings.
$120 million to provide community service jobs to an additional 24,000 low-income older Americans.
Payment of $250 to Social Security beneficiaries, as well as veterans receiving disability compensation and pension benefits from the Veterans Affairs.
There are a few distinct reasons the GOP has decided to get in the way of everything proposed by the Obama administration and the Congressional Democratic majority. They need to appear to be relevant after back-to-back electoral pastings in 2006 and 2008. Because they are better at playing the media game than the Democrats, they can telegraph whatever remaining strengths they have far more effectively.

They need Obama to fail on all fronts if they are to have a prayer at recovering lost ground at the polls in 2010. Finally, they only have representation in states where Bush remains popular and the GOP cant on government remains holy writ, so if they want to keep those few remaining seats, they have to play in the hard-right part of the pool. This is not a group of people Obama should expect anything from beyond what has already been demonstrably in evidence. Hoping for something different is a foolish pipe dream.

President Obama can work with the Democratic Congressional majorities to pass future legislation, perhaps making sure to get one GOP vote in the Senate to thwart a filibuster. If no such vote is forthcoming, he can dump any quixotic quest for one or any GOP votes and dare the GOP to filibuster widely popular bills. He's not going to get GOP support for anything, so why bother trying? Let them keep it up and lose every time, and let them try to stand on that record for the 2010 midterms.

President Obama needs to do the work the people overwhelmingly elected him to do, and if the GOP does not want to be a part of that work, so be it. In the long run, a string of Democrat-only legislative victories will have a dynamic effect on the obstructionist tendencies of the GOP. Sooner or later, they'll come running in whole or in part to Obama's side of the aisle, if only to save themselves. Until then, dump them.
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About author
William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence. His newest book, House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation, will be available this winter from PoliPointPress.

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