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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 02:50 PM
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Obama's struggle with the economy and the GOP's cloak of invisibility
M$M types are constantly talking about Obama and the Dems efforts at rebuilding the economy and how it's failing. THey like to say: "Why is Obama failing?" . but Obama and the Democrats aren't the only people in the Government. There's a group of people, Lobbyists, but who calll themselves the Republican party. They are supposed to be part of the Government too. But, thanks to the M$M the GOP have a cloak of invisibility when it comes to the economy.

Any problems rebuilding the economy from the Republicans' Deregulation Depression are all Obama's fault. The GOP are invisible. M$M won't bring up that the GOP demanded a large part of the original stimulus bill be converted from stimulus spending to tax cuts. The Dems changed one third of the stimulus to tax cuts (something that many econoomist advised against saying the stimulus was too small in the first place and changing some of it to tax cuts made it even less effectual) - tax cuts to people worried about losing their jobs will NOT lead to more spending. People will hold onto the money or pay down debts but they won't go out an create additional spending - wha the economy needs.

THe M$M wont' ask any GOPer "why do you guys vote, en masse, against every jobs bill, every unemplyment extension, even the small business loan bill you voted against. Yet you say you are for job creation. You say you are worring about the national debt yet you want the tax cuts to the wealthy to be continued without having a way to pay for it? so what gives?"

NOOOOOO, it's just Obama's doing. the fact that the GOP have fought the recovery every step of the way is NOT subject for discussion. THey never bring up the fact that the Republicans fighting every Democratic effort to rebuild the economy might have something to do with why businesses are sitting on mountain of cash and not hiring anybody. They don't have confidence the Governnment will do what is necessary to get the economy going again.

But no! it couldn't have anything to do with the Republicans fighting recovery efforts. Yeah, the GOP are wearing an invisibility cloak...courtesy of the M$M.


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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 03:13 PM
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1. Obama hasn't been doing badly considering the global economic disaster
Edited on Sun Aug-08-10 03:14 PM by Rosa Luxemburg
people forget that it is not just an American problem. Some countries are in shambles. Ours at least has been pulled back from the brink. We have to get people employed and export. Stop waste. Tax the rich especially those with big bonuses.
The party of NO and obstruction - the Grand Oil Party deserve to lose in November.
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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 01:28 PM
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5. I suggest that those who are sick of M$M biased coverage of Obama make your feelings known on their
sites.

Nightline's FB wall: http://www.facebook.com/ABCNewsNightline?v=wall

PBS newshours wall: http://www.facebook.com/ABCNewsNightline?v=wall&story_fbid=140919502606865#!/newshour?ref=ts

So they hear from some people who actually think and they don't just hear from the idiots out there.


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november3rd Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 07:36 PM
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2. It's the media,
Genius.
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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 01:19 PM
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4. did you read my OP????....genius.
Edited on Mon Aug-09-10 01:23 PM by JohnWxy


IF you want to criticize the media I suggest in addition to commenting here, go to media sites and start registering your criticism of their biased coverage there.

Here is nightline's FB page: http://www.facebook.com/ABCNewsNightline?v=wall

Here is PBS Newshour's FB page: http://www.facebook.com/ABCNewsNightline?v=wall&story_fbid=140919502606865#!/newshour?ref=ts


I think we need to start registering our criticism elsewhere than just here.



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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 11:49 PM
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3. As soon as the rich in the usa have invested enough of their wealth outside the USA they
will want to see the USA go bankrupt and be torn apart. Is this 'drowning in the bathtub' taking place right now? I don't know. Certainly you cannot get Boehner to talk about how the USA should be kept out of debt if the tax cuts on the wealthy are continued.
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