Obama Moves Fast on Economy

That's what a "Do-er" does!

I don't think any of these "experts" have clue what their doing. Either the former administrative group, our Obama's upcoming gang. Better chance solving the economic problems by just throwing darts at the board.

obama, and teams, have to move faster. america has been burning and everyone, in positions of power to get things done, has been standing around playing their fiddle. only the wealthy and powerful have felt no huge pain like the majority of americans. china has funded 500 billion for infrastructure work to keep the masses working else china would face a massive violent worker revolution. the potential exists for violent revolution here as well. what amerca needs to see is results, action and doing is fine but totally nonsense without positive results. america needs results now.

Go ahead Obama, make my day. He understands what the people want and how to jump-start the economy. Above all he is always willing to learn

You sheepies just keep on following your master, while he and his fellow shepards fleece you. I for one will be laughing when his policies fail and you are still in the poor house.

Evidently his cabinet won't be any different. His new treasury secretary along with paulson, decided to give billions more to Citibank this past weekend. of course it was done behind closed doors. i guess Citi already blew through the 25 billions they got earlier from the 700 billion bailout. Everyone in D,C.=crooks.

Wow, what a refreshing change from the Bush administration. Bush would have needed a vacation in Crawford by now. Obama hasn't taken a break yet. Even after he won the election he was working on the transfer the next morning. To all you naysayers, if he did nothing else that alone would be a "Change".

Newly elected officials; we're at the top and in charge. U.S. taxpayer, your not.

All I can say is "How Refreshing", it's like oping the window for the first time on a Spring day.

My dear Barack Obama, I want to salute once again on your recent nomination as the President-Elect of the greatest nation on Earth, the USA.

I want you to know that God Almighty is on your side, and all kind-hearted people all over the world are right now praying for you and your family for success, protection from all known and unknown alarm, as well as favour with God and everyone that works with and for you,even the general american populace.

Ignore the doomsday prophets, naysayers and the pessimists, or the envious and failure-minded ones who are waiting for your mistakes or downfall.

I dare to tell these wicked, ungodly people that they will have to wait along time things like that to happen.

All their negative hope and expectations for you will fail. For I see you achieve more than those that have gone before you. You will thread where no one has thread before. God will give you the wisdom of Solomon, the courage of Joshua and Esther, the tenacity of Paul, the humility of Joseph, the strength of David, and the endurance of Abraham to achieve your goals.

You are going in the right direction. Just keep asking God for wisdom to rule and govern His people daily and your time will be a season of prosperity.

Yes, mistakes will be made during the course of your reign. But so what? and what does that matter? Show me one successful person on earth, who never failed before.

As long as you learn from them, just keep moving.

God ALmighty keep you, your family, and those close to you. No evil will befall you. God will expose those close to you who are waiting to harm you.

NOBAMA....
u would slam him no matter what, that is apparent! the man is trying to get on top of the ENORMOUS problems that george bush and his repug cronies have dumped in his lap yet u give no credit! your lame duck idiot is hangin loose saying farewell to his fat cat corporate buddies he made even more wealthy all the while our nation tailspins and here you are... DOGGING THE MAN WHO IS TRYING TO FIX ALL THE PAST IDIOTS MESS'S! i hear your idiot hero rush is blaming the current financial crisis on obama!!!! HE HAS NOT EVEN TAKEN CONTROL AND YET YOUR FILTHY PARTY STILL ATTACKS! NO WONDER YOU ALL WERE FIRED! nothing like kicking a man in the back of the legs while he is trying to get america back on his feet! repugs disgust me, thank god you all have virtually no power nor credibility left and these kinds of comments and attacks on obama are why !

Obama is moving on the economic front as swiftly as he does on the basketball court. While all the swift moves to spend may boost the economy, the moutning deficits cannot beignored and will come to bite. I would hold his swift feet to his election promise of lifting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy because that is what contributed to the deficits and it is time the incompetent executives who ran their companies into the ground and lined heir pockets pay their fair share of the taxes. Remember Iceland. Don't run deficits and lend monies and then ask for bail outs from IMF. Bush ran the deficit by not taxing the biggest beneficiaries of the American economy. Obama could run deficits by spending without balancing the budgets. End result is going to be the same a large than desirable deficit.

Anthony---well said. I agree, what makes our situation so hopeful is exactly his willingess to learn. This is exactly why I voted for Obama, I believe he WILL make things better. All you Obama bashers, go ahead and pick apart every move he makes. He is still YOUR president. Get over it and put your energy to better things.

I am not a big fan of "Stimulus Packages" for several reasons, #1 - high administrative costs and waste to benefits, #2 - very short term (band-aid) - not real and long term economic pull. #3 - Politically looks like throwing money at a problem instead of solving the root cause of the problem.

Here are another alternatives. Negotiate with the Energy companies for stable gasoline prices between $1.50 to
$1.85 per gallon for terms of 18 months, and in return the Energy companies get a 15% tax break for the agreed terms of 18 months, then re-negotiate again.

In the Q1, deliver as promised tax cuts for the middle class with 15% tax for families and individual with incomes up to 175K. Do not repeal the Bush tax cuts as well.

Cut administrative costs within the Federal government and associate programs. Eliminate redundancy and consolidate cabinet level department with the goal to improve cost, quality and overall effectiveness.

Give the taxpayer and consumer change they can believe in.

I am not a big fan of "Stimulus Packages" for several reasons, #1 - high administrative costs and waste to benefits, #2 - very short term (band-aid) - not real and long term economic pull. #3 - Politically looks like throwing money at a problem instead of solving the root cause of the problem.

Here are another alternatives. Negotiate with the Energy companies for stable gasoline prices between $1.50 to
$1.85 per gallon for terms of 18 months, and in return the Energy companies get a 15% tax break for the agreed terms of 18 months, then re-negotiate again.

In the Q1, deliver as promised tax cuts for the middle class with 15% tax cut for families and individual with incomes up to 175K. Do not repeal the Bush tax cuts as well.

Cut administrative costs within the Federal government and associate programs. Eliminate redundancy and consolidate cabinet level department with the goal to improve cost, quality and overall effectiveness.

Give the taxpayer and consumer change they can believe in.

No solution is perfect. We've seen what Bush did: it created a huge mess. Let's see what Obama will do and then we can pass a judgement on it.

NOBAMA and Anthony...the typical "haters" and Bush Sackriders! No wonder this country has sunk so low with mentally challenged individuals criticizing Obama for doing and moving, unlike the retard we have in office now.

I did not vote for Obama, but I am satisfied with the level and speed at which he is moving things, and it has not been a month yet since he got elected! His Cabinet is almost done, his economic adviser team is done, he already described his 2.5 million job creation plan, etc, etc.

In 3 weeks he has shown more leadership and a "can do" attitude than Bush ever did in EIGHT LONG YEARS!

Get your heads out of your behinds, and lets work together in getting back on track, instead of doing what you do best: Criticize like dummies while doing nothing!

George Stephanopoulos is the political junkie's best fix. Personally, I think one could just check in with him each day and be done with the news.

NOBAMA, it's idiots like you that make this world screwed up as much as it is. Sheeez dude, at least give Obama time to put his plans into affect. If then they don't work, THEN you can gripe and complain.

Right now your buddy Bush is still in control. I don't see him doing much to improve what he's screwed up during the last 8 years.

Barry can move as fast or slow as he likes with the media at his back. For the next 4 years his every mistake will either be covered up or at the very least minimized. While every good decision made by his advisors will be shouted about from the rooftops of the press rooms. Welcome to Germany 1933!

Barry O will do to our country what the rest of the world has been wanting to happen for a long time...... make us weaker militarily and financially broke. More entitlements for deadbeats and more gov't in every aspect of our lives. Change is a comin!!!!

LofromMO
If you knew anything about capitalism and economics you would not need a crystal ball to know what happens when the gov't tries to give people $$$- it kills the incentive to get an alarm clock and become productive members of society. The messiah has promised everything to his worshippers and they, along with everyone else, will be sadly disappointed.

Great. More money to a corporation that engaged in horrible business practices. More money to rescue a bunch of people that had no plans for dealing with their ARMs rate rising. What did they expect it to do? How about sending that money to the companies and individuals that did it correctly and didn't damage the economy? That same cash infusion would be there only we'd be rewarding those that did it right rather than those who got greedy and foolish.

I agree with CRAIG 100%.
Nobama is sour grapes. President Obama is trying to do something which is much more than can be said of this idiot we have in office. President Bush and his cronies should have been IMPEACHED a long time ago. HE WAS IN CHARGE...HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON? I don't want to hear excuses from bloggers like Nobama that the Democrats were at fault. This idiot had a REPUBLICAN congress for over 6 years.....
You really think anyone can undo the horrible damage Bush, et al. did in eight years overnight?
God bless President Obama. He is at least doing something!!!!!

Barb,
please tell me why the "idiot" in office (who got higher grades then Kerry and the "messiah of global warming in a private jet" al gore did in college), should have been impeached??

You sheepies just keep on following your master, while he and his fellow shepards fleece you. I for one will be laughing when his policies fail and you are still in the poor house.

Posted by: NOboma | Nov 24, 2008 8:37:23 AM

And what, pray tell, will you do if you're wrong and Obama starts to slowly turn this country around? Yeah, that's what I thought. You and others like you who can't accept that he won will find ANY other reason or explanation for why things are going well, than to actually give him any credit.

And by the way, if his policies do leave me in the poorhouse, there's a good chance you'll have a room there too and you WON'T be laughing. If the worst does happen, at least you've given me something to smile about.

You people need to get over yourselves. If you actually think McCain would've had a clue on the economy, much less cared about it, your head is much farther up your ass than I thought.