National / World Politics 13 Sep 2009 11:08 pm
call me crazy…
Link to article on Obama’s proposed changes
why overhaul? “sweeping regulatory changes” … it wasn’t enough to try to control 17% of the national economy with a health care bill… (and I would like someone to study how much of HR3200 is really health care… )
I have a huge problem that most if not all of the Hope and Change this President wants to push through, needs to be driven by an attempt to panic rather than lead.
I’ve read things like none of this (HR3200) even starts until 2013, so what’s the hurry.
Then another thing surprised me in the last days. Why would the President want to piss off China? Talk about the new “sleeping giant”. (tires… o, it’s a union thing I get it)
But now that the Health Care bill is going south he wants to do something bigger to the economy.
The billions spent for “stimulus” have done nothing except to pay employment rather than laying off various state’s employees and some short term building projects – and less than 25% of the billions have been spent.
People are saving now, but it’s out of fear. No one (that has a brain) wants to extend their debt or take any risks that will grow the economy and I’ve read it has to grow @ 3% just to stay even.
I can understand some tightening of SEC regulations that may have caused some of the Wall Street and banking problems, but let’s not forget, the SEC is a government agency and their lack of foresight is what got us here. From what I’ve read, the problems did sift up (Maddoff, etc) – either people were too scared or too ignorant to pull the plug. Governments don’t run businesses well, there is a ton of evidence to prove that.
I think I will dig up some documentation for some of the things I’ve written here and more now… I just want what’s left of my401K to be there for me when I retire. If I retire. I still feel like we’re teetering on the edge of a cliff and this President’s adviser’s main advice is to “never waste a good crisis”.
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stupid little hint for the day: removing Firefox AVG toolbar
I like to use firefox when blogging because it has a spell checker that IE doesn’t. In FF updates, they tend to add on a AVG toolbar – and I hate extra tool bars on my screen. (now this may be only for AVG users which I am, but) if you want to remove the AVG toolbar in firefox – take this link: disable AVG toolbar in Firefox