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Name:	lotowner -	Reply
Subject:	Obama's Priorities
Date:	11/1/2009 9:21:44 AM

1. Government Run Health Care
2. Cap and Trade Legislation
3. Olympics for Chicago
4. Criticizing Fox News
5. Week End Dates in New York
6. Keeping secret all new legislation
7. Normalizing Relations with Cuba
8. Criticizing this Country in Egypt.
9. Creating Socialism in this country.
10. Immigrant Voting Rights
11. Campaigning for the Democratic candidates for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia
12. Tort Reform
13. Iran's Nuclear Program
14. A one party system
15. Campaigning for the new unemployment target to be 10%.
16. New Jobs

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Obama's Priorities
Date:	11/1/2009 9:26:31 AM

I don't think #12 is a goal of Obama.

Is this a test? Are you trying to find out if we read all of the way trhough posts before we comment?

Name:	lotowner -	Reply
Subject:	Obama's Priorities
Date:	11/1/2009 3:46:07 PM

No games. I 'm just pointing out that jobs creation is not being discussed. Not tax cuts even though the Europeans have determined as we already knew that lower taxes will help.

Tort reform, as you suggest, is not a true goal. It has been discussed but never implemented.

The only thing on this list that is fixed in my mind is the last item - jobs creation.

You will also note that I neglected to mention Afghanistan. I believe that he will never do anything and treat the conflict as an opportunity to protect civilians rather than destroy the Taliban and Al Queda.

Name:	water_watcher -	Reply
Subject:	Be fair
Date:	11/1/2009 4:46:30 PM

He "saved" 650,000 jobs by only spending $150 billion so far. Just don't think about the other 3 million jobs that were lost at the same time ... the stimulus was not intended to help those ... only the 650,000 they saved .... the other jobs were not that important to try and save.

We used to measure a presidents domestic policy based on how many "net" jobs "created" ... but Obama has redefined that to only count the jobs he saved reguardless of how many others were lost. It is so nuts that it is funny that anyone falls for that or that he and his administration can say it with a straight face that they accomplished something.

No to mention the crazy math ... but even their numbers are outrageous ... $92,000 per job "saved".

Lets use their numbers on $92k ... assuming the average salary was $50,000 and the pay $10,000 in federal taxes ... it will take 9.2 years before the tax payer will breakeven for saving that job.

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