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Obama Needs Our Help; He Can't Fix the Economy Alone (PATHETIC)
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 2/15/09 | Ellen Young

Posted on 02/15/2009 10:42:38 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

In these times of dire economic trouble, we're all watching President Barack Obama. Six hundred thousand jobs disappeared last month alone. Decisive action is needed — but this president does not act alone. He made that clear in his campaign. Obama is a community organizer, and we're his community; we have our part to play.

How does an ordinary citizen affect anything as massive as an economic meltdown? Last Sunday, 10 of us met in the College Park home of John Allen in response to a request from our president. All across the country, people were congregating at economic recovery house meetings.

Most of us in that living room had never participated in politics before the Obama campaign. Yet there we were, spending a cozy Sunday afternoon sitting in a crowded living room watching Obama present his plan via online video. Next, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine answered questions. As the videos ended, we turned to one another. Now what?

When we donated to the campaign or worked the phone banks, we were told the real work would begin when the election was over. Here we were. We could call senators and make our voices heard. Then what? Obama hadn't asked us specifically to do anything, but we suspected that by gathering us together, he knew we'd think of something.

The recession is still mostly invisible in the middle-class world of Silicon Valley, but it's there when you look. Four of us were looking for work, two recently unemployed, two others trying to re-enter the work force after an absence. Kathy Stanley, recently unemployed and part of that alarming statistic quoted above, talked about recently joining a job-seeking club.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: idiots; ignoramus; lunacy; toobigtofail; zeroworship
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I would swear this is The Onion if I hadn't read it with my own two eyes in the Merc this morning. These idiots need Obama's permission to leave their homes, for crying out loud. Extreme liberalism turns people into whimpering basket cases dependent on the State for their survival and sustenance.

The Reagan prescriptions would solve this problem in short order and people wouldn't have to wait for their daily orders from Dear Leader...

  1. Across-the-board reductions in tax rates to provide incentives for saving, investment, entrepreneurship and work.
  2. Seregulation to remove unnecessary costs on the economy
  3. Control of government spending.
  4. Tight, anti-inflation monetary policy.

1 posted on 02/15/2009 10:42:38 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Lindsey Graham will protect conservative principles. Oh wait.
2 posted on 02/15/2009 10:45:41 AM PST by exist
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Obama doesn't want to fix the economy. He wants to destroy capitalism. Cloward-Piven Strategy
3 posted on 02/15/2009 10:46:13 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He NEEDS the help of all 57 states!


4 posted on 02/15/2009 10:46:18 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: exist

5 dollars,a ham sandwich and a red T-shirt-contact your
local Acorn office.Ask for Evita!


5 posted on 02/15/2009 10:47:50 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Sorry, not interested in participating. I want him and his policies to fail....


6 posted on 02/15/2009 10:49:17 AM PST by Born In America (Liberalism proves insanity can be learned....)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

7 posted on 02/15/2009 10:49:32 AM PST by Bobalu (McCain has been proven to be the rino flop I always thought he was.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Maybe holding concerts for Stevie Wonder and using Air Force 1 every time he needs a pack of smokes would be a good place to start cutting back.


8 posted on 02/15/2009 10:50:20 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think the Left publishes stuff like this just to discourage us freepers more than anything else. It’s almost like they’re saying, “Ha, you guys think you can win the intellectual argument with the voters? Look what the American voter has become! Resistance is futile.”


9 posted on 02/15/2009 10:50:38 AM PST by MNnice
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

Thomas Jefferson


10 posted on 02/15/2009 10:50:58 AM PST by listenhillary (Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Zero NEEDS our help because he doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing. It’s not like he’s ever run anything before.


11 posted on 02/15/2009 10:53:16 AM PST by ncdrumr (Oooh, SarahCUda!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

So, while Obama goes around, acting like Chicken Little, predicting the sky will fall, if we don’t support this legislation, this reporter is going to try to convince us that a high speed train to Vegas is just the ticket we need to ride us out of this.

People get ready, there’s a train a comin’. Don’t need no ticket, just get on board.


12 posted on 02/15/2009 10:53:24 AM PST by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Obama Needs Our Help; He Can’t Fix the Economy Alone”

Who in the hell is going to get stuck with the tab for this debacle??

Not Barry!

We’re doing our share and will continue to until it simply becomes too much. I am nearing that phase.


13 posted on 02/15/2009 10:56:08 AM PST by incredulous joe
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
no thanks Mr President, I;ve already participed in serving MY COUNTRY, you do it now ( oh wait, I keep forgetting, your my fearless leader )
14 posted on 02/15/2009 10:56:14 AM PST by peace with honor
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

According to Obama, all we need to do to get out of the recession is to spend money. Lots of it. Beg, borrow or steal, but spend, spend, spend!

The only thing we have to fear...

Wait a minute. Have no fear, Obama’s here.

Just spend, baby, spend!


15 posted on 02/15/2009 10:56:38 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He claimed he had all the answers, didn’t he?

He lied to us?

Say it ain’t so.


16 posted on 02/15/2009 10:56:44 AM PST by bricklayer
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Most of us in that living room had never participated in politics before the Obama campaign.

When we donated to the campaign or worked the phone banks, we were told the real work would begin when the election was over. Here we were. We could call senators and make our voices heard. Then what? Obama hadn't asked us specifically to do anything, but we suspected that by gathering us together, he knew we'd think of something.

Kinda makes me wonder if they're wishing they'd asked a few more questions, rather than just accepting that Obama was going to buy them a new pony. The "stimulus" is pork to his buddies and funding for election fraud, nothing more. It's being funded by bankrupting the businesses that employed these people. So they collect around a computer, waiting for the next marching orders from the 0racle. Wonder if they'll ever figure it out, or if they'll just wait for more orders from 0™. I guess we should call the new administration 02, as it looks like the masses are huddled waiting for new marching orders from 0prah and 0bama.

17 posted on 02/15/2009 10:57:57 AM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The only question is, where, oh where to spend my $13 per month tax cut. Whooppee!!


18 posted on 02/15/2009 10:58:04 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: cripplecreek

Reggie,did you disable the smoke detector in the lavatory?


19 posted on 02/15/2009 10:58:21 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I'll give him the same amount of "help" that the Commie DemocRATS gave President Bush in the WAR ON TERROR. (Reverb/off)

The Commie 'RATS successfully divided my country in their drive to gain total power over America and Americans. They can kiss my ass. DemocRATS are now my enemy. They no longer meet my definition of an American.

20 posted on 02/15/2009 10:59:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have You Punched A Democrat Today? - Do it for the children.)
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