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Obama to announce aid for middle class
Yahoo/AP ^ | January 25, 2010 | Julie Pace

Posted on 01/25/2010 6:35:33 AM PST by Need4Truth

Previewing key elements of his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama is announcing on Monday a series of initiatives aimed at calming some of the economic fears of struggling middle class families.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; obama
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To: Need4Truth
The initiatives also focus on savings, requiring employers that don't offer jobs-based retirement plans to enroll their workers in a direct deposit retirement account, unless the employee opts out. The cost to employers would be offset by new tax credits, and the administration says the smallest firms would be exempt.

Great idea if you already have a job. Problem is....many don't and that's the REAL issue.

21 posted on 01/25/2010 6:44:45 AM PST by edpc (Those Lefties just ain't right)
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To: Need4Truth

....more knee jerk reaction to Brown’s win....it won’t work....people are too angry.


22 posted on 01/25/2010 6:44:50 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: Need4Truth

As usual,

targeting small children in institutions and institutionalizing their curriculum even further.

Yuck.


23 posted on 01/25/2010 6:44:53 AM PST by agrarianlady
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To: kabar

I needs my money.


24 posted on 01/25/2010 6:45:24 AM PST by takbodan (.)
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To: Need4Truth

Stick it to the old folks on fixed income. Obama’s fault.
Yet Congress voted itself a pay increase. Us old bleepers are whizzed. Over 100 seats will change hands. This imposter is gonna plummet so far that Rasmussen will have to invent a new chart.


25 posted on 01/25/2010 6:45:55 AM PST by halfright (My presidents picture is in the dictionary, next to the word, "rectum".)
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To: Need4Truth

What does Bill Clinton think about all this? He declared that the era of big government is over. Is the era of big government back?

I know Hillary has a different job now, but, Hillary has been completely absent from the current healthcare debate. As the face of the previous effort, which Democrats think was so great, why haven’t they paraded her out there, to tell us that we need these reforms more than ever before? Why hasn’t Hillary come out there to tell us that she and other good Democrats know what’s good for us?


26 posted on 01/25/2010 6:46:24 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Need4Truth
provide the option of a workplace-based retirement savings plan.

They forgot to add, "So the government can then loot that plan for their own coffers."

27 posted on 01/25/2010 6:47:51 AM PST by justsaynomore
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To: Need4Truth
Howzabout the government "aids" me by taking their #@$@##%#$ hand out of my pocket and leaving me the @#!$#@$ alone!

I hate this creep.

28 posted on 01/25/2010 6:49:48 AM PST by wbill
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Hillary is busy allowing Muslim fanatics into the country...


29 posted on 01/25/2010 6:50:00 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Need4Truth

BOHICA


30 posted on 01/25/2010 6:50:28 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Need4Truth

Sounds like more “free money from Obama’s stash” huh?

And those same types of people will fall for his lines over and over and over.


31 posted on 01/25/2010 6:50:31 AM PST by crazyshrink (Barack Hussein Obama...... "The Rush to Communism")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I believe Hillary needs permission from Obama to speak. As far as Health Care...I believe pasing it would be just another way of Obama,...sticking it to her....


32 posted on 01/25/2010 6:51:52 AM PST by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: dblshot
-- If you need aid are you really middle class? --

Absolutely NOT, by definition.

33 posted on 01/25/2010 6:53:14 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: takbodan

Yep, have to have that stash.


34 posted on 01/25/2010 6:53:44 AM PST by kabar
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To: Dilbert San Diego

We’ll take your money,
And pay you some of it back,
How’s that for a deal?


35 posted on 01/25/2010 6:54:35 AM PST by Haiku Guy ("I don't give them Hell / I tell the truth about them / And they think it's Hell" -- Harry Truman)
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To: dblshot
If you need aid are you really middle class?

Correct! Barrys plan is complete BS.
All he wants is dependents and party oligarchs.

All the money he puts into the economy comes from the economy. Net result zero.
Subtract from that all the money lost whenever gov't touches your cash. Net result: negative.
All he has to do is to take his heavy foot off the brake pedal and let the economic engine do what it's supposed to.
Of course, the Total-Control-And-Commander in chief will never do that.
36 posted on 01/25/2010 6:56:38 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Need4Truth
Here comes more of Obama's Chicago style of politics.

"Constituent group unhappy...toss them a bone."

Obama doesn't understand the free market economy as a machine that requires a supportive government with long-term programs to create a positive environment.

In fact, he doesn't see the economy at all. He just sees politics.

Problem in the auto industry..."cash for clunkers" should do the job. Problem in unemployment...give small business a piecemeal incentive like a tax credit for new hires.

With spring and summer just ahead, I expect we'll see some new cash incentive program to buy new, energy efficient air conditioners soon.

On the job training would be bad enough...but Obama is congenitally incapable of learning!

Not only did he never have a job...apparently his benefactors did his college homework, wrote his papers, and bought his degrees.

37 posted on 01/25/2010 6:57:51 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: Psychopathy in Motion)
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To: Da Coyote

LOL, excellent!


38 posted on 01/25/2010 7:00:59 AM PST by angcat (GOD SAVE US!)
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To: Need4Truth

Barry is trying to buy off the “Tea Party People”.

And the only way this Chicago Machine Pol knows how to deal with a group of voters is through bribes. Its the Chicago Way, you know.

“The Smartest Man Ever” (according to the State Run Media) really doesn’t get it.


39 posted on 01/25/2010 7:01:16 AM PST by Ticonderoga34 (Free Obama's Birth Certificate!)
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To: Need4Truth

He is lying big time again.


40 posted on 01/25/2010 7:01:59 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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