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Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed
But somehow I think that's not going to happen, despite calls from the fringe far left in the blogosphere for a primary challenger to Obama.
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It isn't just the far left. It's creeping. The job report for August is going to nauseate people, and so will the job report for September, October, November and December and for every month next year as well.
And so it will continue to creep right into the DNC. Come November 2012, you'll have people who lost their job and never worked a day while Obama was president. Do you think they'll be voting for Obama?
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Originally Posted by sickofnyc
I would not blame him if he did. If I were Obama, I'd want to get the stench of the GOP as far away from me and mine as humanly possible. I'd take a year long shower after being in such close proximity to the GOP/Tea Party/ Neocon slime.
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So says the uninformed. Why does Obama have neo-cons on his White House Staff?
Why was Obama's campaign staff full of neo-cons?
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Originally Posted by RCCCB
I know many Democrats also want Hillary to run a primary against him to get a chance at the White House again in 2012.
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I think nearly everyone realizes that she was the better qualified candidate. Had she been president, nothing would have change with respect to the economy, but she would have handled things much better, and I doubt that there would have been a debt-ceiling crisis.
People won't understand how badly Obama and the Democrats screwed everybody during their first 2 years until about 3-4 years from now. They'll be cursing his name for the next 20 years.
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Originally Posted by crone
How can a president control the financial market in a fee enterprise society?
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A president cannot, but a president can influence it through legislation, spending and taxes, and can exhibit leadership.
Obama did none of that.
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Originally Posted by crone
How can a President create jobs?
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A president cannot, but a president can influence and stimulate the economy by exhibiting leadership and presenting a cogent plan to investors, employers and employees.
Obama did neither.
Obama refused to take a stand on the Bush Tax Cuts until the very last second. The result was that for 2 years investors sat on the sidelines waiting for Obama to give them a cue; waiting for Obama to give some leadership, and he gave them nothing.
Understand that investors don't really care what position Obama took, so long as he took one. During the first 100 days he should have stated unequivocally that he intended to let the tax cuts expire, extend them, or raise taxes. Had he done so, investors could have developed investment strategies to work with or work around whatever he intended to do.
What he did do is ram the ill-conceived Obamacare down everyone's throat.
Since Obamacare has been enacted, the cost of Obamacare has steadily increased for the employee, for the employer and for the tax payer. The last CBO estimate I saw was $1.3 TRILLION to the tax payers (over 10 years and no, you don't even have the money to pay that) and you still have the rest of 2011, all of 2012 and all of 2013, and then who knows what the cost will be by the time 2014 rolls around.
The bureaucrats have not finished interpreting Obamacare and implementing the rules and regulations that govern Obamacare. An example would be the recent decision by HHS regarding preventive health for women (there's a thread or two about that).
See, that's the issue. Stuff like that is in the pipe-line and it is going to continue to trickle down over the next 28 months or so.
What's next? Or maybe, who is next? Infants? Children under 13? Those who are HIV/HPV/Hepatitis positive? Mental health? Pets? Hair care? Cosmetic surgery (and no, I'm not joking -- read the recent
New York Times thing on being able to sue for being ugly -- there's a thread here about that too).
That creates tremendous uncertainty in a business environment. How many employees can I afford to have as an employer under Obamacare?
No one can answer that question.
Am I going to have to lay-off employees in order to pay for Obamacare? Out-source Human Resources? Out-source facilities maintenance? Out-source janitorial? Out-source the accounting department? Am I going to have to lay off employees and then switch to temporary employees?
No one can answer those questions either.
Will I have to raise the prices of my products or services to pay for Obamacare? How much will I have to raise them? What is the price elasticity of my products or services? Is the price elasticity constant or will it change? If I raise prices for my products or services, will my revenues increase or decrease? Will my profits increase or decrease?
What Marketing & Sales Strategy should I employ to overcome issues related to price elasticity? To revenues? To profits? How much will that Marketing & Sales Strategy cost me?
No one can answer those either.
So there's two things right there, Obama's refusal to act as a leader and take a stance on the tax cuts, and Obamacare, that created a "chilling effect" on hiring over the last 3 years.
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Originally Posted by crone
How can a President set the price of fuel?
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A president cannot, but a president can put together an energy policy that is clear and concise that everyone can follow. If you read industry journals, economists generally believe that gasoline demand is basically flat and will be for some time. And so long as that is the current paradigm, no one is going to build new refineries for a long time to come.
Since your gasoline production is static, meaning you cannot ever increase the supply of gasoline in the US unless you build a new refinery (unless you start importing it and it isn't cost-effective to import finished gasoline until the price gets to $5/gallon -- and you did import finished gasoline from Venezuela a few years ago) the price of gasoline will always continue to rise.
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Originally Posted by CrownVic95
A lot of Independents are going to stay home, too, and Republicans need them badly to have a chance to win.
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You know that's really stupid. I didn't like any of the candidates either in the last election, but I voted anyway, and I voted for Independents, Libertarians, the Constitution Party and the Communist Party.
You know some States have a tax payer funded campaign fund just like the federal government does, and parties get money apportioned based on their showing in the polls. That is not how the formula works for all States, but it does work that way for some States.
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