BS: Obama Goes For Broke

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
From: Riginslinger
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 10:25 PM

"(thanks to Reid being from Nevada) is that Yucca Mountain storage facility for waste is now dead)."


                  Hopefully not. It's the one source of energy that will keep consumerism going, it that's what you want. If not, Yucca Mountain is a really poor place to attack the problem, it seems to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
From: CarolC
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 09:12 PM

In this context, are the terms shock and awe and carpetbombing being used metaphorically?

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 08:39 PM

People are only going to see coffins where the family memebers of the deceased agree to have them shown... Otherwise, none will be shown...

But yeah, Obama is a purdy smart and savy guy who realizes that the country is at a crossroads...

Now, blues lore has it that when you are at the crtoosroads that you have the option of making a deal with the devil but in doing so you will have great powers...

Ahhhhh, I "hope" this isn't the situation...

I rather think that Obama realizes that it's time to turn away from 30 years of Reaganomics and back toward the Great Society and the New Deal...

The US hasn't done well with the Reagan model of late...

Now some folks would argue that Obama is copying the European model and would warn that that hasn't turned out all the great either...

I really don't know...

I do know that the Reagan model is badly broken and ain't workin'...

And I think that Obama knows this as well so...

...roll the dice...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 08:36 PM

We shall see. Can he carry Congress along? Interesting times ahead.
I am afraid a lot of the money will go to projects that will not help recovery, but I dunno. All major economies seem to have the same plans, so the U. S. is not acting in isolation.

I don't agree with the Afganistan increase- I think the Taliban and the Pushtun people who support them will just pull back and wait for a more propitious time.

Credit and support of Israel should be stopped until they agree to an equitable settlement of Palestinian grievances.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
From: Peter T.
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 08:31 PM

I note as a sidebar (nuclear energy proponents take heed) that one of the budget wrinkles (thanks to Reid being from Nevada) is that Yucca Mountain storage facility for waste is now dead).   But that doesn't exactly solve the problem......

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 08:17 PM

Peter T.

Perhaps being President requires more responsible actions than being a candidate does.

Maybe President Obama knows something now that President Bush knew then, and Peter T. nor JotSC will ever know.

Subject: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
From: Peter T.
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 07:31 PM

The title is just so the righwingers around here can't complain that they aren't given anything to work with.

Obama seems to have decided that carpetbombing and shock and awe is the way to go forward. I withdraw any remark about maybe he isn't going to be as daring as he promised.

The justice department stuff, and the ridiculous refusal to go for universal health care (the only plausible solution, not hurling more money at a broken system) are doubtful; but the 10 year budget and the overall agenda are finally someone standing up to the Republican nonsense. Now if the Chinese don't pull the money plug.......

Hey, and finally people are going to see pictures of dead soldiers' coffins. A little reality goes a long, long way.

yours,

Peter T.