What Should the President Focus on Now?

[Rev. Powell]

Let him focus on foreign policy, which is actually in his job description.  

where? he's the president of America, not other countries

US Constitution, Article 2, Section 2: "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors..."

Section 3: "... he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers..."

[lester1/2jr]

It says they have the power you are correct, but it doesn't say they should excercise it willy nilly.  They are supposed to provide for the general welfare, that is have policies that benefit the whole of the population not just specific groups but that's what happens.  The country of georgia has a lobby on capitol hill.  They want to bring Georgia into NATO. So if russia and georgia go to war the United States will have to go to war with russia!!  and Georgia is run by a maniac who shuts down tv stations and imprisons his rivals.  It has nothing to do with defending the american people from foreign threats or the genreal welfare. 

war is a racket-gen smedley butler

[BoyScoutKevin]

Probably still the concern of most Americans, the economy. Though, what this government or any government can do is open to question. One thing that has been suggested, and I don't know if it's been done yet or not, is to provide tax incentives to businesses who hire the unemployed. Those that have been unemployed for over a certain length of time. Of course, any such tax incentives will just add to the deficit, which will have to be made up at some later time.

[anonymous]

You want to end unemployment?  Make business prosper, pure and simple.  the government does NOT create jobs and never has, with the sole exception of actual federal employees.  But this president does not understand capitalism, since every single one of his political mentors was a radical from the 60's.

Cut taxes, keep the good regulations, get rid of the stupid ones, and let business do its thing!

Yeah the Great Depression called -it wants to let business do its thang.

Also, we just had several years of tremendous tax cuts for the rich, yet they didn't create a single job in the last 8 years. What's up with that?

[lester1/2jr]

I am as freee market as they come but it is sort of ironic that alot of the tax cuts went to making the housing bubble even bigger than it would have been.


The tax cuts weren't the problem though.  the problem was the low interest rates.  That's what created the bubble. it's what always creates the bubbles, too much inflation of the money supply by central banks

[Nukie 2]

It's a freaking myriad problems, not just tax-cuts.
The crux of all problems is growing productivity, yet declining real wages, which enticed Americans to borrow from credit cards, or against housing equity.

[lester1/2jr]

If I had one wish it would be to bang kim kardashian.  but if I had another loftier more political wish it would be to return to the gold standard.  that way if the government needs money it has to raise taxes or cut something.  Wiht the floating currency, they can just inflate their way out of problems and into bigger problems.  gold went from 300 dollars an ounce to 1000 under BUSH and up to 1200 under Obama.  taxes were cut in those years.  They got that money from borrowing and inflating.

They go on about taxes.  Taxes are basically irrelevent when you have the printing presses running 24-7

[the ghoul]

Re: What Should the President Focus on Now?

I wont even waste my time addressing that question. Whatever our government decides to focus on, you can be sure it is going to be disastrous for the vast majority of Americans in the long run.

The bailouts have not been done for the benefit of the people in general.  The politicians have done this to save their own asses.  If the economy were allowed to completely collapse, the government would also collapse.

That would have probably been the best thing that could have happened for this country in the long run.  This government has become so corrupt and self-serving that I think the only way out of the downward spiral we are in would be to wipe it out and start all over from scratch.

All those "tea partiers" are so naive to fall for that BS mentality that all we have to do is elect the other party and everything is going to be wonderful.  The 2 parties are both taking us down the same road.  One only has to compare the current and previous administrations to see that.

[Nukie 2]

And what road is that?

[the ghoul]

And what road is that?

corporate greed

giving lip service to human rights and worker's rights when they are really helping to promote the destruction and denial of those rights

weakness as a nation

financial ruin

and, ultimately perhaps losing our sovereignty altogether.  

We are being sold out.  If you don't see it, just don't worry, be happy.