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Ron Indiana — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:22:23 GMT

Telling the truth about the country's economy is pretty transparent to me. Obama will tell it like it is: The good, the bad and the ugly. This is ugly news.

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jawillie, Philadelphia, PA. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:35:19 GMT

This is pretty much to be expected. The Bush administration is leaving us with this massive debt that has accumulated over the past 8 years, and it's going to take years to dig out of it. Unfortunately, we're going to have to dig deeper into debt to do it in the short term. If you've ever fallen behind on your mortgage, car payments, credit cards, etc., it pretty much amounts to the same thing. You have to pay extra to get out of the debt while still maintaining the essentials. I have a feeling Obama's first term is going to be spent mostly trying to stop the bleeding.

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Just a shot in the arm please, Not a Shot at the Moon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:37:06 GMT

Ok so someone please explain this to me. Obama just stated that "The people's business can't wait"...Yet now I hear that the stimulus package he is proposing is not ready yet as he is going to wait to get 80 votes before announcing it? ....Ummmm WHY? If the peoples business can't wait...lets just shoot for 51 or 60 or WHATEVER makes it pass. Come on ---the economy is in a freefall and now he decides it is more important to have a Magic Number above and beyond what is needed.

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jeff D Evanston IL. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:38:12 GMT

lets see that 1 trillion dollars in deficits
so the way i do the math
12 billion per month x 5 years give or take a month = 720 billion dollars fighting a way based upon bad intelligence and lies!!!! at the same time giving a record tax cut to folks that did not need it, at the same time
wasting a record surplus the previous administration left you = the worse president in american history George Walker Bush!!!!
he messed up every thing
we are broke, banks are going under, forgen poilcy is a joke, we abuse detainees, bridges are falling down, major cities are so broke in chicago the mayor has to pick and choose streets to be plowed during a major snow storm, every day regular working folks are loosing there jobs and houses, if barack wants spend on the regular guy, THE CONGRESS AND SENATE BETTER NOT SAME A DAM WORD AGAINST IT.

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Eric, Salinas, CA — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:41:16 GMT

Heckuva Job Georgie! One trillion dollars in the hole for a year and it's all the fault of this moron and the fools of faith that voted him into office. Thanks repugnant ones for screwing up the economy in a major way. Time to stop the freeloader market foolishness that screws the vast majority of us. Time to raise taxes on the rich and greedy to close the budget gap they have profitted from the past 28 years, ever since Raygunz started the sinful budget deficits.

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Clyde Moseberry, Columbus Ohio — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:48:18 GMT

The Democrats kept throwing the "fact" that during the Clinton years, they had a so-called balance budget (well, if you don't count the fact they spent every dime they took in from Social Security and didn't put it in AlGores "lockbox".). Now Obama sees trillion dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see? Targeted tax cuts for Obama's union friends and trillion dollar deficits are the way to ruin this country. Obama will be lucky to get through the next four years without getting impeached.

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Anna Molly — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:59:43 GMT

I have a idea. Let's ask George H.W. Bush again about Ronald Reagan's "voodoo economics." I wonder what he might say about it now.

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Thanks for your concern — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:05:03 GMT

Clyde...

Seeing that W and his cronies made it through 8 years of Reign or make that "Rain"

...I'm pretty sure Obama is safe. Bush set a pretty high precedent for pushing the envelope

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Diane from Illinois — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:09:41 GMT

One more reason to hate George Bush. I don't envy Obama trying to tackle the mess Bush is about to hand him. He's starting out in a hole, thanks to Bush, and will remain there for several years, if not his entire first term. But I believe he's the one to be able to help us see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's just going to be darker than we orgianlly thought. Hope the Republicans that put Bush in office are seeing him for the moron he truly is. Jan. 20th can't come soon enough. They need to send his backside back to Texas, or better yet, jail. He should be tried as a war criminal, along with Cheney.

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Kensyan Theory — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:10:57 GMT

jawillie -This is pretty much to be expected. The Bush administration is leaving us with this massive debt that has accumulated over the past 8 years

And the solution is to increase the debt at a more alarming rate? No, Obama just doesn't have a clue about what he's doing. When people lost confidence in the banks, we've seen what happened. Wait until the world looses confidence in the devalued dollar when Obama prints an extra trillon dollars of debt every year. You ain't seen nothing until that happens.

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TEC-SPRING-TX — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:18:41 GMT

ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!
I wonder how much that is per person in the US?