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ASU2003 · 01-20-2010, 10:10 PM

I gave my overview in the 41st senator thread. He has to work on policies that individual groups in the left want. He won't win lots of points with everyone, but he needs to do more. And I'm tired of these polls that don't differentiate the negative from doing things they don't like versus not doing enough things he should be doing.

I think he could have handled a few things better. They started the Healthcare thing two months early or two months late. Copenhagen should have happened in the summer, and he should have set us on a new energy direction. He did get a supreme court justice seated that is good.

There is a lot of anxiety over America in general that is getting blamed on the White House, but they aren't really responsible. What is the person complaining about the national debt going to do in order to fix it without cutting more jobs? Have they stopped buying imported products? It's the 60 year olds that fear inflation in retirement that are really worried. The stock market is doing better, I think a lot of people who are over 50s & 60s were scared when their 401k lost a lot of money, but they should feel better now if they rode out the dip in the market.

It's still early. But we shall see what he says at the State of the Union next week. (More people care about a fictional island on a TV show than the state of our messed up country)

The democrats need to come up with a new plan since people feel like they need to work and are addicted to it. (It is probably easier to be an entrepreneur and do it yourself than find a job, but I know no one who has lost a job in my set of friends & family. I don't blame the government* for the unenployment rate, I blame the people who all of a sudden (smartly) started saving and the raising fees from companies who have a product that is mandated or in high demand)

*You can probably search my posts for the minimum wage ones. I'm surprised no one has suggested the correlation between when min wage increases started was the same time things started downhill. Although it didn't have the intended purpose of limiting CEO pay and excessive compensation at companies that are just middlemen.

01-20-2010, 10:10 PM	#16 (permalink)
ASU2003 immoral minority Location: Back in Ohio	I gave my overview in the 41st senator thread. He has to work on policies that individual groups in the left want. He won't win lots of points with everyone, but he needs to do more. And I'm tired of these polls that don't differentiate the negative from doing things they don't like versus not doing enough things he should be doing. I think he could have handled a few things better. They started the Healthcare thing two months early or two months late. Copenhagen should have happened in the summer, and he should have set us on a new energy direction. He did get a supreme court justice seated that is good. There is a lot of anxiety over America in general that is getting blamed on the White House, but they aren't really responsible. What is the person complaining about the national debt going to do in order to fix it without cutting more jobs? Have they stopped buying imported products? It's the 60 year olds that fear inflation in retirement that are really worried. The stock market is doing better, I think a lot of people who are over 50s & 60s were scared when their 401k lost a lot of money, but they should feel better now if they rode out the dip in the market. It's still early. But we shall see what he says at the State of the Union next week. (More people care about a fictional island on a TV show than the state of our messed up country) The democrats need to come up with a new plan since people feel like they need to work and are addicted to it. (It is probably easier to be an entrepreneur and do it yourself than find a job, but I know no one who has lost a job in my set of friends & family. I don't blame the government* for the unenployment rate, I blame the people who all of a sudden (smartly) started saving and the raising fees from companies who have a product that is mandated or in high demand) *You can probably search my posts for the minimum wage ones. I'm surprised no one has suggested the correlation between when min wage increases started was the same time things started downhill. Although it didn't have the intended purpose of limiting CEO pay and excessive compensation at companies that are just middlemen.