by Mark Silva
Unemployment at a 25-year high.
The stock market at a 12-year low.
Mortgage foreclosures, bank failures and massive layoffs -- 2.6 million jobs lost in the last four months, more than 4 million lost since the start of the recession a little over a year ago -- define the parameters of the economic picture Americans face today.
President Barack Obama, proposing a new, $3.55 trillion federal budget that attempts to invest in new initiatives while cutting some old, and vowing to save $40 billion a year in contracting reform -- particularly at the Pentagon -- is framing a two-fold message: America can do more, while getting by with less.
The Republicans maintain that the White House is playing a familar old game of spending as the solution to all ills.
There's another facet to the president's message, as voiced in his weekly radio and Internet address today: A sense of hope.
"Yes, this is a moment of challenge for our country,'' Obama says in the address. "But we've experienced great trials before. And with every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper -- to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis. That is what we can and must do today.''
But there's one very pointed message in the Republican Party's reply today from Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, targeting the administration's aim to overhaul health care: "Washington is the only place that tells you how much they care about something based on how much it costs, instead of how well it works.''
See the texts of the president's address and GOP response below:
This is the president's address:
"Yesterday, we learned that the economy lost another 651,000 jobs in the month of February, which brings the total number of jobs lost in this recession to 4.4 million. The unemployment rate has now surpassed 8 percent, the highest rate in a quarter century.
These aren't just statistics, but hardships experienced personally by millions of Americans who no longer know how they'll pay their bills, or make their mortgage, or raise their families.
From the day I took office, I knew that solving this crisis would not be easy, nor would it happen overnight. And we will continue to face difficult days in the months ahead. But I also believe that we will get through this -- that if we act swiftly and boldly and responsibly, the United States of America will emerge stronger and more prosperous than it was before.
That's why my administration is committed to doing all that's necessary to address this crisis and lead us to a better day. That's why we're moving forward with an economic agenda that will jumpstart job creation, restart lending, relieve responsible homeowners, and address the long-term economic challenges of our time: the cost of health care, our dependence on oil, and the state of our schools.
To prevent foreclosures for as many as 4 million homeowners -- and lower interest rates and lift home values for millions more -- we are implementing a plan to allow lenders to work with borrowers to refinance or restructure their mortgages. On Wednesday, the Department of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development released the guidelines that lenders will use for lowering mortgage payments. This plan is now at work.
To restore the availability of affordable loans for families and businesses -- not just banks -- we are taking steps to restart the flow of credit and stabilize the financial markets. On Thursday, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve launched the Consumer and Business Lending Initiative -- a plan that will generate up to a trillion dollars of new lending so that families can finance a car or college education -- and small businesses can raise the capital that will create jobs.
And we've already begun to implement the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- a plan that will save and create over 3.5 million jobs over the next two years -- jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges, constructing wind turbines and solar panels, expanding broadband and mass transit. And because of this plan, those who have lost their job in this recession will be able to receive extended unemployment benefits and continued health care coverage, while 95 percent of working Americans will receive a tax break beginning April 1st.
Of course, like every family going through hard times, our country must make tough choices. In order to pay for the things we need -- we cannot waste money on the things we don't.
My administration inherited a $1.3 trillion budget deficit, the largest in history. And we've inherited a budgeting process as irresponsible as it is unsustainable. For years, as Wall Street used accounting tricks to conceal costs and avoid responsibility, Washington did, too.
These kinds of irresponsible budgets -- and inexcusable practices -- are now in the past. For the first time in many years, my administration has produced a budget that represents an honest reckoning of where we are and where we need to go.
It's also a budget that begins to make the hard choices that we've avoided for far too long -- a strategy that cuts where we must and invests where we need. That's why it includes $2 trillion in deficit reduction, while making historic investments in America's future. That's why it reduces discretionary spending for non-defense programs as a share of the economy by more than 10 percent over the next decade -- to the lowest level since they began keeping these records nearly half a century ago. And that's why on Wednesday, I signed a presidential memorandum to end unnecessary no-bid contracts and dramatically reform the way contracts are awarded -- reforms that will save the American people up to $40 billion each year.
Finally, because we cannot bring our deficit down or grow our economy without tackling the skyrocketing cost of health care, I held a health care summit on Thursday to begin the long-overdue process of reform. Our ideas and opinions about how to achieve this reform will vary, but our goal must be the same: quality, affordable health care for every American that no longer overwhelms the budgets of families, businesses, and our government.
Yes, this is a moment of challenge for our country. But we've experienced great trials before. And with every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper -- to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis. That is what we can and must do today. And I am absolutely confident that is what we will do. I'm confident that at this defining moment, we will prove ourselves worthy of the sacrifice of those who came before us, and the promise of those who will come after.''
This is the address of Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
"Hello, I'm Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt. I serve on the House Energy and Commerce Health Care subcommittee and chair the Health Care Solutions Working Group here in the House of Representatives.
"I attended President Obama's health care summit Thursday afternoon. I appreciated the opportunity and again told the President that I'm ready to work together to improve health care in America.
"Americans are worried about their access to quality, affordable health care and they are looking for responsible solutions. Republicans agree, and we are committed to developing new and innovative solutions to fix what's broken, while making sure that we keep what works.
"Republicans are committed to access, affordability, competition and a quality system that puts patients and doctors in the driver seat.
"I agree with President Obama that if you like your current health insurance plan, you should be allowed to keep it. But that's not what is currently being discussed in Washington. Some people are spending a lot of time talking about how to spend more of your money on bigger government run programs. I'm concerned that if the government steps in it will eventually push out the private health care plans millions of Americans enjoy today. This could cause your employer to simply stop offering coverage, hoping the government will pick up the slack.
"Just imagine a health care system that looks like a government run operation most of us are all too familiar with - the local DMV. Lines, paper work, taking a number. Or how about another government agency - the IRS.
"I don't want our health care to resemble that system and you probably don't either. That's why real competition is the key - it encourages innovation so that the health care treatments and services available to you are the ones that you need and you want. Republicans are committed to common-sense solutions that promote competition and innovation.
"Not surprisingly the government never gets the price right: overpaying for some services, underpaying for others. It's also a system that leads to unfair rationing of care.
"Part of that comes from the backward way the government looks at problems. Washington is the only place that tells you how much they care about something based on how much it costs, instead of how well it works.
"America has the best doctors, health care providers and hospitals in the world. Republicans will lead the effort to make health care work for Americans. We'll also lead the fight against any proposals that undermine your ability to get the treatment the doctor you choose recommends.
"This is Roy Blunt, thanks for giving me a moment of your time."
Comments
"America can do more, while getting by with less." - Between lack of economic growth and higher taxes, we all know America will be getting by with less.
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Posted by: Terry | March 7, 2009 8:14 AM
Charles Dow Rolls in His Grave: The Distortion of the Average He Made Famous - Friday, March 6, 2009
Have you ever asked yourself why the Dow Jones Industrial Average contains non-industrial stocks? Why such a large weighting is given to financial companies such as American Express, Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan and AIG (Before its removal)? After all, you wouldn’t expect to see General Motors included in a healthcare index or Goldman Sachs in the home builders index.
The Wikipedia entry for the Dow Jones Industrial Average states that:
“The average is computed from the stock prices of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The “industrial” portion of the name is largely historical—many of the 30 modern components have little to do with traditional heavy industry.”
We do not dispute the claim that the “industrial” portion is largely historical. Indeed, there are components which have little to do with industry. Financial companies, who do not produce anything, comprise a large weighting the in this average of American Industry.
Over the last 20 years, the Dow Jones has been reshaped into a basket of 30 conglomerate corporations, with little regard for the actual business they’re in. Today’s Dow Jones would be unrecognizable to the man who created it over a century ago.
History
The index was first published in 1896 by Charles Dow, Founder of the Dow Jones Company and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Dow created and monitored a list of important industrial companies. Along with the Industrial Average, he created the Railroad Index (Transportation) which he would track along with the industrial stocks to gauge the health of the economy.
The Dow Theory was created based on the notion that both indexes should rise together in a healthy economy. The concept was a simple one. While industrial companies made the goods, the rails transported those goods to market. One couldn’t function without the other.
The original Industrial Average contained 12 industrial (Producers of goods) stocks:
- American Cotton Oil Company
- American Sugar Company
- American Tobacco Company
- Chicago Gas Company
- Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company
- General Electric
- Laclede Gas Light Company
- National Lead Company
- North American Company, (Edison) electric company
- Tennessee Coal,
- U.S. Leather Company
- United States Rubber Company
Notice that all of the companies in the index were producers of goods. There were no financial or bank stocks included in the average. At the time of his death in 1902, Charles Dow’s industrial average contained 12 stocks which were comprised of industrial producing companies such as US Steel, US Rubber, National Lead, American Car and Foundry, etc. Still no banks.
The Dow Jones Begins to Change (Era of Reganomics)
1982
80 years after the death of Charles Dow, American Express was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This marked the first time that a financial stock was added to the century old index.
1988
American can, a manufacturer of tin cans merged with Commercial credit corporation and adopted the name Primerica.
1991
JP Morgan was introduced to the Dow Jones in 1991 and replaced Primerica corporation.
1997
Travelers Group was added to the index. The company would later change its name to Citigroup.
2004
AIG was added.
2008
Bank of America was added.
Reasons:
We struggle to find an explanation as to why such changes were made. Was it because America became de-industrialized over the last quarter century? Was it merely a reflection of big business today? With companies such as General Motors and General Electric playing dominant roles in non-core businesses such as finance and banking? Or were these financial stocks added to the index in hopes of propping up its value with companies such as JP Morgan and AIG, whose earning power seemed indestructible? Our hunch is that it was a combination of each. (More at the link.)
http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/03/charles-dow-rolls-in-his-grave-the-distortion-of-the-average-he-made-famous/
Posted by: Angellight | March 7, 2009 8:14 AM
Given all of the disasters that Typhoon Bush has left America, what else can President Obama do, cut taxes!!? That is what got us into this economic crater to begin with, that an malfeasance !! President Obama, in my humble opinion, is doing exactly what the experts said he should be doing, stimulating the economy !! That is, if the rank Republicans will stop their obstructionism and let him do the job, the American people elected him to do. Some of those phony patriots, among the rank Republicans, are hoping that our President, President Obama, fails. Can you believe that, America !!? Those flag-waving, armchair warriors, draft-evading pseudo-patriots are calling on God, to make sure President Obama fails, and by extension, America fails. Now, that is what I call, really unamerican, pure and simple !! America should teach those rank Republicans, a real lesson, and send even more of them back to their districts and send even more Democrats back to Washington, in their place !! All those rank Republicans should go to China, they sure don't deserve to live in America and we'll see how far their cut throat capitalism, will get them, there. I dare say, they would not have the choice of prison, they would be saying, syanara !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, America | March 7, 2009 8:49 AM
Headline: "All the GOP sees is more spending".
Not quite. The GOP sees "more spending"--because there IS more spending. But they also see "more regulations" and "more taxes." Job-destroying taxes. Taxes that will bankrupt present and future generations.
Taxes. A word Swamp writers avoid when they're talking about Obama's programs. Is there some filter in their computers that automatically deletes the word "tax"?
Posted by: Bruce | March 7, 2009 8:53 AM
Mr. President,
Why am I getting the sense that you've been extended too much credit (trust) and you didn't have enough to put down (experience)?
Why is we have to look to China to see a sensible stimulus bill?
We're certainly more bankrupt than I thought.
Posted by: Rob | March 7, 2009 9:57 AM
Maybe massive wealth redistribution - as Obama proposes - will ease the pain of those living closest to the line, but I question whether the increased demand they generate will pull enough money of those who have it to invest from safe harbors. We are facing gray years, just like other centrally planned economies. Right or wrong, it won't be pretty.
Posted by: Worried About Redistribution | March 7, 2009 9:58 AM
Nowadays, the Republicans are said to be arguing and acting in lockstep against Obama’s efforts out of an allegiance to an ideologically Conservative position, but very little discussion is given to any analysis and explanation of the basic principles of that ideology or to those of it’s opposite, what I would call the contemporary Progressive Liberal position. Instead, arguments and assertions center around what are claimed to be logically necessary predictions for the future and historically based explanations (lessons) from events of the past, thereby giving over the entire debate to quarreling about likely outcomes, rather than examining the basic principles of the positions, themselves.
Hear a Liberal speak:
“Think, for a moment, of life as a game, and the world as a playing field. Unless there are rules and regulations to make the game a fair one, and agencies (referees, police, government bureaus) to enforce the rules and regulations, those among us who are the strongest, the cleverest, the most talented, the most privileged (educated and well-connected), the most psychologically well balanced, etc., will soon have “all the marbles.” Of course, those among us who are the weak, the stupid, the untalented, the underprivileged (without the benefit of education and good connections), the psychologically handicapped, etc., will be left with little or nothing.”
Hear a Conservative speak:
“So what? That’s life! It’s the natural order of things. Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest is quite correct, where competition for the goods of the world is concerned. Social and Economic Darwinism. If you are the strongest, in all the requisite powers and resources, then you deserve to win all the prizes. You might say that the “losers,” those without the powers and resources to succeed, must be “deserving victims,” since their condition seems determined by nature.
The fundamental moral principle behind the latter position is, “Might Makes Right!”
The Progressive Liberals might note that this, of course, is what the Nazis believed. Often characterized as Fascists, the Nazi implementation of the “Might Makes Right!” principle lead logically to the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship, with all power invested in one supreme executive, Adolph Hitler. Using and believing “junk science” racial theories to bolster their claim to be the “Master Race,” they believed they were destined to rule the world and, where needed, enslave or liquidate all others. Hitler and his close supporters rejected all notions of Justice, disregarding the claims of other nations and other peoples. In fact, it seems they had no sense of Justice at all and explicitly rejected the very idea of Justice as meaningful, elevating, instead, power and efficiency to be the supreme principles of action.
The fundamental moral principle behind the contemporary Progressive Liberal position would seem to be “Justice For All!” Justice being understood to mean equality before the law, fairness and equity in distributing material goods between and among individuals and corporations and equality of opportunity and protection for all. The scales of Justice signal the balance of equality as both the means and the end of social and political activities.
The Progressive Liberals, as Americans, would argue that our founding documents proclaim the primacy of unalienable rights and make an absolute appeal to Justice, as governing the relations among and between people and nations. The Declaration of Independence is just such a claim. And, although it makes an appeal to Divine Authorship as the ground for claiming rights for all men, there is a considerable background in the history of political philosophy, going all the way back to Plato, and receiving a significant revival of attention through the Enlightenment, that would provide also the ground for arguing that human rights are based on the nature of man and, therefore, rightfully claimed by all human beings. Many of our founders were conversant with this philosophical tradition. Nevertheless, Christian-Judaic traditions also provides the moral tone of the document, which may be expressed in the implied admonition, “You are your brother’s keeper!”
The Progressive Liberal’s critique of “free-market, unregulated capitalism” may be expressed as this: It pays no allegiance to Justice. For free-market capitalism, the “bottom line” of profit is the primary motive and end, and efficiency of success in commercial transactions and industrial functions in achieving that purpose, is the primary measure of the quality of its activity and the laws that govern it. The Machiavellian character of this species of capitalism is what prompts the most heated objections from many Progressive Liberals, who see it as the total loss of moral fiber within the business community.
There is a history of attempts in Western nations to regulate trade and commerce, to prevent unfair and undesirable dealings and destructive outcomes. As we have lately rediscovered, if we eliminate enough rules and regulations (or we undermine or destroy the powers and actions of the government agencies that are supposed to enforce them), then we get a situation of great social unrest, because of inequities that result. Moreover, if we lack the restraint that regulations provide, an economic chaos that threatens the entire social and political fabric of the nation, and even of the world, will eventually be the result.
George McClancy
Professor Emeritus
Empire State College
State University of New York
Posted by: George McClancy | March 7, 2009 10:03 AM
Unemployment at a 25 year high and the stock market at a 12 year low.
Obama---blaming Bush for your failures is getting old. And when you meet the Queen of England in April, tell your wife to wear something with sleeves.
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | March 7, 2009 11:07 AM
All the republicans do is point fingers, distort and pander in front of the cameras while not coming up with any workable solutions. They, after these last eight years are all of a sudden conservative and experts on the economy? This is getting so tiresome. They do not give the American people any credit for intelligence, refusing to understand that we will not support and are tired of their politics as usual. When or will they ever put the survival of our country and us first??
Posted by: katiec | March 7, 2009 12:43 PM
So the party of "No"-aka- the Greedy Oil Party, wants to continue in the footsteps of their hero, Herbert Hoover?
That's fine because until the GOPer's can come up with some answers of their own, and by answers I mean the kind that aren't insane, like they're offering now, they will buried deep in the minority.
Posted by: DrainYou | March 7, 2009 2:33 PM
How dare John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal and other Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility and transparency. These are the political ‘criminals’ and ‘robbers’ which pushed America into the dismal economic state we find ourselves. Now with the help of the news media, which was absent during the Bush years on investigative journalism, come out challenging President Obama and assisting the GOP in its hypocritical attacks on a popular President who has inherited some of the largest issues ever to face an American President.
The Republican Party is a complete and narcissistic failure. They are at a loss on how to ‘deal’ with a President who is intelligent, smart, wise and forward looking; they cannot seem to fathom a President who, only in office 6 weeks has done more to tackle problems and issues facing Americans and knows they will of the people he represents and moves forward to resolutions. The GOP does not have a clue how to move out of the 20th century. If they were smart, they would finally put the will of the people first and support the rebuilding of America rather than wasting ‘hot air’ tearing down our President and ignoring Americans who pay them to represent us.
It is important to focus on the future, to focus on helping hardworking, taxpaying Americans get back on their feet. However we should never forget what George W Bush, his Republican and Wall Street cronies have done to this country. It is obvious to more than this writer that Republicans ALWAYS put politics over people.
Posted by: Tex Moonshine | March 7, 2009 2:39 PM
"Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, targeting the administration's aim to overhaul health care: "Washington is the only place that tells you how much they care about something based on how much it costs, instead of how well it works.''
No Blunt, the people who do that are the big insurance companies that your crap Repuglican party is all to happy to sell them out too.
Posted by: Johnny Knoxville | March 7, 2009 2:49 PM
"Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, targeting the administration's aim to overhaul health care: "Washington is the only place that tells you how much they care about something based on how much it costs, instead of how well it works.''
No Blunt, the people who do that are the big insurance companies that your crap Repuglican party is all to happy to sell them out too.
Posted by: Johnny Knoxville | March 7, 2009 2:51 PM
Republicans want to go "back to the future," but in doing so they are attempting to perform an impossible feat. There is simply no small government, Reaganite Republican past for them to return to. And Bush, the black sheep of the family, was no aberration. In a very real way, Bush was a Reagan conservative - a big spending, fiscally irresponsible supply-sider who threw the government ever deeper into debt. Something to keep in mind as the predictable Republican wailing and crying over Obama's "liberal big government spending" ramps up.
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Posted by: Reagan was a Fraud and a Failure | March 7, 2009 3:36 PM
President Obama has zero business experience or sense (unless you count pay-to-play arrangements or public-housing scandals with felon Tony Rezko).
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He puts together a cabinet with no CEOs or anybody else that could upstage the comprehensively unaccomplished President. Obama unviels wild spending plans embedded with pork-n-welfare totalling trillions of dollars... when we are already running record deficits.
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After this, he holds some fake summit and (with a straight-face) portrays himself as a deficit-hawk. Such profligate spending has no historical precedent of success in stimulating the economy ever, so the stock market shrinks-back in horror.
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Although the MSM has so much invested in his success that they can no-longer afford anything resembling a balanced perspective, SOME journalists and talk-show hosts come out publicly against his plans... so he launches attacks, including paid TV ads against them. (can you imagine the uproar if W had done this?)
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When the GOP members of Congress that Obama promised for over a year to work with in a new, post-partisan manner voice their concerns, he tells them "I'll trump you on that" and "I won". -
He is ramming-through a far left agenda he knows we can't afford, so later will "have to" crank-up taxes to eye-watering Swedish levels when inflation hits 10% and the dollar tanks... thereby running through the back-door the soaking of the job-creating "rich" that he dreamed of doing while sitting-around "burning one" with his Marxist professors.
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Expect a stale economy, high taxes, high inflation, international embarrassments, endless ethics issues... followed by a Democratic bloodbath in the 2010 mid-terms.
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Obama's support might not be weakening yet, but Wall St. looks-out 6-12 mos ahead... and what they're saying is that the economy will be in the toilet in the midst of the 2010 mid-term campaign. As for 2012, the GOP could win 40+ states running Barney the dinosaur.
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Posted by: Reaganite Republican | March 7, 2009 3:44 PM
During the last eight years of Bush rule and 10 of the last 12 years of Republican congressional rule the Dow was inflated by greed fraud and lies: it should deflate: and all the short selling manipulators and fat cat liars who scammed America and bought up the corporate media to promote their lies (CNBC, Faux News, Druggy Rush etc) are finally getting their commupance. They have lost credibility.
Here is a President (Obama) who could have used his smarts and savvy as those folks did; instead he chose service, love of law, and affinity for people. Good on him! and shame on the greedy smug a*sholes who raped our nation.
Posted by: bubba Porter | March 7, 2009 6:45 PM
Obama claims he "inherited" a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit, as if he had no part in it. Not only did he vote for the last Bush budget and the albatross TARP package, but he actively campaigned for the latter. I don't know how you can claim to be inheriting something you helped create.
Posted by: Herbie H. | March 7, 2009 8:03 PM
The Republicans and their corporate giant friends got us into this mess and we all know it. Obama has had about a 66% approval rating since he got started. The Republicans are down at about 25%. That tells you what we think of their ideas. They have given the rich thousands (+!) in tax breaks and palmed off on us a few hundred, claiming that would help the economy. Yeah, right! There are a few fools who still believe them but, not many thank goodness. Welfare and socialism for the rich. Spend billions, correction, trillions overseas and complain about social programs to benefit people here at home! They are the traitors to America.
Posted by: g.Smith | March 7, 2009 10:36 PM
Anyone who doesn't believe this worldwide fiscal meltdown isn't the direct result of No Regulation, Free Market Only ideology is living in fantasy land.
What Bush (AND the GOP) did was to enable the Bernie Madoffs, the Allen Stanfords and their ilk, with their See No Evil regulatory practice. THAT is all on Bush!
No to mention the Trillion Plus Surplus that Bush gave us all as a parting gift, along with two unfinished wars abroad and a war on the middle class at home.
Posted by: athena | March 8, 2009 11:15 AM
"Heads on a Stick" Vote NO on 1-A. Yell, Scream, E-Mail, Fax, Phone "your" Senator and insist E-Verify be included in every piece of legislation. Elected employees of yours like Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein, Boxer and others (are they all Communist Anti-Americans?) are working hard to put Americans on the bread line and illegals on the job line so all can be manipulated and controlled. Revolt, Rebel, RECALL. Deport the illegals. They are all criminals. Send their spawn with them.
Posted by: Tucano Fulano | March 8, 2009 2:35 PM
"And when you meet the Queen of England in April, tell your wife to wear something
with sleeves. "
posted by Paulo
Really Paulo?? What about her 2nd amendment right to bare arms??
Posted by: Flo | March 8, 2009 7:01 PM
LONG LIVE PRESIDENT OBAMA!
Obama is a racial-minority individual and does not like racism:
There is bad news about George Herbert Walker Bush.
What if basically all racial-minority people would subscribe to the interpretations that George Herbert Walker Bush committed monstrous, racist, hate crimes while he was the President of the United States?
It will eventually come out: it is only a matter of time.
Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang, J.D. Candidate
B.S., With the Highest Level of Academic Honors at Graduation, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post. And there are thousands of copies in very many countries around the world.)
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‘If only there could be a ban against invention that bottled up memory like scent & it never faded & it never got stale.’ It came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
Posted by: On the Eternal Infamy of Bush Sr. | March 28, 2009 12:03 AM