Thoughts on the current Stim package vs the new deal ...
Here are some thoughts-
http://www.cato.org/research/articles/powell-031106.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25008973-7583,00.html
http://conservativeforchange.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-new-deal-as-bad-as-old-new-deal.html
I do think that Obama saw, sees the New deal as a good idea still, and wants to take our country the same direction. Having the government step in and undermine the market economy.
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Friday, February 6, 2009
Obama and Unions
Obama Meets with Union Leaders, Dumps Bush Rules
Friday, January 30, 2009 8:11 AM
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is playing to one of the Democratic Party's most reliable constituencies — organized labor — reversing a number of his predecessor's executive orders that critics regard as anti-union.
Labor leaders were to visit the White House for a second consecutive day Friday, where, a union official said, Obama was to abolish four Bush-era directives that unions opposed and then reintroduce Vice President Joe Biden's task force focused on the middle class.
Both were meant as a way for the new administration to connect with workers at the end of a week that has seen U.S. companies announce thousands more jobs cuts.
"Over the last 100 years the middle class was built on the back of organized labor. Without their weight, heft and their insistence starting in the early 1900s we wouldn't have the middle class we have now, in my view," Biden told CNBC on Thursday. "So I think labor getting a fair share of the pie is part of it."
Officials planned to re-announce a Middle Class Task Force aimed at finding ways to help an economic group that has been hammered by the recession. Biden will lead the task force, comprising a panel of advisers and four Cabinet members.
Among the George W. Bush-era executive orders that Obama was to reverse was one that allowed unionized companies to post signs informing workers that they are allowed to decertify their union. Critics claimed it was unfair because nonunion businesses are not required to post signs letting workers know they are legally allowed to vote for a union.
Two Democratic sources also said Obama would prevent federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses that were intended to influence workers' decisions to form unions or engage in collective bargaining. A third Obama order would require federal vendors with more than $100,000 in contracts to post workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
The final order would require service contractors at federal buildings to offer jobs to qualified current employees when contracts changed. For instance, rank-and-file workers could continue working on the same federal project even if the administrative contract expired.
The officials disclosed the plans on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt the White House's announcements.
Labor leaders also visited the White House on Thursday, where Obama welcomed them to the East Room as he signed his first major piece of legislation, an equal-pay act that organized labor and women's groups championed.
Unions have been lobbying the Obama administration to repeal scores of executive orders they view as hostile to their cause. Officials gave administration officials their top 10 executive orders they wanted to see dismantled quickly.
Many executive orders are enacted and repealed based on which party controls the White House. One of the rules Obama planned to repeal Friday was approved by President George. H.W. Bush, removed by President Bill Clinton and reinstated by the second President Bush.
© 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/oba...30/176716.html
Not sure what this all means.
Friday, January 30, 2009 8:11 AM
Article Font Size
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is playing to one of the Democratic Party's most reliable constituencies — organized labor — reversing a number of his predecessor's executive orders that critics regard as anti-union.
Labor leaders were to visit the White House for a second consecutive day Friday, where, a union official said, Obama was to abolish four Bush-era directives that unions opposed and then reintroduce Vice President Joe Biden's task force focused on the middle class.
Both were meant as a way for the new administration to connect with workers at the end of a week that has seen U.S. companies announce thousands more jobs cuts.
"Over the last 100 years the middle class was built on the back of organized labor. Without their weight, heft and their insistence starting in the early 1900s we wouldn't have the middle class we have now, in my view," Biden told CNBC on Thursday. "So I think labor getting a fair share of the pie is part of it."
Officials planned to re-announce a Middle Class Task Force aimed at finding ways to help an economic group that has been hammered by the recession. Biden will lead the task force, comprising a panel of advisers and four Cabinet members.
Among the George W. Bush-era executive orders that Obama was to reverse was one that allowed unionized companies to post signs informing workers that they are allowed to decertify their union. Critics claimed it was unfair because nonunion businesses are not required to post signs letting workers know they are legally allowed to vote for a union.
Two Democratic sources also said Obama would prevent federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses that were intended to influence workers' decisions to form unions or engage in collective bargaining. A third Obama order would require federal vendors with more than $100,000 in contracts to post workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
The final order would require service contractors at federal buildings to offer jobs to qualified current employees when contracts changed. For instance, rank-and-file workers could continue working on the same federal project even if the administrative contract expired.
The officials disclosed the plans on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt the White House's announcements.
Labor leaders also visited the White House on Thursday, where Obama welcomed them to the East Room as he signed his first major piece of legislation, an equal-pay act that organized labor and women's groups championed.
Unions have been lobbying the Obama administration to repeal scores of executive orders they view as hostile to their cause. Officials gave administration officials their top 10 executive orders they wanted to see dismantled quickly.
Many executive orders are enacted and repealed based on which party controls the White House. One of the rules Obama planned to repeal Friday was approved by President George. H.W. Bush, removed by President Bill Clinton and reinstated by the second President Bush.
© 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/oba...30/176716.html
Not sure what this all means.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Obama's cabinet
This will be an ongoing post
2nd Republican member - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7868036.stm
Current-
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/07/politics/main4583057.shtml
2nd Republican member - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7868036.stm
Current-
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/07/politics/main4583057.shtml
Monday, November 10, 2008
Interesting Sermon this week
We had an enlightening one yesterday. We are working through Acts, and are on acts 5 the conversion of Paul. And talking about how he had to empty himself before God could use him. And it was a direct result of Paul's emptiness. Being hated by everyone and having nothing that gave us Christianity as we know it.
He also spoke about Abe Lincoln, I didn't realize this but after the Battle at Gettysburg The main speaker called wasn't Abe Lincoln, Lincoln was asked as an after thought. His wife was very ill, had lost his son, everyone hated him, the opposing political party wanted him out of power, and he was suffering from depression. He was in the lowest place of his life. He was asked to write a "few" words. The speaker preceding him spoke for 2 hours and got thunderous applause. And he told his adviser, I don't think my speech is going to be good enough.
But he went on anyway, and in his brokenness God brought us the Gettysburg Address, one of the most quoted speeches in the world.
It was from God using Abe Lincoln also that we could even imagine to have a black president.
That in itself shows that Yes, God does use us. And he uses us the most usually when we are broken, and feel empty. When we stop filling up our emptiness with useless things, like more tv, food, addictions, etc.
He also spoke about Abe Lincoln, I didn't realize this but after the Battle at Gettysburg The main speaker called wasn't Abe Lincoln, Lincoln was asked as an after thought. His wife was very ill, had lost his son, everyone hated him, the opposing political party wanted him out of power, and he was suffering from depression. He was in the lowest place of his life. He was asked to write a "few" words. The speaker preceding him spoke for 2 hours and got thunderous applause. And he told his adviser, I don't think my speech is going to be good enough.
But he went on anyway, and in his brokenness God brought us the Gettysburg Address, one of the most quoted speeches in the world.
It was from God using Abe Lincoln also that we could even imagine to have a black president.
That in itself shows that Yes, God does use us. And he uses us the most usually when we are broken, and feel empty. When we stop filling up our emptiness with useless things, like more tv, food, addictions, etc.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
About Obama's win.
Right now I am still sad, cryin a bit.
But I have to say (repeat) that there are two wonderful things that have come out of the elections.. ok three.
#1 First Black President.
#2 Highest voter %age in history.
#3 A strong marital relationship.
oh and I could add #4 cute little kids in the white house!'
ETA--- You who are believers... pray... God can change the mind of any man!
But I have to say (repeat) that there are two wonderful things that have come out of the elections.. ok three.
#1 First Black President.
#2 Highest voter %age in history.
#3 A strong marital relationship.
oh and I could add #4 cute little kids in the white house!'
ETA--- You who are believers... pray... God can change the mind of any man!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Obama & Ayers
http://www.gop.com/News/NewsRead.aspx?Guid=768aa784-72f3-4b43-acb6-c5fe81d901cd'
A couple quotes from here-
During The Time Obama And Ayers Served Together On The Woods Fund, Ayers Was Quoted Saying "I Don't Regret Setting Bombs ... I Feel We Didn't Do Enough." "'I don't regret setting bombs,' Bill Ayers said. 'I feel we didn't do enough.' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago." (Dinitia Smith, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives," The New York Times, 9/11/01)
While Obama And Ayers Were Serving On The Woods Fund Together, Ayers Posed Standing On An American Flag For An Article In Chicago Magazine Entitled "No Regrets." (Marcia Froelke Coburn, "No Regrets," Chicago Magazine, 8/01)
Neighbors Have Said "It's Only Natural" That Obama Would Know Ayers, Who Often Opens His Home For Gatherings, As Obama And His Wife "Are A Part Of Our Neighborhood And Part Of Our Social Circle." "Since coming out of hiding in 1980, the couple have raised three boys in Chicago and become part of the fabric of their liberal South Side neighborhood. Neighbors said it's only natural that Obama would know Ayers and Dohrn, who often open their homes for gatherings filled with lively discussions about politics, arts and social issues. Obama and his wife 'are part of our neighborhood and part of our social circle,' said Elizabeth Chandler, a neighbor of Ayers'." (Trevor Jensen, Robert Mitchum and Mary Owen, "Bill Ayers' Turbulent Past Contrasts With Quiet Academ ic Life," Chicago Tribune, 4/17/08)
A couple quotes from here-
During The Time Obama And Ayers Served Together On The Woods Fund, Ayers Was Quoted Saying "I Don't Regret Setting Bombs ... I Feel We Didn't Do Enough." "'I don't regret setting bombs,' Bill Ayers said. 'I feel we didn't do enough.' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago." (Dinitia Smith, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives," The New York Times, 9/11/01)
While Obama And Ayers Were Serving On The Woods Fund Together, Ayers Posed Standing On An American Flag For An Article In Chicago Magazine Entitled "No Regrets." (Marcia Froelke Coburn, "No Regrets," Chicago Magazine, 8/01)
Neighbors Have Said "It's Only Natural" That Obama Would Know Ayers, Who Often Opens His Home For Gatherings, As Obama And His Wife "Are A Part Of Our Neighborhood And Part Of Our Social Circle." "Since coming out of hiding in 1980, the couple have raised three boys in Chicago and become part of the fabric of their liberal South Side neighborhood. Neighbors said it's only natural that Obama would know Ayers and Dohrn, who often open their homes for gatherings filled with lively discussions about politics, arts and social issues. Obama and his wife 'are part of our neighborhood and part of our social circle,' said Elizabeth Chandler, a neighbor of Ayers'." (Trevor Jensen, Robert Mitchum and Mary Owen, "Bill Ayers' Turbulent Past Contrasts With Quiet Academ ic Life," Chicago Tribune, 4/17/08)
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