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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (65029)	11/14/2009 9:36:46 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 149317

If Obama wanted a meeting on jobs, he should have done it the first day, not a year later. It makes him look like he does not know what to do. He should have lots of ideas he can implement by administrative action right now to relieve the suffering of the poor. Legend has it FDR asked one of his primary presidential advisors the first day in office: "go out and find out what the people need. Today!" Meetings like Obama is proposing seldom resolve anything. People just argue. Been to a million of them. When I wrote the states EMS plan the previous people had a million meetings over a 5 year period and the desk was filled with organizational charts. Nothing ever got done. I threw almost everything away and started from scratch. all I saw was a bunch of chaos. Thomas Jefferson was the principle author of the Declaration of independence (one guy). You know what they say, a platypus looks like it was designed by a committee. The one thing people did like about Bush was he took action. Chinu, Bob Herbert (I am in good company with Herbert) and many other smart honest writers can see Obama is not leading like he should be and it is the poor who are suffering right now. Herbert Hoover dithered. FDR did not dither, he took action. I can think of lots of things he should do right now. Stiglitz and Krugman have been yelling at the top of their lungs for a year now and Obama makes light of their yelling. And as mentioned, I just watched Elizabeth Warren (she is as close to a mixture of Einstein and a saint as you will get on this earth) on the PBS program "NOW" say, very little is getting done to help the middle class, or reign in Wall street. I spoke to a banker last week who said the fed is coming down with regulations and Wells Fargo, B of A, etc are disregarding them e.g. 100% refinancing of VA loans and Wells Fargo will only go to 85%. And credit card companies are disregarding new rules. Obama is a thousand times better than Bush, but we can never refuse to question his judgement; especially when we see the poor suffering. Obama needs to take some action.

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