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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61559)	3/20/2009 2:28:13 PM
From: DizzyG	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224896

U.S. Federal Deficit Soars Past Previous Estimates By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 20, 2009; 1:59 PM Deteriorating economic conditions will cause the federal deficit to soar past $1.8 trillion this year and leave the nation wallowing in a sea of red ink far deeper than the White House had previously estimated, congressional budget analysts said today. In a new report that provides the first independent analysis of President Obama's budget request, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that the administration's agenda would generate deficits averaging nearly $1 trillion a year over the next decade -- $2.3 trillion more than the president predicted when he unveiled his spending plan just one month ago. washingtonpost.com But what about the deficit Kenneth? Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61559)	3/20/2009 3:07:25 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224896

fed bank is independent from both executive and legislative branches - read the charter iodiot kennyboy

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61559)	3/20/2009 3:21:37 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224896

Ken, didn't you promise the US image in Europe would improve after Jan 21st: blogs.telegraph.co.uk

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61559)	3/20/2009 3:22:39 PM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224896

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61559)	3/20/2009 3:38:25 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224896

Obama’s Numbers After Two Months Friday, March 20, 2009 Email to a FriendAdvertisement The day after Barack Obama was elected president, 54% of voters nationwide expected government spending to go up during the Obama years. Now, after two months of the Obama administration, that number has jumped 18 percentage points to 72%. That’s undoubtedly one reason the number who view the president’s politics as Very Liberal is up from 28% in late October to 44% today. Overall, 71% say Obama’s politics are at least somewhat liberal. Rasmussen Reports tracking polls show that only 18% think their taxes will go down during the Obama presidency, while 31% expect a tax hike. Still, 48% say the president is doing a good or excellent job when it comes to handling the economy. Only 30% say he’s doing a poor job. Currently, voters are evenly divided on the president’s $3.6 trillion budget proposal. His ratings are a bit higher - 52% good or excellent - on national security issues. Fifty-one percent (51%) give him positive marks on energy issues. Fifty-six percent (56%) rate the president good or excellent in terms of leadership. But just 39% say he's governing on a bipartisan basis, while 43% say he's acting like a partisan Democrat: Those numbers are reversed from shortly after his inauguration, although he's still seen as far less partisan than members of Congress from both parties. All of these ratings and others are updated regularly at Obama By the Numbers. Forty-eight percent (48%) believe the president generally views American society as fair and decent. Thirty-two percent (32%) think he sees society as generally unfair and discriminatory. Among all voters, 69% say society is generally fair and decent while 22% say it is unfair and discriminatory. Forty-three percent (43%) say Obama is more ethical than most politicians, and another 29% say he’s about as ethical as his peers. Just 21% say Obama is less ethical than most. In terms of addressing the issues of ethics and reducing government corruption, 56% say the president is doing a good or excellent job. Overall, the president’s job approval ratings have declined since Inauguration Day but remain generally positive. While his ratings have slipped a bit, consumer confidence is little changed from where it was when Obama took the oath of office on January 20. Fifty percent (50%) of U.S. voters now say they are more worried that the government will do too much in reacting to the nation’s economic problems rather than not enough. That’s up slightly from 46% when Obama was elected last November. On Election Night, the president almost certainly never expected to deal with issue like the AIG bonus debacle. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans believe that most of the bailout money is going to the people who created the crisis. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. The Rasmussen Reports ElectionEdge™ Premium Service for Election 2008 offers the most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a Presidential election. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade. rasmussenreports.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61559)	3/20/2009 3:45:44 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224896

ken..."While Bush was President, the Fed, without any action from Congress, loaned an enormous amount of money to AIG with no conditions about bonus payments.".... The fed is a private company and have control of monetary policy in the USA...is that correct?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61559)	3/20/2009 7:19:21 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224896

ken...You more than anyone have to read this and THINK! Czech President Blasts The Mythical Global Warming Alarmism 3pts.wordpress.com Czech President Vaclav Klaus says many global warming advocates are more interested in money than they are in climate change. Speaking at the opening session of the Second International Conference on Climate Change last week in New York, Klaus — who is also President pro-tem of the European Union — warned that politicians have “succeeded in creating incentives which led to the rise of a very powerful [profit]-seeking group. “These people are interested neither in temperature, CO2, competing scientific hypotheses and their testing, nor in freedom or markets. They are interested in their businesses and their profits — made with the help of politicians.” They will profit, he said, from trading the licenses to emit carbon dioxide, and from constructing unproductive wind, solar and similar equipment able to generate electricity only with high levels of subsidies. They will also make money from doing research, writing and speaking about global warming. At the New York conference, sponsored by the Heartland Institute and attended by more than 700 scientists, Klaus declared that “there is no fixed and stable relationship between measured temperature and CO2 emissions. “The believers in this hypothesis are not able to explain why the global temperature increased from 1918 to 1940, decreased from 1940 to 1976, increased from 1976 to 1998 and decreased from 1998 to the present, irrespective of the fact that people have been adding increasing amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere.” He said global warming alarmists “want to change us and our behavior. Their ambition is to control and manipulate us.” The global warming debate “has not made any detectable progress and the much needed, long overdue exchange of views has not yet started. All we see and hear are uninspiring monologues. “It reminds me of the frustration people like me felt in the Communist era. Whatever you said, any convincing and well prepared arguments you used, any relevant data you assembled — no reaction. It all fell into emptiness. Nobody listened. “They didn’t even try to argue back. They considered you a naive, uninformed and confused person, an eccentric, a complainer, someone not able to accept their only truth. It is very similar now.” Recalling his experience at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said he spent three hours at a closed session with about 60 people - heads of state and “experts” like Al Gore, Tony Blair and Kofi Annan. “It was a discouraging experience. You looked around in vain to find at least one person who would share your views. There was no one. “All the participants of the meeting took man-made global warming for granted, were convinced of its dangerous consequences, and more or less competed in one special discipline — whether to suggest a 20, 30, 50 or 80 percent CO2 emissions cut as an agreed-upon, world-wide project. It was difficult to say anything meaningful and constructive.” Newsmax reported earlier that during the Davos conference in January, Klaus said: “I’m very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them. “Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement.” Klaus concluded in New York: “The environmentalists speak about ‘saving the planet.’ From what? And from whom? One thing I know for sure: We have to save it - and us — from them.”