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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14501)	6/30/2009 2:39:17 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Monica Conyers Resigns From Detroit City Council Following Bribery Conviction Monica Conyers, wife of powerful Democratic congressman John Conyers, resigned from the Detroit city council Monday after admitting she took cash bribes in exchange for her vote on a city contract. AP Monday, June 29, 2009 foxnews.com Are all democrats crooks ?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14501)	7/2/2009 7:58:26 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 103300

Dumbest Moments in Business 2009...Midyear Edition finance.yahoo.com -U.S. Debt is 'Safe.' Seriously. Stop Laughing Following a speech at Peking University on his first trip to China as Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner was asked to share his thoughts about the safety of Chinese investments in the United States. They are "VERY safe," he quickly asserted. At which point the audience burst out laughing. Apparently, the audience was amused not only by the answer's substance, but by the flat "don't worry your little young heads about it" certainty with which Geithner insisted that China's U.S. debt holdings were A-OK. Because as even a group of Chinese college kids understood, that's just not as clear as the Treasury Secretary insisted it was. -Geithner gives few details, tanks the market In February, President Obama used his first White House press conference to alert the public to a momentous event. "Tomorrow, my Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, will be announcing some very clear and specific plans for how we are going to start loosening up credit once again," he said. But when Geithner appeared at Treasury the next day, on Feb. 10, he offered few plans of any sort, let alone clear and specific ones, which helps to explain the stock market's 5% plunge that day. Since then Geithner has loosened up, with the help of a media trainer -- and the market has bounced back. Coincidence? -Obama's spending cuts...a ways to go You're eight months behind on your $500,000 mortgage, your bank is demanding a meeting, and you respond by telling them there's nothing to worry about. Why not? Because you just saved $40 by canceling your newspaper subscription. That, essentially, is the kind of fast budget talk President Obama trotted out in April when he made a big to-do out of instructing his cabinet to cut $100 million from their budgets. $100 million may sound like a big number, but the cut would only reduce the United States' projected $1.8 trillion budget deficit by 0.005% -- less than what you'd save for your mortgage by giving up the daily paper.