Words Obama should avoid using in his speech next Thursday

[Pottsburg]

"Inherit, Bush, Millionaires, Billionaires, Hedge Funds, Greedy, Shared Sacrifice, Fare Share, I Share, We Share."  Feel free to add your own.  Obama needs to talk about what he is going to do to save this great nation.  This will be his second attempt at outlining a jobs plan. 

[danem]

Actually, I'd rather see that list and some additions used as part of a speech-watching drinking game. That's fun no matter who is President.

[JeffreyS]

"Inherit, Bush, Millionaires, Billionaires, Hedge Funds, Greedy, Shared Sacrifice, Fare Share, I Share, We Share."  Feel free to add your own.  Obama needs to talk about what he is going to do to save this great nation.  This will be his second attempt at outlining a jobs plan. 

No there has been enough avoiding the truth all of those words apply.  Obama does need to own that he has not changed much of the old approach so he has not gotten different results.  He needs to regulate healthcare costs as other countries do to control costs that would amount to true expansion of buying power for the middle class.  Use an executive order to make the government the country's biggest customer (not new spending just buy American).  Propose the death of free trade deals.  Present his case for the reduced payroll taxes.

New Deal and Marshall Plan type spending is what is best for struggling economies but that ship has sailed. 

[Pottsburg]

"Inherit, Bush, Millionaires, Billionaires, Hedge Funds, Greedy, Shared Sacrifice, Fare Share, I Share, We Share."  Feel free to add your own.  Obama needs to talk about what he is going to do to save this great nation.  This will be his second attempt at outlining a jobs plan.

such a load of malarky.  I guess those things dont exist for the sole reason that saying them makes republicans sound like assholes?  Nice try Pottsburg, Ill send this list off to the White House, and get back to you on what they say.

Lol Dare!  Let me know what the administration says.  He needs to avoid these words to not piss off the American people.  We all know he still blames the previous administration.

[dougskiles]

Perhaps it is time for all of us to talk less and do more.

And, yes, that includes me.

[peestandingup]

Perhaps it is time for all of us to talk less and do more.

And, yes, that includes me.

Nah. We'll all continue to listen to MSM for our talking points & root root root for our home team like it's our jobs, no matter how much they screw up.

I like that one better because it requires me to think less. Durp.

[Pottsburg]

"blames'?

That almost sounds like its opinion based.

The fact is that the previous administration was so bad that they tanked a global economy (while bilking trillions of dollars) and left behind pretty much scorched earth economically.

When are people going to stop making excuses for this president.  He has had plenty of time to dictate his ideas upon us.  Nothing good has happened with this economy.  Excuses Excuses thats all I hear from this president and on MJ

[JeffreyS]

You are not listening we criticize Obama openly.  Why he hasn't broken with the policies of the last 20 years is beyond me. Doing the same things and expecting different results.

That said you can't have an honest discussion of our current recession without discussing Obama, Bush and an Obstructionist Republican party.

[MusicMan]

There is some validity to your list of words. The fact is Americans do understand how we got into this mess, that is one reason Obama won in a landslide. What he needs to say are these words/phrases:

Buy American.
Rebuild our middle class.
Listen to Warren Buffet.
American automoblie industry.
A jobs plan is more than just tax cuts for the wealthy.
Together we can do anything we set our minds on.
Without a strong middle class we will never recover.
Build American, Buy American.
If it isn't "Made in America" then demand a product that is.


American consumers have been sold a pile of crap by those who support the WalMart economy model, that "Cheaper is better."  That is why everything sold here is made overseas. Not because it's better, but because it's cheaper. We need to focus on American made products built to last, so that we can claim to build the best "widget" or ________ in the world.  When Americans start agreeing to buy Americn made products (even if they cost 25 cents more) then we can keep our money in our country and stop sending it overseas.

The large multinational corporations that control our politicians are making record profits these days. They absolutely love 9 % unemployment rates. They will not do anything to change that unless forced to do so. And when I say forced, I mean by the 250 million American consumers who drive our economy. NOT the top 2% "job creators."

[JeffreyS]

+1 One of the best posts I seen recently on a site full of great posts.

[peestandingup]

MusicMan, I agree with you, but thats going to be a problem now with most families as we've all sorta painted ourselves into a corner with the "cheaper is better" routine. Meaning, that way of thinking is really all a lot of families can afford now & the system has sorta been wrapped around that. No wage increases, skyrocketing healthcare, education costs a bloody fortune, etc. How do they buy American if they no longer can afford it??

We may be past the point of no return with a lot of this unless some major changes start to happen (which I don't see happening). And I know that many of us here understand that & even though there is a movement to get back to some of that "local is better" way of life, it really doesn't seem like the average consumer connects the dots & understands. Especially the ones who have been born & bred into the Wal-Mart/corporate lifestyle out in typical American suburbia.

[Diderot]

If it isn't "Made in America" then demand a product that is.

Which is the more American product, a Honda Accord built by Ohioans for a company with its headquarters in Japan, or a Ford Fusion built in Mexico for a corporation that is based in Michigan?

Toyota isn't just a Japanese company. It maintains a huge operation in the United States, with plants in seven states and 1,400 dealerships all across the country employing hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers.

Honda was the first Japanese automaker to start building vehicles in the United States when its Accords began rolling off the assembly line in Marysville, Ohio, in 1982.

Chrysler has plants that are unionized, has its engines, transmissions, and vehicles assembled in the US, but is now owned by  the  Italian automaker Fiat.

If you want to buy a car built by an American company, that is unionized, has the engine and transmission built in the US, the car assembled in the US, your options are:

Cadillac DTS, Escalade, ESV
Chevrolet Corvette
Ford Expedition, F-150, F-250, Focus, Taurus
Lincoln MKS, Navigator

and that's it.

Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/19/automobiles/20090619-auto-plants-4.html

[JeffreyS]

American company does not matter American parts and labor does.

[JeffreyS]

http://www.madeinusa.org/

[Diderot]

American company does not matter American parts and labor does.

Is it either or both?