| steven787 said: Can't see the vid. I'll post it. In the past few weeks, Wall Street's been rocked as banks closed and markets tumble. But for many of you -- the people I've met in town halls, backyards and diners across America -- our troubled economy isn't news. 600,000 Americans have lost their jobs since January. Paychecks are flat and home values are falling. It's hard to pay for gas and groceries and if you put it on a credit card they've probably raised your rates. You're paying more than ever for health insurance that covers less and less. This isn't just a string of bad luck. The truth is that while you've been living up to your responsibilities Washington has not. That's why we need change. Real change. This is no ordinary time and it shouldn't be an ordinary election. But much of this campaign has been consumed by petty attacks and distractions that have nothing to do with you or how we get America back on track. Here's what I believe we need to do. Reform our tax system to give a $1,000 tax break to the middle class instead of showering more on oil companies and corporations that outsource our jobs. End the "anything goes" culture on Wall Street with real regulation that protects your investments and pensions. Fast track a plan for energy 'made-in-America' that will free us from our dependence on mid-east oil in 10 years and put millions of Americans to work. Crack down on lobbyists -- once and for all -- so their back-room deal-making no longer drowns out the voices of the middle class and undermines our common interests as Americans. And yes, bring a responsible end to this war in Iraq so we stop spending billions each month rebuilding their country when we should be rebuilding ours. Doing these things won't be easy. But we're Americans. We've met tough challenges before. And we can again. I'm Barack Obama. I hope you'll read my economic plan. I approved this message because bitter, partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and the right won't solve the problems we face today. But a new spirit of unity and shared responsibility will. I like Obama, but not everything there is great. Well, you can agree or disagree but ya gotta admit... Obama's got big ones. Made of brass. |
1) If Washington has failed us like he says, the change we need is back to a Republican led Congress, since last I checked, the Democrats have had control the last couple of years.
2) You can't just get elected, snap your fingures, say here is 10 billion dollars, I expect to have solar power stations that produce 10x the power of our power stations now and have them in every state and the same goes for wind power. You can't throw money at these and expect them to happen over night like he seems to be implieing. And the hole middle eastern oil thing, I got breaking news, we get most of our oil from Canada, Mexico, and South America. Very little of our oil came from the middle east.
3) I don't know if it is true, but I remember reading that Obama doesn't like nuclear energy, I don't know McCain's view on it. Yet that is the cleanest stuff we got right now. Yes I know you have to store the waste for 1000 years, but that is 1000 years where scientists will be working on ways to make it less radioactive and safe or ways to reuse it safely. And we also need to help push development of fusion power plants as that is very clean, very effecient, and nearly limitless.
