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The TSA became the biggest joke to terrorist throughout the world when they allowed pilots, and now flight attendants to bypass security. Not only did the TSA put the public in greater danger, their new policy put pilots, flight attendants and their family’s in greater danger.
Terrorist have refined the policy of recruiting suicide bombers and not all suicide bombers were willing participants or believed in the terrorist agenda. The TSA has made pilots and flight attendants prime targets for terrorist recruitment.

My Question For The Day Is?

Can President Obama recover from the midterm elections and be effective in achieving his pre-election goals?

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What the Midterm Vote Meant To Me.
The turn out for Republican candidates said to me that the Republicans are satisfied with high unemployment, a high national debt and the country being on the verge of bankruptcy.
The absence of Democrats at the polls means that Democrats are satisfied with the direction of the Obama administration. Their complacency cost them and buried the Obama platform that they voted for in 2008.
One insignificant factor affecting the way people (Black and White) view President Obama has to do with the “super” syndrome. A working mother has to be super at both her job and raising her family in order to be considered a good mother. A black athlete or musician has to be twice as good as the best white athlete or musician in order to be considered good enough. Although President Obama is the best President that we have had in the last 40 years, he has not engendered the term “super”. I think that, if President Obama had stuck to his guns on health care and other issues instead of following his staff into a trap laid out by the Republicans, the political landscape would be much different. The Republicans demanded and got concessions that were designed to be used against the Democrats in the midterm elections. With “Shaft” Super Bad was an advertising ploy to sell movies to Black people, but President Obama has to earn all accolades by being better than the super moms, black athletes, black musicians, actors and actresses.

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Boehner and the Republican Party is using tax cuts for the wealthiest to confuse the voters in an attempt at demonizing the Democrats.
Think about it. The wealthiest Americans are not the ones doing the hiring. Those few that could benefit if they had any tax liability, like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and other owners of companies are benefiting from employer subsidies that far exceed the Bush era tax cuts.
How much is enough? It's human nature to want more, but if more is only cosmetic and puts less money in your pocket why would you want it? The bigger question is, who is asking for it?
Voice your opinion.

My question for the day is:

Do you blame President Obama for not having enough votes to pass his agenda over the just say no policy of the Republicans?

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When President Obama took office on January 20, 2009, the unemployment rate was 8.1 percent up 3.3 points from a low of 4.8 in January of 2008. The unemployment rate continued to climb under the Republican administration until it peaked at 10.2 percent in October of 2009, eight months into Obama administration. Since October of 2009, the unemployment rate has been trending downward from the high of 10.2 percent to 9.6 percent.
It took the Obama administration eight months to correct eight years of Republican bad policy. The job of reversing losses caused by the Republicans bad policy is well under way, but we need you to support your Democratic Congressmen and Senators with your votes to finalize this recovery.

National Unemployment Rates, 2008 - 2010
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

 
 

My question for the day is:

Do you believe that under the Democratic Administration of President Obama, we will wipe out the deficit and return to the prosperity that was attained under the Clinton Administration?

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The Federal Budget Deficit for 2010—Nearly $1.3 Trillion
Thursday, October 7th, 2010 by Douglas Elmendorf

The federal government’s fiscal year 2010 has come to a close, and CBO estimates, in its latest Monthly Budget Review, that the federal budget deficit for the year was slightly less than $1.3 trillion, $125 billion less than the shortfall recorded in 2009. Relative to the size of the economy, the 2010 deficit was the second-highest shortfall—and 2009 the highest—since 1945. The 2010 deficit was equal to 8.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), CBO estimates, down from 10.0 percent in 2009 (based on the most current estimate of GDP). CBO’s deficit estimate is based on data from the Daily Treasury Statements and CBO’s projections; the Treasury Department will report the actual deficit for fiscal year 2010 later this month.

The estimated deficit is about $50 billion less than CBO projected in its August Budget and Economic Outlook. Outlays turned out to be lower and revenues higher than CBO anticipated.

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The [Democrats] / [Republicans] are driving the nation toward insolvency. They both are, and in more or less equal measure. In 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Republicans controlled Congress, the budget was essentially balanced and the total national debt was about $5.8 trillion. Washington has run an annual deficit every year since. Over Bush's first six years, when Republicans controlled the White House and Congress, the debt rose by about $3.2 trillion. Over the last two years of the Bush administration, when Democrats controlled Congress, the debt rose by another $2.9 trillion. So over the eight-year Bush administration, the debt more than doubled, rising by a total of $6.1 trillion.
Obama, in his first two years, has added about $3.2 trillion more to the national debt. There are plenty of caveats. The pace of debt expansion under Obama is obviously faster, but that's due to the stimulus and to a shrinking economy that still hasn't regained all the ground lost since the recession began in late 2007. And both presidents passed programs with costs still to be tallied in the future. Still, any politician charging the other party with excessive spending could--and should!--level the same accusation at his own party. Republicans and Democrats alike are addicted to spending money they don't have.
Rick Newman, On Friday October 22, 2010, 10:11 am EDT

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Rick Newman, On Friday October 22, 2010, 10:11 am EDT
If the goal of the stimulus plan was to reverse the worst recession in 75 years by the time of the next election, then sure, it was a failure. But most mainstream economists believe the stimulus helped end the recession months, and perhaps years, sooner that it would have ended on its own. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the stimulus plan added significantly to GDP growth and boosted employment by somewhere between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs. The problem for Democrats is they made foolish predictions about how the stimulus plan would save the economy, saying, for instance, that unemployment would top out at 8 percent in 2009 and be falling consistently by now. So they set themselves up for failure by creating unrealistic expectations. Economically, however, the stimulus plan was a modest success, and looking back it's not clear that any other ideas at the time would have worked better. The reason the economy still stinks is that we just endured a violent recession plus a financial panic, and a thoroughly trashed economy doesn't heal on a convenient political time-line.