Exactly How Bad Is It?

I am fare i believe when you make money its yours not the goverments...I want the goverment to stay out of everyones money and bizz.....and all these rich poeple you are going to tax do you think there just going to take that hit?NO there going to cut things to make up for that loss there going to fire poeple are not buy something new for there bizz and the company that sells things to them are going to make less....I work for the rich and I am telling you the cut things to make up for los money....all crap flows down hill and how is at the bottom of that hill us the poeple that barly get buy hand to mouth....we are going to pay for every new tax.

no i would not want a 5000 dollar rebate its not my money I work for what I have I do not need to steal threw my goverment....it is leaglized theft its not your money its not mine are the goverments....they have no right to take from people an dgive to people that do not pay taxes its evil and on american and about the war I have said 100 times that it was stupid.....

Hey Scot, what are you the righteous right wing of the right conservative party?

800 billion in new spending from Obama....there is not enought rich people in the country to pay for this....and in that 42 million uninsured comment he makes...did you know tat he is including 12 million illegal aliens in that....he wants you to insure people that are here illegaly and broke the law.....and every gun control law that has come up on the floor he has voted for......hunters BEWARE....did you know that he also said he is going to cut all funding for new weapon systems for are military?????in this dangerous world we are in he is planning a huge cut in the military also di you know that....when he says cuts to pay for his comy ideas....he has planned a cut of a 3rd to are military at the same time China and russia is growing theres...doe sthat sound like a sound thinker to you?

a vote for obama is a vote for higer taxes and Gun control he will one bill at a time tak eyour right to a gun away.....he has voted everytime with gun controlers to do that.....

raising taxes does matter you take capital out of the hands of the American people you take money that is not yours.....see the money you make belongs to YOU not me.....not goverment but its the person who worked for it.taxes are a huge factor.....europe is electing concervatives in franceand germany for teh first time in 20 years and what did they do first?CUT taxes and the economies grew for years....

If you want to help the US. Hound you governemnt officials until you make them crazy!!!!! For example Suozzi, Nassau County Executive has a budget which he says and I quote, "I am proud of my 7 million dollarr budget, bla, bla" He is increasing our property tax, our school tax, and our sales tax. He is going to run the last business out of Long Island. Anyone who gives himself a $600,000 increase in salary without the permission of the people should be tarred and feathered and run out of this country.

Finding blame is not a solution. We *should* have educated, responsible, intelligent leaders. But we, the people, should be intelligent, informed, educated and responsible too.
The groundswell of a flailing economy began at the local level this time, IMHO. People 'wanted' more than they could realistically afford; money was made available with marginal scrutiny by lenders...and people 'signed' for that which was beyond their means. Flat job growth along with flat pay has merely made the problems more intense; reality was there for consumers when they sign though---no one *makes* you buy something you can't afford. We can complain all that we want to about these times; but economic peaks and valleys have always been cyclical.
Committing to 'buy' more than we can afford to pay for in our 'reasonable' lifetime is hardly reflective of intelligence or intense responsibility.

Seond try .... someone screening the entries.??? As I have said we have been in a recession for many years. We are wading in a depression. How bad is it? Very bad! Remeber 1987 .... it is much worse than that? ANd it is going to be very ugly.

G.W.Bush may have lowered taxes but he spent like a drunken sailor through a surplus the country had at the time of his taking office and blindly spent trillions which has driven the USA into a quagmire. Raising taxes or lowering taxes really does not matter as much to our economy as does the primary factor of how that tax money is used. If it is spent wastefully on bridges to nowhere and wars with no plan or direction. Then lowering taxes or raising them is of no consequence. How our taxes are used is the key... One president after the other has talked about our dependence on foreign oil and how our money is leaving the country. Well if we took the money spent on the Iraq war on developing new green technologies we would be independent of foreign oil already. Then we could have the money flowing throughout our econonmy and not out of the country. So taxes are just a small part of the picture. How they are spent is the big picture. If they are spent to improve the quality of life for our citizens like improved healthcare, better roadways, better educational opportunities for our citizens, better homeland security, better energy sources .. then go ahead a raise my taxes. If you want to pay less you will have less . It is simple... you can eat a hamburger in Wendys for a dollar or two or you can pay alot more and have a quality steak or fish dinner in a steakhouse. You want the Steak you pay more. You want fast food with less nutritional value go to Wendys or MacDonalds or Burger King. Your choice.... More of the same with John McCain or a shot at a better overall future with Obama.
Look at what the leadership policies of GWB have done for us. Don't blame the teachers when a school is bad. Blame the principle as he is the one in charge of monitoring their performance and making the judgement calls as to who is doing a good job and who is not by looking at the perfomance levels of the students the teachers are incharge of educating. GWB was at the top spot. His job is to oversee and monitor the performance of the two houses that make our laws. He has the power to veto, to take issues to the people, to take charge. This was not done.... and under McCain you will see the same.

I liv ein Houston Texas and we have 12000 people a month moving down from up North...and what I do not get is places like New york state and new jersey and alot of the nothern states who votes dem no matter what you have state income taxes and pretty much a tax on toilet paper you tax your selves into a whole an dyou ruin your economy you tax corperations at hih rates your unions bleed the corps and you run them out of town and then you turn around and blame republicans when in your state you allowed the dems to sink your boat....but its gets better you move down south and you get to vote here well you do te sam ething here you vote dem again....why do you not learn your lessons?you saw what happened to your state and you repeat it again here WHY WHY WHY??????

what this country needs is for the republicans party to go back to being conservatives again....this president has brought down the republican party....he is a dem.....he has shocked me what he has done to us....the war in Iraq that will go down as the dumbest thing ever.....I voted for bush and have been a long time republican and true conservative my whole life and i am just blown away what my party has become in some ways you can not tell a republican from a dem.....I fell screwed over by my party and this bail out.....we need a nute G to lead this party back to conservatisim agian.

Who are we as a people? Wealthy top people, in an effort to get bigger bonuses and benefits (pork), are willing to take this where ever they can get it, including from the people who earn it for them by decreasing benefits and pensions. They say that it's our fault because we do not have that masters degree behind our name. In "Utopia" someone still needs to sweep the floor, manufacture the goods and provide food. These people deserve a living wage too. We already have class war.
While I don't think the president can change the greed of the wealthy, I would rather vote for Obama, since he came from the same side of the fence as the majority.

everyone keeps saying how wonderfull Clinton was....It was a republican congress that was pushing all of these reforms on him welfare and the budget was a republican budget now i gibe him credit for signing it but just as Dick Morris said and he was there he said that clinton had to sign the blls its was Nute G that did everything Clinton is getting the credit for.

My father grew up in Minnesota during the depression years as he was born in 1922. His father lost his farmhouse and land to the banks. My grandparents and their five children were forced to move further north into a shack which had dirt floors. My grandfather found work in the iron mines and times were hard. The hardships experienced by y father haunted him until the day he died. As a Ronald Reagan said one mans recession is anothers depression. Presently in this economic predicament, there are families living in tent cities, trailer parks, in their cars and many homeless people living on the streets in our self proclaimed great cities. We as American need to get our eyes focused on what is happening in our country. Before we get ourself into fighting wars for other people in the middle east and elsewhere. We need to clean up our own house and make this land a home for all of our people. The best way to lead is by example. Before you start feeding other people be sure to feed your family..... Then when your foundation is set and secure you can begin to get charitable with your surplus.
America Wake Up.... Take care of your children first...!!!

presidents do not make are brake a economy....they ahve no power...its the congress that make law and make are brake an economy you have to remember that when Regan got elected there had beena dem congress for 20 someting years and then when you got carter in there that was the end to the economy....dems can not get it threw there heads that when you lower taxes the economy grows faster and tax revenues go up...when Bush W had those tax bills passed the tax revenue when up....I am not a Bush W supporter I think he has done alot of damage but I loved Regan he got us back up on are feet with a dem congress...if you elect Obama a dem with a dem congress you taxes will go way up are deficit will rise faster then W's an dyour guns will be taken away one bill at a time.....your making a deal with the devil here people be carefull....everything Obama wants to do has been done and failed in Europe.

Republican battle cry: "The Democrats are going to tax us and spend us right into the poor house with all of their social programs".
Fact: This country was 280 Billion in debt at the end of the period from George Washington to Jimmy Carter.
4.5 Trillion we picked up with Ronald Reagan and Bush senior. Surplus under Clinton and then under George W Bush we are at 10.3 Trillion(at least with Reagan he left a decent economy though not 4 trillion worth)...So....When you talk taxation keep in mind the difference between Democrat and Republican administrations is The Democrats tell you when you are being taxed and use it for your benefit. The Republicans print a great deal of money to pass around to themselves and their friends and leave it for the taxpayer to pay for when they are long gone with the cash.. Keep that in ming the next time someone telss you the Democrats are spending all our money and just want to tax us into the poorhouse..We are already there in spades and under a republican administration..OH! Yes, there has been a Democratic congress for a year and a half but only a slight majority.. Isn't it funny when it comes to todays problems the current administration wants to blame it on either the new congress or on anouther day they decide it is Clintons fault because they haven't been in office long enough for it to be their fault..So..Which is it? New problems? Old problems in fruition? How far back shoud Bush go when blaming others? Maybe...It's Teddy Roosevelt's fault.. Zachary Taylor maybe? Man up and stop acting like a 5 year old blaming everyone else. I know!!! He is trying to make all our lives awful so when his Mother Barbara Bush says things like she said after Katrina that she didn't see why there was such a fuss because they were better off at the superdome than they were before the hurricane(no basic facilities, no food, no water,no restrooms no air, nowhere to put the dying and dead children,etc...) She will be absolutely right.. Or would that be "let them eat cake"?....

2008 is only the begining of the "Prophecy of Doom". Nostradamus (1503-1566) was an French apothecary who was 96% accurate in his ability to fore see and predict the future(500 Years ahead of his time). In his last quatrain he predicted that between 2008-2012 would be the start of the end of civilization. He fore seen the down fall of Western countries through various events leading up to World War lll (A Nuclear War) by 2012, which will start in the Middle East. With the problems we are having in the current economic mess, this could be the first sign.

Supply side economics only works for the very rich. We had increased numbers of poor and homeless people when Ronnie and Bush 1 were president, so you can sing their praises all you want, but I remember Nancy Reagan worrying about the chipped china in the white house when people didn't have food to put on a paper plate. Obama's centrist policies will be far superior to another Reagan/Bush clone.