Obama to announce new initiatives for middle class
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama, determined to show he understands middle-class struggles, is offering new initiatives meant to help people pay bills and save for retirement. Obama was ready to announce the new steps Monday in a partial preview of his State of the Union address.
The proposals to be unveiled by Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House include a doubling of the child care tax credit for families earning under $85,000; a $1.6 billion increase in federal funding for child care programs and a program to cap student loan payments at 10 percent of income above “a basic living allowance.”
His initiatives also include expanding tax credits to match retirement savings and increasing aid for families taking care of elderly relatives. That program would also require all employers to provide the option of a workplace-based retirement savings plan.
Obama is seeking to offer some attractive options to taxpayers, mindful of recent setbacks including the loss of a traditionally Democratic Senate seat in Massachusetts to Republican Scott Brown. Monday’s rollout is designed to show sympathy with a frustrated public. “We are fighting every single day to put Americans back to work,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House.
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Obama to announce new initiatives for middle class
America Beware!
When an egotistical elitist like Barack Hussein Obama tells you, ‘I’m doing this to help the middle class’, beware! Barack Hussein Obama has done nothing for the middle class, or ever will do for the middle class that is not geared towards helping HIM , helping HIS agenda and HIS rapidly falling poll numbers!
The proposals are the result of the work of a middle class task force that Biden had headed.
The above is a line that scares me. Joe Biden headed this up? Joe Biden is a MORON! Biden has no more understanding of the working people of this nation than does Obama.
I heard Biden speaking this morning and he was saying he didn’t know how anyone could get by on $60K a year, he said it was a stretch to imagine how anyone making $125K a year was getting by. If that doesn’t fully illustrate the incomprehension of their leadership, nothing will!
The White House says the proposals are aimed at the “sandwich generation” - Americans struggling to care for both their children and their parents. The proposals fit into the economic message of his prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday, one that is likely to cover financial regulations, energy, education, immigration and a push to change the political tone in Washington.
1. Finance regulation: Let people that know what to do with finance be the ones to do it, not some Obama appointee, a CZAR, or, a TAX CHEAT. (Timmy Geithner)
2. Energy: DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW. America has the oil and gas it needs. We have more than enough to last this nation for the next 150-200 years, not counting any NEW finds that may be made. All we have to do is go after it and tell the tree huggers to sit down and shut up!
3. Education: Obama really wants to go there? He wants to try and talk to this nation about the LIBERAL education public schools are giving the children? Obama gave Kevin Jennings the job (CZAR status) of Director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, and Obama wants to talk to us about education? Really?
4. Immigration: Close the borders! Round up and deport ANY that are here illegally. How simple can we make it for Obama and Company to understand?
5. Changing the political tone in Washington: The tone is changing. The American people are fed up with politics as usual, fed up with excuses and failures and fed up with the blame Bush crap that flows from the Obama administration.
Obama is playing politics with this, nothing more, nothing less. The problem is, Obama hasn’t got a clue regarding LIFE in America or what Americans want and need. All Obama knows is what his handlers tell him, and I am pretty sure that he only listens to what he wants to hear and not to those that offer advice that could make him an acceptable POTUS.
Some look for Barack Hussein Obama to make a move reminiscent of Bill Clinton. They look for him to try making a move to the middle, a move designed to offend less and appease more. If that happens, Obama will make popularity gains with some moderates and will lose popularity with his hard-core Libber base.
In any case, Barack Hussein Obama is THE biggest threat this nation faces. As I said in the opening of this post, BEWARE!
Obama’s voting base IS 40 percent welfare check recipients.
YES,,,FOURTY PERCENT.
They have no job, and never will! And why should they?
Just pop out more babies, and yell and scream “where’s my fucking check???
Race of the recipients are mostly negro and latino. Caucasians and asians are the “minority here.
Most negro males have felony criminal records, and this will limit what job they will be hired for. Same for the mexicans.
What does this mead?? Simple, No working middle class white will vote for Obama, unless they are in a union, or work for some entity that supports the “Chicago Messiah” message!!
How can anyone believe what “Obama the magic negro” has to say???
Fred - Obama didn’t get elected on his own. Still think he is Soros’ puppet, with Soros being the real danger. Need to bring govt to a halt till after 2010 elections and then reassess. Do not think these clowns will go quietly into the night. If 2010 doesn’t get the desired results can easily see things getting nasty real quick. Then it will require force to get rid of these marxist bastards.
I caught a bit of what Obama and his shadow (Biden) were saying this morning, only got in on the tail end of Biden’s spill. Something about a savings account—you put up the first $1000 and the government would toss in $500. Sounds to me like they need more of your money to spend. At the rate they are spending I have serious doubts that you would ever see that $1000 again muchless the $500. And should you ever get by the whole $1500 rest assured it will not be worth a $1000 because of inflation brought on my all this spending.
Yep, Fred you have it right these guys only care about themselves and not most Americans. The only ones they will help are those who sit back and refuse to help themselves, but eagarly wait to get their hands on other people’s money passed out by Obama and gang—dollars taken from hard working Americans. Lets face it, Obama is for wealth redistribution—-he has told us this again and again and again and many just refuse to listen. Wealth redistribution means more government control and eventually a lower standard of living for everyone, except those in government.
Fuck that muslim halfbreed and his booger eatin moron biden.
He can stick HIS agenda’s right square up his ass but he’ll have
to move reid’s or pislossi’s lips off the sphincer muscle first and that might be hard to do. The only agenda that I hope he succeeds at is his resignation.
As for wanting me to put up 1000 dollars…Bwahaahahahahah
Want in one hand “BOY”, and shit in the other, and see which one gets full the fastest.
Like Fred said, beware. This is nothing more than more big government that wants to run your lives.
Great work as always Fred.
Fred, I am sure that all of you are aware that he used a teleprompter to speak to 6th graders in Church Falls VA by now.
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The school is 100% foreign born students. Where are we heading with this amnesty bs now? While he feeds the middle class some other garbage, he is doing what else behind the American public’s backside?
Every time this man says he is going to make things better for the middle class, it costs us a lot.
Obama’s real plan is simple. We are to bend over and spread them!
The only ‘initiatives’ I want to see from those weasel sons of bitches is the initiative to get the hell outta the way!
Just returned from trip to MA (Scott Brown territory) to visit my grandchildren. People still celebrating.
I agree with Fred’s primary comment: America Beware!
The Axis of Advisers of this president are always - repeat always - on the wrong side of what is good for American.
However in respect to Katie comment, Obama’s plan may indeed be as you depict, but my plan for him and his administration is the reverse!
Some good news from Arkansas, Previously announced, liberal Rep. Vic Snyder is not running. Now we learn that compromised former blue dog Rep. Marion Berry is also not running. Now if we can keep the conservatives from standing in a circle and shooting each other, we should be able to send some conservatives to Washington in the next elections.
We should have been drilling years ago…..but more than that, we should have been building new refineries….years ago. Now we need to get all the libs out of office, get in some true conservatives and then start rebuilding America in a constructive and fiscally responsible way and start putting Americans and their needs FIRST and quit trying to be the friend of the world.
Charity begins at home and it is way past time for our leaders to realize that and take care of Americans first. We need to get where we all are doing well and the nation is back on its collective feet and we can see a brighter future for our kids.
That will not happen with Obama giving us $500 and giving billions to other countries. Obama should have to live on a REAL middle class income. He might change his tune.
Great article Fred!!!! Vigilante is quite correct in his most eloquent way so I’ll just say “RIght On”!!!! I do think Someone applied super glue to Pelosi and Reid’s lips before they went to kiss Teh One’s sphincter! LOL!!!
mm26, I agree with you but it isn’t just Soros but the elitist, socialist, power grubbing Bilderberg Group. They have been working for years to achieve the Socialist New World Order in which they will have power and control over the sheeple of the world. Obama, Geitner, and many of the Democraps are up to their butts with the Bilderburgs. Their agenda is Kill the economy, dismantle the Constitution, make us all dependent captives of our government. Right now I am having a hard time trusting anyone in government.
Below is a posting from another site I seen today that shows where “just as few”(pun intended) of our tax dollars are going:
[Obama underwrites off shore oil drilling in BRAZIL. This is a perfect example why I refrain from watching the news on ABC, NBC, CBS, or MSNBC. Today on a segment of the “Glen Beck Show” on FOX (Fox Cable News) was the following:
“Today, even though President Obama is against off shore drilling for our country, he signed an executive order to loan 2 Billion of our taxpayers dollars to a Brazilian Oil Exploration Company (which is the 8th largest company in the entire world) to drill for oil off the coast of Brazil ! The oil that comes from this operation is for the sole purpose and use of China and NOT THE USA ! Now here’s the real clincher…the Chinese government is under contract to purchase all the oil that this oil field will produce, which is hundreds of millions of barrels of oil”….
We have absolutely no gain from this transaction whatsoever!
Wait, it gets more interesting.
Guess who is the largest individual stockholder of this Brazilian Oil Company and who would benefit most from this? It is American BILLIONAIRE, George Soros, who was one of President Obama’s most generous financial supporter during his campaign.
If you are able to connect the dots and follow the money, you are probably as upset as I am. Not a word of this transaction was broadcast on any of the other news networks!
Forward this factual e-mail to others who care about this country and where it is going. Also, let all of your Government representatives know how you feel about this.]
What has to happen, the lethargic voters need to go to the poles in 2010 and in 2012-if they dont the welfare recipients, illegal immegrants and ACORN (probably by another name by then) will swing the vote to the same old s#$^.