I am still hopeful that we CAN turn it around as long as we can get some reform and direction that is productive. Right now, there is still too much partisanship and therefore,not enough action to really make much of the needed impact.

Absolutely not. Jobs are hard to come by and hard to secure. More often than not, my friends are settling for lower paying, less-fullfilling work.

Not only am I out of work, prices keep rising on me. NYC transit just went up and food and household prices aren't getting any better.

The more Obama spends America's future away on his frivolous Socialistic Democratic Left wish lists unbelievably at a time the money is supposed to be invested into a stimulis, the more the economy turns down into a bottomless pit.

bye-bye manufacturing.
bye-bye middle class.
bye-bye social security and medicare. Hello value added tax-national sales tax.
Hello 'sin' tax.
Hello cap and trade energy cost increase, causing prices to rise on EVERYTHING.
Hello increase state sales tax and income tax.
Hello RATIONED govt controled medical. Which by the way is going to cost nearly as much. Gotta pay for the un insured too.
Hello taxed employee medical insurance. 15% minimal.

You think you aint got money now and things are tight, better guess again.

Its gonna get waaaay worse before it gets better.

By the way....the govt in counting on inflation so they can get more money back quicker through the vat and associated other taxes they are going to impose.
But dont worry, O probably wont raise INCOME taxes, he'll just suck you dry in every other imaginable way.

Basicaly the govt has no choice anyway...because folks....we are broke!

This country is in red alert mode!

and there aint a goddam thing we can do about it except go with the flow and take our lumps.

If Cap & Trade passes the Senate and Obama signs it, taxes on energy will increase leaving less disposable income leading to less consumer activity which leads to more layoffs. Kind of a vicious circle, don't you think?

Not if they keep doing this kind of stuff.
Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.

And we all know how well this scheme is working out in Massachusetts. LOL

Richard's mindless rail against guns aside, the economy is a mess with little hope of near-term improvement for hard-working middle class Americans.

While millions are enduring the worst prolonged unemployment of their lives, many of us who are working are chronically underemployed while struggling with increasing prices on everything from petrol to bread and milk.

Decades of corrupt government officials in Washington have seen the loss of America's manufacturing sector to countries with cheaper labor and lax environmental controls.

In my case, I earn about one-third of what I earned 8 years ago. Ask yourself how much your life would be impacted if you lost 67% of your income and prices for food and shelter continued spiraling up. It's not a pretty picture.

About the only thing our corrupt government officials are doing right these days is returning power to the people through restoration of the Second Amendment.

Maria, Maria, Maria.

"Right now, there is still too much partisanship and therefore,not enough action to really make much of the needed impact."

Your words, Maria. Do you know anything about Washington?

Democrats have the White House.

Democrats have the majority in the House of Representatives.

Democrats, with Al Franken now added in, have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

Partisanship is a NON-ISSUE.

Democrats control EVERYTHING.

The Republicans have no voice, no power, at this point in time they are irrelevant.

Whatever YOU think you want Obama to do, he can do without any Republican input. The Democrats control two branches of the government: Executive and Legislative.

What don't YOU get? Obama can make all the "impact" he wants!

Your comment displays a complete lack of any understanding of the current political situation.

Perhaps some reading of facts would assist your thought process.

Obama and the Democrats in Congress got their stimulus package. All is fine now as everyone can attest to.

GM figured out a long time ago that it could make more profit by collecting interest on loans than by making cars. Hence GMAC as one of the models of business in America today. Rather than employing lots of people to dig up and process ore, make thousands of parts, assemble them into cars, adding a huge value factor to that ore, financial businesses produce nothing and don't increase the value of their "ore", loaning out the collected fees for its use as the next level of their vast Ponzi scheme.

With such a business model, a robust work force is not needed, except as clients. Stagnant wages and declining benefits drive people who never claimed to be financial geniuses into taking out loans that extract even more of their diminishing resources. So short-sighted are the get-rich-quick schemers that they don't consider it a loss if they drive their victims into default.

As long as jobs are sent overseas, and unions lose power, and profits are applied exclusively to executive bonuses and never to aid workers, the community, or the environment,-as long as business produces nothing and involves the rest of the economy in their insupportable Ponzi scheme, employment numbers will be slow to improve.

On the other hand, an "Apollo Project" effort, nationwide, building a million or so wind generators, a million acres or so of photovoltaic panels, and the like, would transform a pile of ore and silica sand into a power grid that would be worth its weight in gold to us for generations, besides giving jobs to millions of Americans.

We can't let the moneyed interests steal this future from us.

Maggie,

I understand that the Dems have the majority. For some unknown reason they still seem to think they need the Republicans to get things going!!!! Go figure. The lobbyists have a strangle hold on too many Congressman.

I do keep up on what's going on. I just usually choose to make short comments. Contrary to your usual rants.

I would appreciate it if you would stop being so condescending. There have been numerous occasions when I could have pointed out your inaccuracies, which in my opinion are more numerous and irrational than mine.

Maria, what I was trying to make you see is that democrats are bemoaning partisanship. You dutifully echoed their protestations.

It is all a lie.

Obama & Co. only want Republican support for issues so that Democrats will not have to bear full responsibility for their messes when the proverbial $h-t hits the fan". They want to have political coverage.

In essence they want to make the decisions but not have any liability for them when they fail.

Democrats are cowards.

P.S. (1) So now the reason is not "UNKNOWN" I've explained it to you.

(2) Point out any of my inaccuracies I would enjoy the challenge.

MM: I'm guessing that what Maria may have been getting at was the strict uniformity of Republican votes. To have not a single Republican vote for a Democratic piece of legislation, time and time again (not every time), does not reflect a normal, natural variation in individual opinion on a piece of legislation; rather, this perfect uniformity more strongly suggests rigid partisanship.

I can only hope that Obama is calling for bipartisanship for a while, knowing that Republicans will just say no to everything, so that after a while he can say "Well, I tried. Now, Democrats, go full steam ahead!"

The democrats along with Obama have been so reckless with our taxpayer dollars it should be a crime.The crisis we have is pres Obama using tax dollars under the giese of stimulous for his own personal whims and and paybacks to the old 60's type hippies now running him and the congress..To spend your way out of a recession is foolish and if anyone has common sense, the government should be cutting out expenses,,not bumping them up 4xs the deficit.Unbelievealbe and irriesponsible.

The good new is that Obama's and the ultra liberals days are numbered now that the voters know exactly where their priorities lie.

The good news is that Obama's and the ultra liberals days are numbered now that the voters know exactly where their priorities lie.