Obama Pushes Banks

In light of the defeat of the democratic senator from Mass, which likely puts a snag in Obama’s plans for health care, President Obama now has put his sites back on the banking industry and Wall Street. President Obama moving back towards a embracing Depression-era policy and populist politics chastised big Wall Street banks Thursday and urgently called for limits on their size and investments to stave off a new economic meltdown.

Obama made some veiled threats that he was now ready to take on the banking industry at any cost. These remarks sent the Dow Jones tumbling at investors dumped the bank stocks. These few remarks by the president have pretty much wiped out all the gains investors had made in the stock market since the beginning of the year. Many financial analysts think the president’s remarks are divisive and bringing back the post depression era policy will not help the problems.

All this will the president’s popularity continues to fall. Many people who consider Obama the messiah just a few months ago are now rethinking their position. My Town Talks never supported President Obama and we do not support him now. IT just good to see that some other people are waking up to see what a mistake that was made in this past presidential election. Barack Obama never had the needed experience to manage the office of the president and now that is coming out.

The free marketing system has worked for over 200 years in this country and if we continue to let it work it will bring up out of our current economic crisis. More government regulation such as the ones proposed by Obama on banks will only slow that growth.

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SNL Obama Skit

Well Saturday Night Live has upset the left whit their snl Obama skit which aired Saturday night. I took some visits around the left wing blogs such as the Huffington Post and saw just outrage over this video in the comments. At the time of this writing there where almost 6000 comments on the post. Most of these comments where very negative against Saturday Night Live for doing the skit. Now these are the same people who loved it when SNL was making fun of the Republican candidates.

I don’t get it. this is political satire and anyone is fair game when it comes to satire. Now while the people on the Huffington Post thinks this is unpatriotic and just plain wrong, you can’t dispute the fact that many of the items in the video are true. The video basically shows Obama in a bad light pointing out all the things he has started or promised, but still has not delivered, such as closing Guantanamo Bay, passing healthcare reform, etc..  Now people can blame the republicans if they want, but the truth is the politicians on the left can’t really make up their mind on these items. Not to mention that items such as the healthcare debate has not been handled correctly. A lot of this falls right in Obama’s lap. He has been indecisive and constantly changes his message, plus considering how much the plan costs has raised a lot of concern throughout the country. You can blame the right if you want, but I’ve been to a couple of healthcare protests and there are just as many Democrats and Independents at these rallies as there are Republicans. The Democrats just have not made their case for this and the cost could spiral out of control without really improving anything. This is the hold up with healthcare not the Republican senators.

As the snl Obama skit illustrated, the democrats control both the house and the Senate as well as the Whitehouse, they could push this through if they wanted, but they spend too much time fighting within themselves. Obama did accomplish one thing since he has been president that SNL failed to include in the skit, he pushed through a 750 billion dollar stimulus package which he stated would stop unemployment from going over 8 percent. Well how did that work out since unemployment came out last week at 9.7 percent at the national level with several states about 10 percent. SNL failed to mention this in its snl Obama skit, so they have not totally turned against President Obama.

One thing the Huffington Post commenter’s need to realize is that this snl skit speaks to the truth as a lot of snl skits do. They spoke to the truth when they where slamming Sarah Palin and they speak to the truth now. Obama has made a lot of promises but really isn’t delivering on them. He seems as if he does not have the needed experience to be president. He went to solicit the Olympics for Chicago when the outcome was not certain which made the Office of the president look weak. The Presidency is an office not a man and he is not helping to ensure our long term position in the World with these sort of antics. We are the United States of America, the greatest country of all time, and we don’t beg for anything.

Perhaps Hilary, McCain, Huckabee, and all the rest who said Obama did not have the necessary experience to be president, were right about that one. If you still believe in Obama then stop worshiping him and start pushing him to do his job. Only then will he have a chance of becoming the president you expected him to be. Right now he is not accomplishing anything good and will wind up hurting the people more than you can ever believe if he continues down his current path. Otherwise expect to get pissed by more of these snl Obama skit videos,

Nutrition News WIC adds fresh fruit

Nutrition should be one of the top goals of any government run program where tax dollars are affected. This has finally happened with the WIC program which provides food supplements for women and children who are in need of help. Up until now the WIC program would not allow the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables with the program but now that has changed and many of these items can now be purchased with WIC vouchers.

This is good nutrition news as this program is designed to help disadvantaged mothers have healthier babies. This in turn should help to reduce the health costs associated with these children as the mother will receive more vitamins and healthy supplements while they are pregnant. Since these are disadvantaged women who receive these benefits a lot of times the birthing expense is also borne by the taxpayers.

These changes in the supplemental food program will better reflect the dietary guidelines set forth by the government. These vouchers and can also be used to buy whole grains and other foods that are more healthy in nature. The WIC program is funded in the amount of almost 7 billion annually and while this change will not increase that funding it will provide additional choices for the people who are participants in this nutrition program.

Before this new nutrition news concerning the WIC program recipients of WIC could buy infant formula, eggs, milk, juice, peanut butter and dried beans. While the addition of fresh fruits will not help infants it will help the mother’s nutrition as well as any other small children which may live in the home.

Adding fresh fruit vegetables to the mix of items the voucher will cover should also help the economy in some areas as more stores will be eligible to accept the government vouchers.

This all falls in line with the administration’s push to improve wellness programs within the US and as a result hopefully reduce the cost associated with healthcare. This is not really an addition of funds for this program but just reallocates the way the funds are dispersed. So its unlikely that this program change will cause any problems with people who are against government growth. Helping the small children of this country receive the proper nutrition should be something everyone one can support.

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