Thread: Obama's priorities...let's take a look

Here are some of Obama's small business priorities:

ebruary 15, 2008 The Business of Obama
....The scales of the Democratic presidential primaries seem to be tipping towards Barack Obama, with today’s key endorsement from Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union and yesterday’s nod from civil rights leader John Lewis. For better or worse, Democratic stalwarts are deciding that Obama is the most impressive and electable candidate.


Which means it’s time for a roundup of what an Obama administration would mean for small business. Obama himself would like to know, according to the question he asked on the business networking site LinkedIn late last year: “how can the next President better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?” He got close to 1,500 responses, most of them boiling down to: fix our taxes, fix healthcare, build incubators, and get out of our way.


Obama seems to have listened to some of that, according to this interview: he wants to eliminate capital-gains tax on small business investment and spend $250 million a year on business incubators in disadvantaged communities. That’s hardly a whole chunk of government cash — what’s that, 15 minutes’ worth of war in Iraq? — but it’s not chicken feed. Here’s part of another question-and-answer he gave to the San Francisco Chronicle the day before Super Tuesday:

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This is from cnnfn, but his small business policy ought to be checked. Sorry.

Well, if he's pro small business and anti tax I will definitely look into this. This is good news if true.

Originally Posted by chinthee

Well, if he's pro small business and anti tax I will definitely look into this. This is good news if true.

Ra waang the low tax b.s. - Obama has to pay for his socialized medical plan somehow...

That would get my vote, small businesses are very vulnerable and need support, something Thatcher recognised in the UK, I hate to admit.

^^Yes, I agree we definitely have to sort out the health care issue. In fact, most small business owners are at huge risk on this issue. These are the productive creators of new wealth in the economy and need to be taken care of on this issue.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

And how, pray tell, is he going to "end the war in Iraq"?

A "tactical withdrawal" as defined by Democrats or a "cut and run" as defined by Republicans completed within 18 months of his becoming President. This is the one issue he has been very clear on.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Ra waang the low tax b.s. - Obama has to pay for his socialized medical plan somehow...

Doubt you'll agree with his plan but I think he has that sorted out. End the war in Iraq and save $270 million per day. About $600 billion of US taxpayers' funds have been spent on the war. President Bush has requested another $200 billion for 2008, which would bring the cumulative total to close to $800 billion. All this dough would go a long way to funding his health program. No need to raise taxes!

And how, pray tell, is he going to "end the war in Iraq"?

It ain't half-time yet...

What do you see as the proper ending ?

Do you support McCain's comment of staying there for 100 years if necessary ?

Originally Posted by Norton

A "tactical withdrawal" as defined by Democrats or a "cut and run" as defined by Republicans

I can see the fur flying now. The Republicans would of course shamelessly rewrite history and put the blame for the entire mess at his feet.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

The Republicans would of course shamelessly rewrite history and put the blame for the entire mess at his feet.

Of course. What baffles me is why in hell anyone would want the job of President at a time like this. A war on two fronts, joblessness, house foreclosures, a useless congress, bank failures. And no matter how well the new Pres does the opposition will blame him for the problem not his/her success if some are solved. A real lose, lose deal IMO. Not one of my favorite Presidents but Nixon did get the US out of Vietnam and is generally blamed for Americas loss of the war even though he didn't have much to do with getting us in the mess to begin with.

Originally Posted by BobbyTits

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Ra waang the low tax b.s. - Obama has to pay for his socialized medical plan somehow...

Doubt you'll agree with his plan but I think he has that sorted out. End the war in Iraq and save $270 million per day. About $600 billion of US taxpayers' funds have been spent on the war. President Bush has requested another $200 billion for 2008, which would bring the cumulative total to close to $800 billion. All this dough would go a long way to funding his health program. No need to raise taxes!

And how, pray tell, is he going to "end the war in Iraq"?

It ain't half-time yet...

What do you see as the proper ending ?

Do you support McCain's comment of staying there for 100 years if necessary ?

Ah, well, that's the rub, isn't it?
We might be there as we are still in Korea, eh?

^Yeah, and I'm still trying to figure out what Korea has we want, except to be close to the Chinese and keep an eye on 'em; and be close to Russia Far East to spy on them.

Guess that's it.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Ah, well, that's the rub, isn't it? We might be there as we are still in Korea, eh?

And this doesn't bother you? The costs involved?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Ah, well, that's the rub, isn't it? We might be there as we are still in Korea, eh?

And this doesn't bother you? The costs involved?

Sure it does but these days, nothing's cheap that's worth anything or worthwhile is it? We bail on Iraq it will, for sure, come back to bite us in the ass.

Jing, jing, mai go hok...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by BobbyTits

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Ra waang the low tax b.s. - Obama has to pay for his socialized medical plan somehow...

Doubt you'll agree with his plan but I think he has that sorted out. End the war in Iraq and save $270 million per day. About $600 billion of US taxpayers' funds have been spent on the war. President Bush has requested another $200 billion for 2008, which would bring the cumulative total to close to $800 billion. All this dough would go a long way to funding his health program. No need to raise taxes!

And how, pray tell, is he going to "end the war in Iraq"?

It ain't half-time yet...

What do you see as the proper ending ?

Do you support McCain's comment of staying there for 100 years if necessary ?

Ah, well, that's the rub, isn't it?
We might be there as we are still in Korea, eh?

What is the daily death toll in Korea?

What could possibly be the outcome of this war?

If we want to control their oil supply to 'selected' vendors once that is established then will the war essentially be over ?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

And how, pray tell, is he going to "end the war in Iraq"?

It ain't half-time yet...

Gawd, those eternal nay-sayers.

The surge has worked!

Heh...

At least, if Obama gets in, he has Congress and the Senate mostly on his side- which was not the case with the Clinton administration.

He's gonna need it- some of his reforms are going to piss off powerful vested interests, and their well funded lobby groups. On top of that, he inherits from the Bush administration a nation in record levels of debt, enmeshed in two expensive wars, and probably on the brink of recession.

I hope he at least takes a leaf out of Clintons book and maintains fiscal discipline. He'll ride in on a wave of optimism and 'change', but soon enough the reality will set in that these 'changes' can not happen overnight. The GOP, of course, will prey on the resultant disgruntlement in some sectors.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

So these richies get the cap gains tax benefit, not the little company.

Further incentive to invest in starting small businesses.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Ya, let's put some cash in the hands of the drug dealers in the projects so they can buy more bling.

Oh, I didn't know one has to be a drug-dealer to qualify, a strange world you live in...

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

(ex-crackhead Mabel opened a drycleaners, homeless Frank opened a barbershop)

Gosh, that would be really terrible, eh?

I'll put this article here, since this thread is now the most common. Lapses in security, that are "ordered," make one wonder. And note that a "friendly crowd" doesn't mean anything. It only takes one person with a gun, to blow a hole through history, as we've seen before.

Feb. 21, 2008


Police concerned about order to stop weapons screening at Obama rally

By JACK DOUGLAS Jr.
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

STAR-TELEGRAM/RODGER MALLISON
Barack Obama speaks Wednesday at a Democratic rally in Dallas' Reunion Arena. Police were told to stop screening people for weapons before the rally began.

Editor's note: This story was updated at 4 p.m. Friday. » TAKE ME THERE

DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.


Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena's vacant seats before Obama came on.


"Sure," said Lawrence, when asked if he was concerned by the great number of people who had gotten into the building without being checked. But, he added, the turnout of more than 17,000 people seemed to be a "friendly crowd."


The Secret Service did not return a call from the Star-Telegram seeking comment.
Doors opened to the public at 10 a.m., and for the first hour security officers scanned each person who came in and checked their belongings in a process that kept movement of the long lines at a crawl. Then, about 11 a.m., an order came down to allow the people in without being checked.


Several Dallas police officers said it worried them that the arena was packed with people who got in without even a cursory inspection.


They spoke on condition of anonymity because, they said, the order was made by federal officials who were in charge of security at the event.
"How can you not be concerned in this day and age," said one policeman.

Link: Star-Telegram.com: | 02/21/2008 | Police concerned about order to stop weapons screening at Obama rally

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Weird. An idiosyncratic observation, but I just noticed he is left-handed. But, he wears his watch on his left wrist like a right-hander.
OK, just watching the Texas debate...Obama says he'll give $4,000 annual tuition credit for every college student who signs up for national service? HUH?

Right...and a chicken in every pot.

What's wrong with that? Win-win situation.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

I'll say it again: Obama is to American politics as the Bee Gee's were to 1970's to pop music

What blog's that gem from?