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You are an incredibly effective attack dog for common sense and intellectual honesty, Glenn. It is why I read you every single day.
Speaking of criticizing him where needed, you should consider criticizing the intelligence of some of the initial details coming out of his economic camp regarding his initial moves to stimulate the economy:
1) A $500 tax break for individuals and $1,000 break for families is not going to do much of anything to relieve families' financial woes, get them out of foreclosure, or help find them a job. I (and most others) will certainly take it, but I look at it as a pittance of a return for the billions of dollars robbed from the economy and the vast majority of citizens by the Bush tax cuts for the rich,
2) Obama wants the other $350 billion from the TARP fund. Where in the HELL did the first $350 billion go, and why is there no accounting for it? IT IS OUR MONEY FOR SHIT'S SAKE! Why are banks allowed to refuse to answer how they're using the money? What good has come from this treasury hijacking that has or will affect the average taxpayer in any meaningful way? Is he going to do to better track where the rest of the money goes, besides putting his ear to the wall and listening for the loud flushing noise that's surely to come?
3) I would gladly give up my $500/$1000 tax credit, refund, or future-generation IOU (whatever you want to call it) if he'd put that money aside for fixing healthcare, or better yet, funding an independent investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the billions stolen, wasted, and misappropriated from the Iraq War, starting with Halliburton, Blackwater, Bechtel, Boeing, and others. It's all there in the GAO reports, plain as day. The money wasted by these frauds alone would fund a new healthcare system, rebuild our roads and bridges, or help real citizens save their homes and jobs during this downturn. And yet by ignoring this problem, it will only go on bigger and better in the future, ensuring our MIC swallows more and more of the wealth of our nation.
Why are such basic questions either going unasked, or worse, unanswered when they ARE asked?
The real problem is we have a gov't that is not accountable for anything and everything it does. And it is ruining the country, brick by brick.
Put some real shark's teeth into accountability, Mr. Obama. Until you do, our country's slide into financial, political, and moral ruin will go on unabated.
