Obama Health Care

The global recession now underway is the result not only of a financial panic, but also of more basic uncertainty about he future direction of the world economy.

 Consumers are pulling back from home and automobile purchases not only because they have suffered a low to their wealth with declining stock prices and housing values but also because they don’t know where to turn.

 Should they risk buying  a new car when gasoline prices might Soar again? Will they e able to put food on the table after this year’s terrifying rise in food prices?

Decisions about business investment are even starker. Businesses are reluctant to invest at a time when consumer demand is plummeting and they face unprecedented risk penalties on their borrowing costs.

They are also facing huge uncertainties. What kinds of power plants will be acceptable in the future? Will they be allowed to emit carbon dioxide as in the past?

 Can the United States still afford a suburban lifestyle, with sprawling homes in far-flung communities that require long-distance automobile commutes?

To a large extent, economic recovery will depend on a much clearer sense of the direction of future economic change. That is largely the job of government.

After the confused and misguided leadership of the bush administration, which failed to give any clear path to energy, health, climate and financial policies,

president-elect Barack Obama will have to start charting a course that defines the American economy’s future direction.

The united states is not the only economy in this equation.

We need global vision of sustainable recovery that includes leadership from china, India, Europe, Latin America, and yes, even Africa, long marginalized from the world economy, but very much part of it now.

There are few clear points to have come additional income in these days. First one is,

Gagan Kainth
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-business-articles/easy-work-from-home-jobs-today-everyone-needs-some-decent-information-to-overcome-into-these-crises-669911.html

The global recession now underway is the result not only of a financial panic, but also of more basic uncertainty about he future direction of the world economy.

 Consumers are pulling back from home and automobile purchases not only because they have suffered a low to their wealth with declining stock prices and housing values but also because they don’t know where to turn.

 Should they risk buying  a new car when gasoline prices might Soar again? Will they e able to put food on the table after this year’s terrifying rise in food prices?

Decisions about business investment are even starker. Businesses are reluctant to invest at a time when consumer demand is plummeting and they face unprecedented risk penalties on their borrowing costs.

They are also facing huge uncertainties. What kinds of power plants will be acceptable in the future? Will they be allowed to emit carbon dioxide as in the past?

 Can the United States still afford a suburban lifestyle, with sprawling homes in far-flung communities that require long-distance automobile commutes?

To a large extent, economic recovery will depend on a much clearer sense of the direction of future economic change. That is largely the job of government.

After the confused and misguided leadership of the bush administration, which failed to give any clear path to energy, health, climate and financial policies,

president-elect Barack Obama will have to start charting a course that defines the American economy’s future direction.

The united states is not the only economy in this equation.

We need global vision of sustainable recovery that includes leadership from china, India, Europe, Latin America, and yes, even Africa, long marginalized from the world economy, but very much part of it now.

There are few clear points to have come additional income in these days. First one is,

Gagan Kainth
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-business-articles/easy-work-from-home-jobs-today-everyone-needs-some-decent-information-to-overcome-into-these-crises-669911.html

The mere mention of 9/11 brings back vivid memories for most Americans. Many can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing when terrorists slammed airplanes into three American landmarks, killing thousands of innocent and unsuspecting people. With that act of terrorism, America’s innocence was lost forever and U.S. homeland security became an issue that will remain relevant for generations to come.

Barack Obama and John McCain will both agree that the safety of Americans is an issue that has to be solved, but how would each candidate address U.S. homeland security and make this country the safe harbor it was before September 11, 2001.

John McCain co-wrote legislation that created the 9/11 Commission and helped implement many of is recommendations. However, the 9/11 Commission gave the country five F’s and 12 D’s for its lack of effort in implementing the commissions recommendations, according to Barack Obama’s official website.

Obama is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee and co-authored legislation that would increase security and safety for chemical plants and the nation’s water supply. According to his website, “This bill requires chemical facilities to enhance security-including improving barriers, containment, mitigation, and safety training, and, where possible, using safer technology, such as less toxic chemicals.”

The Illinois senator acknowledges that improvements have been made at chemical plants, but he wants to establish permanent security regulations that all plants would have to adhere to in order to strengthen U.S. homeland security. Senator McCain would implement Security Vulnerability Assessments and Site Security Plans that would address security concerns at the plants.

According to McCain’s website, “(He) will work to ensure that all States and municipalities that are responsible for water supply or storage function adequately secure those systems in a manner that eliminates any risk of devastating contamination.”

Obama introduced a bill that will give $37.5 million over a five year period “for drinking water systems to upgrade their monitoring and security efforts,” because he believes that if water is contaminated it would disrupt society and produce a health catastrophe and compromise emergency services such as fire protection.

Nevertheless, McCain believes the key to improve U.S. homeland security is to prevent terrorism before a catastrophe occurs. He plans to accomplish this by working with United States allies and breaking up terrorist organizations and interrupting their financing to ensure that they do not obtain weapons of mass destruction. The Arizona senator wants to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to improve intelligence and “to provide in statute clear guidance for future actions that may need to be taken.”

The Republican nominee also sees securing American borders as a key to improving U.S. homeland security. He plans to accomplish this by establishing operational control over the entire U.S. border, providing funding to construct 700 miles of fencing and hiring and training more border patrol agents to prevent terrorists from entering into the country illegally.

The senior senator also sees disaster recovery as a key to U.S. homeland security. He wants to establish a uniform standard of dealing with natural disasters that would better assist state and local governments with relief efforts. Obama also sees disaster recovery as highly important, introducing and passing legislation that requires a mandatory plan for evacuating special needs Americans. He also introduced and passed legislation that creates a national database for family members to locate each other after disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

Todd A. Smith
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/where-do-the-candidates-stand-on-us-homeland-security-623833.html

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Barack Obama, against all odds and all things remaining equal as they seemed to have been all this while, emerged victorious, and will today, at exactly 6pm Nigerian time and 12 noon American time, be sworn-in as the 44th president of the United States. A no mean achievement, no doubt.

However, the issues that have rather kept the mind agitated since his emergence from that historic election remains this. Exactly what, was it that made it possible for him to have succeeded where other equally great and charismatic leaders of coloured origin scarcely made a dent? How did he develop that uncommon confidence in his own ability against a very “experienced” opponent? Why was his intelligence and personality so electrifying, to the extent as to cause majority of the voting public in America to cast their lots and that of the greatest nation on earth with him, as attested to by the votes?

The answer to all of the above questions can be summed up in just two words, made up of twenty five alphabets- transformational parenting. He, unlike most of his contemporaries in public life, got a kind of training that enabled the psychological balancing of his personality.

So, rather than the defeatist approach to life of most African-Americans which sees them always locating the reasons for their failures to excel in life outside of self, he confronted the challenges of life with the winner attitude, believing that any loss thereof would not be because, he is of lesser intelligence nor of the unlikely skin colouration required for such, but be due to the probabilities that is always attached to any worthy enterprise, after all probable contingencies has been planned for.

Mentally, man is proved to be composed of many complexes, each striving to gain complete dominance over the others and consequently, him. The only fact to be feared here is that, should any of the complexes gain complete and permanent control over us, we become everything but complete and wanted humans.

But this is not in any way suggesting that we would be better off without them; no! In fact, it is most supremely desirable in man. For without it, he would be as empty as computer hardware- just potentially useful. These complexes, which are constantly in a kind of “survival of the fittest” relationship with one another becomes destructive only where any one of them is unconsciously allowed to on a permanent basis, dominate the other and us. However, there is always one by whose outward manifestation our personality, is perceived, so, we are described as, stubborn, gentle, bad, good etc by the manifestation of this complex depending on what it represents.

To understand the importance of complexes, we just x-ray the fear complex. At its balanced level, it serves to help us preserve our lives by taking only calculated risk but at its extreme, it paralyzes us and stops us from doing anything and becoming nothing.

In Obama’s case, different circumstances and environment where he found himself helped to bring out the best of the complexes in him as the dominant one. This accounts for why, the media did not get tired of describing him as charismatic and charming unlike his main rival who tried so late in life to alter his dominant traits with the unintended application of the wrong defence mechanism-displacement.

The best time to alter complexes-both those inherited from our parents and those we picked up by accident of the environment we found ourselves- to bring out the best of our personality is in the mornings of our lives and not in the afternoon nor evenings! Old habit they say die-hard and besides, you cannot hope to teach an old man new manners with ease. Once filled with information from both our parents and the environment, the soul or mind cannot be, easily altered. The mind filters information as it receives it and pass on only those that corresponds with our aspirations.

So, the duties of parents and intending ones today, is to research about complexes and how to help the young to become the best he/she can become. can you do that? yes you can! Don’t know how to go about it or Time? Well, just ask me! I will be glad to help you to help somebody become a leader, today!

Ilobi Austin is the author of several e-materials on diverse topics like finance, relationship and health that are readily available @Ebube Dike plaza.

By Edward Sanford Martin

Within my, earthly temple, there is a crowd;

There is one of us that is humble, one that is proud;

There is one that is broken-hearted for his sins,

There is one that unrepentant, sits and grins,

There is one that loves his neighbour as himself,

And one that cares for naught but fame and pelf,

From such corroding, should I be free,

If I could once, determine which is me.

ilobi austin
http://www.articlesbase.com/parenting-articles/transformational-parenting-731677.html

As always, I’m proud to be a holistic life coach who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the fine states in the United States of America. The events of this last week make me even more proud.

First of all we say so long, but not good-by to a good, decent man who was our president for eight years. President Bush served us with honesty, decency and integrity. I have to say when I watched his farewell address on Tuesday night I was immensely proud. This fine man thanked Americans all over the globe, paid tribute to who have served with him and gave special thanks to our military. As a mom of a former Air Force member, I appreciated that very much. Most important, Mr. Bush assured his fellow Americans that he respects and appreciates and has confidence in our new president, President Obama. Job well done, thank you so very much.

For his part, President Obama thanked the out-going administration for a job well done. He spoke with respect of our past presidents and assures all Americans, regardless of political affiliations that he will be striving to do his best for all.

I see hopeful faces whenever the conversation about politics opens up. Americans have elected our first president of color and for many this encourages them to become engaged in the political and voting process as never before. From my point of view, I encourage all to be supportive of our new president. As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t matter who I voted for, we as a country have selected our new president. It’s now my job to stand behind him, respectfully speak up about policies that I do not like and strongly get behind those that I do support. I do not see our president so much as a Democrat or Republican as our leader. President Obama is the president of all Americans and I believe that we will all benefit if we find a way to work with one another with respect and a positive attitude.

So, once again I would like to thank President Bush for all that he has done for our country, I appreciate it and wish him and his family health, prosperity and peace.

I would also like to welcome President Obama. I wish him success as he works hard for all Americans; I also wish him and his family health, prosperity and peace.

Wishing you a fabulous day, filled with hope and excitement as all Americans celebrate the beginning of a new presidency.

Warmly,
Sandy

Sandy Walden
http://www.articlesbase.com/coaching-articles/thank-you-and-welcome-738378.html

For the first time in history, the Americans have elected a President who has never had a job. President-elect Obama has never worked in the private sector; never ran an organisation; never met a payroll; and never hired a single private sector employee. He was a city-state paid lawyer ‘organising’ his Chicago community to achieve his personal political ambitions. He is the ultimate insider and corrupt politician without a clue about policy, the economy, trade or foreign affairs. What he portends for the future direction of the US is not a positive.

The US is now on a very dangerous left-ward lurch – irregardless of the media’s rhetoric about how ‘centrist’ the new Black messiah will be. Obama and his friends, including most of the old Clinton administration which is now being hired into Obama’s government, are not centrist. It was the Republican Congress which dominated the politics of the 1990’s which kept budgets balanced, gave the US tax cuts, welfare reform and NAFTA and which made Clinton assume the role of an economic conservative. No such constraint exists today on an Obama administration. The Republicans have lost credibility, seats and are in disarray [how else can one explain Sarah Palin]. There is nothing to stop Obama from enacting his true beliefs and ones which he has openly espoused for 12 years in politics – large scale government ownership of production, social processes and the elimination of risk. It is the European model he has supported albeit in stages.

The US political-economy will only get worse after Obama’s coronation and this will be demonstrated over succeeding administrations. This means that whatever Obama will implement might only have future repercussions as opposed to an immediate impact. If Obama implements his big statist ideas not only will the US economy suffer further decline, the spending and program building developed in the next 4 years will be almost politically impossible to unravel. Government programs only grow, they never shrink.

We have seen this story repeated countless times in the past 100 years.

FDR’s failed domestic administration which prolonged the Great Depression and gutted US business, bequeathed to American taxpayers the socialist housing finance firms of Freddie and Fannie which were key players in the current housing finance meltdown; a bankrupt state managed social security system; and an inefficient socialised US health care system which has nothing whatsoever to do with free markets but which is badly in need of costly repair [US governments spend 60% of all health care dollars and firmly control the rest through legislation].

LBJ’s great socialist society program of the 1960s erected a huge welfare system which is now bankrupt with attendant and unforeseen social costs such as the destruction of Black families and massive illegal immigration. Welfare and ‘mandatory’ payments for social programs now constitute 80% of US federal government spending [which is now over $3 Trillion per year].

Bush and the current Congress and their desire to print and spend $3.5 Trillion, will likewise have enormous distortive impacts on the US political-economy in the future and will likely result in another financial crisis and stock market meltdown, along with a declining US dollar, high inflation and far lower living standards.

So what will Obama do and what does he represent ?

This man’s rather bizarre triumph is a demonstration of 4 main trends in US politics and at this moment there is no conservative or independent movement [outside of Newt Gingrich’s ‘American Solutions’ a bi-partisan attempt to create a host of new ideas to solve critical problems] with the leadership, the money, and the policies to prevent this. Obama’s election confirms these 4 inimical trends in the development of the American state:

1.An inevitable left-ward statist drift as government gets ever more powerful and the US media moves from journalism to open left wing political support;

2.The rise of minority groups and their political action groups, as clients and in fact arbiters of the state and of political power;

3.The irrational brainwashing of whole segments of society by the state and Hollywood, including the young and the misinformed, who lack an organising prinicple in life and who look to empty slogans; charismatic leaders, a cult following and Hollywood for direction even as they denigrate capitalists, Christians and Jews.

4.The demise of the original American idea, based on Puritanism, Protestantism, articles of the Judeo-Christian code, and the self-belief in human created progress, that individualism, initiative, risk taking, capital market formation and technological progress are the best ways to human, environmental, and worldly salvation.

If Obama chooses to appease those who voted him: the poor, the minority, Blacks, the brainwashed state-trained young, the union worker, the protectionist, the Hollywood Upper West side Ivy trained snots; the anti-faith anti-church factions; illegal immigrants; the uber-rich with their champagne socialism – the US will be bankrupted. That is an easy prediction. If he chooses the path of reform, tax cuts, spending cuts; the abolition of US crony–capitalism, and the reduction of lobby groups he will propel the US economy upwards and will be re-elected with ease in 2012.

No one knows what he will do – but the trends in the US are ominous. The bet is between Obama turning himself into a young Reagan, or Obama becoming just another sniveling Jimmy Carter or FDR. A betting man would pick the latter and act accordingly. Don’t be surprised however if in 20 years people looking back will say that Obama was far too conservative and centrist.

So predict the 4 major trends which will over time destroy the US. It is going to get worse and not better unless some very powerful counter-cultural forces are created. And few of those now exist. If the Americans want to save their country, they will need to get very busy to reverse the current and rather obvious trends to destruction.

C. Read
http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/obama-and-the-4-key-trends-in-us-politicaleconomy-675186.html