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Recovery–The Big Lie!

August 19, 2011

There was never a recovery–at least in the U.S. With 50% of this nation’s companies invested overseas, Wall Street numbers have reflected gains not in the U.S., but in China and elsewhere.  Now with the EU’s southern nations tanking and Germany and France’s unwillingness to ease that situation (they obviously have forgotten the lesson of [...]

Tagged as: Dow, Economic Depression, economic recovery, EU Bank Notes, European Union, Financial Markets roller coaster, France, germany, Market Correction, Wall Street, Wealthy

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It’s Time For Democrats To Quit Looking In The Rear View Mirror

September 15, 2010

As a former generational Democrat and now a newly reformed liberal, I find it disconcerting that every announcement on the economy by President Obama and his Administration,  is spent reviewing the mistakes of the past.  If history is our teacher, than a long look at a similar presidency that faced the unchartered waters of an equally great or [...]

Tagged as: economic recovery, FDR, JFK, Jr., Leadership, Leadership & Inspiration, Martin Luther King, Obama's leadership, Reformed Liberal Political Commentary, The Great Depression, The Great Recession

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The Problem With Reassuring That The Recovery Is In Full Swing Is…

April 29, 2010

The media blitz is going full throttle with ads of GMC’s CEO Ed Whitacre walking through a plant pronouncing that GMC has paid back its’ loan part of the bailout, namely $6.7 billion, however the taxpayer is still on the hook for $43 billion in stock options; the reporting of the minor dip in shares [...]

Tagged as: bailout, butasforme.com, economic recovery, Financial Institutions, Financial Reform Bill, GM CEO Ed Whitacre, GM's loan payback, Goldman-Sachs, lobbyists, Obama's Policy of Reassurance, Reformed Liberal, Spin, Spin Doctors Go To Work, State of the Economy, States Impoverished, States Revenues, Taxes, Timothy Geithner

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Reiterating The Status Quo (VIDEO)

March 28, 2010

Is it time to Reform the Reformers? Bill Moyers interviewing Pulitizer Prize Winning Author Gretchen Morgenson on the ability of Obama’s Administration to reform the financial system that created the near collapse in 2008 points out that current attempts at reform by the Obama Administration with key players such as Geithner, Summers, et al and [...]

Tagged as: Derivitative Reform, Economic Crisis Still Brewing, economic recovery, Financial Reform, Larry Summers, Reform of Banks, Robert Gibbs, Timothy Geithner

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90 Days Until Christmas…

September 25, 2009

Television shopping networks are promoting the Holiday season as a way to recover from a lackluster Fall season, which was promoted early to recover from a disappointing Back-To-School promos, which were advertised in early summer to boost poor Summer Sales.  Recovery?  Maybe for the big wigs sitting behind their corporate desks while patting their lobbyists [...]

Tagged as: bailouts, butasforme.com, Christmas, Congress, economic recovery, FDIC, Geithner, Goldman-Sachs, higher education, Holiday Season, Obama, Reformed Liberal, sales, Small Businesses, state revenues, Taxes, unemployment

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