Truth About Obama?

[Stephen Fox]

This 1983 graduate of Furman has stark opinion. I made a brief, fearful comment.
Amy had stellar soul bare piece in current issue of Furman Magazine; her pilgrimage since 9-11

She graduated from Furman with S.C. Governor Sanford; and a friend of mine who has since befriended Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, RFK's daughter.

Amy Unflinching:

http://amybuttell.wordpress.com/2011/08 ... out-obama/

[Gene Scarborough]

[Dr. James Willingham]

The president sounded good on the jobs bill tonight, but the truth is it did not address the issues of : a) both repubs. and demos passed bills enabling the Nafta treaties, etc., to move jobs overseas and south of the border. b) made it profitable to move those jobs, most of which are the equivalents of slave labor efforts, c) Even so the jobs could simply have been eliminated due to three things: robotics, computerization, and automation. That has been the reality for 20 years. In Jan. of 1991 I wrote an evaluation of some materials supplied to me on jobs in the future by the Vocational Director of the Count School system in which I was working. That information was specific and exact, providing examples that had or were occurring at that time. During all of the hullabaloo over Jobs, I have heard only one tv network news broadcast make specific reference to one of those items listed above and that was automation (if my memory serves correctly. But then there is the matter of planning ahead to remove the jobs, a play written in 1906 told of treaties in the 1990s that would move jobs out of the nation. In 1906??? And in a work of fiction? The average everyday worker is not needed any more. Most people have been rendered superfluous, what H.G. Wells called "useless eaters" in his The Open Conspiracy.

[Ed Pettibone]

[Gene Scarborough]

Good Lord---Ed---you are the biggest pessimist on this discussion!!!

Glad you could afford nice cars with leather interiors!!!

Personally, I was impressed with the speech. He nailed the Republicans with their own attempts at progress and told the listeners his proposals were in line with the Republican past activities.

Now the ball is in their court to pass his measures of come up with better ones---which I doubt they can!!! They will bitch and moan as they have done in the last 2+ years, but he has them by their gonads on this!!!!