Showing posts with label President-Elect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President-Elect. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Details of Obama's Stimulus Package
US president-elect Barack Obama is expected to hammer out with congressional leaders final details for a massive stimulus package designed to revive the country's reeling economy.The "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan'' is expected to cost between $750 billion (1.5 trillion) and $1 trillion, and Obama has said it would be aimed to "create or save'' three million jobs by 2011.
Democratic lawmakers are optimistic the package will be approved in Congress by early February, just weeks after Mr Obama moves into the White House on January 20.
But top Republicans have called for more time and public hearings before voting on the bill.
The tentative spending proposals include:
• Massive infrastructure and public works projects, with money for roads, mass transit, bridges and schools, projects that Mr Obama has called "shovel ready.''
• A portion of a middle class tax cut that will become part of a permanent tax cut in the upcoming budget: immediate tax relief of some $500 for individuals and $1000 for couples.
•Doubling production of renewable energy through spending and tax incentives.
• Developing a national energy grid for harnessing and distributing power derived from water, wind and other alternative energy sources.
• Cash for states facing revenue shortfalls.
• Improving health care technology to bolster productivity and reduce bureaucratic costs.
• Extending part-time workers' unemployment compensation - a proposal Republican lawmakers have blocked in the past.
• Subsidizing employer expenses to temporarily continue health insurance coverage for laid-off and retired workers and their dependents.
The plan may also enable workers laid-off from jobs without insurance benefits to become eligible for Medicaid coverage.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
I DON'T BELIEVE OBAMA...
President-elect Barack Obama said that "no representatives of mine" engaged in any deal making with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich over who would fill the state's U.S. Senate vacancy. However, I DO NOT BELIEVE that he had no knowledge of the systematic corruption.FBI agents arrested Gov. Blagojevich on Tuesday on federal corruption charges related in part to the selection of a replacement for Obama's Senate seat, which became vacant after the presidential election.
A Little Black Girl
A stranger was seated next to a little black girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.
"The little girl, who had just opened her coloring book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, "What would you like to talk about??"
"Oh, I don't know," said the stranger, "Since you are a Negro, do you think that So-called President Elect Barak Obama is qualified for the job??" And he smiles.
"OK" , she said, "That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass -. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is??
"The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss President Barak Obama...when you don't know sh**??"
"The little girl, who had just opened her coloring book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, "What would you like to talk about??"
"Oh, I don't know," said the stranger, "Since you are a Negro, do you think that So-called President Elect Barak Obama is qualified for the job??" And he smiles.
"OK" , she said, "That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass -. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is??
"The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss President Barak Obama...when you don't know sh**??"
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Secret Service Steps Up Inauguration Security
WASHINGTON (AP) – Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security — thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters, air patrols — to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in.People attending the ceremony and parade on Jan. 20 can expect to be searched by machines, security personnel or both. Precautions will range from the routine — magnetometers like those used at airports — to countersnipers trained to hit a target the size of a teacup saucer from 1,000 yards away. Plus undercover officers, bomb sniffing dogs and air patrols.
The Secret Service — the agency coordinating the security – also has assigned trained officials to identify and prevent cyber security risks. And, as it does at every inauguration, the service has mapped out escape routes for the 44th president.
In addition Washington's 5,265 surveillance cameras, spread around the city, are expected to be fed into a multi-agency command center.
"When you have an event like the inauguration, the more eyes we have in and around the city the better off we are," District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. Streets will be closed within seven-to-eight blocks on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue, and two-to-three blocks around each inaugural ball site, she said.
The already-high security for inaugurations was intensified in January 2005, for the first swearing-in after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and this year's will follow that heightened model.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/22/inauguration-security-enlists-snipers/
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