Your President has Thrown the Gauntlet

Our President has thrown a gauntlet and is ready to take on anyone who is ready to fight with him over this budget. I believe he picked up a little fire while he was with the Marines yesterday...lol I like it. See what you think, and I will see you after.



He has given us a budget that is honest and is showing us what we haven't seen before. He is cutting things from it we don't need, that don't work, and that are not cost effective.

I know there are lots of waste in the medicare payments and such, I used to work with them and was constantly having to try to send money back to them. It was the hardest thing in the world to tell them they had overpaid me. Just in one instance, they overpaid me $75,000. I worked for 3 months to get it fixed. They wouldn't accept the payments telling me I was wrong. They paid my company and they paid the correct company.

Finally, after multiple paperwork transfers to them, I got it across to them they had sent me the wrong payment and they threatened to sue our company...lol This after I had been the one to bring it to their attention!! Anyway, we finally got it fixed. But, as I say, that was one instance. It happens ALL the time with medicare payments.

So, there you have it, waste and abuse of the Federal Dollar. Just like the President said. Stop this kind of thing and you can and will save money.

The Budget can be found here at the Office of Management and Budget web site. Peter Orzag is the OMB Director, and is a pretty cool dude, if I may say that.

I think for the most part this is great, I must admit I haven't read it all, but what I have looked at and what I have seen I like. Yes, it is a lot of money. But, really if you add the cost of the wars, disasters and other things that the former occupant didn't have in his budget, is this that much more than his was?? Or is it pretty much in line??

Just asking...

Here is Our President

I don't know how anyone can say this man is not confident. Is not full of hope. Is not strong. Is not capable of leading us.

President Obama Wants to Wish You a Happy Valentine's Day!!!

I always feel better after listening to our President. I am not sure why but I do. I really didn't have a very good day yesterday. But after hearing him this morning I do feel some better, he always gives me hope and strength and yes courage to go on.

Maybe it is just me being silly, and living in a jaded little fantasy world, but that's how I feel. Listening to him the other night in Springfield, he had just had two blows dealt to him one right after another, yet he still got up and laughed, and gave one of the best speeches I think I have heard from him in a long time.

That's what makes him such a great man. Out of defeat, out of the lowest depths, he rises up and grabs the highest. When the Rev. Wright mess was going around. He reached down and lifted himself up to the highest.

That's what I think he is doing with our Country. We have really gotten pretty low, our standing around the world, our moral, our economy, even sometimes how we feel about our selves. Just look at how the House and the Senate voted on this Recovery Bill. The Republicans lining up against the Democrats, it is almost as bad as the North against the South all over again.

Yet, he still reaches out. Even though there are some in the Democratic Party who keep saying stop. Even though there are some people who say Pres. Obama is unrealistic to expect the Republicans to reach back to him.

As he said the other day, he is optimistic. Well so am I. At least I try to be, and so far he has lived up to my expectations. Ok.. enough of my rambling on and on.. Let's hear what he has to say...

Ladies and Gentleman, the President of the United States:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the President of the US of A

Here for your listening pleasure is our President giving us our wisdom for the day. I love listening to him. No, it is not the love like the right wing likes to make fun of, just I love listening to the voice of an intelligent man speaking who makes sense.. like I love listening to a good actor who has a great speaking voice.. like Sean Connery, or like I love listening to a good singer like Bruce Springsteen. That kind of love.. but anyway... here is the President.

President Obama Weekly Address

Here is our new President's Weekly Address... He's got some good things to say. We all need to listen to it. We have the best team leading us I think. But it will take all of us to get there.



I think this last paragraph is the one that really touched me the most out of it. It is a challenge and a reach out to everyone. We must really start working together, with each other not against each other. I think that was for the members of Congress who this week seemed to want to pull up their pants and take their marbles and go home.

See what you think:

No one policy or program will solve the challenges we face right now, nor will this crisis recede in a short period of time. But if we act now and act boldly; if we start rewarding hard work and responsibility once more; if we act as citizens and not partisans and begin again the work of remaking America, then I have faith that we will emerge from this trying time even stronger and more prosperous than we were before. Thanks for listening.

So...what do you think?? Shall we keep him??

Weekly Radio/You Tube Address from PE Obama

It's Saturday...here is our shiny new president elect...telling us the truth, giving us the scoop..keeping us in the loop. Gosh he just makes me feel good listening to him. Even with the bad news this week about the jobs. He just makes me feel full of, dare I say...HOPE..encouragement..At least he comes and talks to us..We don't have to wonder where he is...Hey, how cool is it that only just over a week...it won't be President-Elect any more.. He will be THE REAL PRESIDENT....WOOO HOOOO!!!!

He references a report in his address this morning... I am adding a link to it. It is called The Job Impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.

Here is our President: