Posted on 12/07/2008 9:44:48 AM PST by rightwinggoth
CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama braced the country for more tough times Sunday, saying twice in an interview that the nation’s already dismal economy would continue to worsen in the months ahead.
Obama, speaking to Tom Brokaw on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” used some of his starkest language yet to underscore the severity of the challenge he’ll face upon taking office next month.
“If you look at the unemployment numbers that came out yesterday, if you think about almost 2 million jobs lost so far, if you think about the fragility of the financial system and the fact that it is now a global financial system so that what happens in Thailand or Russia can have an impact here, and obviously what happens on Wall Street has an impact worldwide, when you think about the structural problems that we already had in the economy before the financial crisis, this is a big problem, and it's going to get worse,” he said in the interview taped Saturday.
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At Victoria’s Secret, there are 4 checkers and each line had 4 people waiting
Aren’t they already newsreaders
What about the lady who is going to have her car payment made for her. LOL
That is why he had to get Clinton people back in, he knows he is smoke and mirrors. He will do and say what is told to him.
The “health” or “growth” of the economy is a non-issue to leftists.
CONTROL over your life, spending, and choices is the issue.
It’s not (so much) that Bush didn’t cut taxes enough,
it’s that they’re scheduled to go back up in two years.
This is what is driving the downturn.
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