The Action Americans Need (Barack barf)

washingtonpost.com ^ | Feb. 5, 2009 | Barack Obama

[Free ThinkerNY]

By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression. Millions of jobs that Americans relied on just a year ago are gone; millions more of the nest eggs families worked so hard to build have vanished. People everywhere are worried about what tomorrow will bring.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives -- action that's swift, bold and wise enough for us to climb out of this crisis.

Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes. And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.

[YLLady]

Whenever someone says you must make a decision immediately, they are trying to put something over on you. That’s the tactics of a timeshare salesperson. My apologies to anyone here who might be a timeshare salesperson. But I fell for that once and have been sorry ever since. Can’t sell it, or even give it away!