More at techPresident According to techPresident, the Obama Citizen's Briefing Book of suggestions by Obama supporters during the transition period never made it to President Obama's desk.
What the hell happened?
That's a lot of hard work by people who may have submitted the one method that gets us out of this mess. Someone in the Obama Administration, please get this to the President ASAP!
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
YouTube's Steve Grove - 3 things on 3/3
YouTube's Steve Grove announces the online events for March 3rd:
Three things to check out on YouTube this week:
1 - Senator of the Week, Claire McCaskill, asks YouTube about wasteful spending:
http://www.youtube.com/senatehub
And Representative of the Week, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, asks about nationalizing 401K plans: http://www.youtube.com/user/househub
2. Did you know the GOP does weekly response to the President's weekly address on YouTube? Check out last weeks from Senator Richard Burr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gTUP5...
3. One of the best videos I've seen in awhile comes from Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times:
Hurray for Hollywood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4EsR6...
Rush Limbaugh Is Wrecking The GOP And I LOVE IT!
http://www.zennie62.com -- Rush Limbaugh's idiological rants are out of touch with an economic reality that will keep The Democrats in power for at least the next 10 years. The reason is the economy itself and the need for government investment.
Between 1960 and 1999 the U.S. Economy added 20 million new jobs every 10 years, but from 1999 to today, only about 4.7 million new jobs. What happened to the 15 million jobs? They went overseas to countries like India, France, and north to Canada. And with jobs goes wealth. It's a key reason America's now the 3 largest exporter whereas we were number one for years, until 2004. We're now behind Germany and China.
All of that wealth lost has resulted in wrecked credit over time. We have to have jobs to afford our mortgages and our population did not stop growing through this period. But what happened was that we started to lose jobs from the remaining stock of them. Remember, we have millions of people that aren't even being counted in our economy -- they don't exist for employment purposes. The "Joe The Plumbers" of today are the steel workers of yesterday. With a thriving growing manufaturing industry, we were able to employ Americans and jobs were plentiful. Not today.
With this weak World Credit system we need government spending to replace the private investment spending that's gone. Indeed, with fewer businesses there's less private investment spending -- goverment must catalyze the growth of business.
All of this calls for an activist government and that's something -- that need -- will keep The Democrats in power for years to come.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Is Tom DeLay Out Of Touch Or Just Plain Stupid?
I'm watching MSNBC's Hardball and Chris Matthews has two Republicans on his show: Michelle Wallace who played a key message-crafting role in the McCain Campaign last year, and former Representative Tom DeLay. I'm sitting here totally dumbfounded over DeLay's insistence that former President Bush was "innocent" of blame for our current economic disaster.
Indeed, PBS's Frontline has a great series on this called "The Meltdown" which places blame for our current wave of bank failures right in the lap of them-Secretary Henry Paulsen, who famously let his own idiological moorings get in the way of good policy, when he refused to put the Government in position to buy Lehman Brothers thus causing a wave of failures that extends to today. According to Frontline, Paulsen was getting advise from Republicans to let businesses fail, and that's what he did.
What Paulsen didn't count on was a wave of market failure such that on September 18th, 2009, the American Economy as we know it came close to a complete death. Paulsen was placed in a role he didn't want or agree with, making government work rather than doing nothing. He failed.
Now, here we have DeLay out there on Hardball and Chris Matthews does an at best feckless attempt at countering Tom's claim that President Bush had nothing to do with this. Meanwhile when Matthews does take him on, he resorts to a quote in the Wall Street Journal.
Give me a break.
Indeed, PBS's Frontline has a great series on this called "The Meltdown" which places blame for our current wave of bank failures right in the lap of them-Secretary Henry Paulsen, who famously let his own idiological moorings get in the way of good policy, when he refused to put the Government in position to buy Lehman Brothers thus causing a wave of failures that extends to today. According to Frontline, Paulsen was getting advise from Republicans to let businesses fail, and that's what he did.
What Paulsen didn't count on was a wave of market failure such that on September 18th, 2009, the American Economy as we know it came close to a complete death. Paulsen was placed in a role he didn't want or agree with, making government work rather than doing nothing. He failed.
Now, here we have DeLay out there on Hardball and Chris Matthews does an at best feckless attempt at countering Tom's claim that President Bush had nothing to do with this. Meanwhile when Matthews does take him on, he resorts to a quote in the Wall Street Journal.
Give me a break.
Hudson River Plane Landing (US Airways 1549) Animation with Audio
This amazing "Black Box Real Time Matched" video animation by Scene Systems was just aired on "The Rachel Maddow Show" and it gives one a real good idea of just how fast events unfolded in the water landing of US Airways Flight 1549.
It also is a testimonial to just how talented and heroic Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger III's efforts were as well as those of the entire crew of Flight 1549.
Congratulations to Scene Systems for a timely recreation of events.
Chevron:Starts Nigeria Community Development Program
More at CNNMoney.com: “LONDON (Dow Jones)-Chevron Corp. (CVX) is in talks with the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and other organizations to liaise on programs fostering peace in the oil-rich Niger Delta, a company manager has told Dow Jones Newswires.
The statement comes as the Nigerian government and militants have made no progress solving the three-year conflict but as some grass-root Nigerian initiatives have been successful.
"We have been having discussions with USAID on cooperation with some programs" Chevron or the U.S. aide agency sponsor "to transfer knowledge and make sure our efforts are complementary," said Dennis Flemming, a community development manager at Chevron's Nigeria operation.”
The statement comes as the Nigerian government and militants have made no progress solving the three-year conflict but as some grass-root Nigerian initiatives have been successful.
"We have been having discussions with USAID on cooperation with some programs" Chevron or the U.S. aide agency sponsor "to transfer knowledge and make sure our efforts are complementary," said Dennis Flemming, a community development manager at Chevron's Nigeria operation.”
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