tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post7307782277039552040..comments2023-06-29T10:01:48.092+02:00Comments on Viewfinder : ObamacareMirinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-77359074136078664752013-05-19T19:17:18.152+02:002013-05-19T19:17:18.152+02:00We are now in 2013. Obama scraped through the last...We are now in 2013. Obama scraped through the last US elections. To his credit he stated that he intends to work more closely with the opposition. This is a realistic, commendable attitude under such circumstances.<br /><br />Unfortunately F. Hollande who won the last French presidential elections by an even thinner margin than that of Obama, was not the least influenced by the American President's declared intention of closer collaboration with the Republicans. But then there are those with stature and those devoid of stature, which is also part of the present misfortune of France.Mirinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-87810848641278920092011-09-09T09:20:08.611+02:002011-09-09T09:20:08.611+02:00Obama has presented his plan to solve the US unemp...Obama has presented his plan to solve the US unemployment problem. Simple. Cut taxation and unblock $447 billion to finance employment. That's to say create more public employment by spending more tax payers money, or money the USA hasn't got. This seems more like sadly dated, false, left-wing doctrine.<br />In view of the present US situation, how can Congress accept what seems to be an unrealistic solution?<br /><br />Shouldn't Obama be proposing the opposite- to reduce public spending and to encourage and invest more in the private sector..?Mirinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-85531960082065944712011-08-08T20:38:15.114+02:002011-08-08T20:38:15.114+02:00Assuming the LCI tv French translation is exact, P...Assuming the LCI tv French translation is exact, President Obama's statement that 'he admit's there's a problem of deficit', certainly doesn't ease the situation. In fact his recent statements don't inspire the confidence they should.Mirinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-54133131135541324252011-08-06T12:20:04.186+02:002011-08-06T12:20:04.186+02:00So, if I understand things correctly, Standard &am...So, if I understand things correctly, Standard & Poor have downgraded the U.S' credit rating one notch to 'AA+', meaning that confidence in the US government's financial management ability is waning even more. The joint agreement recently reached between the Democrats and the Republicans, including raising the debt ceiling, is not enough, according to S&P to come to terms with the national debt in the allocated time. The Obama administration is arguing that S&P's analysis is erroneous. The administration claims that the agency has overstated the deficit over a period of ten years by $2 trillion. Whatever, this development is not likely to help an already serious slump in world markets. It's certainly not going to help Obama's re-election campaign, in spite of the enormous amount of money he's investing in this.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sandp-considering-first-downgrade-of-us-credit-rating/2011/08/05/gIQAqKeIxI_story.html?hpid=z1" rel="nofollow"> The Washington Post</a>Mirinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-87997104708576807382011-08-05T13:02:48.690+02:002011-08-05T13:02:48.690+02:00To be fair to Obama, other US Presidents have trie...To be fair to Obama, other US Presidents have tried to establish welfare systems in better times than in the middle of world slumps, wars and disorder. If Obama succeeds, he would deserve to go down in US history as a great President for this accomplishment alone.<br /><br />On the other hand, perhaps we should remember that the British National Health Service- the oldest and largest of its kind in the world- was set up after the WW2, (unveiled by Aneurin Bevan on the 5th July, 1948) not before, nor during. <br />Naturally it too, started as an ideal. Although it began then, the evolution of social, political and economic realities obviously has to be periodically contended with for welfare systems to continue to function as effectively as possible.Mirinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1288735147937019806.post-61130924411687915932011-08-03T20:28:20.859+02:002011-08-03T20:28:20.859+02:00The White House has responded to the request of th...The White House has responded to the request of the Syrian people with an awe-inspiring statement that must come as a great comfort for the thousands of protesters who are risking their lives manifesting for democracy.<br /><br />"Assad is the cause of instability in Syria".<br /><br />This declaration should go down in the annals as one of the most uninspired and insipid statements of our era.Mirinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.com