Obama's programs and "solutions" are straight out of the Communist Manifesto and are a con. The first problem is, so was the Soviet Union but it took three generations of suckers on a seventy-year trip to nowhere before the entire structure collapsed. The second problem is that spending such a huge amount of money via the "stimulus" may actually work - for a short time, as did the Soviet Union when Lenin & Co. confiscated huge sums from "wealthy" Russians to function. If the stimulus even remotely begins to stimulate before the 2010 elections, we - and the United States - are in really big trouble.

Margaret Thatcher said it best: "To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches." She went on to point out that "the trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Oh Maggie, where are you now that we need you?

Ugh; here we go again.
Higher taxes and bigger benefits for state "workers." The shuffling sound you hear is that of thousands of productive Californians heading for Texas, Alaska, and other safer territory. California is effectively bankrupt, put there by Sacramento politicians - both Democrats and Republicans - who couldn't effective run a fast-food joint but are put in charge of billions of taxpayer dollars and voted into office with the substantial help of government unions that keep raising the benefit bar along with taxes and regulations. California politicians won't officially declare bankruptcy, however, because it would expose the fraud – the Ponzi Scheme – they have created and nurture.
It's a sad day.