Obama set to push ‘big bang’ reform package

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

US President-elect Barack Obama intends to push a comprehensive programme of social and economic reform beyond an immediate emergency stimulus package, Rahm Emanuel, the next White House chief of staff, indicated on Sunday.

Mr Emanuel ... said Mr Obama saw the financial meltdown as an historic opportunity to deliver the large-scale investments that Democrats had promised for years.

Tackling the meltdown would not entail delays in plans for far-reaching energy, healthcare and education reforms when all three were also in crisis, he said. "These are crises you can no longer afford to postpone [addressing]."

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Mr Obama’s transition economic advisory board ... is tilting heavily towards a "big bang" approach that would combine a short-term stimulus with large public investments to raise the longer-term US growth rate.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3496c848-ae91-11...0077b07658.html

[rocks 494]

interesting. i'm glad he isn't putting renewable energy, education and healthcare on the back burner because he's right, we can't afford to wait.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

It'll be worth it just to hear the conservatives squeal like a bunch of little piggies.

[rocks 494]

It'll be worth it just to hear the conservatives squeal like a bunch of little piggies.

hehe. i don't see what they are concerned about. improving the country is bad?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

It'll be worth it just to hear the conservatives squeal like a bunch of little piggies.

hehe. i don't see what they are concerned about. improving the country is bad?

There is nothing more threatening to the conservative ideology than a liberal President who actually enacts a liberal agenda.

[rocks 494]

It'll be worth it just to hear the conservatives squeal like a bunch of little piggies.

hehe. i don't see what they are concerned about. improving the country is bad?

There is nothing more threatening to the conservative ideology than a liberal President who actually enacts a liberal agenda.

heaven forbid he actually improves living conditions for everyone.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I just wanted to show off my new avatar using this thread.

[Ban Hammer 13,347]

It'll be worth it just to hear the conservatives squeal like a bunch of little piggies.

hehe. i don't see what they are concerned about. improving the country is bad?

There is nothing more threatening to the conservative ideology than a liberal President who actually enacts a liberal agenda.

heaven forbid he actually improves living conditions for everyone.

a liberal agenda does not necessarily equate improving living conditions for everyone, does it?

[Niels Bohr 72]

I'm very interested to see the implementation.

Edited November 10, 2008 by Niels Bohr

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I'm very interested to see the implementation.

As long as I get to hear conservative little piggies squeal.

[Niels Bohr 72]

I'm very interested to see the implementation.

As long as I get to hear conservative little piggies squeal.

[Ban Hammer 13,347]

I'm very interested to see the implementation.

As long as I get to hear conservative little piggies squeal.

so conservatives are pigs, eh?

[rocks 494]

It'll be worth it just to hear the conservatives squeal like a bunch of little piggies.

hehe. i don't see what they are concerned about. improving the country is bad?

There is nothing more threatening to the conservative ideology than a liberal President who actually enacts a liberal agenda.

heaven forbid he actually improves living conditions for everyone.

a liberal agenda does not necessarily equate improving living conditions for everyone, does it?

i refer you to post #2

[Ban Hammer 13,347]

It'll be worth it just to hear the conservatives squeal like a bunch of little piggies.

hehe. i don't see what they are concerned about. improving the country is bad?

There is nothing more threatening to the conservative ideology than a liberal President who actually enacts a liberal agenda.

heaven forbid he actually improves living conditions for everyone.

a liberal agenda does not necessarily equate improving living conditions for everyone, does it?

i refer you to post #2

interesting. i'm glad he isn't putting renewable energy, education and healthcare on the back burner because he's right, we can't afford to wait.

none of which are related to living conditions, are they? how is any of the above going to impact someone who is homeless?

[Niels Bohr 72]

Such pessimism. If he fixes the economy, unemployment rate will decrease.