The way this is being billed to the public is false, but the unwashed are lapping it up.

They're buying equities willy-nilly, and they're buying real estate again under the premise that if they can't make the payments, Obama will...

It's funny. George Bush took advantage of the top 50% of the economic population, and Obama is taking advantage of the bottom 50%. This will lead to a lot of disappointment later in 2009.

Everyone has to figure it out and since this is America, the only way people will figure anything out is the hard way because people are too stupid to figure it out any other way. They have to get kicked in the ass with it.

Obama will create a larger boondoggle for equity markets than would have otherwise have occurred. By Obama's actions, he is effectively creating a second speculative bubble.

As of now, all the speculative bubbles have popped. Meanwhile Obama is doing what liberal Democrats who don't understand economics have tried to do before, even though it's never worked out for them.

When you hear Obama, it's push, push, push. We need the economic stimulus program now, not yesterday. I want it by February 16. I want to create new jobs in 30 days. I want to reduce the foreclosure rate in 30 days. These are the promises I'm making to the American people.

Obama knows he's got one term, and he has to produce results. But he's a young guy surrounded by a lot of young people with very little genuine economic experience. That's why they're making promises they can't keep.

So how is this boondoggle turning out? The Republicans are finally acting as they should in trying to restrain this guy and trying to keep a lot of social spending out of the stimulus program that the liberal Democrats are loading up with.

So why didn't the Republicans restrain Bush? Because they were making money then...

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