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ElliottRosenfeld commented on the diary post President Obama Wooed Us Like a Cheap Date in 2008, But Failed to Give Us What We Wanted by ElliottRosenfeld.
Noted, billtodd. ’nuff said though. Your sage wisdom and calm seriousness is a model of citizenship.
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ElliottRosenfeld commented on the diary post President Obama Wooed Us Like a Cheap Date in 2008, But Failed to Give Us What We Wanted by ElliottRosenfeld.
BillTodd, I appreciate the concern. However, I think most people would appreciate that this was a humorous attempt at bringing up a few failed campaign promises. I do not pretend to assume that there have only been 3 failed campaign promises from the President. Would you like me to write you a novel instead? Kindly, [...]
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ElliottRosenfeld wrote a new diary post: President Obama Wooed Us Like a Cheap Date in 2008, But Failed to Give Us What We Wanted
Sexual health educators will tell you that the “pull-out” method is not an effective method of contraception— a man can leave thousands, if not millions of unwanted “troops” inside, which can lead to unseen, unexpected and unwanted commitments as well as the always possible transmission of disease. Coincidentally, the Obama Administration’s pull-out of American troops [...]
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ElliottRosenfeld wrote a new diary post: When You Hear About the Economy Getting Better, Remember– Context is Everything
The New York Times reported yesterday that “a flurry of heartening economic news” was reverberating through the U.S. Not to be a buzz kill, but some of the “heartening economic news” may be more a case of cleverly misleading statistics than actuality. The real question is: Is this “job boost” going to be a seasonal blip, [...]
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ElliottRosenfeld commented on the blog post Obama’s Osawatomie Speech Attempts a Populist Rebranding
With national scrutiny bearing down on income equality, now is the perfect time for the federal government to support economic policy that actually protects and encourage the middle class.
But until we move off of insignificant legislation and stop protecting corporate interest over the common good, only then will any of our elected leaders have even a tiny chance of being called a populist supporter.
For starters, the President could simply prevent corporate fraud to the tune of nearly $200 billion dollars in misappropriated federal funds a year, if he were to issue a simple executive order prohibiting publicly traded companies from illegally receiving federal small business contracts.
Last year, for instance, federal contracting fraud was rampant. The American Small Business League conducted a report of the top 100 highest dollar small business contractors for Fiscal Year 2010. Of those 100 companies receiving the highest dollars in federal small business contracts for FY 2010, 60 were actually large corporations, including some of the largest Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 corporations in the world.
Congress could also do something about this blatant abuse of the Small Business Act (which requires that 23 percent of all federal contracts must be awarded to small business) by passing H.R. 3184, “The Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act”, which was introduced to the House in October by Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson and currently has 17 co-sponsors and resides in the House Small Business Committee. (click here to sign a petition in support of passing H.R. 3184).
Despite showing great promise at times, Barack Obama has relentlessly managed to attain uncertain, moderate, disappointing results.
But with intensified pressure on President Obama to fix our shambles of an economy, I’m hoping that the decade-long scandal of federal contracting fraud, which drains our middle class of nearly $200 billion in business a year, won’t go unnoticed for another 4 years.
Please visit the American Small Business League at http://www.asbl.com to learn more about federal small business contracting fraud
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ElliottRosenfeld wrote a new diary post: He’s Not My Champion
Don’t get me wrong– he’s not nearly as bad as some of the crooks we’ve had in office (does the name George W. Bush ring a bell?)– but since 2008 President Obama has disappointed my expectations more than I would have previously believed possible. As a concession, I am happy to see that Obama is [...]
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ElliottRosenfeld wrote a new diary post: The One Sentence Solution to Job Creation and Economic Stimulus
A permanent and deficit-neutral solution to job creation in America is hidden in plain sight. In fact, the path to job creation is astonishingly simple: the nation’s 28 million small businesses— which create at least 90 percent of all new net jobs— are the key to America’s economic salvation. But because politicians and key media [...]
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