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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentElections · 1 decade ago

My lands another broken Obama promise?

Obama now has no intention of implementing a windfall profits oil tax, and the $3,000 tax to business for jobs or whatever it was.This is ridiculous in my opinion after all he said his whole campaign about how he was running against the 8 long years of failed Bush policies. Do you think President elect Obama is getting a taste himself of how hard President Bush's job is?

Update:

And the price of oil has dropped but it was dropping 3 weeks prior to the election and he was still promising.

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  • Maude
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    All politicians make promises they can't keep. ALL. The thing is if that person makes America better or not. We have yet to see that from Obama seeing as he hasn't even taken office yet. It's sad when ppl want to see they're POTUS fail because if that happens we all fail. I hope Obama does well if not I'm sure he'll get just what Bush got if not worse. But until Obama proves me otherwise I'm still going to support Obama/Biden.

  • 1 decade ago

    The 3000 tx credit was a stupid idea from the beginning. It costs thousands of dollars to employ someone, you have their salary, training, insurance costs, ssi taxes, blah blah blah. $3000 tax credit was insane. that is not enough incentive for me to hire someone. The reason the oil companies made so much money is because of the stock market, no seems to understand how any of this works. if you own a business, and it i publicly traded on the stock market, and the stock market goes up so your product is now worth a whole lot more imaginary dollars, than you make a ton of money. that is what happened with the oil companies. WE DECIDED A BARREL OF OIL SHOULD COST OVER 100 BUCKS. THEN THE COST OF THE GAS AT THE PUMP WENT UP. there were no actual reasons for the increase. it was a futures market. wow i cannot explain any of this. Obama is slowly realizing that HOLY CRAP, capitalism works.

    edit JULES: WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! THE DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE WHITE HOUSE, THEY CONTROL THE SENATE,THEY CONTROL THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES! THE REPUBLICANS HAVE NO POWER!

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Obama relatively had no strategic reason to bypass to Afghan, This served honestly no purpose. All it did became rigidity supplies of secure practices workers who're already under pressure sufficient. IMO the rationalization he went became to look Presidential to the suited of this united states of america, as a manner to possibly draw some ill fated desire for attempting to make somebody think of he easily cares, Karzi is a absolute theif, And A Taliban. His brother and he administration the poppy transforming into and the shipment of unlawful Narcotics out of Afghan, And he's utilising our help money to extra his employer, So whilst Obama noted as his a offender and self server He easily regarded himself, and for the 1st time did no longer tell a lie. yet what does he do, He pats Karzi on the returned and provides him the previous ( Your doing a Hell of interest Brownie habitual). so as that became a outright lie, that's the 1st time because Viet Nam that we've been in a wrestle place to guard civilians of yet another united states of america. we could desire to hold each and every American wrestle soldier domicile. place a properly defended Predator Drone Facility withing variety of the interest, and enable the fning chips fall the place they could,

  • spanky
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Obama has lied about all of his past associates so why would anyone believe any promises he made to get elected?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You Know Bush had to actually do things very wrong before I spoke up .

    Democrats as a whole are just nicer people I guess .

    Where as if you are a Republican Bad is Good .

    Obama is not president yet .

    So to answer I will have to wait and see.

  • 1 decade ago

    you can question what's going on but sweetie, his supporters do not follow the news---they have no clue what is going on---it still "Go Obama" and when this all fails---still going to blameing The Bush

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You can't seriously think that Obama, a community organizer by trade, actually had a real grasp on the issues facing him as a real politician did you?

    It's like back in 2001, when he called the Constitution a list of negative liberties.

    Listen BroBama - I don't know about you, but I'm an American - you can ride your camel back to Indonesia if you have a problem with the way we run things.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, I do beleive that Obama is getting a sense of how easy it was to promise things during the campaign and how hard it is to actually follow through on those promises.

  • Nobama
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Better get yourself a calculator if you want to keep track of all the things he has lied about. I can't wait for all the ignorant people who voted for him to realize that he isn't going to put gas in their tanks and pay their mortgages.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Can we get one of those clocks like they have for the nat. Debt to keep track of them all? There will be so many.

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