Nathan Andover

I got excited about a video being produced to talk about the financial reforms needed in this country.

Ron Howard directing with current and former President's being played by Will Ferrel, Dana Carvey, JIm Carey, Chevy Chase, etc...

The problem is that it isn't very funny and it really doesn't make any solid points about the financial reform needs in this country.

Here's the video. What do you think?


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Here is a graph showing the jobs picture of the last couple of years. The red bars are the accelerating rate of job loss during President Bush's last year in office; the blue bars are the decelerating rate of job loss during President Obama's first year of office.

A Republican attacks President Obama about the budget deficits using less than accurate information. However, this time President Obama is there to respond to the attacks:

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As President Obama outlines his plan for Afghanistan, I hope we hear more discussions about how we are going to pay for it.

President Bush put most of the War in Iraq on the American credit card. He rarely put money for the wars he was waging into his yearly budgets. This made our budget deficits under Bush seem smaller than they actually were - and they weren't so small to begin with.

I would like to see some sort of tax or something dedicated to paying our war bills. Not only to avoid more n… Continue

There seems to be a big difference in how the former Bush Administration and the new Obama Administration handles the stimulus packages.

The Bush Administration rushed through a huge financial services bailout with a three page outline of where the money was going. After it was passed with lots of arm twisting, the money was diverted to things people didn't realize the money would be spent on.

For the Obama Administration the new stimulus package will have all of the details put on the interne… Continue