Middle class voters react to Obama's address

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1. John N Branson
   

   I can no longer handle tv coverage of boring, non-smiling people like Senator Bainer. When he speaks on tv, it's a big turn-off. He is so negative and never breaks a smile. Senator McCain is another one.
   We need "keep hope alive" people telling us the good and the bad of the US government's painful progress. I'm a baby boomer. They are boring, boring, boring and present a gloomy presentation to those who want to watch and listen. Perhaps CNN should do a show on "negativism in politics, how do we perceive it?"
   John in Branson
   Baby Boomer In Repair

   February 22, 2010 at 9:01 am |
2. Linda Blankensop
   

   Everyone forgets that has only been a year since President Obama has been in office and he has told us that this will take time and to have patience but I see no one believing in him. Getting things done to get our economy back on track is going to take time due to wall street and banks greed. And Matt is right regarding people who took out loans that they knew that they couldn't pay for. Plus, our senate and congress are always fighting over who is going to get their way and not thinking about the middle class. they don't care because most of them don't have any idea what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck to the point that they gave themselves a raise. My husband hasn't had a raise in 2 years and now his company is planning on taking away their 401-K. they tell you to buy from american made products, so please let me know if you have found anything that is made in products. We need to bring our jobs back home. I think companies that move jobs overseas should be penatalized for their actions because it is they who also helped with this mess.

   February 2, 2010 at 1:23 pm |
3. Matt
   

   Can any of you clearly articulate how the "last administration" broke the economy? Could it possibly have had anything to do with previous Democratic administrations forcing banks to lend to people who couldn't afford to own homes to extract votes from them? Gee, maybe so. The reason that the "risky investments" that banks made by reselling these loans failed is because THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK THE MONEY COULDN'T PAY IT BACK!!!!! If those people had been responsible and paid their mortgages as they committed to do – most of this would not have happened. The fact that they did not understand that their loans would reset to higher interest rates after a defined period of time proves that they were not capable of owning a home, because they were unable to understand what they were signing. And that is NO ONE's FAULT BUT THEIR OWN.

   January 30, 2010 at 9:00 am |
4. JB
   

   It going to take more than one year to fix what the last administration broke.

   January 29, 2010 at 7:54 pm |
5. Maggie
   

   President Obama talks of the economy but unless America stops importing everything (mainly from China) our economic situation and the jobs that we desperately need will never improve. The speech was good but it's all words unless swift and bold action is taken. Even the American flag is made in China so how do we except our labor force to benefit at all. Most of the stimulus money will eventually end up in foreign hands as products and services are shipped out of the country.

   January 28, 2010 at 4:09 pm |
6. Mitchell
   

   He is a huge disappointment. Hopefully a one term president so he will be limited in the damage he can do to our nation.

   January 28, 2010 at 2:36 pm |
7. G.W.
   

   Ms. Costello is testament to the popular notion that journalists will prove their point with no regard for evidence that proves the contrary. I've lived in Youngstown for 4 weeks and I have already learned that no one here is operating under the assumption that manufacturing jobs are coming back. They are looking to the future in a big way. Get your nose out of the air and start meeting some of the scrappy and intelligent people who live here.

   January 28, 2010 at 1:55 pm |
8. Joseph Daniel Brian Lawlor
   

   It would be good for Big Energy to go back into the communities to develop the power needs of that community body. To form a partnership with each community eventually leading to 95 percent of the communities power under control of the community. To go in and secure for Big Energy themsleves. Big Energy keeps all that it currently has with a life time five percent coming in that is maintained by the communities.

   Almost like turning a tap on for Big Energy with each five percent increasing their flow. Now do the same with Big Industry, Big Finance, etc and you will see jobs increase and communites develop what they need to become self sufficient.

   Just a thought Peoples..just a thought...

   January 28, 2010 at 10:38 am |
9. Joseph Daniel Brian Lawlor
   

   The stimulus slowed down the enevitable here Peoples.Haiti in an envious position to grow Government, Industry, Finance, Academic, Military, Media, Religion(spirituality+ETHICS) and the Peoples themselves properly because they are starting from scratch and that which will be applied to this global body as well.

   The President going against both Republican and Democratic Parties who are guided by self serving agendas that go against the wellness and betterment of the Peoples as a whole. This was shown when upper levels of Industry and Finance were secured while lower levels and the base to it all, the Peoples themselves, was being dismantled by upper levels through factory closures and job losses. Collapse forth coming so if the stimulus was not put forth we would have gone through the collapse and be in a position like Haiti to grow properly this time.

   Never saw it did you reader...reason and purpose to it all.

   January 28, 2010 at 10:31 am |