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Obama freezes staff pay

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090121/..._executive_pay

Thats pretty cool, I like to see self-sacrifice, for example when the Ford CEO mentioned he would take $1/yr pay. That shows good leadership.

Weren't all those not-so-subtle jabs Obama took at ex-prez shrubya during his inauguration speech great!

Well done, Mr. President!

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Originally Posted by lahabra1976

Obama freezes staff pay

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090121/..._executive_pay

Thats pretty cool, I like to see self-sacrifice, for example when the Ford CEO mentioned he would take $1/yr pay. That shows good leadership.

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That's not all President Obama did today. The new lobbying restrictions are also an important and much needed measure.

Well done, Mr. President!

i was down in DC both Sunday and Tuesday and i couldnt of been more happier....getting to see his speeches live is completely different than on tv....plus being that close to him was a great feeling

America is in a financial crisis and his inauguration cost around 150 million dollars. And then he tries to appoint a secretary of treasury who fucks up on his own taxes. This is going to be even better than the last 8 fucked up years. :roll:

Don't believe everything you hear:

About Inaugural costs
Mark Lacter • Bio • Email

I've gotten a number of emails concerning my post the other day that questioned the high cost of the Obama Inaugural. It turns out there's more to the story, producing one of those garbage-in, garbage-out conclusions that are an occupational hazard when doing a blog. Here’s the deal: The actual Obama festivities will run about $45 million, which is only a bit higher than the previous Bush inaugural. That excludes the $124 million that federal, state and local governments are paying for security and the official swearing-in ceremony - money the Obama folks had no control over. A bunch of early reports, well-fueled by the folks at Fox, did not consider the security-related expenses and made an apples-and-oranges comparison that had Obama's Inauguration costing $100 million more than Bush's. Eric Boehlert had a thing or two to say about the confusion at Media Matters:

The misinformation first arrived in the form of an underreported newspaper article in America, and then one in London. Between them, and thanks to furious transatlantic online linking, the reports gave birth to the story that Obama's inauguration was going to cost nearly four times what the country spent on Bush's bash in 2005 -- that the Obama inauguration would cost almost $120 million more.

Here's Steve Benen's take at Washington Monthly:

Now, truth be told, I don't much care which president's inauguration came with a bigger price tag. The evidence suggests Bush's and Obama's will end up costing about the same. What I do care about is a misleading drive on the part of a lot of news outlets to characterize Obama as some kind of extravagant spendthrift, insensitive to the plight of struggling American families. It's total nonsense. Something to keep in mind as this story makes the rounds.

With Congress about to lay out hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal stimulus, the confusion over inaugural costs should be viewed as a small but telling cautionary tale. Too many people - reporters, pundits, bloggers, et al – haven’t the first clue about many of the numbers they're writing about - numbers that will help determine whether the stimulus plan is doing any good and whether the economy is getting better or worse. Oh, this should be quite a year.

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Originally Posted by BigBlackMan

I'm surprised "LEGEND" havent been to this thread to spread his hatred for obama

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DONT FUCKING JYNX IT

Showbiz politics or celebrity politics. Between Obamas campaign and doomsday Inag this is running close to a billion. How about putting all that corrupt wall street money to better use like feeding the hungry people in the usa.

His Journey is going to be extremelt though and bumpy, for the sake of the world (not just the U.S.A.) i hope he makes it i have faith in him.

Ow and someone mentioned young people getting so much handed to them the last 10-15 years, so true people need to get used to working for their money again.

President Obama godspeed

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Originally Posted by JonnyT

Don't believe everything you hear:

About Inaugural costs
Mark Lacter • Bio • Email

I've gotten a number of emails concerning my post the other day that questioned the high cost of the Obama Inaugural. It turns out there's more to the story, producing one of those garbage-in, garbage-out conclusions that are an occupational hazard when doing a blog. Here’s the deal: The actual Obama festivities will run about $45 million, which is only a bit higher than the previous Bush inaugural. That excludes the $124 million that federal, state and local governments are paying for security and the official swearing-in ceremony - money the Obama folks had no control over. A bunch of early reports, well-fueled by the folks at Fox, did not consider the security-related expenses and made an apples-and-oranges comparison that had Obama's Inauguration costing $100 million more than Bush's. Eric Boehlert had a thing or two to say about the confusion at Media Matters:

The misinformation first arrived in the form of an underreported newspaper article in America, and then one in London. Between them, and thanks to furious transatlantic online linking, the reports gave birth to the story that Obama's inauguration was going to cost nearly four times what the country spent on Bush's bash in 2005 -- that the Obama inauguration would cost almost $120 million more.

Here's Steve Benen's take at Washington Monthly:

Now, truth be told, I don't much care which president's inauguration came with a bigger price tag. The evidence suggests Bush's and Obama's will end up costing about the same. What I do care about is a misleading drive on the part of a lot of news outlets to characterize Obama as some kind of extravagant spendthrift, insensitive to the plight of struggling American families. It's total nonsense. Something to keep in mind as this story makes the rounds.

With Congress about to lay out hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal stimulus, the confusion over inaugural costs should be viewed as a small but telling cautionary tale. Too many people - reporters, pundits, bloggers, et al – haven’t the first clue about many of the numbers they're writing about - numbers that will help determine whether the stimulus plan is doing any good and whether the economy is getting better or worse. Oh, this should be quite a year.

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just thought this was worth repeating.