Originally Posted by PornMD

He is painting banks and businesses failing as the huge problem that will seriously fuck us up when the real issue is our monetary system - we're printing money that we don't have to fix all these issues, bailing out businesses that dug their own holes, people that lived beyond their means, etc. until what will eventually happen? The rest of the world will realize that we're creating more and more money from thin air and will start seriously devaluing the dollar, at which point we'll be absolutely screwed for a long time. It's actually really amazing given the kind of money we've already thrown at banks that this hasn't already happened.

Obama is trying to treat a bullet wound with a band-aid (there's probably a better analogy than that). Seriously though, the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, the TARP, this stimulus package...all of it happened through inciting fear first. Obama didn't just say we have serious economic issues that need to be fixed - he essentially made it seem like if the stimulus package wasn't passed that the REAL problems would begin. But oh yea, the real problems have already been happening and will continue to happen with the stimulus not doing a damn thing to solve them. The one good thing the bill would have done, capping executive pay, got quietly removed before it was signed. I wonder how many average Americans even know that after the public display of politicians doing the right thing and adding that in the bill prior to it being taken out. This is the kind of sick shit they're doing.