In Toledo, Obama outlines ‘relief for middle class’
Written by Brandi Barhite | Special Sections Editor | bbarhite@toledofreepress.comSen. Barack Obama promised immediate relief for the middle class during a visit to Downtown Toledo on Oct. 13.
An estimated 3,000 people gathered in the SeaGate Convention Centre to hear from the presidential hopeful, who is staying in Northwest Ohio as he prepares for his final debate against Sen. John McCain.
Obama in Toledo Oct. 13
“I cannot believe I am going to see Barack Obama,” Taina Flores yelled as she waited for Obama.
The 23-year-old Toledo resident brought her two sons to the rally.
“I just feel like they can grow up and be president someday – because of Barack Obama,” she said.
During the rally, Obama proposed a number of steps to immediately stabilize the financial system, provide relief to families and communities and help struggling homeowners.
“Right now, we face an immediate economic emergency … that requires urgent action,” he said. “We can’t wait to help workers and families who are struggling right now ? – who don’t know if their jobs or retirement will be there tomorrow, who don’t know if next week’s paycheck will cover this month’s bills.
“We have to act now. We have to pass an economic rescue plan for the middle class, and we need to do it not five years from now, not next year, we need to do it right now.”
It’s a plan that begins with one word that is on everyone’s mind and it is easy to spell, Obama said, spelling out the word “jobs.”
The country has already lost three-quarters of a million jobs this year; some experts believe unemployment will be 8 percent by the end of next year, he said.
Obama is proposing a new American job credit. Instead of giving tax credits to companies who ship jobs overseas, for each new employee a company hires in the United States during the next two years, a tax break will be given.
The Democrat also wants to eliminate all capital gains taxes on investments in small businesses and startup companies, and he wants to offer additional job incentives to encourage new small businesses.
“It is time to protect the jobs we have and create the jobs of the future,” he said.
Obama told the crowd he wants to extend and expand unemployment benefits for those who are having a hard time finding a job, and while he’s at it stop making those people pay taxes on the benefits. He also proposed a three-month moratorium on foreclosures.
“We need to give people the breathing room to get back on their feet, he said.
Cuyahoga County, OH – 19 Action News has learned of breaking developments in possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud.
In sworn testimony before the Cuyahoga County BOE Monday morning, Freddie Johnson and Christopher Barkley admitted they submitted multiple voter registration cards and were encouraged to do so by ACORN.
The men say they were out on Public Square when they were approached repeatedly by ACORN group workers who told them they would be fired if they didn’t meet a quota of registrations for the day.
Johnson says he signed 73 cards while Barkley claims he signed 13 fraudulent registration forms. The cases will now go to the County Prosecutor, the Sheriff’s Office and the FBI.
Up until this point, ACORN has steadfastly denied any intent of fraud. The group says it has signed up 1.3M poor, hard working-class voters in a mass registration drive in 18 states this year.
This comment was posted on October 13th, 2008 at 8:15 pmWell, Jenny, it is unfortunate that this Community Organization was victimized by unscrupulous workers. I am sure that you feel the pain of an organization of poor people – which pays [by the hour, not by the voter card] for workers who cheat the organization.
But you will be pleased to know that this Community Organization set aside millions of dollars in order to (1) flag and (2) separate out the batches of voter registration cards that this organization believed were likely false.
Why? Because, under the law, this organization is -required- to turn in every voter registration card – as these are legal documents.
The best it could do was to help election officials by flagging bad cards to ward the officials.
I am VERY impressed with this wonderful group representing the poor.
I gave up a high summer salary five years ago between 2nd and third year law school to help this group’s anti-predatory-mortgage-lending program, calling folks out in the Midwest who’d been suckered into loans with huge pre-payment penalties making it impossible to do refinances into lower-interest-rate loans.
It’s one helluva wonderful group – as I am sure you now agree – having been educated to the truth.
It is called the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – and I – a plain old family lawyer – am proud to have done my part to help homeowners through them five years ago.
This comment was posted on October 14th, 2008 at 12:03 amWhat on earth does ACORN have to do with this article? The right-wingers bring up ACORN because neither they nor their nominee McCain have any plan to save our economy.
Obama has the best economic advisors in the country and is the only person who has a plan. We are in trouble, and we need Obama. He understands that if the middle-class is financially healthy the whole country will be. We need a real change from the republican leadership of the past.
Trickle-down economics that started under Reagan and continued with Bush has now been proven to not work. When all of the money goes to the rich it does not trickle down to the rest of us. Obama understands this and he will change this tainted ideology.
We need real change. We need new ideas. We need to help the middle-class and the poor. We need jobs. We need Obama.
This comment was posted on October 14th, 2008 at 1:57 amRE:
Election 2008
In Toledo, Obama outlines ‘relief for middle class’
Written by Brandi Barhite | Special Sections Editor | bbarhite@toledofreepress.com
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Montreal, CANADA, October 4, 2008
TO THE NEXT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEW PRESIDENT:
SIR:
“MAY I CALL YOU “O” ?”
Because of MAIN STREET !
Because of WALL STREET !
Because of the final electoral sprint – ending soon next coming november 2008 – while THE WHOLE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA has its eyes on YOU.
Everyone expects You to be democratically elected and see that something happen in America.
In March 1983, one of humanity’s most famous spokesmen, Pope John Paul II, came to our country – ‘Haîti’ – and loudly proclaimed what each and every one of us had been whispering:
“Something must change here !”
Today, more than ever, a lot of people of The United States of America stand up, longing for something and working to make something happen.
“Go thou America ahead and show us thy true countenance in a positive light.’ It is up to everyone to play his or her part in order to let thee regain thy mark of excellence !”
With this letter, I am communicating with You, SIR, and with the whole people of The United States of America.
You offer this country what it takes to be a ‘Wonderfull Land.’ Yes, let us say ‘with a great people living and working together.’
Go thou, America, go ahead, following in the footsteps of one of thy sons who is now becoming one of thy statesmen.
With this in mind, to whom else could I entrust this letter sent to his Holiness Pope John Paul II when he set foot on Haitian soil for the first time, as well as its acknowledgment by the Vatican?
That letter to Pope John Paul II is intended to draw attention to the problem posed by anti-Black discrimination and its negative repercussions on the advancement of scientific progress in the West, and more precisely in the realm of Optics.
In the Western world, according to Newton’s widely accepted theory, white is considered to be the synthesis of all colors. Actually, the opposite is true. White constitutes the analysis or ‘visible’ decoding of light or color, whereas black is its synthesis or ‘invisible’ composition.
In other words, darkness or blackness and, we might add, “Black Holes’” – a scientific misnomer designating invisible stars or ‘Black Suns’ – are a source of energy and light. Scientifically, Industrially and Economically speaking, what an asset !
That basic raw material of light energy culminates, in its most radiant form, in the neutralization of all the colors of the spectrum in the form of usually called “white light.”
Therefore “absolute blackness”, the absorption of all the colors, is a divisible component of light. Needless to say, Newton’s theory gives only a partial interpretation of the notion of light, by excluding black. Our contribution aims at demonstrating that the black color is not only an integral part of the color process, but its true synthesis. Light is therefore shown to be a divisible whole comprising an intensity or color scale in which black is the invisible or ‘absorbed’ form of the energy in question.
Allow me, SIR, in order to support my statement concerning Black Holes and radiation, to pose a question asked by Hubert Reeves, Doctor of nuclear astrophysics and Scientific Consultant to NASA:
“What would have become of the Sun, if it were plunged into a high temperature radiance like the one that existed at the beginning of the Universe? [our translation]”
“Instead of emitting light, it would absorb it and, in the end, it would be completely reabsorbed into the cosmic fluid.”
The cosmic fluid is what, due to an “optical mistake”, is called “darkness” or the “blackness of Space”. We are talking about the electromagnetic flux, that immeasurable ocean in which the planets and stars are bathed, like the sea which links all the continents together. Darkness is thus “The Sea of Space.”
“What would have happened if, instead of an ordinary star like the “White Sun”, a Black Hole or “Black Sun” were injected into that primordial radiation?”
“According to Einsteinian Physics, a Black Hole is a place where gravity is so formidably intense that nothing can escape it, not even visible light. Such a hole should suck in and absorb radiation and increase its own mass: E=MC2, always.”
“But after Einstein came Bohr, Heisenberg, and Quantum Physic. From then on, nothing was the same as before.”
“The Einsteinian version of the Black Hole is equivalent to a statement that the matter inside the Black Hole is definitely there to stay, in that volume of space. Let us quote Hubert Reeves: “Such an absolute statement is thus contrary to the “Quantum spirit”, affirming that nothing is definitely localized in one place. There is always a probability of escape. If the enclosing wall is too high, a tunnel will be dug; if the prisoners are patient, they will escape. One has only to wait.” [our translation]
“According to that principle, Black Holes “evaporate”. Matter constantly escapes as radiation. Black Holes “shine!” Their surfaces behave like those of any body heated to a certain temperature and that radiation endlessly feeds that marvelous “Cosmic Fluid” which, wrongly and in bad faith, people keep calling “Darkness.”
Nigra sum “sed” formosa!
Yes, but should we not say instead, I am black “and” comely?
Darkness, which is both source and vehicle of light, does not have to defend itself for being the beautiful and infinitely discreet raw material of the Universe. Darkness is the “Mother of the Universe.”
Also, beautiful and discreet art thou, Haiti. Discreet, yes, but never outshone! Just like the Black Virgin who inspires and sheds her love on thee from the hilltop and even beyond Cité Soleil (Sun City).
Our purpose was to offer a more constructive approach aiming at correcting the abusive traditional, so-called scientific, theories of Optics.
It’s like to say that in the exceptional circumstances in which we live today – in the point of view of FINANCE and ENERGY – no exploration in the mid or long term, by the american expertise , of an additional source of energy, at the same time safe and economically profitable, should not be ruled out.
That is why, we wrote to that authentic witness to the signs of this age, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the prophet of the new era.
Congratulations to You, Sir, and congratulations to the PEOPLE of The United States Of America – for having made it possible for this day of November to come – to mark the beginning of a “New Era of Hope !”
Lucien Bonnet
PLease, SEE :
This comment was posted on October 14th, 2008 at 2:02 amLETTER TO POPE JOHN-PAUL II
in ‘BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca