Word on the street
(Last updated: 11/06/08 11:07pm)Question: What changes, if any, do you think Barack Obama will bring?
Gorch
Seaborn
Al-Attiya
Gibson
Yuan
Rolle
Stermer
Quinnett
“Increase funding for scientific research and greater public awareness of science.”
Fei Yuan
physics freshman
“I think that we’re just going to have overall better health care. We’ll have a better connection to other foreign places and countries.”
Amy Gibson
English senior
“I think it’s good to have a strong figure leading the United States. Somebody that, even if things are going wrong, make the people feel like everything’s all right. “
Abdullah Al-Attiya
chemical engineering senior
“Our foreign policies (and) we’ll probably get out of Iraq. I believe a lot of our allies will be more on the same page with us now.”
Mark Stermer
environmental economics and policy senior
“Hopefully Wall Street will go up and be doing better, but honestly, I really don’t know what to expect.”
Jacqueline Gorch
communication junior
“Honestly, I think he talks a lot. I mean, I know he probably has good intentions, but I think sometimes he promises so much.”
Lauren Quinnett
telecommunication, information studies and media freshman
“I definitely think he will have a nice plan for our economy. What exactly about our economy? Who knows because everything is basically shot up right now … “
Carlton Rolle
interdisciplinary humanities senior
“He needs to bring his strongness to the economy to build us back up before like when Bill Clinton was there.”
Kimberly Seaborn
family and child ecology senior
Originally Published: 11/06/08 10:32pm
Reality check
11/07/08 8:11amObama definitely does have a lot of good intentions, but good intentions don’t run a nation. Increasing government control and people’s dependence on government does not foster the pioneering spirit our country was built on. It encourages people to produce less because they’ll be taken care of regardless. It would be beautiful if every man woman and child could have health care, but the bottom line is that someone has to pay for it, and people who don’t pull their weight are covered by taxing people who work to earn a living.
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SoCal Spartan
11/07/08 10:59amI love the way people blow reality away and maintain their negative outlook on things. Reality check, tune into reality! Why don’t you look at the President Elects website BarackObama.Com!
Who Knows
11/07/08 6:13pmWhat Obama SAYS he’ll do doesn’t mean he will do it. The reality is that our country is really crummy right now and there are ideas in Obama’s PlayBook that will fail in our economy today. Its a matter of being able to just improve a few things that is key. Throwing completely new policies into our country will only make things worse.
llama
11/08/08 10:43pmI don’t see why it is such big news what kind of dog Obama will get. Obama should skip getting a dog and instead get a lama with a bell around its neck. Then it would be Obama lama ding dong..
00Alum
11/09/08 10:58amSoCal(led) Spartan – Great Idea if you want the truth go to Obama’s website. I’m sure that will be an excellent unbiased resource, dumbass. I wish everyone would stop crying about the economy and pick up their skirt and find the opportunity out there. Obama is fine, but you can’t hang your hopes on one guy that promises the world. Even he admitted in the last days of his campaign that he wasn’t going to be able to do everything he said.
LansingTrucker
11/09/08 1:06pmObama is on his way to screwing up, bring Governor Tax increase (Granholm) on to his team. Granholm has single handley destroy Michigan economy, and Obama called her the Example. So that means He is going to increase our Taxes, if Granholm is the example pull your money out of banks and hide your guns. What are all of you Liberals and Democrats going to do when Obama fellowes her plan of destroying Michigan to the whole Nation…… Obama is now changing his tone and his promises, he used the young liberals and 600 million to gain the office of President.
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LansingTrucker
11/09/08 1:19pmDid nto the Liberal AP even say his promises are no Doable at Best
Jen
11/10/08 12:35amI do question how Obama being as smart as he is, with all of the strategists he has…..why on earth would he want Gov Grandhom? She is terrible. Remember last year around this time??? Budgets were the issues, and that the state actually shut down for a few hours….because everyone was bluffing, refussing to cut things that needed to be cut, and then came up with the brilliant service tax idea, as well as other taxes being retroactive for the first of the year….my husband and I own a small business….but then the government changed their minds on it at the last minute after everyone was so confused and mad.
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