Nick Ragone Discusses President Obama's Primetime Address
Hot on the heels of two primetime interviews and a press conference, Nick Ragone joined PIX’s John Muller to discuss President Barack Obama’s media presence.
Being the president’s second primetime address in two months, Ragone said the President is running the risk of becoming overexposed primarily because this address did nothing to add to his presence.
Ragone goes on to say that President Obama’s icy response to a question about AIG is the first time the public has seen him lose his cool in the past two months. The word "waffle" came up when discussing Obama’s plan for middle class tax cuts when Ragone pointed out that this issue is something to watch in the coming years.
Ragone also says that Obama’s avoidance of the topic of America adding $7 trillion worth of deficit in the next 10 years could be cause for further scrutiny.
Nick Ragone is a political author and a regular contributor to PIX11 Morning News.
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Comments: 1
Hi, Mr. President, I'm Joe Rodgers
Instead of continuously giving hundreds of billions of dollars to these big businesses that keep failing and wasting the public's money. It seems to me that if the President takes a little less than one hundred billion and distribute it evenly to every legal adult who has paid into the taxes of America at some piont, lets say for argument sake that's about two hundred million people. every qualifying person would get around four hundred thousand dollars. And that's not even tax free, so after taxes people will come away with about two hundred and eighty-ninty dollars. Now my math might be slightly off, but it would be a nation wide party. That money would go into banks, saving homes from foreclosers, buying cars, electronics, down payment on houses and repairs as well as so many other things. Then those other moneys (the remaining six hundred billion) can go to fixing the country's infrastucture. Roads, bridges, mass transit and many other more important things besides lining the pockets of the wealthy three percent of the populous.
The middle class continues to get hit repeatedly by institutions who keep making bad finantial decisions, the government fights over how much of those billions of bail-out funds they can manage to detour into their personal intrests and the economy struggles to make gains. It might just be that the people of the United States, by spending money, along with the President passing laws prevented price gouging and not allowing a situation like this one to ever happen again. Could be a solution that no one in the government will ever let come to pass, especially the republicans. But even some demacrats are guilty of selfish, single-minded thinking idiologies.
All of you are supposed to be working for our best interests, but it looks more like our representatives fight harder for special intrest groups. Where were all these opposing voices when Bush was spending trillions on a war that only benefited the rich. We never did find those Weapons of Mass Destruction. In closing Mr. President, what makes this idea a non-viable one? Through my eyes, it would be an almost over-night solution....Thanks for listening.