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Title: Obama vows swift action to revive US economy

By MIRA OBERMAN

CHICAGO (AFP) — President-elect Barack Obama vowed swift action to revive the stricken US economy through aggressive government intervention Monday as he named some of “the best minds in America’’ to his economic team.

Recovery will not come overnight but there is not a “minute to waste,’’ Obama said as he lost little time in unveiling a heavyweight team of economic lieutenants headed by Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary and including ex-Treasury boss Larry Summers as a top adviser.

At his second news conference since his election triumph on Nov. 4, Obama said the US economy was trapped in a “vicious cycle’’ but touted a plan to create 2.5 million jobs through a spending spree on national infrastructure.

Obama nominated Geithner to take charge of the Treasury and its $ 700-billion bailout for troubled financial institutions as the US administration announced its latest rescue deal, this time for Citigroup.

Vowing to uphold President George W. Bush’s farreaching market commitments, Obama said: ‘’We’ll need to bring together the best minds in America to guide us and that is what I’ve sought to do in assembling my economic team.’’

The President-elect, who takes office on Jan. 20, said his team offered ‘’a depth of experience and a wealth of bold new ideas,’’ with the understanding ‘’that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.’’

Obama reaffirmed that he would not allow the embattled US auto industry ‘’simply to vanish,’’ but vowed no ‘’blank check’’ for a government bailout without long-term changes from the Detroit manufacturers.

Geithner, 47, brings upclose experience of the financial crisis, having executed the US central bank’s burst of market activity from his perch atop the New York Fed.

The former Treasury official ‘’will start his first day on the job with a unique insight into the failures of today’s markets — and a clear vision of the steps we must take to revive them,’’ Obama said.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson lauded his designated successor for having been ‘’critical’’ to the administration’s attempts to shore up a battered Wall Street, including in the bailouts of Bear Stearns and insurance giant AIG.

Geithner also received fulsome praise from the White House after taking part in talks to craft a $ 20billion rescue deal for Citigroup announced earlier by the Bush administration.

‘’He’s obviously exceptionally talented and very smart and ably led the New York Fed these past number of years,’’ White House spokesman Tony Fratto said.

Obama meanwhile touted Summers, 53, as ‘’one of the great economic minds of our time’’ as he named Bill Clinton’s blunt-talking final Treasury secretary as director of the powerful National Economic Council.

Obama scheduled another press conference for Tuesday, where further economic appointments were expected along with more details of a planned stimulus package that some reports said could top $ 700 billion.

The appointments could include his pick for commerce secretary with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson reportedly in line for the job of promoting domestic industry.

The stimulus package should be ‘’enacted right away’’ by the new Congress in January, Obama said.

He declined to reveal the cost but said: ‘’It is going to be of a size and scope that is necessary to get this economy back on track.’’

Despite the risk of stunningly high budget deficits, Obama vowed to keep his campaign promise to cut taxes for 95 percent of working Americans by raising taxes on the richest, but stopped short of elaborating a timeline.

Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: ‘’Congress stands ready to work with the new President on his bold plan to restore confidence to our economy.’’

House Republican leader John Boehner said that while he looked forward to working with Obama’s economic team, the US public did ‘’not believe increasing government spending is the best way to put our economy back on track.’’

With the main economic players in place, Obama is expected soon to fill out his national security posts and select a secretary of state — with former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton hotly tipped to serve as diplomat-in-chief.

Susan Rice, an Obama campaign advisor and a former assistant secretary of state for African affairs, has emerged as the leading candidate to be nominated for the US ambassador to the United Nations, ABC News reported.

JUNESU(: asked:


Hi. I have only a few Carla Craft paper punches and was wondering what card designs i can do with them. Please state a website that i can refer to for christmas, easter… card designs. pls nn thank you

Genesee asked:


Hello,
What are the laws or liscenses needed to sell home baked items in the state of Ohio? I would mainly be starting at Farmer’s Markets and craft shows. My reason for asking is that I have a web-site all about chocolate. I have had many requests for products to sell. I have also been asked to participate in a chocolate festival in which requires that each vendor pass out samples. Can anyone give me any information about this?

Thanks Alot!
Genesee from The-Chocolate-Spot

esro asked:


So my mom wants a “craft” for christmas. For example: she made my sister a us map with each state made out of a piece of a licence plate from that state. I have no clue what to make! She loves pottery, she loves sparrows and doves, her family…I need something truly original, unique and amazing that will awe her. I am crafty but can’t think of a project. My sister made her a purse, my other sister made her a colloge or something. Thanks for your help!!!
Sorry but I have already done a keepsake box, coasters and a scrapbook. I want something really amazing and not tacky or corny

you dont know me asked:


I need information on the priorties of the United States budget, including the impact on poltics of crafting a budget.
Even giving me links to where I could find this information would be very helpful. Thank you!

White Organic Polish Princess asked:


I am in charge of coming up with an idea for a door hanger for our hotel rooms when we go to the state tournament in June.

We’re making door hangers, about 18″ X 18″ with a softball theme. They are for 9-10 yr old girls who like the latest stuff yet are not afraid to get their shoes dirty. They should be inexpensive and easy to make by us moms this next weekend with stuff we can get at Hobby Lobby (a big craft store in Texas) or Wal-Mart.

We already have the white foam boards too, so we just need an idea to decorate them and a border idea. You all always help with great answers! Thanks in advance!

Patrick S asked:


I have a ged and want to join the united states airforce i just want to be general enlistment and join then maybe down the road become and air craft mechanic but can i join the air force and how

J??hua W?sh Bûrn asked:


Prove the christian god wrong?
Prove evolution wrong?
Complety know the reason for all man kinds existece?
Tell you who jesus really is?
Prove black holes exist?
Therotical come up with a statment that says what lies in a black hole?
Know how to travel at ultimate speeds with out hurting any one inside of the a craft doing so?

Does that make the 17 year old enlightened?
Yet he sits in front of the computer typing up books and questions, while sipping root beer.
Do not attempt to judge, unless you have the evidence to back up the sentence.
Everything is real, every thing you see is real.
That does not make it the truth.
Everything is rational in your own perspective, rationality is not truth.

You judge on your own imagination based on logic, on the appearance of the “situation”. Even the “situation” is a judgmental state with in ones mind.
Its all how you look at the situation!
I am under edcucated so the answer is not SMART…
I am not attempting to brag.
I would just like to know if you think that enlightment for a 17 year old is possible.
I mean how can you know if your enlightened?
Maybe only the enlightened should know?

Don Quijote de la Mancha asked:


She’s 35, and she has stated to me that she got a divorce in 2007 because she claims that her ex-husband cheated on her and had a child with the woman with whom he was allegedly having the affair.

Anyhow, she has an average house, and she is an intelligent person. I’ve been up-front with her about everything in my life, to the point of being “painfully honest” about all of my shortcomings and faults. Yet, she is very, very secretive about many aspects of her life, and I just do not understand it completely.

We have been intimate, but we haven’t officially had sexual relations “in the traditional sense.” I stayed at her house a few weekends ago, and then last weekend, I stayed at her house for the entire weekend. During the last day, I went to take a shower, and she told me not to go into one of the rooms in her house. During the night, I could have sworn that I faintly heard movement in the house, and when I asked her that I wanted to see what was in the room, she said no. I could not understand what she could have been hiding for me to have not seen what was in this room, and it is still bothering me. She told me (no joke) in a facitious way that she “had a dead body in there” and that I would have to forfeit my handgun if I wanted to see what was inside the room (I have a Glock that I have a permit to carry, and she has handguns as well). Anyhow, I never did see the room, but I am very, very suspicious of her secretive behaviour, especially considering the occasional noises that I would hear – - it kind of sounded like someone was trying to walk around without trying to arouse suspicion.

Then, this weekend, she told me that she was going on a trip with her friends to a craft and gun show. However, she refused to tell me the names of her friends, like it was some kind of state secret or something! Then, she calls me up on my cell phone, and tells me that she had to return home because of an argument that errupted between 3 of these alleged anonymous “friends” of hers. I asked her where she was on the road (because we were going to meet at her house, which is an hour away from my house) and she would not tell me where she was! We still agreed to meet at her place, so I drove to her house about 2 hours later following our telephone conversation. I only wanted to know so that I could leave my house at the right time, which is over an hour away from her place. Anyhow, we met at her place and ate at an Applebees, went for a walk in a park, went back to her place, and I gave her a back massage in her bedroom. But she still would not tell me what was in that other bedroom, and I still had a creepy feeling about what was on the other side of that wall.

I realize that some privacy is ok, but I think that her behaviour regarding this secrecy and “off-limits areas” of her house is not normal, and I am very concerned, to say the least.

About 3 weeks ago, she told me that she had a background check done on me before we went out on our first date. We met on eharmony.

Why would a 35 year old woman who is seeking a relationship act so secretive if there wasn’t anything to hide? I am certain that I don’t know any of her friends, so why doesn’t she want me to know the names of her friends? Do you believe that I should stop seeing her? Do you think she’s fooling around with other people, or that this behaviour is just a little quirk? For me, this goes beyond something innocent, like having “a junk room” or a messy room that she is ashamed of – - it is as if she has something in that room that she wants to hide from me.

Your advice is sincerely appreciated.

Thanks.

P P asked:


http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/China-State-Media-Reports-Successful-Lift-Off-For-Shenzhou-VII-Space-Craft-Hours-Early/Article/200809415107689?f=rss

Is it any wonder they want to control the internet in their country? — it is such a shame western companies are prepared to ********** our principals for the yellow dollar.
Did you guys follow the link?

The chinese broadcast a bogus report and later applogised.

This is after their ‘fake’ child singing at the olypics opening ceremony…