I eat hot dogs and beans all the time without feeling dreadfully sorry for myself. What is wrong with hot dogs and beans? Add some veggies and it's a complete meal. Most small kids love 'em and she has two kids. It's not like hot dogs and beans are ramen noodles. If she thinks hot dogs and beans are too lowly for her family, put the kids in public school, that ought to save her family a few thousand a year, minimum. I mean, it's hard to accept complaints from a gainfully employed person paying two private school tuitions when so many are without jobs and certainly without the means to put their kids in private schools.

Obama is doing a fantastic job given the circumstances that were handed to him. No other president in the history of the United States has taken office with a recession/depression and TWO wars. All these delusional people thought "change" met magic, I guess they thought Obama was going to start pulling bunnies out of hats. Bush practically left this country bankrupt and now they want to blame him.

You know I think the Republicans are smarter than I thought. When I saw that McCain picked Sarah Palin I thought he was an idiot but now I think he did it purposely so he wouldn't win because he knew that no president would be able to fix this in one term. So they made sure Obama won so they could have a scapegoat for their mistakes.

Look at Obama's record he's done everything he's set out to do under the worst circumstances possible. Eight years of Bush's failed policies and people thought Obama would fix it in under 2 years, let's be realistic. Look at the problems that got us into this mess and whenever they started blame that administration. Obama's just trying to fix the mess and it took more than two years to get into this mess and it will take more to get us out.

WE GET IT! "Look at the circumstances that were handed to him!" and "The past 8 years gave us....". Bush was an ABHORRENT President, who strongly contributed to why everything is so fucked up (so did Clinton)...but Obama is now the president... stop with these lines.

And this woman's issue is that Obama's ideas are HORRIBLE! They're the exact same as Bush's! And, the most criticism-worthy part about them is that they make no sense whatsoever.

Nothing has been fixed at all. The government has artificially infused tax-payer money to prop up businesses that should have failed and exited our system. Now, instead of a real estate bubble, Obama is slowly creating a currency bubble. Watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE&feature=player_embedded

Just another example of how 'Statistics' can lie!

(Quote Mark Twain: "There are 'lies'; 'damned lies'- and then there are 'statistics'!"

I am watching the American Economy (previously based 70% in 'Consumerism') slowly grinding to a halt. . . because the American population is NOT spending any money due to a lack of either a job- or confidence; OR BOTH!

What a joke the Obama 'Ad-min-a-stray-shun' be!!

Thanks for sharing most informative article.

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Is that lady another one of those black teabaggers I keep hearing about? (Yes, I'm serious.)

Lame response from Obama. He waited a year to enforce credit card laws, during which time, they all jacked up the rates. And give me a break about mortgages: what's the point of cracking down when banks won't even lend the money in the first place? And sorry lady, I don't see how America is supposed to feel sorry for a gainfully employed CFO.

CFO and private school for the kiddies?

Something tells me she WOULDN'T feel:

student loan programs (Aw, can't get that loan for Harvard and Brown? Try living a life where you can't even send your kids to community college.)

laws affecting the credit card companies (being a CFO in Washington I would hope you wouldn't ever have to feel how it is to use credit cards for groceries)

and mortgage brokers (like someone pointed out, it isn't the color of the skin but the color of the money).

Lady, you aren't middle class. The hot dogs and beans era for you was a bit easier when there were a million or less people in this country vying for the same piece. You wouldn't be able to feel anything all the way up the ladder. Sit down, continue to defend the statute because you should be happy to live the american dream.

It cut off Obama's explanation, I'm curious if he brought up his health care bill or not.

Clearly she's racist.

yeah, blame obama. I want to know who are these people you know who you need to defend the president.

be thankful you have a job. invest in lead.

ticker symbol Pb?

Obamunists turning cannibal?

Anyone who still has a job should be thankful his or her lives weren't "touched" by Obama & Pelosi. Forget "jobs created or saved" with ever lowered expectations. Being merely tickled by 0 counts as blessing now. Unemployment doubled under rule of SF & Chi-town gangsters. In some parts tripled. Raaaacists must not work.

I'm not even going to bother watching the video. as if were so easy to lay all the blame at obamas feet.

the standard of living in the US has been dropping for all but the richest people for the last 30 years. the gap between the rich and poor has been growing for the same amount of time...on top of that massive amounts of wealth are being moved overseas as part of globalization...blue collar jobs, white collar jobs...it doesnt matter...

You'd have to make a half a million a year to have the standard of living someone working in the navy yard in the the 1950s used to have. this is just how it is.

while you were getting hysterical about mosques or lady gaga...the rich done took the your childrens future and your American dream walked off with it.

you can blame Obama or whome ever you want, but I aint got no sympathy for ya.

And why do you think those jobs have moved overseas? Cause the rich just HATE Americans?

No, it's because the cost of doing business on American soil has become far too high. Between labor unions and their benefits, high taxes for businesses, etc, it just makes more sense to move overseas where they can operate more profitably.

What has Obama done about that? He's expanded health insurance and made it mandatory for small business employers, he's placed greater regulation on financial institutions, and now he's talking about raising the Capital Gains Tax. How do ANY of those ideas help domestic employment?

We need to focus on making domestic production and business more attractive in this country, not less.

until America becomes a third world country it will ALWAYS be cheaper to move operations overseas to third world countries.

think about it....

this attack on worker rights, work benifits, blamming them for corporate greed is not logical.

the top 10% of americans are richer than ever before. ceos of us companies are making 300 times what the avg employee makes...the highest ever...corporate taxes are the lowest in 50 years...taxes on the wealthy are the lowest in 50 years...

we need to CLOSE our system and stop pretending that globalization (us companies moving overseas) isnt bad for 90% of americans.

At least she's still working.

Arroz y Frijoles cheap and tasty.

hot dogs and beans? talk to us when it's vienna sausages and rice.

Quite frankly, you misspoke Madame. Gray's Papaya is the new reality of our lives.