When are we going to hear something new?

I listened to Obama's new speech this morning on Fox News and I didn't hear anything new. Personally I think he just may be getting set up to fall on his face by someone that would profit big time by a total crash. The very most what he is talking about could do is just delay a major crash. No matter how many he can put to work at some point these government sponsored jobs have to end. This will put these workers out of jobs again and we will be right back where we started. For one thing it is going to take a lot more than a $T to put 3 million people to work. 1 million people making an average of $8 and hour figures over $15 billion a year. That is just a drop in the bucket compared to what materials will cost to keep them all busy. Grant you what Obama is saying sounds good if you are not really listening. The big wigs that caused this now find themselves in bad need of a fall guy and I think Obama is it. I believe our economy has been hit so hard in the past couple of years nothing is going to stop it from a total crash. If Obama is in office when it happens he takes the blame. No I didn't hear anything new and I don't believe we are going to either. Art

In essence he is keeping his fingers crossed that with issuing money in some sort of fashion through alternative means it looks like he is doing something new (providing the believe of 'hope' that it'll work) and that it either somehow miraculously works or sustains itself long enough until real economic recovery sets in or at the very least until he has one the re-election. The stimulus checks didn't work, the tax credit will do even less. It's less money, it's not a permanent tax reduction (but people will see tax reduction over a long period of time as in like $10 to $20 per pay check, and they'll think it is), and it will not reach people in a timely manner. It's $500 per person who earns a paycheck. Yes, for spouses, if both work, it's $1,000. But if not, or for the self-employed, the tax reduction won't take effect until tax time. That would be sometime next year. It's all a bridge he hopes doesn't crash too early, because once he is in office blaming Bush will only go so far before people will point the finger at him. I don't envy him. He made promises he very well knew latest by late summer he couldn't fulfill. We are in a slump and there is no miracle cure that'll overnight drag us out of there. But to pretend there is one and without his measures we won't get out... well, that's an entire hornets nest he is getting ready to sit in.

my opinion is he hasn't even gotten into office yet geez give him a break. He has to get in office then sit down and iron out the details with his staff before he can tell the people what that plan is.