Obama 100 Days

"So -- so, you know, when you -- when you see, you know -- you know, those of you who are watching certain news channels, that -- on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we’re going to stabilize Social Security. Claire and I are working diligently to do basically a thorough audit of federal spending. But let’s not play games and pretend that the reason is that because of the recovery act, because that’s just a fraction of the overall problem that we’ve got."-Barack Obama (1)

Recovery Act=787 Billion Tax Payers Dollars (2)

White House Press Secretary Roberty Gibbs: "Well, look, I think that one of the main purposes of a task force like this is to orient the policies of this government going forward more toward the demands and the needs of the middle class. I think one of the critiques that the President had of the previous administration was a tendency to help those that already had done quite well while many in the middle class were seeing their wages either hold steady or, in many cases, decline. So I think it's important that a task force and a group be assembled to ensure that the policies of this administration are friendly to the American middle class."(3)

(1)(http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000003106438)
(2) http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/29/news/economy/Obama_100_days_analysis/?postversion=2009042906
(3) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press_Briefing_1-30-09/