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Obama Lives Up to His Word
by Ciaran Dubhuidhe
Wednesday, Apr. 01, 2009 at 4:19 AM
Fulfilling his campaign promises, President Obama today signed the “Job Repatriation Act”, imposing tax penalties upon corporations that outsource U.S. jobs overseas.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Fulfilling his campaign promises, President Obama
today signed the “Job Repatriation Act”, imposing
tax penalties upon corporations that outsource U.S. jobs
overseas. An overjoyed Wall Street responded by sending the
DOW up 500 points and US corporate leaders pledged their support for
the American worker. This was just one in a string of
inspiring steps undertaken by the Obama Administration, reaffirming
that his administration would be the change Americans were looking for
when then put him in office last November.
Earlier in the day, President Obama instructed Attorney General Eric
Holder to begin an investigation into war crimes committed by former
president George Bush and his administration. Mr. Bush's
passport was pulled by the Department of State to make it more
difficult for Mr. Bush to flee the country should the Attorney General
decide to press charges. Similar steps were taken to ensure
that John Woo, Former Attorney Generals John Ashcroft and Alberto
Gonzales, former vice president Dick Cheney, and other former officials
were unlikely to flee. On the war front, President Obama
began pulling U.S. Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rumors within the Administration claim that President Obama's next move
will be to legalize drugs in the hope of decreasing drug related
violence and increasing tax revenues. A poll taken today,
April Fools Day, shows that Americans are convinced that President
Obama is a man of his word.
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