Is this Change?
As a die hard long time Conservative, I have no respect for what Obama stands for, his policies, his whatever.
I do have to say he ran one heck of a camapign, he had a slogan, one that was easily sung, spoken and people who were sick of GWB wanted change, anyone with a pulse would have done it for some. They maybe wanted Hillary, but I think her sex and her known persona hurt her….yeah I know I posted sex and Hillary in the same sentence. That will make me hurl later..
To those who voted for Obama, did you get what you wanted? Has he made your life easier, has what he done so far be something that you went”Yeah thats what I wanted”? I have noticed he has had to back track on some campaign slogans, It is every politician’s job to get re-elected, yeah its a couple of years away…..I get that, but rest assured. Obama does not want to give my side ammunition to go at him with. I doubt he has been all that most expected. I didn’t see housing foreclosures decrease, I haven’t seen people get jobs from the pork laden stimulus package. Have you?
In 2010, unless the economy gets a lot better, and people are working again, the two year spend a thon will be cut short by my party reaping the spoils of his failure. Some about Obama remind me of Carter, I wonder if he will continue that path?
Is he all what you wanted him to be?
4 Responses to “Is this Change?”
John
Do you really believe that whatever party was in power would simply stand by and watch a potential waterfall of financial institutions fail? We could have seen our economy simply go over a cliff during the last half of 2008.
I just don’t see it. Bush desperately wanted to make sure the car companies survived him. Bush created Tarp. McCain would have done about what Obama has done and the dems would carp about it like the pubs have done. It’s the typical Washington foodfight.
We spent 2001-2006 creating less than 1% GDP growth per year after you remove MEW (mortgage equity withdrawals) from GDP. So we have lived above our means for a long time. Real wage growth for the middle class has been anemic for the last 9 years. The corporations have accumulated more of a share of our national wealth than at any time since the 20’s.
The idea that Obama or McCain or anyone else for that matter can/could fix this mess in a few months is silly. We have long term structural problems in our economy that existed before Obama arrived.
I don’t think McCain would have wasted the stimulus money on liberal expansions of government. He probably would have done a combination of tax rebates for immediate influx and a program to set us on a path of energy independence. I don’t think the rebate checks would do that much but the long-term policy of opening up natural gas and domestic oil reserves would. I also think he would have addressed the housing price issue for good or bad, something Obama really has not. On the car companies, I don’t think the UAW would be getting a sweetheart deal. On spending, I think you’d see some serious cuts of various programs.
Donald,
The car companies were DOOMED when Bush was in his last days, and they survived long enough to pay the unions one last sweetheart deal. GM should have already been in bankruptcy, the delay shows that it was just a money grab.
Obama is a socialist, even borders on communist in his ideas and his way of business. The real question now is what is being proposed going to help the country out of the hole its in? Or will it fall further in.
The billions of tax payer dollars dumped into the bail outs, stimulus bill that didn’t do crap, are just throwing money away.
Jobs being created that are long term, not temporary will turn it around. Not promise to turn it around. Obama has been a failure so FAR. I don’t expect agreement, its just how I see him. If the news media was not so firmly in his pocket maybe we would see how bad he has done.
Adding on to John’s statement,
The Obama administration is also inflating it’s claims of created jobs, by including temp summer jobs. Apparently Geithner believes that 2 temporary summer jobs= 1 permanent job. Tell that to the families that have no income in September.