Last night, I watched the President address the nation. I don’t mind listening to him because it is very refreshing to have a President who can talk and enunciate the English language.
President Obama has only been in office 6 months. People seem to forget that. They also forget that he inheirited a DEFICIT of $1.3 TRILLION dollars, thanks to the conservative King George. People also forget that, when the King came into office, we had a SURPLUS! This country was like a runaway freight train headed straight to hell. On one car, was the out of control lending practices, on another was the financial health of the banks, another car had the economy on it and another car had out of control Medicare costs that kept rising, with no end in sight. Recession was slowly taking over this runaway freight train, and the King ignored it until his last 3 months in office. The fiasco of Iraq was sucking BILLIONS of borrowed dollars down the drain with no end in sight.
When Obama took office, he hit the ground running, trying to lasso this runaway freight train to slow it down. Remember, this train had been running and gaining speed for eight years. It is going to take far more than a couple of months to bring it to a halt. Republicans and those Democrats who come up for re-election in 2010, do not want to be a part of the lasso that slows the train down. In fact, even the leader of the Republican Party, the pill-popping Rush Limbaugh, has stated that he wants Obama and his policy’s to fail, and will do everything he can to influence his brethern to carry out his wishes.
See, the military-Industrial complex, along with the out-of-control Drug industry and Oil companies contribute HUGE sums of money to the campaigns and personal wealth of these individuals. Do you think any Republican Senator or conservative Democrat is going to bite the hands that gives them MILLIONS of dollars and perks by voting to reign in this runaway train? Not in my lifetime they won’t! It is called “greed”…simple as that. Greed is what makes this country run. When you have those individuals who surface and try to rein in this greed, they are called socialists (what do you think Social Security is?)
President Obama’s healthcare reform plan is only ONE part of this economy that needs fixing. To do nothing, or to let Rush and his co-horts have their way, would be a disaster for this country. Republicans don’t like to lose (they did). They don’t like not being in control of everything (they aren’t) They don’t like not being able to have their way (they can’t) and it infuriates them to no end! Just read anything by Ann Coulter. (She is either the most sexually frustrated woman in America or she wakes up laughing every morning)
President Obama did not cause these gigantic problems. He is trying to correct them by slowing down the frieght train. Stock market has stayed between 8000 and 9000, which means it has more or less leveled out. Some banks have begun paying back some of their bailout money. This could not have happened if no bailout money was given them. If these banks would have failed, from coast to coast, you would have witnessed a major disaster. If there is no healthcare reform, you WILL witness and your children will witness a medical disaster in this country.
