Well last night confused me. Either there is a space time continuum where we have gone back in time to before the election, when Obama was campaigning or he interrupted my prime time television watching for a speech that was just...oh what did he say he was fighting against....oh yeah "more of the same". It was a campaign speech filled with all kinds of "what he is going to do" rather than how he is going to do and more importantly, how are we going to pay for it all. He is a brilliant orator, I will give him that. So everyone gets all warm and tingly from his speech but forgets to actually listen to him! Last night was an example of this. There were so many times when he was wrong and flat out lied and everyone was oblivious.
To stand in front of Congress and television audiences and say there are no earmarks in the stimulus package is a slap to the face. It is also a blatant lie and everyone with a brain knows better! And it infuriates me to hear the job creation/job saved statistics when even people in his administration, economists, have said this isn't 100% accurate. And you cant determine how many jobs saved because you don't know who was in danger of loosing their jobs. For example, this week I didn't get fired. Does that mean that the stimulus saved my job? No way to determine that.
Other inaccuracies. You really think this trillion dollar stimulus is the only spending he is going to do in his first and hopefully only term? If he makes a claim about being able to cut the deficit in half based on what the deficit is now then he is not telling the whole truth. There was the home bail out package and another 4oo billion legislation coming through and we all know its not the end. So in four years, the deficit will probably be doubled. So what good is it to bring down half of what it is now and claim victory? It will merely be a drop in the bucket. And to tell us he will do it by cutting the troops in Iraq so we aren't spending money there is a farce because he already sent 170000 troops to Afghanistan. Do you think that will be free? Or over soon? No. In the end more troops will deploy and it will cost a fortune and all the democrats will shut up about the deployments because technically we pulled out of Iraq. I don't see the tree huggers up in arms about this move! I also saw Pelosi stand up and applaud whenever Obama mentioned strengthening the military. She is the biggest anti-military proponent of all!
All of his ideas are great and if they all were to happen then we would be in a better place. But they are all unrealistic and never going to happen. But what will happen is a ton of money and resources will be spent on things that will never fly and it will always be someone else's fault. You cant switch all medical offices to electronic filing on the cheap or overnight. You cant make health care government owned like the banks and now the car industry. And you cant tell us that 95% of Americans are getting a tax break when it is a mere $8-$13 a month until $800 has been reached. That isn't going to so squat! If you get $13 a paycheck and you are excited about that, then you need a new job!
The problem is that he wants to secure his place in history as a president in the same veins as Lincoln or FDR. Obama clearly loves being President. His flowery language and sound bites are proof of that. A good sound bite does not a good president make! He needs to do rather than say. Its going to be a long 3 years and 11 months!
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