The stock market is up, but only on days that Obama doesn't make some kind of speech talking about all the plans he has. So far I give him a "D", but then again, I didn't vote for him in the first place. With the economy being what it is, it's too bad Romney dropped out too early. He would have been able to fix some of it.
Certainly isn't the change I wanted, but it is the change I expected. I'm still giving him a chance, but I become more and more concerned when I see no reaction to North Korea shooting test missiles, south and west. Another bill pushed through congress (climate), without anyone reading it. Now Health Care!
I just keep hearing "I want some more", "Do it Now".
Now this is what I think of as policy by "fear mongering".
The change is not what we need, nor what most people wanted nor expected. If he continues much longer, it might be impossible to reverse. Congress needs to pull back on the reigns and start passing smart legislation, not just knee-jerk stuff with hollow promises and no chance for success. This country is on a downward spiral, and we need to stop it soon or it'll be too late. Does that sound like an alarmist? Sorry, didn't mean for it to sound that way.
My problem is this -- everyone, and I mean everyone, that I asked about the change they were looking for before the election said that they just didn't want another eight years of Bush -- well, they've won that point, no more Bush! Most of them also said that we needed change to fix the economy - but I couldn't get any of them (before the election) to give me an outline of his plan - now they are hopeful it will work, but they still don't understand it. A lot of them told me that healthcare needed change, but none of them could tell me what he planned to do about it. They still can't tell me. So my problem is - no one really knows, even now, what the change is supposed to be! But we call all see that it's not working and we're getting worse, not better - both domestically and internationally.
This is great, either the "progressives" have abandoned us or they are too embarrassed to admit that Obama isn't quite measuring up to all that hope and change he promised them. I'm rather surprised you all aren't out here defending his honor.
F8th, this is NOT the first time that there has been no time to read the bills.....remember when hypocrite pelosi took over, she rammed through bills, which some then said they had "no time to read".....except the Reps, which pelosi locked out of the debate and voting for the first 100 hours, who DID have time to review the bills, and oh yeah, caught the back room fingers-in-the-cookie-jar deal that pelosi tried to get through.....
So much for her CLAIMS of being the most bi-partisan and ethical Speaker in history.....I am sure it was - just coincidence - that the company that donated large sums of money to her campaign, and where her husband owned MILLIONS of dollars of stock, and which is headquartered in her voting district, would ALSO have benefited from the deal to the tune of several Million dollars where they would NOT have had to pay minimum wage to workers picking pineapples.....
Wait a minute, where were the UNIONS during that back-room deal?
Everyone needs to wake up. Today Obama announced a new agency to look into our lives. This agency called the Consumer Finance Protection Agency which will have a tsar to oversee all loans and credit contracts. They already have a Banking tsar and a Finance tsar and a health tsar and an auto tsar and on and on. None of these officials are elected. None are confirmed by the senate. All are simply appointed by Obama. They and their staff will have great power over all of us. Let your congressmen and senators know that enough is enough and in 2010 and 2012 many of them will be sent home to live under the rules, laws and regulations they impose on us but but exempt themselves from those same rules,laws and regulations. Let us not forget that even though Obama says everyday that he inhereited this economy from Bush, the democrats took control of the House and the Senate in 2006.
BO stuffed his " economic stimulus " boondoggle down our throats saying that it was necessary to keep unemployment under 8% for 2009 . Current " official" unemployment is 9.5 % and since the government flatly lies about every official figure that they publish , the real unemployment figure is probably at least 15 % and climbing every month . I can not and will not blame BO for the mess that he inherited , but I can and do blame him for completely mishandling that mess and making it worse in every way .
posted by Dirck
4 months ago
If people walk five miles into the woods, they have to walk five miles out of the woods--and maybe make a few more mistakes along the way.
What a mess.
given what President Obama inherited, I think he is thus far doing a good job
When reasonable people come to their senses, there will be some real change. Love is after blind, deaf and dumb.
