Its funny how things are being said about Obama who has just got into office. When Bush was in office for eight years. The problems before us existed during his term. Obama is taking heat for cleaning up after eight years of stand still action. Bush's main concern while in office was stabilizing Iraq instead of stabilizing the economy. Now look at our economy major cities have no decent jobs to offer. Companies who have been in AMerica for ever have either went out of business, sold their business, or on the verge of loosing their business. Majority of America's employers are no longer offering wage increases or they have cut pay increases dramatically. Couple companies to name are Macy's and Sports Authority.
I'm not criticizing Obama in regards to the economy. I know enough about economics to know that there's no way that someone can change things in a matter of weeks, nay months. It takes a year or two for policy to change sufficiently to get the economy to move in a certain direction.
What I'm criticizing is the general hypocrisy of the left wing, who whined from the day that President Bush took office, whining that President Obama just took office and to give him some time. No one was gracious enough to give President Bush time.
Additionally, I'm criticizing the hypocrisy of the lies told during the campaign where he promised to fight tooth and nail against pork, and in his first opportunity to make an example of particular politicians who survive on it, he pussed out and failed, in the name of political expediency.
Change? My ass.
Won't this create jobs in the construction field.
You are just as guilty of partisan jabbing. No difference between what you are doing now and what the democrats did back then. The BIG difference is that back when Bush took office there was NO CRISIS. None! This is different. Imagine if the Democrats had told Bush to take a hike on September 12, 2001. You are being irresponsible to your country by stoking this fire against the needs of this country. Your COUNTRY comes first - not your party.
Do the needs of this country include $500 million for solar water heaters in Puerto Rico?
Do the needs of this country include $1.7 billion to study the scent of pig farms?
Do the needs of this country include $17.5 billion (*that's bigger than million for those of you who participate in the public education system at the moment) for energy efficiency zones (what the hell does that even mean) in Puerto Rico?
My answer to this is no. This "crisis" is largely a crisis of confidence. The people have little confidence in the government's solutions, the banks have little confidence in the people to repay the overleveraged loans that they gave them, mostly forced upon them by the government, but taken advantage of by the greedier amongst them. Businesses have little confidence in the people to buy their products, thus laying people off, and adding to the inability of the people to buy their stuff.
If you think, by my pointing out the pork and hypocrisy, I am being irresponsible to my country, you need to take a history class and read about those who pointed out the waste and hypocrisy of the British government when we were colonies.
Finally, those who pointed out the dangers of the PATRIOT Act and the creation of the Homeland Security department of the federal government were initially hailed as heroes on your side of the political fence (and you need to count me amongst those people). Were they being irresponsible as well?
No. Dissent is patriotic, as the leaders of your side love to bring up when they're not in the majority. For once I agree with Hillary. Dissent is great for forging deals where everyone in the country benefits, not just a group represented by one party in a closed meeting, something that never happened when Republicans were in control.
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