Feb 09 2009
Which one did you mean President Obama?
I try to be fair. I read. I listen. I decide for myself. Today I listened to two tapes of President Obama’s voice. On the first tape he is talking about the government and how only government action can turn around the crisis we are in. On the second tape, when he is talking to business leaders he says government can’t do it, that it must be done by local people and businesses. These two statements seem to be absolute opposites. I wonder, “which one did you mean President Obama?”
As I read the news, it seems that everyone thinks that we should pass the bill now. President Obama said that it is inexcusable and irresponsible to not just pass the pork-laden bill before Congress now. What will happen if it is not passed until March first? I know that the powers that be want to say this president got more done in less time than any other president. I know that they want the bill passed by February sixteenth. But I would also like to know that the bill that is passed is the best it can be!
I am not a Republican, but I am tired of how the articles I read, either through comments made by interviewees or by the authors of the article, make the Republicans out to be the bad guys. We are not talking chump change here and I gladly support anyone who will look at this bill and refuse to vote for it until it reflects what it should be. It is not a stimulus package. It is a package full of pet projects and funds to make up for ‘budgets that were lean during the Bush years.’ I am sorry. Maybe they were lean because they needed to be. Maybe now is not the time to fund them fully.
People are losing their jobs. The package creates temporary jobs. When those are done, what will the workers do? How will the endowment to the Arts stimulate a better economy? How will more than half of the items in the package truly change anything? Odds are, they won’t. Maybe Republicans (I hope and pray) want a real change. A lasting change. A change this stimulus package clearly will not deliver.
Seriously, which one did you mean President Obama?
