Change is in the Wind

Barack Obama’s Stimulus Package and how it is failing…

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It has been too long since I wrote on this blog. After a crushing defeat in the 2008 elections; the Republicans are leaderless, confused, and (most importantly) lost their way. Now we have Comrade Barack Hussein Obama as our Controller-in-Chief of the United Socialist States of America. His radical beliefs are coming out, and coming out strong. In the past few months we have passed THE LARGEST SPENDING BILL IN WORLD HISTORY, yet as good Americans we did not ask questions. We just simply followed our Messiah. Obama was promising change and hope (AKA Chope). From his campaign speeches, it sounded like the moment he would step into office. All the problems of the earthy would be fixed.

Two months later…

Something did change

Now the USA deficit has never been higher (and you liberals were complaining about Bush’s spending)

The economy is still failing, jobs are being lost at record numbers, and unemployment is at 8.1 percent. This isn’t change but more of the same, so much Obama’s campaign promise of “change we can believe in.”

Obama Rejects Reverend Wright

My View:

This is odd. Barack Obama has rejected Reverend Wright. In his statements today he said: “The person I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years ago… His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but they end up giving comfort to those that prey on hate.”

Why did he reject him now? Obama has been sitting in Wright’s church for 20 years! And now he is rejecting him? Obama is not rejecting Reverend Wright for his terrible comments. Obama is only rejecting Wright because he his damaging Obama’s candidacy. Reverend Wright talked about why Obama is pushing him way. Wright’s response was that Obama is just acting like a ‘politician’. Remember this is about Obama, the man of “hope and change.”

While Obama raged about how he has abandon Reverend Wright; Barack only mentioned three points that offended him. Out of all the things Reverend Wright had said, these points offended him the most: Louis Farrakhan, US introduction of AIDS in Africa, and America is a terrorist nation.

Why did Obama say this now? Reverend Wright has been preaching this filth for years, and Obama now discarded him? If these comments offended Obama now; then why didn’t he walk out of that church years ago?! Just take the million man march that Obama was part of. The march was organized by Farrakhan, and Reverend supported Farrakhan before, during the march, and after. Obviously Obama fully knew about Wright’s beliefs, and Obama did nothing.

You can not say that Obama did not know his churches positive view on Farrakhan. You can not say that Obama didn’t know about his church’s belief, that our government started AIDS in Africa. People, you cannot be that blind! Obama is just being a politician, pure and simple. He is not this flawless magical creature that was sent by God to bring hope and change to America. Obama is no different from Hillary or McCain. Doing everything he can to save his candidacy.  

It is pathetic. A few of months ago Obama had the democratic nomination in the bag. People where fainting at his speeches. In the eyes of his supporters, he was the second coming. Fast-forward to now, Obama is faltering, Hillary is gaining ground. Obama, the man of Hope and Change is being exposed for what he truly is. A typical politician.

Obama, Clinton, McCain, and How They Will Let Us Down

My View:

Here are our countries problems. A credit crisis, the beginning of a food crisis, oil at $120 (with projection up to $200), gas at $3.61, truckers are going on strike, tainted imports, illegal immigration, mortgage crisis, living outside our means, debt plagued society and country, Iraq, Iran, faltering economy, and to top it off an election with three similar and equally pathetic candidates. All these problems are just piling up on each other.

The next president is going to have a lot of work to do. The next couple of years are going to be very tough. Some young people never had seen a recession before. They just don’t understand what it is like to wait in gas lines. My father has told me how brutal those lines could get, fist fights, shooting, and killing. Some leading experts are saying that our economy might go into a depression. I mean 1930s depression. Where unemployment is 30% and countries go to war to jump-start economies. We must understand that we can no longer afford to think in the short term. Short term thinking got us to where we are today. The era of cheap prices and gas is over. We will never see gas like it was back in the late 90s and early 2000. Food will never be cheap like it use to. I can see in the future, that most of our disposable income will be used for the essentials of survival. This will not last forever though. Our economy will rebound and things will be back to normal. Prices might not be as low, but people will be able to still live comfortably.

That is if Obama, Clinton, or McCain don’t mess it up. Because Americans are worried, the candidates will say anything to calm the people’s fears and help gain votes. The candidates will calm the peoples fear by having the government as the solution. How will the government be the solution? More Government control. I don’t mind some government control. Sometimes it is helpful. Some governmental control can prevent extreme problems, like if there was more control in the mortgage market. We might have avoided the problem we face today.

That is if the government does not try to over-control industries. The government loves power, and the more power it has, the more of a control freak it becomes. Government has the tendency to over-control or regulate many industries, and that’s bad for business. The government shouldn’t try to make every failing industry successful, failed businesses happen, that’s capitalism. When the government over-controls or regulates an industry or service. That industry/service tends to perform poorly in a competitive market.

Sadly, I can see that the candidates are promoting more government control and regulation, and there is no American standing up to question it. If Americans continue to worry about affording big screen TVs, gas-guzzling SUVs, cheap stuff at Wal-Mart, and only care about short-term satisfaction; then, there will be problems, and politicians that will satisfy the will of the people with more governmental control.