Questions:
- Why haven't we mobilized every asset to the gulf to contain and clean up the spill?
- Why did we deny foreign help when offered more than 2 months ago?
- Why are we making the entire region pay for political games?
- Why are we loaning 2 billion dollars to Brazil's nationalized oil company?
I could go on and on... but why? The simple answer is "POLITICS".
We can pay 10 times the cost of the last census, but cannot get out-of-work Gulf companies work in the clean up process... Come on! Unemployment is incredibly high, the private sector is NOT adding jobs and we are placing a moratorium on all drilling until we figure out what happened? at 10 times the depth of the moratorium no less?
We can put 400,000 people to work counting people, calling people and keeping our government growing, but we cannot mobilize as a country to stop killing the Gulf of Mexico? 1/3 of the gulf has a fishing ban right now!
The broken blow-out preventer and stopping the spill is one thing... the most important thing... so we stop the spill from getting larger... but please for just one minute think about all the oil that HAS NOT BEEN CAPTURED... What are we doing to get that cleaned up? Are we doing enough?
Just because the oil is miles away does not mean it is not doing damage... Just because Louisiana doesn't carry the political weight Florida does NOT mean we can ignore this until it is hitting our shores...
Ask yourself this question: IF the spill was off the Florida Keys, would we be dealing with it better Mr. Obama?
Tonight will be an interesting night. The President of the United States will be addressing both houses of Congress and the citizens about how the past year has gone and what is next for our country. Over the past year, we have seen a movement by ordinary citizens to express real concerns about the direction of our country. This movement has led to dropping numbers for our Preseident and his policies.
Most recently, the President's Health Care initiative has been stopped in its tracks because of concerns about its costs and what it will do to those Americans that already approve of their health coverage. The failed attempts to just push the health care bill through either house of Congress has created enormous questions about how one segment of citizens can receive preferential treatment with respect to an aspect of the bill; namely the exclusion of certain union employees that would not be required to pay a tax on their coverage when another non-union employee may have the same coverage and be expected to pay the tax. It is this special dealings and favoritism that has gotten the President in a no win position.
If the Preseident states that he will be looking to move back towards governing from the center, people will not believe it until he proves that through changes in his policies. If he talks about all that has been accomplished, none of which is tangible to the people. How can you measure a "saved job"? He has not gotten any of his major initiatives through except the Economic Recovery Plan. With only this to show for, the only thing he has to look back on is the $1.2 trillion of debt he has added. So what should the President say a this address?
Right now the President just needs to stem the tide of his dropping poll numbers. If he is unable to regain favorability with a majority of Americans, he is staring at a mid-term election that will dictate back to him what policies the American people will want congress to work on. So my advise for him is this; be humble Mr President. Do not speak of lofty goals and stuff that appears pie in the sky for most people. You need to get down to the process of governing and not appearing before a camera to bash a network or say how we need to cut green house gases and blather on about the "Green Economy".
Give people what they want Mr. President, real tanglable change. Maybe even start with yourself first. This way, we the people can actually see deeds and not just words. We want to see our elected officials live our lives and not that of an intellectual speaking down to us. We have always been resourceful, resilient and we will also persevere no matter what government does or does not do for us. We are the fabric of the country and we will always be. But becareful of how you treat us, because will take back what is truly ours.
Here's to a brighter American future, regardless of who thinks they are leading this country.
The HealthCare Reform Politicians are basically asking ask to start paying for things now... Practically "the day it passes"... For something that doesn't kick in for years... How can that even be something we are considering?
Hey Joe, start paying for this car you want to drive 3 years before you get the keys... and by the way, a portion of your payment is going for the 3 people who want to drive cars too... You wont be able to do anything but DREAM about your car for a few years, but hey... You can feel safe and assured that your car will be delivered to your door... and your neighbor's doors... as soon as we can save enough money to build the car, insure everyone can have the same car and oh by the way... politicians drive something you can never own under this plan....
NOW THAT IS CHANGE! Thanks Mr. Obama, Nancy, Harry and the gang... I now know what 1970's East Germans felt like when they "ordered" their cars... You get what you get and be happy you get it, when you get it...
Are you seriously going to sit back and let OUR elected officials do this to us? Taxes aside, this thing doesn't do ANYTHING for years and they expect us to pay for it NOW!
I am for fixing the waste and abuse of our government run programs... That is CHANGE I BELIEVE IN... Getting our spending under control and living within our budget...
The government cannot run even simple programs well, as I have pointed out before in other posts here. HOW can they be expected to run 1/6th of our economy this way? The number will be "neutral" if we are paying for it for years before ANYTHING is applied... Hell, the numbers will be great year 1, 2 or 3 until the programs start kicking in... THEN we will be faced with more waste and abuse...
Odd too is the fact that we are pushing so HARD for something that really doesn't do ANYTHING but cost us money until after the OBAMA re-election campaign of 2012... Passing this now and asking us to start paying for it NOW, but not getting ANYTHING in return for years is WRONG on so many levels.
Come on people, smell the crap being pushed here...
ANYONE who votes for this is SLAPPING YOU in the face and wallet and saying "What are you gonna do now?"
If this bill gets passed, let alone using some simple majority "hack" we had better all get our VOTE and use it to fix this mess...
Term Limits, Forced Budget Compliance and a Third Party are looking better every day!