Believing in Obama

To start out, I believe you have failed the educational institution from which you learned if you voted for Barack Obama and continue to believe in him.

He wants to push past partisanship. He wants ideologies broken down.

How is that possible.

Partisanship? Calling out conservative radio hosts. Beyond partisanship. Inviting Republican leaders to include them on a massive spending bill, then denouncing their ideas and input by proclaiming, "I won." Mature, and post-partisan.

Being a fear-monger; playing on the desperation of the unemployed, needy, or stupid; insulting the efforts of those who believe this action is beyond the bounds established by the United States Constitution; praising a bill that only gets 13% of the hundreds of billions of dollars in to the economy this year, even though he's admitted the bill isn't perfect, we should question his motives, intelligence and ideas for this bill.

What kind of President belittles the American people and the elected officials they've selected by saying that because an individual is a Republican, or even a Democrat, they are against the American way because they refused to vote on some bill that takes from all Americans and gives to a guaranteed none.

Tonight, Obama, in his first press conference, stated that the only people who were against the stimulus were politicians bickering because they are partisan.

Most economists almost unanimously (that statement doesn't make sense, really) recognize that, even if philosophically you're wary of government intervening in the economy ... that government is an important element of introducing some additional demand into the economy.

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To that, Mr. Obama, I give you an open letter from economists from major universities across the nation. Including Harvard, Stanford, and your alma mater, Columbia.

In a matter of days, because of the spineless Senators from the state of Maine, and Senator Arlen Spector, you will be the President who will spend more money than any other leader at one time than anyone in the history of government. And you're doing it all on some "higher agenda" of social equality. Fault the rich for being wealthy, and fault the rich for the poor being poor. How do we solve the problems? We attack the problem with money. Money that doesn't exist. Money that will cause inflation to sky-rocket.

Insane spending by Roosevelt did not end the Great Depression.

Some of the criticisms really are with the basic idea that government should intervene at all in this moment of crisis. Now, you have some people, very sincere, who philosophically just think the government has no business interfering in the marketplace. And, in fact, there are several who've suggested that FDR [President Roosevelt] was wrong to interfere back in the New Deal. They're fighting battles that I thought were resolved a pretty long time ago.

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FDR did not solve the problem. In fact, the Supreme Court was forced to strike down legislation passed in the New Deal because it far exceeded any power given to the Federal Government. What did he do in return? He labeled the Court old men and tried to replace them and knock down their relevance, often referred to as Roosevelt's Court Packing.

What solved the problems of the Great Depression was the transition into the war time economy brought on after Pearl Harbor.

In the end, what is Obama doing? Where is he planning on going with this spending? How does he plan on bringing jobs that have gone abroad to come back? Is he going to nationalize companies and force them to bring their factories back. How is he going to fill specialized and skilled labor positions? Grant high school drop-outs collegiate degrees and grant upon them shared communal knowledge?

Who does he expect to fool? The only ones watching and listening are those who've been calling him out on his inexperience and short-fallings since the beginning.