Perhaps I do not understand.
If what Obama did by creating the stimulus package was such a bad thing, what would have happened otherwise to all of the people who have grasped at the benefits he's provided as a life raft?
I've already discussed in the past how his subsidy of the cost of health insurance for those on Cobra saved people like me, who'd been laid off and refused continued health insurance -- until Obama stepped in.
Now there is the jobs component, which in San Francisco is known as the Jobs Now program.
Hundreds of people with nowhere else to turn are benefiting from this program. Without it, there would be no hope left for the families who depend on these jobs, most of which are modest but are helping to restart a stalled local economy.
So, what would the right-wing ideologues who attack these programs have these people do? The actual unemployment rate is approximately 17 percent, as economists have confirmed. That means one in every six people who wants to work can't work.
These are not lazy people, incompetent people, disloyal Americans. These are the heart and soul of America's working classes.
I've been in the jobs office, seen the faces, spoken with those waiting there. What leave me cold is the lack of respect and concern that comfortable middle-class Americans continue to exhibit toward the unemployed.
There seems to be an unspoken belief on the right that someone without a job deserves to be out of a job. Even though these are the most peaceful, hard-working people in the country.
In fact, there is a horrible evil afoot in this society. It is aided and abetted by dangerous ideologues like Sarah Palin and the current vocal leadership of the Republican Party.
I am hardly a knee-jerk Democrat, a liberal, or any other kind of label that these hate-filled monsters love to vilify. I, too, am a hard-working, loyal, decent person who is struggling to support his family.
Add in a serious illness, and age discrimination, and it is proving nearly impossible for someone like me to survive in this economy.
In fact, except for Obama's stimulus package, I too might soon be finished, unable to keep living where I live (in a modest apartment in an inexpensive end of town) and perhaps unable to support my children going forward.
Although I hope and intend to avoid this fate, the longer the recession is prolonged, and the more my debts pile up, I must recognize what the future may hold for me, much like the scenarios others are currently facing.
This is not a kind society for one whose luck has run low, which from my life experiences I well understand.
Therefore, I take these baseless attacks on the stimulus package personally. Obama is literally saving lives; those who denounce his sincere efforts on our behalf are fools at best; at worst, they are something far more dangerous.
Something very much like what we saw in Germany in the 1930s.
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Perhaps you don't understand. Let me be plain:
Barak Obama is an ideologue who does not like the manner in which this country was originally constituted. His vision for transforming America includes a massive increase in redistribution controlled by a central government. His actions fly in the face of the Constitution he has sworn to defend. His administration and the democrat controlled congress have created extraordinary angst among Americans; an enormous political backlash is building.
How, precisely, this will pan out in the coming months is impossible to predict; there are too many unknowables. But recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts underscore that an overwhelming majority of Americans are rejecting the emerging Obama reality.
Danogram, let me be plain.
The overwhelming majority of citizens in this country want change from the past decade of unabashed greed and corporate coruption.
People want change and they are not getting it quick enough with President Obama. Thus the frustration. I don't want to vote for greedy republicans and I don't want to vote for ineffectual democrats.
What we all must understand is that turning over the worst financial mess since the 1930s (thank you very much George W. Bush and Dick Cheney) is not a one year job, nor a one person job.
We must all work together and support Obama's plans to make the government more transparent.
What you don't understand is that returning to the immediate past of corporate rule only creates an opaque government. Sure you can't see what is being spent where or when but head-in-the-sand republicans are happy that they can't see government in action so therefore government must be small.
You and people like you must WAKE UP and acknowledge the fact that what is good for corporate america is usually NOT good for middle america. Hell, it's not good for lower class america, middle, even upper middle america. It's only good for the greedy few who don't have the vision to see the hole we are putting ourselves in.
WAKE UP, OPEN YOUR EYES, WAKE UP.
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