In his job’s speech Sept. 15, Obama spoke of leveling the taxing grounds for the upper and middle class, reducing or eliminating the subsidiaries granted to oil companies and re-evaluating our Medicare and Medicaid systems.
For once, Obama is taking a strong stance against his political and ideological opponents. For weeks, no, years we saw him extend the olive branch to the Republican party, and for years, we saw the branch slapped from his hands.
He is a better man than I. After living through all the crap instituted on this country by past administrations like we all had to, he still came into office peacefully and compromisingly. Frankly, he should have started earlier. In this time of compromise, Obama may have eroded his own base.
His approval ratings are worse than bad, even within his own party. But he is beginning to do what I believe he should have done at the start. When he was elected, Obama won by a margin of almost 10 million popular votes.
During that time, he should not have been extending the hand of peace, but the hand of pressure. He should have been rallying the people behind his ideas and bills, not trying to play the fixed political game with an olive branch in one hand and a bill in the other.
If the public supported his bills, Congress would have no choice. They are their supposed constituents, after all. The past is the past. Now his approval ratings are in the tubes. All we can do is support him now. He is trying to regain and reinforce his base, and we should be right there for him.
This is one of the most important presidential elections in the history of the U.S. It is the most important election that we will see in our lifetime. Will we give up our democracy for a plutocracy? Or will we give government back to the people who need and deserve it most? We are on the brink of the abyss, staring down into the dark, swirling pit of corruption and greed.
The Republican candidates preach of deregulation, stating that if we “shed the government shackles” the “job creators” aka corporations, millionaires and billionaires will put everyone back to work, fix the economy, bring God back to America and save little Timmy from drowning in the well of liberalism.
Wait a minute… weren’t these the same policies that got us in to this mess? We deregulated the banks a few years ago. After that, they began giving mortgages to people at low rates. They didn’t tell them that the rates would skyrocket until it became so much that the banks foreclosed.
This, and encouraging people to buy on credit, assisted in the economic crisis of 2008. Thankfully Obama hasn’t let the attention span of the American people slip on this one. He has been reminding all those nay-sayers that he was handed this economy, he didn’t create it. I’m happy to see that he is finally taking a stand and joining the fight for freedom from political and economic oppression. I just hope it’s not too late.
