Nine days in and Obama disapoints

Well folks I hate to say it but President Obama is starting to disappoint me when it matters most. Sure his first week in office was great knocking out some of the old Bush policies and blasting out executive orders left in right. But here when the first real big challenge of politics and the nation comes forward, Barack fails. Okay not failed, maybe a D-, D+ at best. The economic stimulus bill that Obama pushed for has passed the House of Representatives and will more than likely pass the Senate. What is wrong with that, we wanted this bill right? Well what we are getting is a poor excuse for something that will "help" us. The bill as proposed will divide up some 800-900 billion dollars the following ways: About 50% will go to the states, education, health care, etc. 33% will go to tax breaks and then about 20% will go to infrastructure.

Why is it like this? It is because Obama tried to play nice for the Republicans. Mr. Bi-Partisan at work trying to make everyone happy by taking parts of the bill out and adding more and more tax breaks in order to be popular and get Republicans on board. Guess what, after all of that conceding.... NOT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR THE PACKAGE ANYWAY. So instead of passing a democratic agenda bill to get things done, we end up with this pile of crap. The 33% to tax cuts turns into about maybe $1,000 for 95% of working families.... woo freaking do. Guess what working families will do with that money..... stick it in the bank!! Hey great way to boost the economy back up eh? Meanwhile infrastructure is getting less than 20% of the money. That's about 200 billion dollars total when the estimated cost to bring our nation back on its feet is somewhere in the range of two trillion dollars... just to get it to a passing grade.

The other day more than a million people lost power in the US because get this.... it snowed in January!! Oh my gosh, who could have ever predicted that would have happened. Instead of fixing our road, sewers, mass transit, bridges, electric grid, and other foundations of this country that are over a hundread years old we are giving money to people to stick in the bank or at most pay off some bills. No one is going shopping and going nuts, hell Bush did that in his term and look how much good it did for us. Mr. President knock this off. George Bush had a Republican majority for six years and ran with it. Its time to give them a taste of their own medicine and run with your plan. THEN when they see you don't need them they will come to you and try to be all friends to get some of their stuff done... THAT is when you be bi-partisan. You have a little under two years of guaranteed majority Mr. President, I suggest you use it.

-- I didn't mean to use my big voice, I still love you
John Duke