Obamerica

I didn't vote for Obama. BUT- like a good American I decided hey he is our president. The election is over. Maybe he WILL bring about needed change. Maybe he WILL have new ideas and be able to rally dems and repubs for the greater cause.
I decided I wanted to be behind my president becaue I love America.

But watching his cabinet picks fall by the wayside for corruption, the spending bill with all of it's normal pork, I just see the same old crap. No change. No hope. He is just like all the rest, he is a politician who says one thing while doing another. It shouldnt be a big surprise but I actually decided to have some hope.

I do not think it is fair to blame either party for the mess we are in. If we are to blame the dems or the repubs we have to point a big arrow at ourselves. Personally I couldn't believe I was seeing friends and neighbors buy $500,000 homes over the last 5 years with these ridiculous rates that were not fixed. I don't count myself that smart but I just couldn't see how I could afford a payment that had the possibility of increasing from say $1300 mo. to $3500 mo. So I didn't bite. But millions of people did bite. They are to blame, the mort co's that made the loans are to blame and the banks that bundled the loans together and sold them are to blame. Greenspan may be more to blame than anyone. I don't know.


what really angers me is that instead of making these guys accountable and letting them go under and fail we instead prop them back up so that they can continue to loan. Of course, now they have learned their lesson. They aren't going to make bad loans. But they still want their corporate jets, vacations, bonuses. Free market would have fixed this problem. where one bank fails another will emerge smarter and with more wisdom than the last. Thats what I wanted to see happen. But no we prop up these guys and say biz as usual. Not just Obama but Bush too. It disgusts me.

I guess I hoped Obama might move a little bit to the center for the sake of uniting a country. But what he is doing is spreading a "FEAR" campaign that is doing nothing but creating panic, chaos, humongous debt. I am just dissapointed he wants this passed thru so fast that these guys are voting on a package they do not even know what is in it. This, to me, is amazing.

I think America is going to suffer for this bill. I hope not. I hope it jolts us and Obama is a hero. But I don't see it.