Saturday, June 11, 2011

Obama's Debt, War and Spending?

Hope and Change? I can't say that is exactly what we have seen since the Obama Administration came into power, well at least not the hope and change many Americans expected. However, I can say that I've gotten absolutely fed up with the bombardment of Obama with claims that he is the reason the economy is doing poorly, or that we have a massive deficit or that we are still at war. The fact of the matter is that Obama has had a little more than two years to clean up an eight year mess left by his predecessor.

At the end of the Bush Administration's ransacking of the country and the economy, Obama stepped in and made very important decisions to which people seemingly withhold their praise. In order to not sound bias, I want to assure everyone that I am not under the impression that everything he has implemented or not implemented be perfect, but he has made some very positive decisions. Healthcare, Financial reform, foreign relations, reduction of military presence in Iraq. So, with all due respect to all those people who just completely hate Barack Obama, he's done a fairly decent job. Most of the problems are Bush's fault, but I guess blame doesn't get put on him. After all, it was Clinton's fault the housing market collapsed and it is Obama's fault that we hold 14.29 trillion dollars in debt.

1 comment:

  1. The way I see it, its a little simplistic to say any sort of government action is really just taken by the president. It's not just "Obama's failure" or "Bush's failure", there's a lot more people involved, a lot more corporate influence and definitely a lot more actors involved.

    Homedwag Madison said it best...If men were angels, no governments would be necessary.

    Olivia<3

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