So it's been one year since Change came to Washington. And we're still Hoping for it. The election of Barack Obama was supposed to ring in a new era for America of promise and forward movement. In the year since he's taken over, can anyone say that things have gotten better? No, you can't.
10+% unemployment
14.7 million people unemployed
Failed $787 BILLION "stimulus" bill
139 banks failed
623,918 foreclosures
$12.3 TRILLION debt
If you were to ask people I'm willing to bet that most would say that 2009 was one of the worst years America has ever had. Since Barack Obama took office, things have went from bad to worse. Confidence in government is at record lows. People are pissed off that they're not being listened to, and more pissed off that they're being made fun of and talked down to by the people they elected to represent them. Corruption is still rampant, back room and closed door deals, etc... During the election, someone made this image. What it's supposed to symbolize is that Obama & Biden are the sleeker, smoother, faster, more up to date models while McCain is the old, broken down one and Palin is the dumb one that's fallen off the track. Whoever made this got it partially correct. Obama & Biden have been the smoother, faster ones. They cut those break lines and shoved that sucker into top speed and put it on a collision course to destruction and didn't look back. That's why his approval rating is in the crapper. It's taken Obama only a year to do what it took Bush almost eight.
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The election of Barack Obama was supposed to ring in a new era for America of promise and forward movement.
I agree the expectations were way too high. It reminds me of that South Park episode after Obama won (About Last Night…) in which his supporters thought it was the greatest day of their lives and the McCain supporters thought the world was going to end the next day:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/209727
In the year since he's taken over, can anyone say that things have gotten better? No, you can't.
Yes, I can. Financial markets have stabilized, consumer spending is up and most economists agree the recession is technically over. We still have a long way to go because unemployment is still so high but most economic trends are in the right direction.
As for the stimulus bill, even the WSJ agrees there has been some success – not the complete failure you assert:
Economists say the money out the door -- combined with the expectation of additional funds flowing soon -- is fueling growth above where it would have been without any government action.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125185379218478087.html
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