I have been listening for a few days and there are 3 things that seem to not get much attention these days, or at least not enough, that happen to be going on in the government. One is the movement of actions/announcements, either forward or backward, for political gain regardless of national security issues or accountability issues associated with that action/announcement. The second is the blatant disregard for the development of the people of this nation and its economy that this president has seemed to acquire more and more as the election comes. The third and last is the complete disregard for ethics that has been shown by this administration when it comes to cleaning its own house. If you can't already tell, this is going to be a long one people haha, I'll try to leave it under 2 paragraphs for each one.
The first barb was posted on Wednesday.
Now for the second, the disregard for the development of the people of this nation and its economy.
The President was quoted (again) saying how we have grown soft & lazy in the past few decades. The conservative media has done a very good job interpreting this in a way that makes Obama look bad, but I am going to concentrate on the message conveyed, regardless of who says it. The simple fact of the matter is that the President of The United States of America should never go on camera and call his populace lazy or soft. For multiple reasons: In short, it's bad marketing, it has the probability of causing dissent in anyone who takes offense to that statement, and it has the possibility of causing a national "mood" to change from self empowerment to self pity.
The President seems to be unaware that the millions of unemployed in this country, aren't just sitting there with their hands out for a check from him. Most of them are sitting online looking for job interviews if they are even sitting at all! The reality is that the "lazy" he refers to are not lazy, the most "lazy" people if anything would be those with success! That is a primary driver for many people to achieve financial independence is to be able to have money not dictate your life. However, this mentality needs to be applied to a populace becoming self sufficient, not to a populace becoming reliant on any government distribution.
Has anyone noticed that the President has started to blatantly disregard all of the problems he listed when he was running/up until the beginning of 2011??? His topics of conversation currently are: his reelection, republicans not being able to compromise, his reelection, Europe, his reelection, Southeast Asia, his reelection and of course his reelection. Many of his recent speeches where he outlined the future being in Southeast Asia (the ones from Hawaii) were fundraising dinners! $1,000 , $5000 a plate and if you're lucky $1,000 for a picture with him!!!! He has completely checked out of this presidency and is utilizing it to get himself reelected & to instill a mindstate of America that plays into the agenda of the populace giving the federal government more money and/or the government spending even more than it currently does.
The corrupt part is the utilization of this many governmental resources (Canadian-built President-defending tour buses so he could go to Iowa anyone? Remember that? Built 2 of them......no president needed that before, why when the economy & spending are out of control does the president NOW need them?) for his own political gain regardless of the country's well being by the way.
And now for..... the third barb
It is surprisingly VERY easy to talk about this one, the disregard for ethics, transparency, and accountability shown by this administration. First, look at the first barb to see other examples of this, but I made this one its own barb because it goes beyond what is on that post.
Fast & Furious and Solynra.
Both of these scandals are of the sort that if a Republican was in the White House, they would have been impeached by now. The Attorney General, Eric Holder, was aware that the feds were giving AK-47s and other assault weapons to Mexican cartels in a way to try to track them, and then subsequently were lost until they turned up at crime scenes involving murders of both Mexican and American citizens.....yet.......he's still working.....Thankfully, he is being called for to step down, but who knows how long that will take. "Trials" and "Hearings" will probably go until 2012 when Obama loses. However, THANKFULLY!!! the DoE secretary is stepping down in time (I believe). He understands that he messed up authorizing the Solyndra financing (and subsequent re-financing), and he himself is leaving as opposed to waiting until the last minute.
Obama's promise of transparency on himself and most importantly (because there's no way it would ever get out that HE himself did anything) WHO HE WORKS WITH/HIRES/APPOINTS/etc. that RANG throughout his campaign (even I believed him) clearly come through in this article:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/dim-bulb/2011/11/government-accountability-and-transparency-board-meeting-closed-media
I urge you to read that little paragraph and get your own conclusion with the information there, and your knowledge of the political situation of America.
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