Herman

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February 23, 2009

A National Bad Attitude

Consistent bad news will eventually lead to a bad attitude, and a bad attitude leads to failure. Just ask any high achiever in business, sports or any endeavor of life.

Since the summer of 2008, we have been fed a constant diet of more and more bad news about the economy, the credit crisis, the housing crisis, the recession, political scandals, a dysfunctional federal government, crooked politicians, crooked lenders, crooked borrowers and crooked executives.

We are constantly being reminded that it is going to take time to fix these problems, and that there are no quick fix solutions. We know that, but the Obama Administration and Congress continue to believe that they can spend us out of these problems. They can’t. The math does not work.

“Audacity of Hope” has been replaced with a Sea of Frustration.

People who are expecting President Obama to solve all of their problems will eventually become frustrated and disappointed, when they stop celebrating and wake up to what’s happening. We are on a race track to socialism.

Campaign promises about transparency, bipartisanship and no earmarks in the stimulus bill have already been broken. And as the mainstream media looks the other way and tries to rationalize the broken promises, the informed voters get more and more frustrated, while the uninformed voters stay stuck on stupid.

Republicans in Congress are frustrated that they are being ignored by the Democrats. Democrats are frustrated that the Republicans won’t just roll over and stop trying to slow things down, so they can pass all of this hurry-up legislation before even giddy Democratic voters wake up.

Many voters are frustrated with both the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress, because Congress is in denial of the coming economic earthquake, and has once again ignored all the warning signs and lessons from history.

As a result, We the People are in a bad mood with a bad attitude.

As expected, the stimulus checks of 2008 did not stop this economic crisis, but Congress and former President Bush did it anyway. The first $350 billion in stimulus spending did not stimulate banks to start doing what banks are supposed to do – lend money.

Before Obama was sworn in as president, Congress swiftly approved the second half of the first stimulus package for his administration to spend without having any idea of how it would be spent. How gullible are we supposed to be?

And while the Obama Administration was still figuring out how to spend that second $350 billion, the Democrat-controlled Congress passed another $789 billion so-called “Stimulus Bill” literally overnight. They did not bother to tell the public about the interest that will be required, which would put the bill at about $1 trillion dollars. That’s a million-million dollars.

Not one member of Congress can honestly say that they have read the bill.

But it is now the law.

The Obama Administration and some members of Congress are already hinting that they may need to spend even more money to turn the economy around, without seeing the results of the trillions of dollars already committed. That’s insane according to Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity.

The House of Representatives has become the House of Politicians. The Senate has become the United States “Spend-it”.  And President Obama is still campaigning.

We the People need A New Voice.

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