Obama Beats the Alternative

Yes, I'm disappointed in Obama.  He is not an FDR, he is not a leader of men.  He is not what we respect in America.  He is not a cowboy, he is not arrogant, he is not a "my way or the highway" kind of guy.  But look at the alternative.

Republicans are very good at criticizing, obstructing, and mocking the President, prefacing everything he has done as," failed".  But what do they offer as an alternative?  Tax cuts do not grow the economy or create jobs.  Give a middle class person a tax cut and it gets absorbed into the cost of gasing up their car, paying off credit card debt, paying for thier increase in health insurance, or catching up on a mortgage payment.  Those are all helpful but they do not create jobs.  The extra money doesn't buy a new car or refrigerator it just makes the insurance, banking, and oil industries richer. Trickle down economics doesn't work.  So if you look beyond their simplistic tax cut philosophy, what else do they have?  Less government, cutting the social safety net when people need it the most, and breaking unions which directly affects the middle class workers, all result in cutting jobs for the middle class worker.  This, in turn, lowers demand locally and has a ripple effect on the small businesses throughout the country.You can give a small businessman all the tax cuts in the world but if demand is not there, he is not going to expand his business.

 We need to grow our way out of this deficit, but large corporations are sitting on trillions in profits watching our nation go down the drain.  Obama has been handcuffed by the Republican House because they control the purse strings.  They've got him boxed in and by capitulating to them he has become impotent as a leader.  We have lost faith in our President when we most need him but he really is the only game in town.  There is no alternative unless you want to see this country, and the world for that matter, fall into a deep, dark abyss.

It is simply counterproductive to trash Obama at this point in time.  We appear to be a dysfunctional government as the rest of the world looks to us for solutions.  Consumer confidence is also negatively impacting our economy because of the lack of cooperation between Democrats and Republicans.  We are shooting ourselves in the foot because of the politics of obstruction.  Republican know if they can play rope-a-dope for the next few months, Obama will be blamed for what they have created.  In the meantime, how many more people will slip into poverty, lose their homes, or go bankrupt? 


  So I'm disappointed, but he still beats the alternative.  Stop bashing Obama and start to realize that the opposing party is devoid of ideas, heartless, and will dismantle government which will turn us into a third world country in a decade.  Wake up America!