Brushfire of Freedom
The Conservative Cowboy
Note - Originally published December 10, 2009 at Brushfire Sparks
We had the wonderful opportunity of seeing the ineptitude of our current administration yet again this week and it has to deal with the high unemployment rate that is facing this country. Now if we can think back to George W Bush and how he tried to combat a recession that was facing this country and how much flak he received from our friends in the media. His idea was to give everyone a stimulus check in the hopes that everyone in the country would go out and spend their $600 and that would help kick start the economy. Bush tried to spend our way out of a recession.
Now our current administration thinks that they can succeed where others have failed in spending our way out of a recession. Little news flash for you Mr. President, it didn’t work in the past and it is not going to work now. I bring this up because I am starting to feel that our inexperienced young president is either totally naive or completely overwhelmed with his current job duties.
I don’t know how we can blame anyone but ourselves for the current situation. Because of course we elected a president with no executive experience. We elected a president that might be the most narcissistic person to ever sit in the oval office. We elected a president that cares more about how the world views the United States then how the people of this country view the United States. And we elected a president that put his own agenda above that of the People.
We got a picture of just how narcissistic our current president is over the Thanksgiving holiday. For those of you that missed it there were a series of commercials aired during all of the nationally televised NFL football games over the course of that weekend. The commercials were aimed to promote the NFL’s partnership with the United Way and their play 60 campaign. Now I am all for what the United Way is trying to push by getting our kids off the couch and outside to play/exercise at least 60 minutes per day. What I found rather disturbing was the manner in which our president portrayed himself in this commercial. The commercial took place on the White House lawn and for the majority of the commercial all you see is a slow motion Barack Obama holding a football with a big smile on his face, now this is exactly how I want the president of the United States using his time. I am going to say again that I have no problem in the president backing a good cause, however, him running across the White house lawn in slow motion is not what I call backing a good cause. What I see when I watch this commercial is the president shining as much of the spotlight on him and actually taking the spotlight from the cause that he is trying to promote.
Now that is only one example showing that our president cares more about himself than the country; I could be here all day giving you examples but I am not going to bore you with that. Let’s get back to the issue at hand and that is the belief that spending our way out of unemployment will actually work this time. The reality is that if you continue to spend money when there is no money coming in then you are ultimately going deeper into debt, and that will not fix the economy in the long run. Correct me if I am wrong here but I think one of the major contributing factors to this whole mess was the fact that people had too much debt and started to default on that debt. So if we can follow the logic of our president then we can get our country out of the economic mess that it is in by going deeper into debt. I don’t think that sounds very logical to me, as a matter of fact that sounds like something that will make the situation worse.
Call the president naïve, call the president overwhelmed, call the president inexperienced, it all boils down to the same thing; this country will be worse off than it was when Barack Obama took office.
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