Posted by
jarhead on Monday, February 09, 2009 11:43:24 PM
I listened to a small part. The part where he blamed the banks for the current problem. So that told me one of two things:
1. He truley has no idea what caused the problem and should just stay out of it all together.
2. He does know what caused the problem and he has no issue seeing the American public as a lynch mob easily led to the first available tree and handiest victim.
Either way he has no business being President. The problem we face requires us to understand its root causes to best address a way out. If he does not know how we got in this fix he has no hope of solving the problem. If, as I strongly suspect, he has no desire to talk about how government forced this issue and then stood by, courtesy of Barney and Chris, while Rome was burning his approach is deceitful and we should have no confidence in any solution he proposes.
More importantly we are seeing his desire to push us to act in haste without a full understanding of what the effects of this 'stimulus' bill will be. Such aggressivness about haste leads one to think that perhaps there is more to know than he wants us to know. If you wouldn't buy a car or a vacumm cleaner in this manner why would you spend a trillion dollars this way? It is certainly much better, given the size of the thing, to do this a little slower and with better understanding and focus than to rush madly about.
I find the support the 3 supposed Republicans are giving this thing deplorable. I will guarantee that they have either accepted a trade off or are trying to appear 'non-partisan' which in these times means going along with whatever the President wants. Not a good definition.