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Obamaville - June 14, 2013 - The
Midterm Check Up
Halfway through the first
year of his second term as President of these United States , just what have we
realized of the Obama Dream we were given when he first ran to be chief
executive, commander in chief, the husband of the First Lady or maybe biggest
spender in our history?
Is writing this story a
journalist's "dream" ticket to a Pulitzer, or a "nightmare"
demotion to writing those dreaded obituaries?
My a lot can happen by the
5th year of a presidency --- or not.
First you have to get
elected, and then elected again. It
means the people might have been fooled once, but they presumably knew what
they were doing when they re-elected you.
Now what happens really is the fault of the people who voted for Obama.
Ages ago a newly elected
Barack Obama promised a lot and did some pretty serious Bushwhacking in the
process. In his first year as the first
minority to ever be elected president he promised to deliver things like
comprehensive Immigration Reform and closing Guantanamo Prison in Cuba .
Of course the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would be ended
immediately with a high degree of success.
The dastardly Bush recession would be fixed and everyone will keep their
homes and get back their lost jobs. In the
meantime he would give everyone in our country health insurance and lower the
cost of healthcare.
There might have been some
mention of a new concept of redistribution of wealth from the "elite"
class to the middle class, which in Obamaese means anyone making less than a
million or two million dollars a year.
Truth is very difficult to find in the fog in our nation's capitol.
Now where I come from
about a hundred miles from where Mark Twain grew up, if someone told me the
middle class was everyone except the rich, powerful and very few "elite",
I might scratch my head in wonder.
So if the middle class is
everyone else, how many "elite's" are there? Of course the wealthy "elites" have
mastered hiding their money from detection by IRS or any other criminal or
social tax deductible organization. The
truth is no one really knows this answer, including the All Omnipotent NSA
since they REALLY are watching you all the time.
So it is a guess by anyone
that 1-5% of Americans belong to the so called "elite". Yet these people control all the wealth of America and
much of the world according to those who know and speak the truth.
Now, back to my most
recent line of thought, if no more than 5% are "elite" and we are
going to redistribute their wealth so we all get what we deserve, then everyone
becomes a card carrying member of the "elite".
Guess we might need all
those illegal immigrants since none of the "elite" work like the
middle class has been doing ever since we first drove out the British. That's one way to drive down the unemployment
rate, just eliminate the middle class.
Won't be any jobless if everyone is home managing their money instead of
making it.
One other big Obama
promise was to throw those crooks on Wall Street or Main Street , where ever they might be
carrying out their predatory practices, in jail.
Then reality set in. Suddenly, when he was elected president, he
was expected to do what he said he would do.
Like nothing counted when he was just a presidential candidate. Only if you were the final one elected would
your promises have to be honest, truthful and delivered.
No first year Immigration
reform or prison closings. Five years
later they are both just as he found them when he became responsible for all
Americans as president.
As for ending the two wars
being fought to end the bigger war on terror, our president's words of peace
and cooperation for all Earthlings got him the coveted Nobel Peace prize a
couple of weeks later as the one person in the world who did more than everyone
else to bring about peace.
Clearly words speak louder
than actions for a few weeks later he ordered tens of thousands of more
American troops and billions of dollars in military expenditures in Afghanistan . What a difference a few weeks can make.
Eventually, long after he
had promised, we are pretty much out of Iraq . Now that the war on terror between the US and
Al-Qaeda is over the people of Iraq can finish their Civil Separatist
war which is far more brutal and deadly than our Geneva Convention based
efforts.
One thing the Obama
administration did learn from all the war efforts is the value of drones, those
unmanned airplanes that can successfully kill terrorists without risking the
lives of American soldiers. Any deaths
of innocent civilians including children are just collateral damage to the
mission.
Fixing Bush's financial
recession has been a little bit more complicated than Obama might have
suspected since it seemed to take several years to find everything that could
be blamed on Bush.
In Detroit he saved the world auto industry by
transforming General Motors Corporation into the Government Motors
Corporation. His AIG bailout gave
billions of dollars to those barons of Wall Street like Goldman Sachs.
Millions of Americans lost
their jobs and millions of Americans lost their homes since Obama was
elected. The economy is declared to be
stable and safe.
But people have not found
new jobs or replaced foreclosed homes.
And those who have suffered most are the very middle class he promised
to save.
Seniors saw their
retirement savings vanish away.
Minorities by the millions lost their jobs and homes. So did the Caucasians. Ironically, many were the very special
interest groups who overwhelmingly elected Obama to office. I guess you can't bite the hand that feeds
you when you are the one doing the feeding.
No major crooks have been
sent to jail.
As for health care and
costs, after a brutal couple of years
Obama Care did get approved but all the tough promises to keep were delayed
until after the re-election campaign. Now
we are beginning to see that much of it is impossible to implement.
Neither health insurance
or medical treatment costs have gone down but continue their upward
trajectory. Americans spend more being
sicker than nearly all other developed countries. We also spend far more on legal drugs than
anyone else meaning we are either much sicker or love being legally
"stoned".
Obama might have another
first to his credit, not having a budget approved the entire time he has been
president.
On the other hand, he has
had a few trouble spots he did not expect.
The Benghazi attack in Libya
left four Americans including the Ambassador dead.
The IRS
(Internal Revenue Service) targeted Tea Party conservatives for harassment
while the NSA (National
Security Agency) targeted just plain people for about everything with their
cell phone and internet tapping and hacking initiatives.
The Office of the Chief
Executive and Commander in chief (the White House) of course knew nothing of
such actions by their own agencies and people.
Then there is the Mexican
drug war and Syrian civil war in which the big news is we have done nothing in
either case. As a result of our inaction
or intellectual constipation 93,000 people have died in Syria and between 60,000 and 90,000 have died in
Mexico .
Need we say more about the
state of affairs of the nation? To be
perfectly honest there are a lot more good, inspiring or entertaining stories we
need to cover.
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