Obama: At Least The Recession Never Became a Depression
November is right around the corner folks, so where is your vote going? Have you decided yet? President Obama is hoping that you haven't made any snap decisions yet so that him and the rest of the Democrats can stay the course, after all, the President states as often as possible, "it could be worse."
Obama is now seeing the effects of selling "change" to the American people. I'm well aware that the change that the current administration is trying to implement and promised is not change that takes place overnight. It's change that takes place over a decade - at best. It's not change that we can count on, like a 2% cost of living raise in your paycheck every year (if you are lucky enough not to be in the unemployment line,) but rather long term change for the future.
That's hard to comprehend for the American public. When they get promised change, they want change - now. They don't want it later, they want it right freaking away. They aren't getting that. They are waiting, and they aren't getting it. Yes, the Obama administration is working to put the pieces in place for this change to happen, and Obama is right - we're not in the middle of a depression - but we came damn close. Now with Unemployment benefits being extended, we're digging a deeper hole for ourselves.
In that hole, the billions of dollars of bailout money that was handed out almost immediately after Obama took office. Will it end up being the right decision? Only time will tell. However, the American people don't see it that way. They only see the unemployment numbers and lack of jobs in their town. They see a continuous, never ending war in the Middle East - one they were promised would change. I said from the start nothing was going to change when it came to the war. It's not possible at this point.
So that's why Obama is traveling around the country, reminding folks that there was a major mess when he took office; a shrinking economy, unemployment, crashing markets and the beginnings of an economic crisis. Yes, the stock market is back up, but unemployment is not. This country is moving in the wrong direction, the wrong kind of change. To fix it, the last thing we need is more change.
Which is something that voters have a hard time understanding. The more often you change something, the more often it stays the same.
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