Lord help us do better

Lord help us do better next time

Considering the past history of this country, the fact that we could elect an African-American to the highest office in the land is indeed a very good thing.  Unfortunately, we elected the wrong African-American.

Barack Obama’s presidency has been a time of “hope and change”.  HOPE that things would somehow improve and CHANGE for the worse.  In 2008 America fell victim to false advertising.  As the past four years have demonstrated beyond any serious debate, the idea of President Obama was far better than the reality of President Obama.  We were promised the world.  We were promised transparency; but we were sold an illusion. We got took.

Indeed, during the 2008 campaign, a then-Senator Barack Obama promised us that, if elected, we would look back upon the moment he took office and “tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.”

That was the idea of President Obama. That was what many good, well-meaning people voted for. That was the hope offered and the change promised.

That was not what we got.

Though it’s certainly not a comprehensive analysis, during the second presidential debate, Mitt Romney, in response to Mr. Obama’s attempts to gloss over his mounting leadership failures, summarized a few of the big ones.  While addressing an audience member who, perhaps like you, voted for Obama in 2008, Romney observed, in part, the following:

I think you know better. I think you know that these last four years haven’t been so good as the president just described and that you don’t feel like you’re confident that the next four years are going to be much better either. …

He said that, by now, we’d have unemployment at 5.4 percent. The difference between where it is and 5.4 percent is 9 million Americans without work. …

He said he would have, by now, put forward a plan to reform Medicare and Social Security, because he pointed out they’re on the road to bankruptcy. He would reform them. He’d get that done. He hasn’t even made a proposal on either one.

He said in his first year he’d put out an immigration plan that would deal with our immigration challenges. Didn’t even file it.

This is a president who has not been able to do what he said he’d do. He said that he’d cut in half the deficit. He hasn’t done that either. In fact, he doubled it.

He said that by now middle-income families would have a reduction in their health insurance premiums by $2,500 a year.  It’s gone up by $2,500 a year. And if Obamacare is … implemented fully, it’ll be another $2,500. …

The middle class is getting crushed under the policies of a president who has not understood what it takes to get the economy working again. … [T]he number of people who are still looking for work is still 23 million Americans.

There are more people in poverty, one out of six people in poverty.

(End of Romney’s remarks, the following remarks you can blame on me)

How about food stamps?  When he took office, 32 million people were on food stamps. Today, 47 million people are on food stamps.  Now don’t misunderstand, this is not a put down on those people.  It was Obama’s economic policies and energy policies that forced these people onto the program.  If you cannot find a job that pays well enough to support your family you have no other choice.

The economy is growing more slowly this year than last year – and more slowly last year than the year before. …

Sometimes I wonder if maybe this is part of the overall “big plan”.

Allow to explain:  If you destroy the economy, put millions of people out of work, put these people on welfare and food stamps, they become totally dependent on the government.  Then you use scare tactics to make these people believe if you are not re-elected, they will lose their welfare.  Sound familiar? 

Read this article from CNBC.  Keep in mind that CNBC has been a very left leaning Obama supporter.    http://www.cnbc.com/id/49481081

The truth is, they will come off of welfare only when they get a good paying job, and that will only happen after the economy improves.  The economy will only improve when we elect a President that understands how the economy works and how to manage it.

Please remember this.  Changing one’s mind doesn’t always reveal a tendency toward indecision.  Sometimes, changing one’s mind reveals a tendency toward wisdom.