Tonight, headlines were made when the announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death rang out across national media outlets. And of course, Facebook being one of the biggest social media networks - my wall instantly filled with comments from all different friends. Many of them expressing gratitude to the "special forces" that took out Bin Laden, but even more of them questioning "what more do we want from Obama."
So here's my soap box...
Let's give credit where credit is due. To the men and women who have spent almost twenty years looking for that SOB! Osama Bin Laden has been on our radar since 1993 and the first World Trade Center bombing. Our search for Bin Laden didn't start when the towers collapsed in 2001 - it began way before that. President Bill Clinton was in office. So maybe we should applaud Obama for having the balls to pull the trigger... or wait a minute... ORDERING SOMEONE ELSE TO PULL THE TRIGGER! But um, yeah, I definitely want more from Obama, and *YOU* should too.
So really - here's what *I* want from Obama.
I want an economy that isn't in the toilet, and going down faster and faster. Want to know why gas prices are so high? It has VERY little to do with the fact that the price of oil has gone up. The dollar has declined in value, significantly. Why? Because we continue to print money. On January 1st, 2011 - the conversion rate of $1 to Euros was 0.7471. Today, May 1st, the conversion rate is 0.6759. (If you don't believe me - check it out for yourself... Yahoo Finance!) It costs more US DOLLARS to buy the same item, because the conversion rate continues to decline. Can we blame that on Bush?! I mean, Obama was sworn into office in January 2009. We're going on two years, 4+ months, and we're STILL blaming Bush.
And let's not even begin to talk about the unemployment rate... it's currently sitting at 9.2%. And guess what? That doesn't even take into consideration the people that have given up looking for work because they've been unemployed for so long. People are only considered unemployed if... they are looking for work, do not currently have a job, and are available for work (source!). Again - the increase in the unemployment rate must be Bush's fault too, huh? Oh! And for a chart that shows the steady incline of the unemployment rate - check out this website.
Oh! And the push to increase taxes on the wealthy. Did you know that the top 1% of wage earners pay 28% of the taxes? And... the top fifth of households paid 69% of all income taxes that were paid to the IRS. (Source) Small business owners employ 99.7% of the workers in this country (Source). So let's tax the living day lights out of them. You know, because they aren't paying enough in taxes as it is. You take an average business owner that is making over $250,000 (if he's married) and $200,000 (if he's single) a year. Let's then increase his tax bracket, and make him pay more. Oh - and since he's a small business owner, he's probably a sole proprietor, so he doesn't get the income tax breaks. So now that we're taxing Mr. Business Owner more, he's not able to afford to hire additional workers because he's giving the money that could be used for hiring more people to pay Uncle Sam. And you think 9.2% for unemployment is high. Just wait.
I could continue on and on. I expected a lot more out of Obama because of all of the hot air he spewed when he was running for President. Our economy is in the toilet, prices on EVERYTHING have gone up because gas prices have gone up because the conversion rate of the dollar has gone down significantly. More than that, I'm sick and tired of Bush being blamed for everything. The man has been back in Texas for over two years, minding his own business, and certainly not influencing public policy AT ALL! Instead, he's out taking Wounded Warriors for bike rides at Big Bend National Park.
So yeah - I expect Obama be held to the same effing standards that all the liberals held Bush to, and demand the same actions that were demanded of Bush. Yes, I expect more out of Obama than just him issuing an order to kill a man. Of course, I'm happy that Bin Laden is dead, because he's been a huge threat to global peace for many years, but Obama isn't the one that has to live with the fact he took a man's life, even if it is Bin Laden. Yes, he should get credit because he was the President in office that issued the order, I'm not denying that, but he shouldn't get all the glory. And there are some people out there (those that prompted this blog to begin with...) that feel he should.
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