When Mr. Obama was running for President in 2008, his platform was “Hope and Change”. All of us wanted to hope that change would be for the better. We wanted to economy to improve and for there to be more jobs. We wanted to have more money in our pockets and food on our table. We wanted the wars to end and our people to be able to return home to their families. We wanted to bring America back to the high standards that she had held for most of her history.
Many people thought that that was what Mr. Obama was offering them. They thought that he would do as he had promised and concentrate “like a laser” on jobs and jump starting the economy. They didn’t realize that when he was allocating the stimulus money that what he was really doing, was paying off his supporters. They didn’t realize that when he was focusing on jobs, it would be to see how many he could get rid of by closing mines, stopping the building of coal-fired energy plants, and stopping drilling. They didn’t think that instead of improving the economy and bringing more jobs to the country, he would inact policies that would lead to higher gas and food prices. The fact that gas is as high as $5.49 in some places in CA is putting enormous pressure on the poor and middle class. When you add in the increased cost of food, the totality of the cost is crippling.
Mr. Obama is well on his way to fundamentally changing this country, but it is not a change for the better. Nothing that he has done has been to make this country a better and more prosperous place to live. The increased burdens have forced us to live more and more on a edge that we are finding ourselves at an increased risk of falling off.
Even if we elect a new President in 2012, it may be decades before we can regain what we have lost under Mr. Obama. That all depends on whether Mr. Obama will even listen to the people and step down. Nothing that he has done so far has shown that he has any more respect for the rule of law than he does for the country or it’s people. Time and again he and his administration have ignored and completely disregarded laws that they don’t like. We have no evidence that they will not do the same with the results of the 2012 election.