This week saw a lot of change on the political front. Last week I thought Barak was on a good track with stating that he would not allow any lobbiests in his administration and a new era of accountabity. Boy has that changed. First off you see Timothy Geithner put in as Treasury Secretary. This guy is a dishonest gambler in his personal life and the designer of TARP the first bailout. (That sure worked out good) He didn't pay 34,000 dollars in taxes until just before he was picked by Obama as the Treasury Secretary. He said that Turbo Tax didn't promt him to pay the tax. (the paper he signed saying he owed the tax wasn't enough apparently) Remember the scrutany that Joe the Plumber got when he talked to Obama about his socalist views? The media ran him through the ringer because of his tax issues. He was a private citizen. Geithner is in charge of the IRS, Printing presses and the secret service. I think he needs a little more scutany than Joe, but he didn't get it. He also had a illegal alien working for him until she had a kid. That enable her to stay. Remember Mitt Romney when his landscaper had an illegal working for him. The media also scrutinized Mitt for hiring a landscaper who hired illegals. Geighner hired this lady directly. Again Obama is a media darling and Geithner is too smart to fail. Geithner quickly hired a lobbiest as on of his close advisers. When asked about it Obama just blew it off and answered someother question much in the same fashion as the debates for the presidency.
How can we trust this presidency when they appoint people who are gamblers in their own life. They do things that are gutsy and could get them put in jail if they get caught. (if they were privat citizens and not too smart to fail) What will they do with other peoples money when it doesn't have much effect on them?
It ticks me off that the Senate approved this guy and the overwhelming feeling was Geithner is too smart to not be in this position. Orrin Hatch will not get my vote next time for ignoring this issue and saying that it was an "honest mistake" Maybe Wesly Snipes and the Survior winner should have used that excuse and they could have got away with it and wouldn't have to spend any time in jail.
The other thing that really bothers me it that 850 billion dollar so called stimulus package. Look into what this thing has in it. It will tick you off. The interest alone on this thing will be an additional 357 billion dollars if we pay it off by 2020. I am sure that will happen. It increased each house hold debt by $9000. Did you know that 1 trillion dollars stacked in 100 dollar bills would be 63 miles tall? They changed the phrasing in the bill to say "This bill will create or protect the loss of 2 million jobs" Not just create.
I personally feel that the Obama drum beating of change is a fluke. Looking at the last two weeks, it began good. I thought that Obama was really going to try and change things for the good. Move us a little more right of Bush it would have been hard to get farther left, but here we are. I think the last week Obama jumped in Bush's car that was heading for a cliff, tapped on the brakes and proceded to put the pedal to the medal. We need to write to our congressmen and senate leaders to try and slow this thing down. That is the only way to stop Pelosi, Reid and Obama. I hope they will listen. They should, they represent us. Please do this let them know how you feel.
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I'm glad you write all this stuff, cuz I never watch the news, and it's good to know what's going on. Yeah this new bailout is a joke. I heard something like 100 million dollars was going to be used to "furnish" the new homeland security building, even though the one they have works just fine. It's a complete joke.
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