Bumper sticker politics. part deux

on the way home from work I often pass a pontiac cruiser that has a lot of bumper stickers on the back of it. the person who owns this vehicle is very obviously pro Obama.
But I have to take issue with one of the bumper stickers and so here we are.

The Bumper sticker is trying to be "witty" but falls short, stating "January 20, 2009 the end of an error."

The point it is trying to make was that George Bush was an "error" the "witty" part was the play on words... replacing Era with Error.
Anyway...
I decided today that I suppose I can concede the point in that message. George Bush did err while in office. Most presidents do! Some points I disagree with him on are...

1. The no child left behind act. this act was not thought through and led to students losing the chance to learn because there was no funding attached to the law and resources had to be redirected that might have benefited more.

2. T.A.R.P. funds. I think the Government should NOT be trying to subsidize businesses even if they are "too big to fail" I think of it more as "the bigger they are the harder they fall"... and the longer you stand under them trying to prop them up the more likely it is that WHEN they fall (because they still will) the more likely they are to take you out with them. (proven now by GM and Chrysler BTW)

3. not reinforcing the border security that we so desperately need. no further comment necessary here.

4. Spreading the military too thin. We do not need to have our military scattered everywhere around the world all the time. when we went into the current wars we ought to have first increased troop strength and second made certain that we had solid exit strategies and realistic timetables for withdrawal.

Here is the thing, If George Bush was an error, then The current administration is a disaster. an error is forgetting to pack a spoon in your lunch so you cannot eat your yogurt or pudding or whatever. We now have an admin in place that not only forgot the spoon but didn't even bother to pack a lunch!
They then want to inflict their poor choice making on the rest of us demanding that we all have to STARVE because they have a problem due to their own shortsightedness. Not only has President Obama failed to FIX the problems George Bush left us, he has compounded the problems and then LIED TO OUR FACES about it.

Not only do we have to face a poorly funded No child left behind act, Now Obama wants to add a poorly funded health care plan that has even LESS thought placed in it then the No child left behind act.

He increased the amount of money handed over to companies that were failing, drawing out the painful process of watching the giant companies flounder creating extra stress and uncertainty on wall street.

Not only are our borders STILL unprotected but he is trying to push for amnesty for all the illegal aliens and stretch our resources even further even though they already are insufficient.

And now we are facing further possible troop deployments because everyone sees the U.S. as being weak because of HIS prevarication. (oh yeah Iraq and Afghanistan aren't enough... let's also face Korea, Iran, Pakistan,...)

So to the person who thinks Obama getting into office was the end of an error? how about this. I think this is more a case of "from the frying pan into the fire!" and frankly I think all I can hope for is that we don't ALL get burned.

Well where is the change?

This Blog comes to us from, Wednesday, February 4, 2009 (bonus at the end there is an update to the situation it talks about!)

I am a little frustrated today.

I remember that during the elections a lot of people wanted to vote for Obama because he was going to "make [their] lives better." Or they stated (as one of my own family members said) that Obama's getting elected brought them a sense of "hope".

some of these people Cried whined and complained right and left about George Bush!

"His staff was corrupt."

"He didn't help enough with Katrina."

"He drove the Economy into the ground."

"He started a war in Iraq where we didn't need to be."

So let's look at recent "presidential" events!

Yesterday two of Obama's appointments had to back out of consideration because they were found to have cheated on their taxes.

There is a major disaster (freezing and power loss in Kentucky) almost as high in death toll now (50+) as Katrina ever was And Barack Obama hasn't even gone to look at the problem let alone TRY to help.
At least George Bush was on site as soon as he could be! Where is Obama?

Obama's plan to "rescue the economy" is literally nothing more than "let's spend more money we don't have and maybe that will fix it!"
EVERY REPUBLICAN and several Democrats have already rejected the plan at least till it can be pared down some.
Even the liberal New York press has proclaimed this bill to be a disaster.

As for Iraq? we are still there. of course one could point out that (gasp) they recently had honest to goodness elections! and they were even FAIR oh my.
Something they haven't had in FOUR THOUSAND YEARS. all because the American Soldiers went over there and gave them that chance.

So where are all the whiners now?

Interestingly enough I note that many of the promises Obama made while on the campaign trail have fizzled.

He promised a full and immediate withdrawal from Iraq. (still there.)

He promised to close Guantanamo bay in his first week, nay in his first day. (nope not yet)

He promised to eliminate the don't ask don't tell policy of Clinton's. (still there)

And so the very people who he was trying to cater to from the start are becoming quite upset with him.
He is trying now to reach the part of the population who didn't vote for him and he is failing there too.
He is failing BECAUSE one, he is pro abortion and Two, he is opening our system (health care, benefits, schooling) to ILLEGAL immigrants.

On a side note (since the bit about Immigrants came up) I find it interesting to note that in the last year there have been 2.5 million American jobs lost. That's 2,500,000 Americans on unemployment who have no work.
They are trying to make ends meet on welfare!
At the same time there were 1.5 million (Yes that's right 1,500,000) NEW visa's /green cards issued for Immigrants to work here in America.

This might not seem "P.C." but, why couldn't we have denied those visa's and put 1.5 million Americans back to work? then we might not have all these big problems.

So back to my point...
I am still waiting to hear, why it is that all these people had so much hope about Obama's getting elected. where is the change... or wait I guess he didn't promise GOOD change just change.
Still it seems like business as usual in our Capitol city.





One advantage to this BLOG move, Now we are in June, while All this I reported was only a month after he took office the problem is the same factors are still in force that I blogged back then. Actually some of them are worse. Obama recently held a little get together to tell us all how wonderful things are. He did this in Nevada which state has lost something approaching 3 MILLION dollars in revenue so far this year, DIRECTLY BECAUSE OF HIS POLICIES! To say the citizenry was less than thrilled would be an understatement.