Reclaiming Democracy

Mr. Obama,

I watched your speech last night about health care reform.

It was very informative.

I especially thought the idea of you saving American tax payers enough money to pay for the reform by eliminating waste and fraud in our government.

It is a brilliant idea, but Mr. President I am not sold on the idea.

I am not sold on the idea that you can eliminate the trillion dollars it is estimated that the health care proposal will cost.

So I am issuing you a challenge.

Show me and the American people you are not full of rhetoric. Show us that you mean what you say. Show us that you can eliminate government waste, government fraud, and government misuse of funds. You show me the money that we can use to support health care reform.

I challenge you to do it…don’t give me speeches, don’t give me rhetoric, don’t give me time to play nice, don’t give me we have to do this because America needs it.

I don’t believe you can. I don’t believe that you will even start to eliminate any sort of government before you cram this F***ing tennis ball down my throat (thank you Serena).

Mr. President, please show me and the American public not a chart, not an idea, not a speech. Show us dollars in either our pockets or by making the deficit go down.

Can you?

Will you?

Signed,

The American people that care for America and the people of America.

Is the stimulus package really necessary?

Might be time for the President to reconsider the stimulus package.

Why? Several reasons.

First, the ecomony is showing signs of life that lead me to believe it is starting to turn around. The United States economy is the most dynamic in the world. It is cyclical, but it also always bounces back. It is doing that. Housing starts are up, home purchases are up, hiring is up, banks that were in dire straights are earning money, the economy is coming back!

Second, it is just too big. Many pundits have said that this will add trillions of dollars to our debt. More than all other presidents combined. Consider for a moment that we went through WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and Iraq wars and we did not incur as much debt as we are about to incur. By pumping this many dollars into the economy, we are likely to get a boom, but the bust that will follow will be large and long lasting because of the debt we are incurring to get the boom.

Ask anyone that got a new job, went out charged a bunch of stuff on a credit card thinking their new job would only increase in income and when it doesn’t, bam…the debt has to be paid back…and the boom is somewhat of a bust. Stop the package now, trim it back at least. Cut out some of the pork and resubmit.

So, with that being said. I don’t think the stimulus package is really what we need.

What we need is…well, I’ll save that for next time.