When Will The Obama Administration Begin?

It remains to be seen exactly when we will see the end of the Bush Administration and the beginning of the Obama Administration. Blame is cascaded upon President Bush as if he still resides in the White House. And to an extent, he does. Guantanamo is still open, the Patriot Act is still in force, secret wiretapping is still going on, tax cut extensions (Bush’s) are being contemplated, the Bush withdrawal plan for Iraq worked- all indications that W. still resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

 

For all the touting that this is the summer to celebrate the success of the Stimulus Package benefits, all of the economic indicators show that this celebration has all the similar ring of seeing George W. Bush on an air craft carrier with the words “Mission Accomplished” behind him. There is no good economic news of any kind coming down the pike before the fall elections and this does not bode well for Democrats or Americans.

 

There must come a time when urgency is shown as to our dismal economic state but that time has not arrived. Instead, we are left with people in the White House playing Mission Impossible. It is impossible to back up what they say when they say they’ve saved so many jobs and just as impossible to measure the proposition that things would have been much worse if not for the Obama economic measures. When things are worse than expected, it is just as impossible to believe it when this administration says that it just takes more time for things to get better. Democrats are big on time tables so why no time table on when the economy will improve? Why not give us a date to shoot for?

 

Given the fact that tax hikes loom, home sales are tanking, businesses are neither investing nor hiring, there must be a climate to foster the growing of an economy. Instead, profits are demonized, individualism is rebuffed, and attempts to protest are seen as seditious. In Michigan the number one reason why businesses do not locate here is due to our uncertain tax situation- a situation Governor Granholm has not improved. This situation has now spread due to policies of the Obama Administration.

 

If things continue the way they are, worse looms ahead for us unless we change course. Hey, maybe that “R” for reverse doesn’t sound so bad after all.