I was surprised and a little disappointed in new President Obama and the Democrat Party.
Then the President Obama who said he would be more honest and lead us in fairness allowed the huge bank bailout to be misnamed and misdirected as "TARP" for toxic assets, when it made the bankers rich enough to buy other banks and still have the U.S. economy on the cliff with too big to fail attitudes and policies. The toxic assets are still there and not devalued as much as they should , even tho we common Americans have paid and paid with tax dollars at low interest for bankers in the first years to score record profits and pay their secretaries at firms like Goldman Sacks $500,000.oo, for a secretary !!
I was surprised and a little disappointed in new President Obama and the Democrat Party.
Then there was the threat, still there now in Dec 2009, of the 'swine flu' or asian H1N1 flu, and the regular flu. Did the new President use the most advanced technology that had been proven for years of growing vaccines in cells versus the old slow method of growing them in eggs ? No. Remember the utter failure of Chiron? And the regular flu vaccine was at least a month late this year 2009. And most of us can not get the H1N1 swine flu deadly-threat vaccination. It is late December, 2009.
I was surprised and a little disappointed in new President Obama and the Democrat Party.
Then there was the long and strong campaign promise by the new President Obama and the now majority Democrats to do a major positive overhaul of the nation's medical care, that failed so easily in 1993-94 under President Clinton. Why all this talk about Mecicare for all, when we could have V.A. care for all, or the better Senator-Federal Health Care for all,an option, who wanted to pay for it ?? You could see Congress delaying and talking this to death, to avoid their responsibility to the public citizen electorate and instead do what the fat-cat lobbyists from the banking and insurance and medical industries. This was a central campaign promise, and the Democrats were assuming ,as usual, we got elected and the public will forget. So wrong. I am on the verge of registering as a Green Party voter!!
I was surprised and a little disappointed in new President Obama and the Democratic Party.
We still are suffering in California under a total fiscal failure state government, bankrupt, with no hope in sight from the Federal Government or Republican (failure) Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger . And the masses are frustrated enough to vote ,they say, for more do-nothing-beneficial Republicans !!
The environment is still just as much in peril as under the Republicans, with the Pebble Mine in Alaska going forward.
The cellphone market is so unfair and dishonest, unlike more civilized Europe, and where is any signifigant 'change' ?
Many thousands have lost jobs,,,and there in no massive public works program to rebuild our decades of neglect national infrastructure from roads and highways, to bridges, railroads, gps digitize airports vs inept radarmen, radio, and traditions,,,
I was surprised and a little disappointed in new President Obama and the Democrat Party.
The Republicans still think they are in charge, since 1980, back in Washington, D.C.,,,and the Democrats are letting them get away with anything and almost everything,,,with no hope in sight. Were is the public-voter-citizen march on Washington in strong protest peacefully ? Will we have to have a Constitutional Amendment making "money not equal to a vote",as the current Supreme Court says,,, and banning lobbyist money from all federal and state elections and using public free radio and free tv time and public funding instead ??!!
The T.S.A. is a total failure, proven again this Christmas Day by a known terrorist being allowed to land in Detroit with a bomb, but Congress is still one-issue delay at a time doing little or nothing about all our many backlogged problems federally and in each state.
The President has failed to live up to his campaign and lead the American people and instead has made deals with the drug industry and the medical insurance industry, behind closed doors, as historically usual. What did we vote for in this "Change" ?
I was surprised and a little disappointed in the new President Obama and the Democrat Party.
And the President promised to wind down the Iraq war, but is now increasing the Afgan war, when we do not have the American blood or taxes to pay for it. The corrupt cockeyed Republican tax cut for the rich is still in effect, making an elite class of super-rich who can not be hurt by the bad economy, massive foreclosures, job loses, and terrible state of the nation in general. I did not vote for more unaccountable Generals -from- the- Pentagon wars. Where are all the peace marches that were so effective in the last major war folly, VietNam ?
I was surprised and a little disappointed in the new President Obama and the Democrat Party.
Senator Pelosi 's office is not powerful enough to do it all,,, and lead us. Currently we have a distinct critical failure in leadership. The new President is new, and tho a lawyer, must step up to his office, his campaign, and this moment in history. We are still waiting,,,
