What Obama doesn't get!

Unemployment’s up, unemployment’s down. While Obama and his staff has been feeding the media, who fawn over his every word; the U.S.A has been going down the toilet.

Real close to home, some major bad things have been happening. I live in a middle to upper middle class neighborhood. It’s filled with retirees, NASA engineers and semi pro and professional people. Approximately 10% of the homes in my immediate area are in or very near foreclosure.

Down the street a few doors lives Bev and her husband Jerry. Bev has been a gung ho Obama supporter, with an “Nurses for Obama” bumper sticker on her hybrid Prius. Her husband has been told to expect walking papers in the fall from the Space Center. Bev was told at the hospital where she works that when the new health plan kicks in, her hours will be cut and she will have to follow new guidelines. Today, Jerry was mowing the grass and Bev was scraping off the “Nurses for Obama” bumper sticker. While chatting with her and Jerry, I said, “Bev, what are you doing, you were such a die hard”, Bev said, “this is not the change that I had been told would happen”.

A friend of my daughter’s, Trish, whose mother is a teacher with a masters degree, had to recently file bankruptcy, and this single parent family is losing their home to foreclosure and have been selling everything they can just to survive. The teachers union in Florida told her that with Obama in office everything would get better quickly, that there would be special programs to help those with a higher education avoid financial problems.

The meltdown, is very evident. People in my area are selling boats, cars anything they can for whatever they can get. It’s very sad. People who a few years ago seemed to be invincible are now on the verge of being paupers.

Tonight, while driving down the road, I witnessed the end of an accident. A little old lady, probably in her 80’s crashed her 15 year old Grand Marquis through an intersection, taking out a concrete pillar, and multiple signs, with her car coming to rest on an embankment into a palm tree. I stopped to see if there was anything I could do to help, as the squad and fire truck arrived, within seconds two deputy sheriffs arrived. The lady, incredibly, shook up, was not hurt, but was visibly mentally upset. She had attempted to kill herself, by crashing her car. From what I got from her conversation, she had recently lost her husband and was losing her home, due to unscrupulous lenders. She had no one as she laid her head crying on the fireman’s shoulder. It was one of the most heart wrenching things I’ve ever witnessed.

Obama and Congress and the mainstream media for that matter have failed to understand the fundamental economics of this country. This country is a constitutional republic, not a democratic republic or democracy, regardless of what we’ve been spoon fed over the years. In the institution of nations, to be viable, you have to first have solid form of government, a means to maintain yourself (constitution and treasury) and conduct commerce. A country has to be able to support itself, that means jobs and trade within that country, not external trade.

We have to step back and look at what we are doing, what other country’s are doing, and whether the observations showing wrong or right, we need to get back to basics of governance and economics. We need to invest in and create jobs for us, screw the rest of the world. We were always first and should be to this day. For anyone to be hungry, in jeopardy of losing their home or to be without work if they want it, is a terrible and unforgivable thing.