Everybody’s talking about it, so I suppose that it was inevitable that I would once again broach the subject myself. Yes, the elections did turn out to be more of a referendum on Obama and the democrats then an actual approval of the candidates themselves. Just ask the people who actually came out and voted .The republicans swept them, to no one’s real suprise. While a president breaking their campaign promises is nothing new, I wonder if this particular President has set any records with the rapidity with which he has broken his. Just eleven months in office and already his approval ratings are at 54%, his disapproval is at 41%. I suspect that the only place those approval ratings are going, is down. I’m coming to feel the same way about Obama as I felt about George Bush. Both of them seem to share the “I rule the world” mentality. I find it ironic that a President who promised us government transparency has stomped on every attempt to bring that transparency to issue and has gone so far as to extend the Patriot Act so that government may continue to tap the phones of anyone they choose with no accountability. Guantanamo Bay is still open for business, socialized medicine is now on the table in a bill that the democrats are so proud of passing that they have not yet released the entire approved version. Yep, that transparency is a bit cloudy at best.

Let’s see who might be benefiting here. Well, I don’t think we can say it’s the senior population. No raise for social security this year even as the list of Doctors who are willing to accept medicare grows shorter by the minute due to the declining percentage of fees that medicare is now willing to reimburse; and oil prices are through the roof. Perhaps the sentiment is that if we can keep them from eating and narrow the options for healthcare for seniors, more will inevitably die for treatable conditions and we will be able to spend even less on social security, which has already been raided and robbed many times over for special interest projects that have nothing to do with seniors but everything to do with lining some legislators pockets.

Maybe it’s the kids, oh no, not them either. Funding to schools has been cut. We are supposed to educate them better to compete in the world marketplace today with less money for resources then we’ve had in previous years. Oh, but if they can manage to get admitted to college, there will be more funding available for that, which is good, since we will need to spend more time in college teaching what we have been unable to teach in elementary school.

It’s obviously not the general public that is benefiting. Unemployment is still reaching new highs, people are still losing their homes caught in a mountain of red tape and technicalities and the governments answer for these people is to fine the ones who will not buy into the healthcare embezzlement , bail out businesses by paying off the exorbitant contracts of the executives and leave the smaller local businesses to die at an alarming pace.

So much for a goverment of the people, by the people. Obama will not manage a second term, theres no way. Unfortunately when he does leave office, the trillions of dollars of debt will not leave with him. Yes, I’m aware that he inherited a mountain of problems, but no, I don’t believe he’s done anything to improve the situations either. If the answer to not paying the executive bonuses at the automakers and financial companies was to let them close, then let them close. I’m tired of hearing about how the government doesn’t have any right to tell businesses that accepted their money how it should be used. If I went and got a mortgage from the bank, they would certainly tell me how I could use it. I couldn’t just take off for an extended luxury vacation. But that’s pretty much what happened with the companies that we have bailed out. I guarantee you that if it had come down to people losing their jobs or their bonuses, the bonuses would have gone. I don’t think the government should be running a business that didn’t take a loan from it. But business has to be held accountable when they start lying to their consumers and shareholders. Larceny is larceny, whether you broke into my house and took my money, or lied to me to get it. It’s not that complicated.

There’s going to be a lot of representatives out of a job in the coming years, my greatest hope is that they finally reap what they’ve sown as they try to find their next job. Staying on Obama’s good side doesn’t guarantee anything. Just ask Creigh Deeds.