Here is a look at my latest e-mail from Organizing for America and some of the horror stories that are taking place. I work as a HR manager/Trainer and when I interview people for openings I hear desperation instead of a skilled interview.
The situation is bad and getting worse everyday. I hear folks about to lose their homes, utilities about to get cut off, kids no longer able to attend college without massive student loans at best everyday. I try to stay on topic when interviewing but it's close to impossible especially when you ask a candidate about previous experience. The American Dream is vanishing and doing more of the same that put us in this boat ain't the answer.
This entire bill by Obama, the Dems and a few forward thinking Republicans may fall flat on it's face but I'll take a noble attempt over non-action or more of the same that help put us in this boat any day of the week. The fact is that the collective choice and wisdom of all those who exercised their right to vote picked Obama and a new direction over the last 8 years.
Go Obama!
| Brian -- Congress is preparing to vote on a final Economic Recovery bill. President Obama is urging action in Washington because families across the country need help right now. In the past week, thousands of you came together at house meetings to talk about how the economic crisis is affecting your communities. And thousands more shared your personal stories on our website. Your voices were heard. Help is on the way. Take a few minutes and read some of the stories your fellow Americans shared. These stories are the face of the economic crisis, and they will be the focus of our recovery. Here are a few excerpts from the tens of thousands of stories people like you shared: "As of a week ago, our family has joined the ranks of the unemployed and thus uninsured. We have two children, a 6 year old and a 10 month old. With my part time jobs and unemployment, we should be able to keep the roof over our heads, at least one car in the driveway and food in our stomachs for a few months. The state of our health insurance is what truly scares us."Read more from Nichole, Judy, Betty Jo, and others who shared their economic crisis stories: http://my.barackobama.com/yourstories Ordinary people are telling the real story of the struggles and pressures families are facing right now. They drive home the importance of this recovery plan and the need to put it into action immediately. The President's economic recovery plan is an important first step in getting our country back on track. But recovering from this downturn will require the faith, confidence, and hard work of all Americans. Thank you for staying involved during this critical time for our country, David David Plouffe Campaign Manager Obama for America |
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Why? Because the bill was too big.... 1000+ pages... and no time to debate the REAL issues... it was pushed through too quickly!!
Here in Chicago the GOP termed the Adler Planetarium projector as pork and a teachers' slide projector, never mind close to 100,000 school kids go there and learn about the stars or college students from around the country and world go there as part of their studies, so in a nutshell training a future generation of scientists is pork and America getting spanked in science by Japan, China, India etc does not represent a present and future economic and national security risk in the GOP pork mindset.
I was not an Obama fan and still I am not, but I pray that he can somehow get this country moving again.
As an educator, I know that we have to get people thinking and wanting an education. We have a science museum here in Detoit and we have dozens of other great museums. We also have a 50 percent illiteracy rate.
We have to fix more than just the economy.
I think the best thing a Republican can do right now is stand aside and let Obama and the Democrats work their magic.
I also think things are going to get worse before they get better. Pher has been doing a project for his economy class dealing with the stock market. I've participated in part of it also (what one does for their kids..ah...), and watching the stock prices over the last 8 weeks has been interesting. I can't believe how many different companies had their stocks crash...oh my...GM is now about $2.00 a share...which is half of what it was a couple weeks ago....which is 1/10 of what it was a few months ago.
OK, is the GOP lie machine now teaching that Hoover pulled us out of the depression? For God's sakes! FDR, a Democrat, didn't pull us out of depression either, and they've twisted that to mean none of this attempt to stimulate the economy is valid, but I knew a lot of depression era people, and almost to a one, they admired FDR for keeping people alive, literally, till something did. I don't know if the stimulus will "stimulate" the economy. I don't think anyone does, but if we do not, once again, want to see starvation in American streets once more, and don't kid yourself, that IS what was happening in the thirties, we have to provide jobs, we have to invest in the future, we have topreserve this country till something pulls us out. FDR often said the rich should have applauded him, he was the only thing between them and revolution. They should listen now. Hoover, and his policies, or lack of them, were just what Republicans push now, and put us into, not pulled us out of depression. They didn't call transient shack villages Hoovervilles for nothing, he put those people there.