Obama Issues Dire Warning
Prepares Americans for the Future
'Could Become Dramatically Worse'
hmm. I find this slightly ironic, no?
anywho, "President-elect Barack Obama warned of dire and lasting consequences if Congress doesn't pump unprecedented dollars into the economy"
if I'm remembering correctly, from my economics class, this won't help one little bit.
What cracks me up is this poll. I know these things don't really depict the actual opinions of a lot of Americans, but it does somewhat portray a small percentage of their opinions.
"How much faith do you have in the incoming Obama administration to turn the economy around?
A lot 35%
A little 34%
None at all 31%
Total Votes: 218,756"
These are the people who voted him into office to help our economy and their confidence in his ability to do something about it is split 3 ways. We can round it off and say 33% for each group. Really? All that talk about how Barack Obama was going to "save" our nation from it's horrible demise, and of these people who took this poll, we only have 33% who really and truly think that he can fix the economy! Well. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Americans are so dedgum fickle! We change our minds every 5 minutes. This is proof of it. It's also proof that Americans don't know anything about government. It's proof that no one knows their constitution and their rights as well as they think they do. It's proof that they would rather have the government care for them - leading to a Socialistic America. And they will blindly get there. It's the blind leading the blind. The few people who actually know how our government is supposed to run, tend to be Conservatives. And everyone is fed with us! So no one will listen.
Anyways, thought I would post a little commentary. =)
have a good day!
Kelly
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Regarding your comment on One-Minute Writer.
Do you not understand that each person of another religion is just as convinced as you are that his/her religion is the one true religion and the only path to salvation? They believe just as strongly, as passionately, and with as much conviction as you.
I applaud Barack Obama for trying to bring people together, no matter what their beliefs. As a world leader as well as our president, he must respect others' beliefs. Even if he wanted to, he isn't going to change the religious minds of millions of Muslims, Hindu's, Buddhists, Jews, and a zillion other assorted beliefs or nonbelief systems. According to The Association of Religion Data Archives* Christians make 33% of the world's population. While this is the largest religious group internationally, it also means that 67% are not Christian and probably will never convert to Christianity any more than you will decide to become a Muslim. So we need to work with everyone to bring peace to the world. (Just think about the number of world conflicts that were/are, at least in part, over religious issues.) If instead of looking at our differences, we look at what makes us similar ---our hopes, dreams, families, love ---maybe, just maybe, we can agree to disagree without being disagreeable.
Unfortunately what Mark Twain said a hundred years ago is still true:
“Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion ---several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight.”
Maybe with some tolerance and understanding we can make it a little less true.
*http://www.thearda.com
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