Unrealistic Expectations
By newtondak
@newtondak (3946)
United States
January 20, 2009 12:53pm CST
Now that the majority of the hype is passed (hopefully), the American people need to get real - while having a positive mindset (i.e. hope) is a plus, it doesn't pay the bills - it doesn't create jobs - it doesn't keep people in their homes!
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/01/20/peek_obama_depression/
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@Springlady (3986)
• United States
20 Jan 09
What our country needs is the Lord Jesus Christ. Obama cannot "fix" what is wrong with America. Most of what is wrong with our country, we did ourselves by taking God out of everything and ignoring His Word. As long as we continue to do this, our country will keep getting worse. We will continue to pay the consequences.
We need to repent and come to the Lord!
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@Springlady (3986)
• United States
20 Jan 09
That is so true.
The Bible commands us to pray for those in authority.
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@newtondak (3946)
• United States
20 Jan 09
The American people very much need to avoid the idolization of President Obama and instead need to pray to our Lord to guide him.
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@rodney850 (2145)
• United States
20 Jan 09
Newtondak,
If you have read many of my past posts during the election process you will know that I believe that America is headed for the worst depressionin her history. The name or political affilliation of her president won't matter.
In one of your responses you talked of fiscal responsibility on a personal level but how do American citizens live responsibly as far as their finances go when our leaders have kept us in debt up to our eyeballs for decades? These are supposed to be the examples we follow?
Now we have a president who is going to follow the grandest fiscal idiocy (a 750 billion dollar bailout)with more bailouts? Let me ask you; if your home finances are in a shambles and your debt outweighs your income by so much you can barely pay the interest on your loans, do you borrow more money to stimulate your finances? NO, you tighten your belt and STOP spending on anything new until you can pay some things off! Bailouts and "stimulis" packages are a joke and very bad ones at that!
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@newtondak (3946)
• United States
20 Jan 09
I agree totally and to not feel that the bail-outs are the answer - as those already made have proven.
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@rodney850 (2145)
• United States
20 Jan 09
Angrier Kitty,
Sorry you had to start over. I've been real busy since the election and have not had much of a chance to log on to MyLot. I just thought I would see what was being said here on inauguration day. I just wonder if the awe and delusions will last past 100 days. I wonder if in 3 years when we are even worse off than now if these same people will be calling for the "messiah's" head just as they did Bush.
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@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
20 Jan 09
I have been waiting to hear about what is going to be done now? What can they do immediatly to get relief to the people and my question is are all their plans long term, long range? What immediate steps are being taken to actualy help the people, the working people who need help now? I can understand that some things will take time but are we being told that everything has to be so far away? I just dont feel that is good enough and not fair to the backbone of this country. Does anyone have an answer to this question? Can anyone name even one thing that is going to be done now?@newtondak (3946)
• United States
20 Jan 09
I certainly haven't heard anything other than the massive bail-outs that have already occurred and have had no effect on the general population of the United States! The tax credit that Obama opposes isn't enough to benefit anyone - it's even less than the stimulus checks received last year.
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@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
20 Jan 09
In reference to the blog..Actually, he is not the first Afro-American president. He is not even the first bi-racial president. Endure a poor choice of words for Obama to use. Prosper would have been a better choice.
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@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
21 Jan 09
I guess we'll see if the American people are going to push up their sleeves and get to work, or if they're going to set on the butts waiting for the government and Barack Obama to do it all for them.
