Stop blaming the president!  

I am pretty tired of hearing people blame the president (namely Bush in this case) for all the troubles of the world. Anyone who had taken even the slightest little bit of government in high school should know that the president has very little power to influence the things that they blame him for. For example, the big fad nowadays is to blame Bush for the bad economy. Not only is that dumb from a governmental standpoint, but it is also dumb from an economic standpoint. First of all, Bush and every other president does not hold the purse strings in any way, shape, or form. He has absolutely no control over government money, how it is spent, or anything of the sort. I suppose he could do for the budget what Clinton did and refuse to approve it until it meets his standards, but then he would just get criticized for halting the progress of politics or something retarded like that.

Second of all, let us just think back to the Great Depression for a moment here. One of our nations greatest presidents in a lot of people's opinion, Franklin D. Roosevelt, tried hundreds of different things to try to combat and reverse the Depression. The fact of the matter was, however, that the most any of his policies really did was give people some hope. They did not fix the situation at all. In fact, who knows how this country would have ended up if WWII did not come along and jump start the economy. If the great Roosevelt couldn't fix the depression, what makes you think that Bush or anyone else could do something similar?

My point is, Washington rests on the shoulder of FIRST, the people, SECOND, congress, and THIRD, hundreds of other government employees who take the greatest burden of the work. If you feel like you have to point a finger (and this will also go for those who point the finger at Obama if he messes anything up in the future), point it first at yourself and then at your Congressmen. Then open a history book or a government book and figure out how the government is REALLY run. THEN you can consider who else you may want to gripe at.