One of the reasons I started doing this blog was in the hopes of "meeting" new people and have discussions of different topics. I was hoping that through getting feedback I would essentially be getting ideas and topics to write about.
By the way, I just noticed that there were limits on who could comment I think I fixed that.
On blogger.com I am able to see how many page views this blog is getting and from what I see I believe that more than just my family has been reading me. Please feel free to leave comments that are hopefully constructive. As you can tell I am not the best writer and I need all the help I can get.
Is it just me or does it seem like the President is never called the President anymore? Seems like it's always Obama this or Obama that, rarely President Obama. I thought that was one of the perks to being President. When did that change? My guess is President Clinton had something to do with that.
I never did well at math and the only economics I understand is balancing the check book. I have heard the terms raising the debt ceiling and capping the debt, and freezing spending. If any of those things mean what I think it means I have a question. Why isn't the government run like we do in our lives? If I continually wrote bad checks to cover my expenses I would get into a lot of trouble. If I borrowed money from a number from my neighbors and never paid them back that would also get me into trouble; maybe even the physical kind. From my limited knowledge of things that seems like what the government does. Maybe the difference is they can print there own money.
I've been a faithful weekly follower. Keep writing. I enjoy that you ask some of the tough questions.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question. I think that President Obama unofficially revoked his title privileges because he had the gall to push healthcare reform through congress and into law.
Now this is me echoing the sentiments of my region. Ohio is still right wing central where we believe that god secretly wants us to be greedy and selfish and that FOX news is the only credible news network left in America. I tend to be a bit more to the center but that is perceived to be liberal to my far right aquaintences. My region fails grossly to acknowledge that we live in a shades of gray world and that issues are complex and need to be addressed individually as opposed to the black and white "one ideology fits all" attitude. In the end, it's not that the law was necessarily a bad thing but that President Obama and his administration failed miserably to educate us on it's benefits or its content for that matter.
I think the governments out of whack budgets (federal, state and local) are a direct refelection of our society. It's not a left/right blame game. We all did it! I'm just as guilty as anybody else.
Our family learned a hard lesson about that two years ago and we had trim a few things down. I won't go into detail but some of our cuts really hurt at first. after a while, we came to discover that we could do without and we were able to save more than we originally thought. We are not out of the woods yet but boy have we made some positive progress! I think our federal government will make that same discovery if they start the trimming now.
Keep posting and I'll reply when I can.
-Matt Thomas