I was surprised to hear Obama's speech on Tuesday night. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for change, but it just seemed like he was lowering the expectations for his first term within an hour of being elected president. He ran on the platform of positive change, and I think hearing that our problems might not be solved in his first term came as a surprise to a lot of people.
Unfortunately, the problems facing this country may take more than two terms to solve. The amount of money for the bailout alone will take ten to twenty years...or longer to recover from. We may never get it back. The days of easy money are over, and to the "want it now" generation this may be a big problem. The new generation is use to having everything now, and it's going to be hard for them to understand that they will no longer be able to get everything they want, when they want it.
We are looking at a big social adjustment, and maybe that was what Obama was really talking about? Maybe the ideals of our fathers: hard work, stable job, conservative financial investments, etc. was not so wrong after all?
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Did you hear him start to lower expectations and prepare for running in 2012? He actually said, we may not be able to do this (change) in a few months or even 4 years. What?! He is preparing to let the country down and prove some of us right-that he has over promised.
Let me clarify my strong words from my comment. I knew all along that these issues would take a long time to improve, but I feel that he spoke to inspire people for the vote and now he needs to inform people of how it really works in politics. People do need to understand that these important aspects of our country will take time to improve and we need to be realistic. That is not the message he put forth before the vote.
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