One Year and counting. . .

One year ago today, Obama took the oath of office. Where are we now? Unfortunately, not as far as those who voted for change wanted to be!

The point of this blog is to speak truth to power; whoever is in power. I voted for change. I supported change. I donated to change. I worked for change. Where is the change?

It’s not here yet!

Wall Street still hands out billions of dollars in bonuses and is not any more regulated than it was a year ago, though it is talked about.

Health care reform is not yet available to “We The People,” though it has progressed without Republican support and further than under any Republican administration. It is also structured NOT to increase the deficit, unlike the Republican Part D Medicare plan that gave prescription drugs to the elderly and wasn’t paid for!

Jobs are still being lost, though at a much slower rate than when the Republicans were in control and doing nothing about it.

The economy is very bad, because we are suffering from a collapsed “Housing Bubble” created by Republican policies. What has Obama done? In a bi-partisan way, he gave tax breaks (that don’t work) to the wealthy, (because that is what the Republicans said was needed) along with funds to create “Shovel Ready” projects to get the economy going again. It is a two year plan. We are nearing the end of the first year. How many Republicans voted for the Stimulus? None!

And yet, with all this evidence of Republican Obstructionism, Republican “Do-Nothing” philosophy, Republicans looking out for the corporations and the Wealthy instead of the “Working Man,” I am upset with Obama!

Democrats have a 60 vote majority in the Senate and a substantial majority in the House (Which is not where the problem is) and we can’t get anything done for the People. Bush got things done for the Wealthy!

Bush got all of his Tax Breaks for the wealthy done in 2003 (in the first year of his Presidency) and in 2005, and the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (cutting money from Medi-Cade) passed with a 51 vote majority in the Senate through a process called Reconciliation!

Why hasn’t Obama and the Dems done that? I want change NOW!!!