Is Barack Changing Right Before our Eyes?

We have worked for four years to put Senator Obama in the White House. The last few months of the presidential campaign were grueling. We celebrated change and the end of corruption in Washington with glee and whooped our good fortune the night Barack Obama won the election. We felt powerful again. Senator Obama, we thought, will save us from losing our life savings and will make our economic system fair. He said he would tax the rich more and let us keep our savings. We've been on a happy high ever since.

Now we are worried and nervous again. Is he really going to bailout more banks and rescue Detroit? Is he truly going to rescind the promise to make our tax system work for "little" main street as well as Rodeo Drive?
If so, this is truly a joke on us, the middle class hard working Americans, who live on an honest days wages. I just cannot believe this will be the picture in Washington again? Did Obama just hear what he wanted and say what he said just to get into the White House?

Yes he has the crème de la crème of the educated elite that he is assembling to help him. Are they more honest that the people G.W. has had with him? Do they care about us, “the living without a million” crowd? Are they going to intellectualize why they must keep taxing us and not the “many millions” clique? Those already rich folk are putting more money in their pockets as the “rescue packages” become available, instead of helping us keep our modest homes, food on the table and child in college.

Many people, especially young new voters, will be crushed. I, personally, will never vote again and I will never again trust a politician or anyone in my government, for that matter. It would mean the loss of our belief that we, the people, have power to effect change Washington and of belief in our constitution as we know it. Dreams will die in my life and other lives across this country. Hope in the hearts and minds of our citizens will be forever extinguished.

THE BRADY BLOG -Social Issues

7:14 am November 13, 2008

No bailout for GM. The company and the other "big two" has had decades of bailouts and many chances to make the products America has bought from other companies. The auto industry in this country has never paid attention to consumer trends and made cars environmentally friendly. They have been given many opportunities to do so. We wouldn't treat our children that way by encouraging bad behavior with rewards.
The public here in the US still believes the myth that the Detroit automakers are the backbone of our manufacturing economy. Hello, the Industrial Revolution was a hundred years ago. Anyone heard of the Digital Revolution and Global Warming?
GM could continue operations after declaring bankruptcy. I'd prefer to spend my tax dollars on providing support for laid off workers and re-educating them for new jobs that are greener and smarter. GM, Chrysler and Ford need to rethink, retool and redesign their product. Let them do it.