Change we shouldn't believe in
Obama's promises to the American people go unfulfilled.
Published July 7, 2009
Six months into the Obama administration, there is one campaign promise the president has certainly kept: his promise of change.
Our country was once feared around the world, and now, the leaders of evil regimes mock us.
Deficit spending was once frowned upon under the Bush administration, but it has quickly changed and become the norm.
On the campaign trail, Obama said no one making less than $250,000 would have their taxes increased. That has now changed, as the cap and trade bill would be the largest tax increase in U.S. history.
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket," Obama said in January 2008.
The bill now is in the Senate, awaiting a vote.
If the bill is passed, any person who uses electricity would be forced into paying a higher tax, destroying any chance Obama had of being true to his word.
Until Obama took power, private companies were owned and operated by entrepreneurs. Today, the government owns Chrysler and General Motors, and health care is in danger of being overrun by bureaucrats.
When former President Bush was our commander-in-chief, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong-Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hated our country, but neither tested the U.S. to the extreme they have with Obama.
When Obama traveled to South America, he met with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, who insulted him by giving him a book filled with anti-American rhetoric as a "gift." What did the president do in response? He smiled, shook Chavez's hand and accepted the "gift" in front of multiple cameras.
Kim Jong-Il has launched numerous missiles and supposedly has weapons capable of reaching Alaska and Hawaii. His launch of several missiles on July 4 can be considered nothing but a slap in the face of all Americans.
Evidence strongly suggests Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rigged the recent presidential election, and it is now all but a given that a fix was on. Iranians whose votes were stolen have been protesting in the streets, but those demonstrations in the name of freedom have been violently silenced, drawing comparisons to Tiananmen Square.
As far as deficit spending, the facts are clear. Obama promised unemployment would not eclipse 8 percent if the "stimulus" was passed, but warned it could reach as high as 9 percent if it were not.
The "stimulus" was signed as Obama hoped, but the unemployment rate has reached 9.5 percent -- much higher than the president predicted. The $787.2 billion has gone to waste, and we are now left to foot the bill. We now face a deficit that will to quadruple in 2009 alone, and the debt is on pace to double.
Wasn't such deficit spending frowned upon during the Bush administration?
The Obama administration also promised a change to include a more transparent White House. Despite that promise, a writer for the Huffington Post was told to ask a specific question during a White House press conference. The president calls himself transparent but is really manipulating the media. This level of dishonesty is astonishing.
Change has definitely been in the air during the first months of the Obama presidency, but it is not a change Americans were hoping for. Rather than simply wanting change, Obama supporters fell into the trap of incorrectly believing their candidate represented something more. These people were, and still are, looking for progress, something Obama does not provide.