After just two weeks in office, the Obama administration is having a hard time living up to the Obama campaign's mantra of change for the better. Unless, of course, "better" is defined as an administration made up of a handful of tax cheats and broken promises.
While much of the United States is still basking in the afterglow of an historic election and an inspiring inauguration, much of the world is looking at Obama's first two weeks in office with incredulousness.
From a policy perspective, several countries have voiced concerns about the protectionist aspects of Obama's "stimulus" bill currently making its way through the US Senate. Meanwhile, even left-leaning France has rejected an Obama-style spending binge.
What is more troubling to many, is that at a time when the United States is saddled with unprecedented levels of peacetime (at least officially, as Congress has not declared war) debt, Obama chose outright tax cheat Timothy F. Geithner to be Treasury Secretary.
Yet, evading taxes appears to being de rigeur for the Obama team. Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for secretary of health and human services, who several years back excoriated tax evaders, happened to forget until recently to pay at least $128,000 in taxes. Meanwhile, just today, Nancy Killefer, who failed to pay employment taxes for household help for almost two years, withdrew her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government.
Now, it is also coming to light that after promising a clean break with the politics of the past, and promising not to have a lobbyist-tainted administration, exceptions are being made.
All the while, the bill aimed a reviving the American economy is getting more expensive by the moment, with the help of ever more lobbyists. At a time of increasing pressure on the average American household, how many tax cheats, lobbyists, and broken promises will the American public tolerate before it demands real change?
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It's OK, the clueless voters who voted for O will be just as clueless when their houses come crashing down around them...and then they'll blame George Bush.
John, the problem is those of us who did NOT vote or him will be caught up in the most corrupt administration in history too.
Hussein O'Bama is as crooked as the rest of them. There is no CHANGE with this administration.
But John is right, O'Bama and the liberal media will blame Bush for anything that goes wrong.
Welcome to "Chicago Style," national politics. I only hope and pray we will still recognize the country we get back in four years!
Craig, we are not at peace. We have been at war for over 8 years. Still your point is well taken.
Yep. I told my friend the other day... the people who voted for O'bama are in a drunken stupor now, and will be until the next election for a "historical" candidate. I am heart broken that MY country is in decline.
can the USA survive Obama I don't think so. How can we get out of this massive debt ever. I see no way out no war will help as it did in the depression. We need to wake up an do something. Write let congress know we cannot afford this package no one will lend us the money
We live the results of 'change' we didn't need and was not God produced. ...And, now, everyone in American has to live the results of evil honored January 20, 2009. Folks, the birth certificate never showed up.
Meg:We can see the reslts of change all right. First there,s Richardson,then Geithner,Killefer,and now Daschle.That doesn't account
for the lobbyists.So much for honesty,transparency,and real change.God help America is all I can say.
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