Thoughts on President Obama’s Journey with America
Educated as a CPA and with life-time experience in helping
to manage my family’s local business, I feel that President Obama cost the
United States millions, if not billions, of dollars by choosing someone as the
Head of the Treasury who was perceived as having cheated on his income taxes.
Of those taxpayers in the grey on whether or not to declare certain income, the
consequence is an unnecessary addition to our deficit. This first example of his much
publicized “Change” was blatantly counterintuitive to what he had promised.
Instead of what our founders would have wanted, he started us back towards the 18th
century European way of ruling a government.
After he was elected, I prayed that President Obama, as our
first African American President, would accomplish enough to take advantage of
an once in a lifetime opportunity for our country to really make America one
country, united by many types of people. I had hoped that President Obama was
sincere, and like Colin Powell, an African American who I had hoped would run
for President; President Obama would be a truly special American. As a blue-dog
Democrat, I thought he would make a clear statement with his actions, not just
with his words, that would just help us move on to much greater
accomplishments, while helping us truly heal and all be forgiven for whatever
bad had been done by our ancestors in our past. Instead he has thrown a spark
on the gas that had nearly evaporated just prior to his election. I could never
have imagined that someone could so easily just throw the opportunity away, and
do the total opposite. To put American against American is unnecessary and has
created conflict greater than any in the previous half century, including the
1960s which I remember too well.
As far as I can tell, with our country’s strong financial
foundation, it would just take a simple economic policy to turn things around.
I pray that like previous similar situations in our country’s history that we
as Americans raise ourselves above our short term differences to be sure that
we not only survive but thrive in the long run.
