Let's Review

I wanted to take a look at some of the highlights or lowlights of the last few months.

1) Creation of generational debt
I believe the biggest mistake of this administration was the nearly $1 trillion stimulus package. In order to pay for this, the govt will have to borrow, print and most likely increase taxes. None of which will help us. The president came out and said last week that the stimulus did what it was intended for --to extend unemployment benefits. However, Obama is only treating a symptom and not the problem. Rather than extend unemployment benefits why not get people off of unemployment and into the workforce.

Obama promised that stimulus wouldn't allow the unemployment rate to go above 8 percent but now we are sitting with an unemployment rate close to 10%.

Approximately 10% of the stimulus money has been spent. The defenders of the stimulus say that the reason for this is because government is cumbersome, slow and inefficient and it could take many more months. However, these same people want to give government control to health care, auto and the financial sector.

It is also interesting to note that the groups that benefited the most from the stimulus package were Obama's key supporters such as unions, ACORN and many other organizations. Just last week USA Today uncovered that stimulus money was going to Obama supporters in a very partisan way when the actual numbers are broken down and analyzed.

Now there is talk of a second stimulus package!

2) Iraq and Afghanistan
A good decision that he made was to stay the course in Afghanistan. The problem is that he campaigned as the anti-war president. He said that he would pull out of Iraq as soon as he was elected. None of those promises were kept so I'm sure people on the left may not be too happy with this flip flop.

3) Closing Guantanamo bay
This is where Obama drew the moral line and said no more torture. However, in cases of national security Obama can authorize the use of torture or as it is called Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. Basically nothing has changed because only the most wanted terrorists were subjected to these techniques anyways. Very clever way of sounding righteous but keeping everything the same.

Now Obama is stuck in the same sitatuation that Bush was in. Where do you send these criminals? Our Allies turned down Obamas request to keep them abroad. The citizens of this country don't want them on our soil. Do you let them go free? The ones that are released will join the battle field against the US once again.

Only time will tell.

4) Abortion
Obama said that he wants to compromise on the issue of abortion. I wasn't sure what that meant. What it means is that people who are against abortion would have to change their beliefs. Otherwise they would be divisive. As soon as he took office he reversed the abortion funding policy even though most people in the country are against abortion.

Anyways, these are just a few things to think about.