Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Economic Issues

Everything comes back to the economy. We have a massive deficit and are still spending tons of money. Costs of everything are going up. America needs to have a much better economy than it has right now. I mean, that's just a fact. It isn't as big of a focus right now as it should be.
Foreclosures are at an all-time high. Families are so close to the fact that they are going to lose both home and life savings. Education and investments have a cost factor that is fast approaching to the “I can’t afford it” for the middle class. The loss of economic power of middle class families is a huge elephant in the room that won't get proper coverage of the oh-so-liberal media that presents a picture much cleaner than it really is. If the economy doesn't allow a middle-class family to afford a university education for two kids and at least one health problem, aren't we simply talking about a big form of gambling where the participants simply “hope” that bad things happen to other people? Yes, there are a lot of people that, for example, have money in the stock market but it does not mean that business is going to take care of economic problems and issues.

I think we are in recession right now and might come to a depression no matter who wins in November election, because majority of people think government is the answer, and I think the only way this is true is if we start taxing imports and start making it possible for Americans to create what they need, therefore making jobs and an economy that actually is apart of something.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Obama Denies Assuring Canada on NAFTA

In this article we have, I think, a direct example of politicians trying to look good for public. “Barack Obama said Monday that his campaign never gave Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show despite the disclosure of a Canadian memo indicating otherwise.” In my opinion what happened was just what all politicians, or most of them do to attract good attention from citizens, to interest people in what they are proposing for them in order to get elected. For example: George Bush. At first a lot of people thought that Bush is going to be a very good president for America, and now by the end of his term, most of the Americans can not wait for the election. Anyone, but Bush. Current president Bush made a lot of promises to our country and came out, most of it was not true, according to a Special Comment.
I am not trying to say that Obama is trying to fool everybody around to get elected, I was just giving another example of politicians trying to say one thing to make a good impression, and then doing another. According to the memo obtained by The Associated Press, Obama's senior economic adviser told Canadian officials in Chicago that the debate over free trade in the Democratic presidential primary campaign was "political positioning" and that Obama was not really protectionist. According to the news article my opinion doesn’t change about politicians trying to make themselves look better than they could be, for public, in order to get elected.