Thursday, January 28, 2010

State of the Union: Not so good

The president's SOTU address last night left me underwhelmed. When I woke up this morning and parsed what I'd heard, I went from underwhelmed to full-on depressed.

Let's see: we've given $700 billion to bail out banks, and a mere $30 billion will go to help small businesses hire people for jobs that don't exist because nobody is buying anything? People still losing their homes and jobs while Wall Street execs are buying Bentleys instead of Rolls Royces with their bonuses so they don't appear too flashy. Pandering to obstructionist Republicans who sit on their hands when he talked about tax cuts for the middle class.

The situation our country is in is arguably worse than the 1930s. I worked hard over the last couple of years to get Obama elected because I believed him when he spoke about lifting up the middle class. I was full of hope when he won. Now that it's clear he's just another puppet of the bankers, my disappointment is so bitter that I am turning away from electoral politics.