FLIPSIDE : New President, Old Problems

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Of course, we have our new President in office and on that same token, we also have our old problems. I ran across this clip of Senator McCain telling a reporter that he feels as though President Obama did not utilize the bi-partisan help of the Republicans in developing the economic stimulus package. This is the same package that both sides read through and had chances to revise, yet instead, Senator McCain admits that he "would not vote" on it because the Republican ideas were shot down during such sessions. He suggests that the sides come together and start all over again.

Okay, let's start over again. Let's go back to the drawing board while 100,000 more people lose their homes, 200,000 more people lose their jobs and more school's shut down. Let all of this happen so the Republicans can help re-write an economic stimulus package with all the creative ingenious of the past 8 years that brought us this massive debt and economic failure. Get real.

When is the Republican party ever going to stop hating and help out. There is no time to sit back and take our time making sure every person has an equal share in passing the legislation. It is concerning to me that McCain's home state of Arizona has an unemployment rate of almost 7% and a home foreclosure rate almost as high as it is here in Michigan and somewhere in his mind he believes that there is time to go back to square one with an economic plan? It is ideas like those that solidified my reasoning for not voting for McCain. I don't think he realises yet just how bad this economy is. Is he that out of touch with my working class society to think we have time to go back to the drawing board on a stimulus package when some Republican idea is not accepted?

Let me suggest what the outcome of a situation like that may mean. Three weeks of negotiating a new revised plan could suggest this - and we're only talking about Michigan - 700 Chrysler employees pink slipped. 300 GM and Ford employees pink slipped. 1500 more houses go into foreclosure. Businesses in those neighborhoods decline and eventually shut down. Evacuation of the neighborhood causes low registration at the neighborhood schools and of course low student registration leads to schools closing.

Okay, with that in mind, go ahead and cry to reporters on national television. Thank you. It always reminds me why I never voted for you in the first place. Catch ya' on the FLIPSIDE.