MIXED FEELINGS

The Christmas season is upon us and most Americans sincerely want peace and joy for our nation as well as for the rest of the world. This wish for "peace and joy" by its very nature requires economic stability, economic growth and readily accessible full-time employment for all citizens. Our country current has none of these attributes with unemployment very near 10%; growth at a level that screams stagnation; and a massive amount of government debt at the federal, state and local level. We all want these trouble areas to be corrected and hope that 2011 will see this occur.



Here is where "mixed feelings" raises its ugly head.



B. H. Obama and his followers, Democrats and those bureaucrats who can only be defined as liberal/socialist/progressives, control the federal government which in turn controls more and more of every phase of American life. The House of Representatives will become Republican dominated in January of 2011 but overall the federal government will for the next two years pursue the Obama goals. If the economy perks up in 2011 and continues to do so as the November 2012 Presidential election approaches, the chances that Obama will receive a second 4 year term have to be good. There is no way that the White House and its media allies will not focus on the claim that the Obama economic "stimulus" programs paved the way for and allowed America to recover and prosper.

The "mixed feelings" are comprised of pleasure that the economy has recovered and anxiety that Obama's chances for reelection have improved. Which of these conflicting positions should take priority? Do we, as concerned loyal Americans, embrace and reward the apparent engineer of this correction to the nation and its economy even though he is openly against so many other aspects of American life? Do we, on the other hand, strongly oppose all that Obama proposes so that the nation continues to suffer as November 2012 draws near?

There are many other issues impacting America and that must be addressed and corrected. These include the overseas wars and the huge (and growing) federal deficit. Obama has done nothing to resolve these items. However, the economy is the most important day-to-day area of concern and we must encourage its correction even if the correction means platitudes flow to Obama.

The hope must be that the voting population is educated and accepts that the Obama programs did nothing to stimulate growth and only the natural flow of events placed America back in good standing.