Obama Message on Unemployment

Politics aside, we all need to look to one leader to get us all out of this economic crisis and free fall. Jobs are being lost at record numbers and we need to come together to stop the free fall. Where do we all stop being Liberal and Conservative when it comes to record job losses. America and her people need consensus and somebody to follow other than the message of politicians and talking heads in the main stream media of whom to blame. We have a President, like him, love him, or hate him, he is our President.

George Washington, our first President, he alone faced many trials during the Revolutionary War but one thing was certain, he was the leader of men willing to sacrifice life and liberty for what they and he believed in. Washington put his foot down in the time of crisis in his Presidency for a reason and it was to prove the point that this nation can not survive based on one or two or three political points of view. Leadership comes from being firm, showing confidence, and moving forward regardless of your many detractors. Our President must act as his gut tells him and thus history is made. President Obama needs to do the same and thus he is acting on the best of the American people…

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While the Bush year millionaires are contemplating how much of a donation they should send to his Presidential Library Fund, I wonder if any of them know what it feels like to get a pink slip or told that the company they have worked for loyally can no longer afford their services? The clock is ticking if your state believes in unemployment payments to support your family. If your state doesn’t provide unemployment compensation then you need to find a job where paper or plastic is a common phrase during the work day.

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Handle with Care

In these foreboding times in our nation it is up to all of us to handle our economy with care. While we have all been beat up and shot down our reputation and place in the world is to lead with confidence and to some degree arrogance and yet with some form of humility. Our future as a people and nation has not been robbed from us but simply misplaced. It is up to each one of us to lean on one another to find the path out of this mess and we can clean it up together. Our nations government and its reputation is on the line with the bailout packages that they are proposing but that is just a drop in the bucket of what this nation really needs. We need to join together, stop being fooled and listen to one another and act accordingly with one another. Stop acting as if the next great depression is upon us and listen to the traffic outside your window and that my friends is America alive and well and working. Non stop fear mongering by the media is driving the mentality that we should all tighten our belts and forget that we are the economic engine of the world. That is bull and we all know it deep down.

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Everybody has a part to play in this economy and everyone can excel at their part in fixing it by simply not acting out of fear. Give the time needed for change to happen and by all means, if you can hire one person to do a job in your small business, then do so. If you can take the time out of your life to volunteer at your local police or fire department, parks department, schools, or wherever your service to the community you live in will help, then just do it!

One thing is certain, when any group of people acts like a bed of clams and closes their shells tightly out of fear, eventually the entire bed will die off from lack of oxygen. The same scenario is true when the American people stop using their overall purchasing power that does in fact run the world economy.

Make no doubt about it, fear is the main driving force that is running the American economy right now and the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. A wise man once said that to his people in a similar situation. Who was it that said that? His name is on the tip of my tongue but I'm drawing a blank... Help me out here.

If you are waiting for better times to replace the things you need to replace just in case then the fear is in your heart. Let it go and let God. Replace that old car or truck with a new one, replace that television or fridge or washer and dryer with a new one, replace that living room set that you hate anyway. Not because you have to, but because you want too! That my friends is the key to the American way of life. We do things simply because we want to and that got us to the moon with the inspiration of a President some four decades ago. So what is stopping you from replacing or upgrading the stuff you already have? Is it fear? Now ask yourself who sold you that fear in a wrapped package?

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