Obamas First Week
admin on Jan 25th 2009
President Obama is about to wrap up his first week in the white house and I’m surprised there hasn’t been more exciting news. I’ve never been a racist or thought that way at all. Still I would have predicted at least one major tragedy to be headlining the news as the back woods white supremecist groups get their panties in a bunch over the nations first black president. All in all I’m glad to see it turned out this way. I had almost lost faith in people completely and seeing that my fellow citizens are capable of behaving in a manner befiting of a human bieng puts off my theory of everything. Even us pessimists can’t be perfectly negative all the time.
Alot of speculation has come to surface about what his first days in office would see accomplished. Shutting down the prison at guantanimo bay wasn’t at the top of my mind and I’ll admit it probably didn’t win him much popular oppinion. I have to give him credit though. He doesn’t back down. Regardless of whether the american people are afraid of terrorists or not he’s willing to do the right thing, stand up and be a man. Bush retaliated at the first punch thrown and acted like a little kid and a bully. Thats not the america I believe in. I was devastated the day our troops invaded iraq. I’ll admit there was a problem there and something needed to be done. However I always felt in my heart that we as americans were above that. We don’t attack other countries, we only defend ourselves. I was proven wrong. Its nice to see obama taking steps to reverse the damage that the bush administration has done. Where bush hurt this country more than anywhere else is where its most important. He hurt our pride. The guantanimo bay prison may harbor the most outrageous criminals known to man but as americans we still have to treat prisoners as though they have the basest of human rights.
I’ve read arguments from military advisors that this is a bad move. They say we are at war and that we have to treat these prisoners as war criminals. To that I say yes. If they are truly guilty and they we at war they don’t deserve a trial in the american court system. They’re not americans they’re the enemy. We should execute them! Holding on to a notion of treating them with respect and then torturing them only injures our pride and our reputation. If they’re the enemy kill them. If they’re not let them go.
The true enemy of the american people is not these people. Its the radical islamic belief that blowing up complete strangers is going to win them a place in heaven. Killing a martyr is the last thing we want to do and thats all the iraq war accomplished. What we should have done is instead of spending billions on blowing up towel heads with guns, we should have spent those billions on printing anti-islamic anti terrorist propaganda. We should put an end to putting international criminals on trial before sentancing them. If the FBI or CIA catches a known international criminal entering the country they should be executed without a trial. (right there in the airport by a firing squad)
Plain and simple Americans shouldn’t be profiteering from war. We’re better than that. When an enemy attacks we take them out. The rest of our military energies should be spent advancing our military advantage over rivals so they know better than to mess with us.
Enough about my american beliefs, Getting back to obamas first week. The other half of obama’s week seems to have been spent working on the economic crisis. I’ve made my thoughts known before. The best way for our government to foster the growth of our country as a whole is to let the economy crumble. You have to demolish old buildings to build skyscrapers. Bad business models need to fail in order for newer better ones to compete. Its real world natural selection. I see billions in spending and a rush to spend it. Well I don’t feel the need to rush. In fact I don’t see the need to spend. Instead of spending to avoid cuts we need to spend our energy making sure what gets cut is what really needs to.
On the news a few days back was a protest from parents of autistic children who were upset because funding for special education for autistic children was cut. Now I understand that they feel like their children are bieng left behind, but they shouldn’t. Realistically their children are entitled to exactly the same education as everyone elses children. If their children aren’t able to go to school because of autism its the parents responsibility to pay for special schooling to prepare them to attend a normal school. I’ve heard it argued that if we take away this funding these children will grow up to be wards of the state and cost us even more. Again I disagree. Perhaps they will grow up poorly but that doesn’t entitle them to be supported by my tax dollars as an adult. America is the land of equal opportunity. I don’t remeber ever reading that america is the land of extra opportunity for those less capable.
Its cruel I know but we can’t stand in the way of natural selection. We cut a weakness into the heart of our society by giving more to the weak so they can survive. If an arm has gang green, we cut it off. We don’t let that infection continue to grow until it kills us. Drawing upon our strongest people to pay for unemployment benefits to people who really don’t try all that hard to get a job hurts us. Paying for viagra, diabetes and asthma pills through medicare programs hurts us. It would be a sad day when our government really starts to make these kinds of cuts. Alot of people will be affected. You don’t need to worry though, because that day will never come. Try as we might with economic stimulus packages and other bandaids on the economy the united states will die long before our leaders grow enough balls to stand up and tell their constituents that the best thing for our country is not to “help” them anymore. We’ll continue to foster weakness and eventually we will falter and fail to a country who is more brutish in their policy.
Obama for me represents hope. I know he isn’t any more likely to make the kind of cuts I see as needed, but at least I see a man with the cojones to stand up and make the cuts he believes in whether someone is going to whine about it or not. I only hope he sees a different path for our future than I do. There is some hope for change in his plans for the spending on alternative energy. Perhaps he sees a fix on the horizon that eludes me.
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