Becoming standard to be poor

It is now clear that President Obama needs to seek vocational counsel for his next job after next year’s election. History will record his term as that period when unprecedented economic events occurred to reduce our nation’s well-being at home and standing in the global village.

I don’t subscribe to the conspiracy theories that he has been intentional about downgrading America to a nearly third-world state. So if it hasn’t been deliberate, then he really has believed that what he has done to shrink our credit rating to AA+, run up our national debt by spending money we don’t have, by zigging initially with health care reform when he should have zagged with immigration reform or, pray tell, the economic indicators that others observed were heading us into the topsy-turvy bi-polar stock market.

He never did propose a financial plan to fix the crisis. His narcissism and arrogance played out on national TV like a spoiled child who didn’t get his way during the debt-ceiling debacle.

And we have one more year of this surprise-a-day presidency characterized by a lack of clear leadership complemented by liberal sniping devoid of concrete solutions to real issues, like job creation and affordable housing, not to mention 43 percent of the country on food stamps. Of course, our liberal friends get off on entitlement programs rather than motivate people to earn their way.

At any rate, it’s time for a change in America. I voted for Barack Obama because I though America needed a black for its president. I stand by my vote. What I didn’t bargain for are all the surprises, the demeaning of our nation abroad and the incompetence around the key economic issues which now include the potential downgrading of France’s rating by Standard & Poor’s. Sad to say, it’s becoming standard around America to be poor.

Paul O. Bischoff

Wheaton