It was Obama’s election that got me excited about becoming a US citizen. Well, that excitement has gone. When Obama held a job summit at the White House, he stated emphatically that all job creation programs would have to be budget neutral. I had never heard him say something like that about bank bailouts.
Obama has stated that LGBT people have a friend in the White House. ENDA? DOMA? Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
The bright spot is that 2009 saw more pro-LGBT bills passed nationwide, than 2007 ad 2008 combined. I am sure that Obama’s election had at least an indirect effect on that.
But today’s news that Obama is going to freeze spending except the Pentagon’s, well…
Paul Krugman is right, “It’s appalling on every level.”
And Robert Reich shows that “Wall Street is delighted. But it means Main Street is in worse trouble than ever.”
I am becoming a citizen because I want to have a stronger voice in this country that is now my own. A voice of resistance is what it will be, a voice of resistance to Barack Obama. That was not what I was hoping for, but for the change he spoke about, we will have to fight ourselves. Obama is old school, Wall Street’s lapdog.
