Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Senate passed the stimulus bill while...

President Obama was at the Town Hall meeting at the Harborside Events Center in Fort Myers when he was handed a note stating that his 830+B Bill had passed.
But the Treasury bill tanked and caused the stock market to plummet almost 382 points.


He was unscripted and candid with his answers to the questions of the alternating girl/ boy audience members asking every thing from all topics from education, jobs, foreclosures and health care.
Julio Astewega, the last to ask the questions about benefits at a job working for McDonalds for 4 and half years while a communications student at Edison State College is now getting his more than fifteen minutes of fame by being offered a sports casting job from the Fort Myers Miracle baseball team and also was interviewed on CNN.
The most memorable though would be the older woman who has been homeless for the last several years after she lost her job and could not find another, Henrietta Hughes broke all our hearts and brought me to tears when she stated that she is living in her car and would only want a place with a kitchen and a bathroom to use whenever she needed them instead of having to use the parks; and later on was offered a rent free home from a local political leader for as long as she wants.

I am a true believer in the squeaky wheel system if you don’t speak up who would know you need something, hurray for Julio and Henrietta!

All in all, the trip to Southwest Florida for our new President Obama was just the right thing for a down trodden area where its people were becoming less than hopeful.
President Obama singlehandedly regained the faith of the people with his positive decisive answers and hopeful responses, at times humorous with saying that the bill is in Washington D.C. so who knows what will happen to all who were there and the many who watched at home.

But he didn’t promise a tomorrow conclusion to all their problems, no, he was honest, and reminded them that we didn’t get into this mess over night and so it will take a while to turn it around, but he felt with his chosen economic advisers we could all do it.

Well, all I can say is that this is way too big a problem to solve for one person, and I do hope that the new administration is given the wiggle room to stretch their wings to accomplish what it takes to get the job done right.
This is uncharted territory according to all those think tank brains.
Even though everyone keeps trying to compare it to our Great Depression they’re some similarities but way too many differences to know how to handle it, in other words no one has a blue print or historical basis for knowing exactly what it takes to change things in this particular situation.

If anyone believes in anything higher than themselves may I suggest that they pray to whoever that might be; it couldn’t hurt?

With that additional weight on your plate I will bid you good night to all and to all ...maybe we should just clap our hands like we did for Tinkerbelle to make sure we do believe it will get better.

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