Obama to Reverse Abortion Policy

Posted on 23. Jan, 2009 by Josh Ray in Politics, U.S., Yes He Can

During his campaign Obama ignited the hopes and dreams of the country with a promise of change and a better America. In His first week in office how has He done of delivering on that promise? There’s definitely been some change but not the change voters were expecting.

In His first act as president Obama announced the closing of Club Gitmo showing us that He’s more concerned with the rights of terrorists than the rights of US citizens. Or possibly more concerned with the way other countries see us than His own citizens.

After that He put a freeze on the salaries of all aides making over $100k/year. This would have been a great gesture if He hadn’t just spent 4 times more than any other president in history on His inauguration. Instead it is just a political tactic to appease the masses.

Today, keeping in line with His promise of change He plans to reverse the ban on federal funds being used for international groups that promote or perform abortions. This is an issue that has changed with each new president since Reagan. Clinton overturned the ban his first week in office and George W. did the same. I’m not going to get into the abortion debate here and I know many liberals and democrats will be glad to hear about the lifting of this ban. But is now really a good time to spend even more tax dollars? At least with the bailout they could kind of justify the spending of the money as an investment even though we all knew we’d never see it again.

We were looking at a trillion dollar deficit before Obama came into office. He wants to add more debt on top of that and call it change. Glenn Beck has an interesting graph showing the values of banks last year compared to now. Citi was worth $255 Billion last year and is only worth $19 Billion today. Don’t forget that we’ve given them $45 Billion and allocated much more to go to them.

We’ve given them $45 Billion dollars and they are only worth $19 Billion? I’ve never been to good with math but I’m pretty sure that was a horrible investment. How many financial advisers would keep their jobs after a loss like that? How many would end up in jail for something like that? I’m getting off track again.

Our economy sucks and the man elected to change that is doing everything He can to drive it into the ground even faster. Spending money we don’t have and raising taxes on businesses is not what we need right now. While the abortion issue is something important to the left and it’s there turn to run the country for a while, couldn’t it have waited until we have the budget under control? Change you can believe in.

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