Well, I wanted to type a blog just after Obama’s inauguration, but as always life took over and I got a bit stalled. So, I’ll just go on and do an update on his first few weeks in the office. So far, it seems like it has been a hectic time for him, considering he has to deal with an economy that is getting close to a depression. The inauguration went very well, even though the judge that swore him in messed up his words while process was being done. Obama’s speech was good for a new president, he was respectable to George W. Bush by saying he did a good job during his two terms, which was able ease some of the crowd that was present for it. His speech was nothing spectacular, just really repeating himself when he got elected back in November. However, once the inauguration was over, it time for work to be done. He was able get the Stimulus Bill passed , which is suppose to help save jobs and revive the economy for a bit. However, there are many speculations with it considering it does not control the spending of tax dollars that the government already has a problem of. I hope it helps in the long term instead of the short term for the country. But one thing that I do not understand is putting a cap on Business Executive’s salary, I mean, they can’t make no more than $500,000? I don’t know what that is going to solve, really. Why should the government control what how much a person can make a year? This is what angers me sometimes about Democrats. Even though I did vote for Barack Obama, I do have views from both sides of the parties. I feel that putting a salary cap like that on workers is a short step of encouraging communism into our government. It’s as though the government does not people to grow prosperously, only to put keep them in the poorhouse. If Obama wants the economy to improve, he needs to bring in new jobs to the United States and give people more opportunity to grow and prosper like our forefathers have. Giving money to poor people is only a short term problem solver, not long term. Now, giving poor people an opportunity to prosper, like job education, creating employment for them is a good long term problem solver. To do that, taxes on business owners should be respectively low and cuts should be encouraged for them considering they are creating jobs for a community. To me, a good government, regardless of which party is in control, encourages growth amongst it’s people; mentally, physically, and financially. That is greatest challenge Barack Obama has to do for the citizens of the United States. I would like to see all the states in the union to prosper. Being raised in Illinois, seeing the state go from a proud industrial powerhouse to a depressed junction in the union is hard to take for me. I would like to see this state stand back up on it’s two feet and be tall once more like it was forty or fifty years ago. I know there are other states that have been strong industrially in the past, maybe they can relate to how I feel about Illinois. It pains me to see such great towns like Peoria, Decatur, Danville, Kankakee, and all the other Illinois cities be in ruins with their abandoned warehouses and plants wither away. Even Chicago has it’s hard times as well, but now it’s becoming the only place where someone can find work. Why not bring the work back to the smaller cities and let them grow back into the places they once were? People in Chicago can work in their city, let people from Kankakee work in their town, let people in Danville work in their town, let people in Decatur work in their town, and so on. Illinois can prosper once more.
