Country on path to socialism with Obama

I must hand it to President Obama. He still holds a high approval rating despite wasting $787 billion in a stimulus package that has to date not worked. I do not like Barack Obama. I know we live in a society now that sees Obama as the beacon of hope or some other such media created nonsense.

I see Obama as a man who has ulterior motives. I think he plans to turn this wonderful country into a socialistic shadow of the once great nation our forefathers made. When George W. Bush left office the national debt was $400 billion. Your savior Obama has it at $900 billion and will be at $2.3 trillion soon. Is that "change we can believe in"?

One thing the Obama biased press probably won't do is ask him any inconvenient questions about all his broken campaign promises, like his pledge to enact a "net spending cut," his promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year, and his promise not to sign bills without first giving the public five days of notice. Obama has broken his campaign promises far more flagrantly than his predecessors did in their first 100 days in office.

Obama's broken promises are part of a larger pattern of dishonesty. Obama claimed his $787 billion stimulus package was needed to avert "irreversible decline." But the Congressional Budget Office concluded before and after its passage that the stimulus package will actually cut the size of the economy in the long run. Obama's budgets don't add up, either, piling up $9.3 trillion in red ink, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a staggering $2.3 trillion more than Obama claimed.

Fox news the will tell you all about Obama's $3.4 million tunnel under a highway for turtles and a hundred other wasteful projects under his plan. His stimulus plan was supposed to stop the unemployment percentage from going to 8 percent, and it's going to go past 10 percent. But yet Obama smiles, and the press reports about his wife and kids every move like we have nothing better to do than focus on them.

I am not a bigot. I welcome any man or woman of any race to be the president, but I don't trust anyone whom the media is biased toward and who tells everyone he will single-handedly change the country. Martin Luther King was a great man. This guy is a joke, a creation of the media and a puppet of the federal reserve.

Mike Schatz

Watertown