How the Current Economic Crisis has Changed Barack Obama's Plans and Policies for the United States
Barack Obama had great plans for this country. The country he envisioned was a place where the air was clean, everyone who wanted a job had one, our manufacturing base was rebuilt and working on producing green energy products.
He saw our schools gaining the status as the best in the world, and our children having every opportunity to pursue higher education. He saw us all driving fuel efficient or hybrid cars, or taking the new high speed rails that would be the base of the mass transit system he was in favor of.
He saw the rich no longer lining their pockets off of the misery of the middle class. He saw an equitable tax system, and a health care system where no one would ever die for lack of medicine or treatment.
No one expected him to do all this in four years. It was almost a given that we would give him eight. Then the mortgage industry cras
Will there be rioting in the streets over these changes? The big corporations who are profiting from the current policies will raise a ruckus, no doubt, but just like a "tough love" parent, Obama must stick to his guns to pull this country through.