Obama's Meaningless and Empty Gesture

Obama Has Finally Admitted That He Failed

Mr. Obama's decision to refund part of his $ 400,000 plus salary to show empathy with all those suffering through these hard economic times. Is an admittance that after years of him being in the White House.  His policies have made baby steps. When there needed to be giant steps towards fixing and growing the economy. Even with the advantage many Presidents have not had. That of having complete control of the government for the first 2 years of his administration. He wanted to show solidarity with projected federal workers furloughs. Which have not yet occurred and probably won't, However, when given the choice by congress to have flexibility as to what to cut he refused to do so. In other words any future cuts for federal workers was his choice to prevent.  In order to push home his political point. That has been seen to be just bluster and plain old baloney. Increasing the problems of an economy that has close to zero growth after four years of trying to transform America to conform to his socialist agenda. because of the sequester which he wanted and signed into law. He is still trying to use the sequester as a rabbit in a hat to be pulled out when he is truly at fault.
He Wasted Our Time and Money on Something the American People don't Want
He had many options to choose from when he took over, but he choose poorly.  Instead of spending time trying to rectify the economic down turns. He pitifully expended his time, political capital and now our treasure on a far fetched cockamamie socialist driven program called, Affordable Health Care. Now known as the dreaded Obama Care.  As we all know by now it is not affordable. Not only will it cost us more, but it has already dug deep into the quality of  medical services.  Mutilating and draining our tried and true Medicare by over $ 700 million in funds.
Stimulus Was a Total Failure
 Now because of his insistence that there is no spending problem we are in worse shape than ever.  After a one trillion dollar stimulus fell flat on it's face as far as putting people back to work. With little economic growth. Not to mention a $17 trillion dollar national debt.  Today the unemployment numbers were fearfully dismal and disappointing.  It is estimated that more that 40 percent of the work force of America is out of work and have given up finding work. Only 88,000 jobs were created.  Far less than the 190,000 expected.  The week's new unemployment figures are down 1 tenth of a point only because people have given up looking for a job.  In reality the figure does not reflect a true picture of  the job market. Which by any and all estimations are very disturbing even to the stock market. Which reacted in a totally negative way. In spite of he fed continuing to prop it up by printing money at rate that would choke a herd of hungry elephants after a hunger strike.
Hollow and meaningless gesture
His answer to all of this is to manipulate the thinking of the public by making a hollow and meaningless gesture of returning a measly $ 20, 000. from his salary back to the treasury.  Big freaking deal.   It is a small price to pay for his malfeasance and  incompetence that continues to plague us. Now Mr. Kerry, the recently sworn in Sec of State is also giving part of his salary to charity, 15 % to be exact.  A man worth over 250 million dollars at last count should not even get paid if he was indeed empathetic to the plight of the common man.  As a matter of fact he should thank us for overlooking his past transgressions as a naval officer who threw his fellow service men under the bus. To put it mildly.  Yeah, a regular gent.
He  should have stayed in his element. He is not qualified.
In my opinion it only goes to indicate the real goal of those in the Obama administration. The usual  "now you see it now you don't method of governing" Which is really no governing at all.  Or fool them with the slight of hand and diversion.  The figures do not lie. The man has failed and no amount of pointing his crooked emaciated and boney finger at others will change that.  Neither will  a pitiful symbolic gesture by a man who is determined to financially terrorize America. Unfortunately for the rest of us he is succeeding in the effort.  Which I believe is his mission.