While I remain a strong supporter of President Obama, I admit that there are signs that he may fail and failure will be terrible for everyone. Even if there is some good reason for allowing Congress to work details on health, energy and other critical legislation, it is not working. Even if a stimulus was needed for our nation's economy, it is not enough and surely has not been transferred to states quickly enough. You always said that you would admit mistakes and change courses. I recommend such now. A health care plan without a public option is relatively worthless. There is no way that health care costs can be controlled without government intervention in policy and funding. Trying to get buy-in of a plan that will not control and decrease costs is useless. An energy bill that does not tax people for use of carbon products may make some political sense, but it will not change behavior sufficiently to make a difference in terms of global warming. People need to change their behavior and economics will require such changes if products are priced to compensate for their carbon. Without jobs, consumption will not increase sufficiently to create a demand to sustain our economy. Increased unemployment shows no significant decline and there is data indicating that our unemployment rates may remain high until 2015. While national debt is a problem, we have a choice of either trying to stimulate the economy which will require more stimulus and quicker or, we have to inform the public that we are going to allow the forces that generated the depression to work themselves out over the next decade.
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