As a tireless worker and supporter of the Obama campaign I expected that he, unlike all the previous candidates elected, would keep his campaign promises to change the way Washington does business, and to eliminate pork from the bloated federal budget.
I saw him as the outsider, a knight in shining armor, mounted on a white charger, slaying the dragon of corruption in congress.
By accepting a congressional budget containing an estimated $7.7 billion in pork, he has turned from knight to page, mounted on a donkey, carrying the baggage of the corrupt congress. His justification for the turnabout is that he has to bribe congress so that his next huge bailout request will get a favorable reception.
That is a delusion. Having successfully rolled the President this time, when the next bailout bill comes to them, congress will demand another bribe in the form of even more pork.
In this case even the appearance didn't change.
I believe that the President underestimates the support the majority of our citizens would give him for a firm position on a pork free budget. The $7.7b would save a lot of homes from foreclosure, repair a great many run down schools, raise teacher salaries, reduce class sizes in the early school years, and perform many other tasks which are vital to our economic recovery.
With sadness I contemplate ending my support of the President.
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