Americans should stop blaming Obama

August 1, 2010 Letter: Americans should stop blaming Obama Every time you pick up a newspaper, hear the television news, listen to talk radio, or just talking to some friends, you hear someone talking about another bad decision or non-decision that President Barack Obama has made. Since President Obama took office the national debt has risen by $2.4 trillion to $13 trillion in about 500 days since he took office, or an average of $4.9 billion a day, three times the daily average of $1.7 billion under the previous administration, and is on track to double the national debt in four years. Even with all the spending and increased debt, the U.S. Department of Labor states there are 14.6 million unemployed persons, an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, and 45.5 percent of those or 6.8 million have been jobless for 27 weeks. The NBC/Wall Street Journal public opinion poll recently released shows that President Obama has reached his lowest approval rating since taking office in January of 2009 and 48 percent of people disapprove of the job he is doing as president while only 45 percent approve. Even 62 percent of respondents in the poll say the country is headed in the wrong direction while only 33 percent believe that the country is improving under Obama’s leadership. Even the 2008 independent voters who boosted him into office are now dissatisfied with the job he’s doing. The boards of directors of corporations in the United States do not select and hire presidents to run their companies who have no previous executive experience. So then, how can we elect someone, who has no executive experience to be president of a country which has the largest nominal Gross Domestic Product in the world, and expect any different results than we are getting from him today. Don’t blame Barack Obama, blame the 66,882,230 Americans that voted for Mr. Obama as well as the millions who would not even take a few minutes of their precious time to go to the polls to vote for any presidential candidate. Bruce Chambers Simpsonville Reading: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010308010051