Last night was President Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress. How would you sum up the status of America today?
Personally, I think the United States is in a horrible state. For the past 8 years, all President Bush thought about was going to war with Iraq - well, he did that and we are still in Iraq, and Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9-11. Bush came into office with the biggest government surplus in history and he left office 8 years later leaving us with a trillion dollar debt.
President Obama inheritated a country that is in a huge mess. Two wars (3 counting the "war on terror"), a collapsing housing market, declining credit and bank status, soaring unemployment, inadequate health care and substandard public education. Folks, he can't fix this mess over night. It took us 8 years to get into this mess; Obama has only been in office 5 weeks.
I think our country will survive, but it is going to take time.
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It's so depressing, isn't it? And scary too. I hope things improve in the second half of this year like some believe it will.
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