My Daughter About Obama

My Daughter About Obama

She's a social worker, no less, and she has this to say:

I believe that Americans have a fundamental flaw in their thinking (not all, but many) that throwing money at things will "fix" them. Problems with schools? Just spend more money on it! Problems with Katrina? Just throw money at it! And yet these are complicated problems that are complicated by infrastructure problems, corrupt organizers, structural flaws, etc. Its more than just a lack of money! That being said, money does help. I'm not so naive to thinking that everything in America is perfectly funded. But system issues and the simple fact that people do not always use resources that are available make these complicated issues to fix.

I felt last night like Obama's answer to things is throw more money at them. For example, he discussed the importance of getting more kids to college...AWESOME! That's a great idea, but who pays for it? He discussed paying teachers more to have higher quality teachers. So true! But who pays for it? I understand that the logical response is to stop spending so much money on the war in Iraq, but Obama is not going to pull out of Iraq immediately...so I'm at a loss.

And in an economy that is quickly going down the toilet, where is that money coming from? One cannot argue that the national deficit is too large and then promise things that COST money. Very frustrating to me because ultimately, Obama sounds great! He wants better schools! More people going to college! Better health care! But WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR IT? Especially when people are getting more and more strapped and watching their retirement accounts bottoming out. I hope people realize that a simple bit of accounting is that you have to have debits AND credits in a country.