Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com
I’m not a fan of most television commercials,but in particular,I cannot stand those annoying drug commercials that promise to cure a particular ailment as long as you can live with the potentially fatal side effects.
As the saying goes,“Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease,”and this could not be truer than with this administration’s intervention into companies afflicted with the economic cancer spreading around the globe. Many of these companies were deemed “too big to fail,”and without our help,we were told,the economy would implode. Are we better off considering the sputtering economy,high unemployment,rising poverty,and a worsening mortgage crisis? Is this remedy worth the economic misery? I,for one,think not.
Three years ago,had the administration focused on job growth and pro-business policies,Obama would have had a second term all but locked up by now. But,that is not how they roll. Instead,they make decisions based on the assumption they know what’s best for us,and then go one step further to insult our intelligence by repackaging with shiny paper and glitzy bows a different version of the same failed policies.
A perfect example is the Obama administration’s “cure”for the underwater mortgage crisis. You might remember back in 2009,the administration introduced,with much pomp and circumstance,the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HAMP),promising that roughly four million of the estimated 11 million underwater mortgages would be saved from certain death. The end results were startling.
Back in March,the National Taxpayer’s Union (NTU),self-ascribed as “America’s independent,non-partisan advocate for overburdened taxpayers,”urged lawmakers to terminate HAMP,because they claimed it “has proven a colossal failure that has done more to harm than help debt-laden homeowners.”At a cost of $75 billion taxpayer dollars,NTU found that only a little more than a half million mortgages were saved through loan modification,and….
THIS MAN needs to booted out of office TODAY and there is NO doubt in my mind TODAY if possible.