Responses to "LBJ or Gandhi" Blog

Several people commented on the recent blog. I have asked their permission to reprint the comments without attribution.


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No one is giving him a chance ...8 years of a president who didn't even think and all anyone does is knock someone who takes more than a month to make a decision. I have no idea if Obama is a man for the times but next week he will have been in office 10 months....it takes that long to get anything this big moving an inch. I know people on his advisory teams...they say he is decisive and not so interested in consensus...Weren't you the guy who counseled me on trying to reach consensus with that Senior Management Team?????. I actually think he has done a lot in 10 months...maybe not everything we wanted but 10 months...c'mon 10 months

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If only the republicans had remained in office, none of the issues you mention would be so horrendous. I have worked long and hard for where I am financially. I refuse to see my tax dollars go to any one who did not earn them as I did. This country is founded on the rights and ability of the individual to survive without government interference. And that is what it is, interference. We are not and never have been meant to be a socialistic society.

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Ted,

You have become a political commentator and are spending much of your time being aggravated. I admire your fortitude. I have decided that the politics of this country have become dysfunctional and there is little likelihood that we will solve the problems that confront this nation in a rational manner, if at all.

1) re:will be no effective reforms of Wall Street
2) re: will be no financial policy to provide jobs or to have prevented the huge job losses that have already occurred. (See OpEd in today's Times about what Germany did to prevent huge job losses).
3) re: will be no climate control policy.
4) re: will be no alternative energy policy
5) health plan, if and when it gets passed, will fail to provide health care equal to the 36 nations in the world that provide better health care than the U.S. Obama is raising taxes over 5% on wealthier people when other countries health care costs half as much.

It is all too aggravating for me to deal with. I see no solution to the problem other than to tune out. I will read the headlines and will not get involved. Life is too short and I do not believe much can be done about the problem.

I hope your attitude is more constructive and that you along with others can make a difference. I am out of here.

Some final thoughts. One, is that all three comments as well as my blog are meaningful, legitimate points of view. Thank you for sharing and I think if we do not voice our concerns, council together and try to create change that benefits our citizenry, we will have only ourselves to blame for the country we become.

Do read Paul Krugman's column(mentioned above) on the Op Ed page of Friday the 13th NYTimes about what Germany has done to create jobs.

And finally, I think that next week I shall publish the recipe for my father's fabulous tuna fish pasta sauce! Have a great weekend. Today is Laura and my 10th wedding anniversary