Obama Still Seen As Conduit to Progress

Jan. 28, 2010 - PRLog -- Just as Moses led the children of Israel out of bondage thousands of years ago; just as Franklin D. Roosevelt led the American people out of a Great Depression; just as John F. Kennedy delivered the United States from a nuclear war of obliteration with the Soviet Union; just as Ronald Reagan led the German people to unification; Barack Obama seems destined to delivery the American people from the clutches of free-wielding constitutional-stompers as they prepare to run the final leg of the economic race between the “haves” and the “have nots” during a time of the highest income inequality ever experienced in this country, which went full throttle after the S&L crisis twenty years ago.

The word is “jobs” — living wage jobs; that is the hope, at least.

The 2008 Presidential Election Handbook and Commentary: The  Connection to Hope  takes a look at the Department of Labor Employment Trends of this decade as reported on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). It highlights Bill Moyer’s PBS NOW: America and Jobs and David Brancaccio’s PBS NOW: Inequality of Wage Earners in America.

According to Chapter 6, Who Controls America?, “Over half of Fortune 500 companies have moved jobs offshore, including famous names from many fields: Oracle, Dell, HSBC, Delta Air Lines, Novartis, J.P. Morgan Chase, Hewlett-Packard, American Express, and British Airways.” The worst that was expected has now been compounded by the current recession. Corporations used the recession as a cover to move millions of jobs overseas in management, accounting, office operations, computer technology, art design, life sciences, architecture, and legal. In some cases, they packed and moved the whole office. That is in stark contrast to Kennedy’s "War On Poverty” years when the economy was vibrant and anyone who wanted a job had one. People were being hired on the spot and trained on the job at top wages — Americans were prosperous and happy. The Kennedy policies were executed so robustly that their benefits were realized for almost two decades—then came the residue of Nixon. The author of The Connection to Hope, Linda E. Schexnayder, describes this recession as “the dawning of middle-class insecurity.

In his State of the Union Address last night, President Obama claimed the creation of two million jobs through the Recovery Act during his first year in office.  Two millions jobs sustained or created in one year is a beginning; 14,000,000 more are needed.

Fifty-three percent of the American people pledged their cooperation to the President in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. "I’m asking you to believe, not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington…I’m asking you to believe in yours," was President Obama’s request. The challenge was accepted. A majority of Americans chose unity over division. So the failure of the President would not be his alone; it would be the failure of all—responsibility is mutual.

After eight years of gross mismanagement in our national government, did any American in partnership think the economy, healthcare and the environment would be revamped in one year? Scott Brown is an aberration of Massachusetts voters.

The 2008 Presidential Election Handbook and Commentary: The Connection to Hope is available at http://www.healthylivingusa.com/theconnectiontohope and http://www.amazon.com.

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