Failure

Gotta love it. The Bush Administration had eight long years to totally trash this country, and the dismantling of regulations for the finance industries. But, it seems the Obama Administraion is a failure because it couldn't clean it all up and make everything wonderful again in nine months.

Small analogy. How long does it take to stop a mile long, fully loaded freight train going fifty miles an hour? Not fifty feet, I can gaurantee you. More like fifteen hundred. And, it's very, very tricky if you're going down hill.

Well, folks, we've been riding a fully loaded mile long freight train, going fifty miles an hour on a downhill slope. It takes a bit longer than nine months to stop this train. We can only back it up once it's stopped. We have to be patient. I know that's hard, even crushing for many. I'm frightened of losing my job every single day. But, unless we do it right, we're in even more danger of getting completely out of control and losing it all.

Why are so many so willing to listen to and believe the people screaming failure at the top of their voices and lie about what is really needed to be done? Why are so many people so willing to believe the people who got us into this mess to begin with?

Obama said in the beginning that this was going to take time - years - it was going to be painful - very. We nodded and said, "we know." How soon we forget. How impatient we are. it's like this country has turned into a mob of two year olds, all wanting everything right now.

There were no maps or instructions for how to get out of this easily and quickly. We have to be Americans, we have to remember we are the "Can Do" nation. Have we lost that ability? Have we lost that determination? Have we lost that courage? I hope not.