You probably don't want to hear this but....

[whosinpower]

I still have faith in you guys,
I still have faith in the US,
I still have faith in the US ability to service its debt.
You see - finally, I begin to understand the difference between belief and faith.
I finally begin to see the power and strength of faith, in spite of overwhelming odds.

This debt ceiling fiasco was a real get down dirty all out manure eating mess - wasn't it?
There is no question - it was ugly. The Teaparty deliberately and quite maliciously questioned the very foundation of the US economy - "The faith of the US to service its debt shall not be questioned."

Without confidence, or faith, your dollar is worth less than the paper it is written on, or the keystrokes to put a number in a bank account.

And I am going to be somewhat critical of President Obama here for not forcefully defending that faith. For not simply demanding a clean debt ceiling bill with a caveat to deal with restructuring tax reform and cuts in spending seperately. I am sure it got more ugly and messy than he anticipated and this will have consequences down the road. It has consequences right now.

Double dip recession is far more likely now - inevitable given the timeline of when the new debt talks will have to take place - Christmas. That is bad news indeed for any merchant or retailer, or small business owner - especially those who count on Christmas to get them through the year.

Once the seeds of doubt are planted, the weed grows voraciously and is very hard to uproot.

And yet, in spite of high unemployment, is spite of low productivity, which is the fertilizer that this weed thrives on - I tell you this....I maintain faith in your ability to overcome. I maintain faith that the US will shake off this noxious weed of doomsdayers and naysayers.

You are still the largest economy in the world - by a fairly large margin. You have great wealth, innovation, technology, creativity.

President Obama is just a man. He is a good man in a horrible position.

You know, I think back to the months following 911. You had just been forced to absorb a huge terrorist hit - the stock market crashed - fear and uncertainty was so thick in the air, you could taste it......except for one thing. I visited the US about six months after. I remember going to a mall and just sat and watched the people. What literally amazed me was the steely determination to carry on, in spite of what had happened. I was amazed by the overwhelming patriotism. You had faith then.

Yours is a great nation. It isn't perfect, but it is still great.

Now.....time to kill a few weeds - eh?

[daa]

1. He can't run as the anti-Bush this time, we have seen the enemy and ...

[FrenchieCat]

2. After 9/11, we were told to go shopping, and that's what you saw.....

faith in shopping.

A bubble, meantime was created, and that is what you saw six months after 9/11....
a whole lot of people living in a bubble, quite undisturbed by our upcoming war in
Iraq, taxes lowered on the rich in times of war, a large drug benefit unpaid for, etc....

So really, was it faith then....and was it a simply lack of moral clarity and vision?

Until Americans get off their ass and out of their chosen bubble and work towards the
defeat of as many Republicans in Congress as possible, as opposed to the neverending
moaning and groaning about this President's perceived shortcomings, we won't even have a
bright future. Faith can only take one so far, and we have already arrived to that point.

[ZombieHorde]

3. "Without confidence, or faith, your dollar is worth less than the paper it is written on,"

I completely agree. The value of money only exists in our minds.

[Remember Me]

4. Thank you

Where are you?

It brings tears to my eyes to have someone cheer us on. We are a great nation, but we have sunk so low in so many ways that I fear the past tense of that verb is in order (we were a great nation). I hope I'm wrong.