GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!

Below is the beginning of an article in today's Post and Courier and my comments on the article and the prevailing attitude both within The Post and Courier and in the Charleston news media in general as well as with my many diehard Republican friends. I am not saying that Obama and his administration are flawless and surely we know by now, he is not Superman but for crying out loud!! Well read it.
Stimulus: Where is the money going?
By David Slade
The Post and Courier
Sunday, August 2, 2009
“Stimulus money is everywhere, and yet it’s so hard to see.
That’s because most funding that South Carolina and other states have received from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, about 75 percent of it, has been used to maintain existing services like Medicaid and education.
It would be easier to notice bridges being rebuilt and roads being paved, but most of the job-creating infrastructure work funded by the stimulus plan hasn’t started………..”
Stimulus: My Reply to The Post and Courier
Too slow, too fast, "not a fan of this administration". It is evident that this newspaper is not a fan either and has omitted some of the positive effects that have occurred so far as a result of this administration. The stock market is recovering and is poised to cross the benchmark of 10,000 any day now. Oil prices remain somewhat under control and the job losses have leveled off and are not wildly increasing as the article would have you believe. Seven months, that's only seven months folks that this administration has had a chance to right the wrongs of eight years of the prior administration's creation of this mess we are in. As we said in the 60's, "give peace a chance." For crying out loud, give it a chance!!!!
We are making progress and it is time that employers such as The Post and Courier climb out of the holes they have buried their heads in and start stimulating the economy themselves. "Create change or change will create you" was a mantra I heard before I retired. What has the news media in this town done during this recession? Retreat, slash jobs, cut families throats financially and hide hoping the government will fix it. That is exactly the attitude that every God fearing Republican used to preach against and I am NOT hearing it from Democrats! Where are their cries against big government now? The Post and Courier article says big government is not helping enough, is spending too slowly and please help us. This type of attitude is just plain pitiful. I say to the media of this town, "stand up, stop crying, act like men and women and do something!" I read a book once titled "Who Took the Cheese". I urge the management of The Post and Courier to re-read it.