Thank You, Mr. President!

by Zephyr on Jan.29, 2009, under Politics

I’m completely thrilled that Obama is acting with emotion. There are times for not showing emotion and there are times when it’s absolutely necessary. It’s absolutely necessary to be damn pissed off when you receive a report that Wall Street bankers gave themselves $18.4 billion in bonuses while lobbying the government for more money. That anger should boil over to complete indignation when you then have to talk one company down from buying a $50 million jet.

This week, Citigroup, which received an infusion of taxpayer money last year, canceled its plans, at the administration’s urging, to buy a $50 million business jet.

Mr. Obama did not spare the company in his remarks on Thursday, although he did not mention Citi by name. “Secretary Geithner already had to pull back on one institution that had gone forward with a multimillion-dollar plane it purchased at the same time as they are receiving TARP money,” he said, using the acronym for the government’s $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program, intended to rescue shaky financial firms. “We shouldn’t have to do that, because they should know better."

via: Obama Calls Wall Street Bonuses ‘Shameful’

I am so incredibly tired of politicians who don’t seem to have an ounce of passion or emotion about them. This kind of thing is something that really, REALLY needs to have anger attached to it, and the President should absolutely be the voice of the people in this regard.

My hope meter is rising every day.

To bring this all back to religion… a great many religious leaders say that lack of good, Christian morals has led to this sort of rampant greed. I’d really like to see a study of how many of these people consider themselves good Christians already.

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