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So, When Does President Obama Actually Work?
by James Glaser January 21, 2010 I know meetings with foreign leaders are important, and I guess giving speeches is part of being President, but now that President Obama has a year under his belt, we should be able to ask him, how many hours do you really put in fixing the problems of our country? CBS News has been keeping track of what the President has done this past year, and here are some of them: 160 Flights on Air Force One
All of those things take time, and then there were a few vacations and rounds of golf mixed in. Somehow, I was thinking that the President would be spending almost every day working with his team. Heck, there are millions of Americans out of work, and millions more have lost their homes. That made me feel that all the trips and all the flights could have been put on the back burner until things started looking up. I guess if you are President, speeches are in order, but 411 in a year seems a little excessive. Sure it is cool to be the President of the United States and have people fall all over you when you stop in their country, but remember all the Americans back here who are out of work and now out of their homes, too. There should be a shift in priorities don't you think? There is one other number CBS mentioned, and that was the increase in our national debt in this first year with President Obama. Even with all of these speeches, airplane and helicopter flights, and the foreign travel, President Obama has had the time to add $1.693 trillion dollars to our debt load. It seems that no other President in the history of our country has been able to spend that much in one year. So, at least we know the President is busy, but somehow it seems that more time should be devoted to our problems. There has been enough talk and enough travel, this second year should be spent problem solving here at home. |
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