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bdickens wrote:Two things.

One: The President does not hold the Federal checkbook. Congress, more specifically the House of Representatives, does.

Two: Osama - I mean Obama - is just another Ivy League Marxist/ socialist. He has less in common with the average Black person than my blonde-haired, green-eyed WASP self does.

That's exactly right. The president doesn't dole out the funds, the house and senate representatives do. Write you representatives and let them how you, their constituents, want them to vote.

In times like these, I am thankful that we have a government based on checks and balances. Yes, those balances don't necessarily work all the time, but they are there. A large number of people are assuming that Obama has the power of emperor, and will be disappointed when they find out that he has to work within the system just like every other president.

The next four years are going to be tough, I just hope we don't fair too badly.