Yes, he has twice as many donors as jobs created and let's say paintings painted because IT WAS HIS JOB to get donors and IT IS NOT his job to paint paintings nor create jobs. He could help as much creating jobs as he could let's say...... help find the cure for cancer. Yes he can maybe help give more money for research but if the researchers fail in their endeavor during his mandate we cannot blame Obama* because he didn't find the cure (you can't actually blame the researchers either but that is another point).
We are not in Louis XIV' times anymore, the head of state is not THE state anymore. Yes the head can have an influence, but as we all know from our own bodies even, the body/the heart/the legs/the arms sometimes fail to listen to the head (you can take me as an example, many times my fingers texting didn't care at all about my head telling them to NOT PRESS SEND :P).
So I think it is time for all of us to wake up and realize that we are all to blame about our problems and we are all in this to fix them. There is no single person in this world that can take them away from us, no matter how much he/she would want that. You know what I want to tell all these people that think a president can solve their money problems? DUDES!!!!! You have watched too much Superman! There is no such thing in real life! Leave the hero action movies and go find a job, go to school, get a qualification, send a million CVs if you have to! Because life is unfair but not brutally cruel (at least not in the Western world) and if you are good at something and you are really looking to find a job, YOU CANNOT FAIL! So stop making excuses and blame others for your own shortcomings. Yes it make take some time, yes you may need to adapt, yes it is a hard job BUT (in a democracy at least) you are the only one that has control over your life, thus the only one that can truly help you. For example, in communist Romania almost everyone had a job; if you were unemployed they would find you something to do. But did you have control over your life? NO! If you were a musician for example, could you have stayed one year looking for someone to listen to your song ? No, you would work now in a shoe shop because this was the only thing available that met your qualifications. Your true profession was not needed? No problem ,you can sell shoes in a shoe store, as long as you were employed, the system didn't care. Would you be happy then? NO! So stop expecting THE PRESIDENT to get you a job, moron!
I don;t know who to blame about this tragic situation in which people expect their president and government to solve all their problems. It's like the chicken and the egg thing; who came first?
Because let's be honest, in a presidential election, they all promise to create jobs, they all promise to give them health insurance, they all promise clean streets and safe neighborhoods and they are so convincing as if they would personally go to every single citizen to clean up around their houses, personally find and jail all wrongdoers, employ every job seeker in a company that runs on Monopoly money (which miraculously works at Delhaize/Walmart) and pay for the hospital bill of anyone that needs a check-up. So why would you not expect citizens to feel raped, cheated and lied to when they realize that this OBVIOUSLY is not the case. But then again, if people were not so stupid to believe such things and even more important, TO EXPECT such things, the runners in the elections would not need to promise such stupid things. I mean, people don;t expect Obama to go on the moon right? They know that would be stupid. So, Obama (thankfully :P) didn;t promise to do that. I can bet a million dollars that if people would actually expect that from a president, they would include that in a campaign. Which would be stupid, right? Well GUESS WHAT! expecting the president to create a job for you is AS STUPID!
My solution? rather than learning an extra poem in school, everyone should learn the responsibilities and attributions of a president. This way, when someone like Obama comes and says I will create more jobs than there are people, everyone would be able to say: you are stupid man, you won;t be able to do that, you have to come up with something more intelligent to fool us! Believe me Obama, this may seem as a pain in the ass, but it will also save you a lot of trouble since you won;t need to excuse yourself for something that was beyond your capabilities anyway. For example you will not be in the situation that you find yourself now, comparing the USA with someone hit by a truck that needs a lot of time to recover (good analogy though, I give you that:P)
*please note that when I say Obama I also mean all other presidents in the world (including my country's president, Traian Basescu)
