More Troops

Courtney writes about how the deployment with Iraq is getting out of hand. She focuses on how we need to speed things up with Afghanistan. She also mentions how President Obama had promised that he would try and get out troops back home. Now this is where I would add some things to Courtney’s More Troops blog. Obama said that he will keep his promise and get our troops back home but, but I think that it will take some time to figure out a way of how to do that. We can’t take big steps, we have to be careful and think big of how we can get out of there as soon as we can but in a smart way.

Courtney put questions that state of why we entered the war in the first place and what our troops are doing there. She is correct about that. What are we really doing there? Now, we can look back and say the 9/11, but did we really need a war over that, a war that takes years and years of fighting? I completely agree with Courtney where she talks about not sending our troops just about anywhere and how we need to finish what we started. We got in this war very quickly, but we are going to get out slowly in a way that will help this country and the Middle East.

Unexpected improvement

We are in our second year of the recession, but not for long. According to the Obama Administration, we are doing better than we did a couple of months ago. About 15 million people are currently unemployed, but in November we saw that there were less people unemployed. There were more people back in business and working. We are hearing that there are more jobs out there and that we just feel like the economy is better. We are still currently at about a 10% unemployment rate. So this brings me to the question, was Obama right, when he said that he will bring America back at our feet? I would say that, he is doing a fine job; I think that we are showing some improvement. People are finding jobs and getting hired. It is going to take up to about five years to get the economy all settled down, but we are seeing some “unexpected improvement”. Many people are looking into this and seeing what Obama has accomplished. He did say that he is going to help with the recession and that is exactly what he is doing. Even though we are not there yet, we are getting there.