President Obama’s Visit to Rio Rancho

During his talk with voters he acknowledged the protesters outside the Rio Rancho High School. While the protesters were kept off the campus they were allowed onto a main street where the president could view their protest as he entered the event. This was a lot better than in the past when a presidential motorcade could not even see protesters. President Obama said that in the future the budget needed to be brought under control to protect our children and their children. He understands that debt cannot and will not always be the answer to our problems. He said that his hand is out in a bipartisan manner when the republicans came around to working with his administration. He said that he wants to address entitlement programs in a manner that provides for our seniors while cutting the debt of this country. Talk about going for the third rail! He said that he wants meaningful reform in health care so that those cost can and will be brought under control. He hopes to see a bill on his desk by the end of August. He said that he is looking to cut programs that do not work in order to use that funding for programs that are working. He said that the media should make up its mind where 17 million is important or not since they said earmarks were important but budget cuts were not. Give the man a little credit where credit is due was the message to the national media. He wants to put a stop to large credit card companies raising rate without notice and moving payment dates around. All in all he covered a number of issues that are important to the voting public and as a democrat I for one can find nothing to disagree with him about when it comes to reforms. I hope he pays close attention to educational reform and where the money is being spent because saving jobs for educational employees is easier said than done in this state.