Piyush "Bobby" Jindal

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal's response to Obama's Tuesday's speech. He is the current Governor of the state of Louisiana.

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The quote Jindal refers to, "we may not be able to reverse" from Obama's article in the Washington Post, is taken out of context. I thought it was a good speech until then. The context is as follows:

"Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes. And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse."

This is disappointing. Jindal is "considered a rising star in Republican ranks and a likely 2012 presidential candidate." Why, then, is he using the old tactics that McCain and Palin used of using things Obama said out of context to make it seem that he said something completely different. At first, I was wondering why the Associated Press reported that "Insane. Childish. Disaster." were some of the "kinder" words used as critiques, but the speech has "drawn flak from Republicans and Democrats alike."

It would also be nice for our elected officials to know the history of the US a bit better. I suppose that Jundal would also criticise the formation of the FDIC, SEC, Social Security, FHA and programs formed around the time of Roosevelt's creation of the New Deal in the midst and aftermath of the Great Depression. Many of the New Deal programs of the New Deal were eventually killed by conservatives, but they were OK with Social Security and the other aforementioned ones. It is obvious to most that the government must intervine because of the very fact that inaction will lead to a situation "we may not be able to reverse."