Forum Post: Shouldn’t we be protesting outside the White House about Obama’s failed leadership? I’m upset too…but it is not Wall Street's fault

I understand that people are upset;

Obama has done a terrible job as President.

People are left unemployed and terrified of the future.

The President of the United States has shown to be a weak leader in a time when a country desperately needs someone in power to come through with real solutions to the domestic problems related to a global economic crisis.

Wall street is the very place that wants jobs and a booming economy more than anyone else.

If it is socialism that you want then you are better off leaving the country. That is not what the U.S. was built on.

If you are upset because people are employed and you are not then stop wasting time protesting and start earning a wage. I have worked jobs that have nothing to do with my education or professional work history in order to be self-supporting (and NO I personally do not work on Wall Street but I do work). My current job is NOT anywhere near to my dream job but I have to be a man and not a whining brat about my situation and what people owe to me. If unemployed GET A JOB! McDonald's is taking applications. There is a mining boomtown environment going on with the Bakken Shale project in North Dakota and Montana; jobs are available. It may not be your dream job but this whining about what people owe you has got to stop.

To focus on Washington is frustrating. I understand. The President does not have a good sense of direction and has not since taking office. He is the modern day version of what a person groomed for politics learns during their university education. Politics has become a game of garnerning public appeal and leaving people worse off for the experience. Why not organize to cut the salaries of those working in Washington? To place a special tax on politicians? To tax the fundraising campaigns of politicians? Obama's campaign will raise close to $1 billion in order for him to spend to get re-elected. Untaxed. COME ON PEOPLE- take the politics out of Washington. Tax the politcal campaigns of these ineffective leaders. That money is spent to make one individual appear the way he/she wants to for PUBLIC APPROVAL (that is all...). Tax that money. Unfortunately when the veil of political maneuvering is pulled back there is no substance behind the figureheads in Washington. We have a President in office who drove through an unpopular $1 trillion Obamacare plan during his term. No one is thrilled about it ...and that is all that he's done.

Be upset. Be very, very upset. But Wall Street is NOT responsible for you being unemployed. Wall street also did not forge your signature on mortgage deal that you could not afford to begin with. Although I feel empathy for your suffering a default on your mortgage it was your choice, as an adult, to take on that debt. Your ability to make a choice to sign a mortgage is your right as an adult-don't cry for mama when you stop breathing the ether of your own greatness for owning a home and realize that you should have approached the situation with a little less bravado to begin with. The U.S. has a thing called bankruptcy for people who get THEMSELVES in over their head financially. Bankruptcy saves you. It may screw up your credit but you also have an opportunity to rebuild. It is not a free pass but a remedy for overextending oneself financially. No; I am not sugar coating this because that is not what anyone in this country needs. A dose of good solid work ethic and a desire to work for what one truly wants in life are just basic, fundmental, survival skills. It happens in nature or the young will perish without their mother's constant attention.

Wall street is NOT responsible for getting people back to work BUT I can understand that WITH THE LACK OF COMPETENT LEADERSHIP COMING FROM THE OVAL OFFICE the frustration has to spill over somewhere. No surprise that the President has endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement. Anything to take he heat off of him…

March on Washington and demand politicians to pay campaign fundraising taxes. March on Washington and the number of things to protest about are limitless. It is so very dysfunctional. Stop letting Washington's failures besmirch a financial industry that would ultimately love 0% unemployment and for everyone to be able to afford a home to lead happy, properous, family lives. So that average citizens could focus on things that are more important to us...like baseball playoffs, getting children to school on time, and living our own version of the American dream.