Our President took a Bow

Our President took a Bow

fiction
edward w Pritchard


Jimmy Ospers
Grade 9
October 27, 2015
A Report on the President

The last President was the first Black man elected to that high office and his term in office proved to be enigmatic and difficult to categorize. He was highly popular as man, but had at the same time, ended his term with a historically high disapproval rating. Additionally for the good of the country, he alienated most of his early staunch followers. Now, however, his status among professional politicians and political scientist continues to grow, as the long term effects of his policies are evaluated in the light of history, and more objectively, his policies are measured statistically using cloud computing statistical variance regression techniques developed in the last 18 months at Intel and Google.

Conservatives of course, dis-liked the President, and they felt he had went too far, with literally, bowing to several foreign leaders, men who hated and disdained our country, and the conservatives thought his kowtowing, as they called it, weakened America's traditional role as a strong power, a la Teddy Roosevelt, or Dwight Eisenhower. Also his including his families wishes and needs in his travel plans and public appearances was highly unpopular and unmercifully ridiculed, and these sexist remarks will not be repeated here. Lastly, the food incident at the notable Chinese Dinner in Beijing, in August 2010, where the President hand carried his plate, and gave it to the handicapped Chinese man credited with changing the most populous Country in the world's attitude on disabilities, in the last century, circa 1990, from Handicapped and useless, to handicapped and capable, remarkably also somehow upset a majority of Americans at least according to the polls from August and September, 2010.

Still, what was most surprising was reaction among the President's traditional supporters to two main issues that caused the Last President to become a One term President and in this writer's humble opinion, thereby become the most effective President of the last one hundred years.

[Jimmy- this is a sweeping statement- Site facts, more proof, numbers statistics -- Professor Tate]

Everyone is aware of the president's decision to not run again in 2012 because of Family issues, as it has been a soap opera, and is, thank God, now passe. However, the second and main reason, from a political strategy standpoint that the Last President didn't seek re-election was over the fallout from Proposition 103.

Proposition 103 was initiated in New Jersey, in November, 2010, and was an attempt to lower, a historically unprecedented unemployment rate [ 19%] that was the result of the fallout from the sub prime/derivative crisis of 2007.

{Jimmy- how about information on how the official unemployment rate came to be revised from 10 to 19% in 2010 and how that effected the sitting President.-Professor Tate]

Proposition 103 gained national attention because of the inability of over 20 states to be able to meet their Pension obligations to government employees caused by desperate elderly civil servants retiring en mass to maintain their agreed to but unfunded benefits.

A National referendum was called for by several States, as Friends of the Court, in support of proposition 103, and in a shocking surprise move the President supported the referendum which caused massive unhappiness from his traditional supporters.

The supporters were incised because the National Proposition forbid any civil servant or government employee or lobbyist, to work in government more than 9 years. There was to be no Grandfathering for existing employees. While there were a few exceptions for National Security, primarily in the Army, the sweeping legislation was to have a profound effect on the labor force. As an example, under the rotating job requirement, all teachers, fireman and policeman, could not stay in their own job more than 6 years, and must exit all government employment after 9 years, the idea being to allow younger workers a chance to gain expertise and job skills, and to encourage the 9 year workers to start small businesses or branch into other fields. The President was advised by his pollsters, and other members of his party, that the the major group who would lose from the proposition were urban black's who had entered fire, police, teaching and government in the 1980's and 1990's, but the President refused to follow the party line and supported Proposition 103.

Nearly, all the existing unions, labor groups and professional organizations opposed the plan to limit any governmental employment to nine cumulative years, but obviously, as we now all know, that the Proposition passed and the programs have been a huge success, lowering unemployment rates to 2 % in 2013, spurring massive small business growth and creation, and increasing tax revenues, and resulting in a balanced budget in 2014.

However, in 2011, such benefits were years away at best, and as the Wall Street Journal remarked in a headline, July 24, 2011,

"President bows to Chinese, and Wife and kids , but kicks labor in rear"

Shortly there after, the President announced his intention not to seek re-election, and then in a short six month period undertook a fury of needed reforms destined to turn around the country and reduce big government in America once and for all.

His success of course is limited by customary ballyhooing of current politicians to take credit for anything good and blame others for all failures, still anyone who makes an objective evaluation of the last President would have to admit that while unconventional, he was a good man, and took political risks for the long term good of his country as a whole, and America's stronger than ever before, in 2015, and the Last President while unpopular when he left office deserves a lot of the credit for the stable current political situation domestically in America.

Jimmy,
Good Paper
This needs more numbers to support your argument, but this is college level thought, I disagreed with your comments on deficit, but I realize that is beyond the scope of this paper. I hope you continue to follow political science as we need more unconventional thinking in the field.
Professor Tate
B+