EgbertoWillies's blog

Egberto Willies is a Software Engineer & Political Activist who lives in Houston, TX and is the  author of the book, As I See It and founder of the Coffee Party 2.0 pilot program Americans for Racial Equality & Economic Justice.

Many feel outright depression on the perception of an ineffective President Obama. I must admit that at times during the Stimulus debate, the Healthcare Reform Debate, the Bush Tax Cuts Extension Debate, and the Debt Ceiling debate many times I wished he had displayed more public angst with the obstructionists that were those in the Republican Party. I decided however to give the President the benefit of the doubt. I surmised that behind the scenes much was likely going on that we weren’t privy to.

After doing my radio show today and taking my two young co-hosts to lunch I continued to endure their dissent on the President’s accomplishments but mostly on the things they believed he failed at. Granted much of their concerns are warranted in the abstract, their belief that the President was capable of doing those things is more idealistic than they are willing to believe.

After going through the Kingwood Area Democrats Facebook page one of our more active members posted a link to a blog post  that included the following prescient text as well as a myriad of President Obama’s accomplishments.

Egberto Willies is a Software Engineer & Political Activist who lives in Houston, TX and is the  author of the book, As I See It. 

As usual the main stream media as well as the Right Wing Echo Chamber are all having the wrong discussion. S & P downgraded the credit rating of the United States. Yet today as the stock market plunged, most investments went from private companies not to countries that are now with a credit rating higher than that of the United States, but to the security of United States Treasuries. This is proof positive that just as S & P was irresponsibly wrong in their analysis of credit default swaps that were instrumental in our economic collapse, they are categorically wrong in downgrading the United States credit rating.

Thankfully we have people driven groups like Coffee Party USA and The American Dream Movement. I went to the NetRoots Nation 2011 conference and listened to Van Jones detail The American Dream Movement. He spoke to every American and implored us to really take back our country. In his words, we are “the real patriots” the “deep patriots”. We are the ones that care about our neighbor, our fellow citizens. We are the ones that care enough about our country to understand that unless we collectively invest in ourselves we will continue our slide into economic irrelevance.

Egberto Willies is a Software Engineer & Political Activist who lives in Houston, TX and is the  author of the book, As I See It.