President Obama spent the stimulus money on American Businesses, American roads, American infrastructure and Americans.

The previous Administration spent a $trillion in Iraq and another $trillion more or less on tax cuts for the wealthy and the banks.

Which one would you rather have. Most will say, give me the President Obama's choice any day.

No one should be happy as the market crashes with looming double dip deflation.

So many people will suffer from the downturn as employers pull their arms and legs in like a scaredy spider and hold off any expansion plans.

It is a testament to the human frailties that more than a million displaced people still live under tents and tarpaulins. Rome was not built in a day and no city can be re-built in a year.

However, we can do better and provide greater relief for those most disadvantaged, never mind the build-back-better kind envisioned last March. Outbreak of cholera and political unrest thwarted officials’ sole point of pride six months ago.

What is completely intolerable is the victimization of the children and the women. Surely, it can not take too much further effort to separate those most vulnerable.

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