A repeat of past mistakes or the wisdom to learn from the past and create a better future. January 2014 will begin President Obama's second year of his second term in office. The economy will enter the new year with welcomed economic gains in job creation, an increase in the GDP, lower unemployment and a reduction in the Federal Deficit. The war in Afghanistan will come to an end this year so the new year does project a progressive year for the country and its people.
The Affordable Care Act is picking up steam dispite the online application problems that took place at the start up and the republican's opposition to throw up any road block it could muster to create more problems just because they want to see the program and the President fail. The republicans have learned nothing from their past 40 votes to defund the ACA and as a result the future for them will be like the past.
Since 2014 will be a year of congressional elections, if congress chooses to play politics instead of addressing the country's priority to keep the economy moving forward, the future will be like the past with political gridlock. That must not happen as it did in 2013.
President Kennedy understood that our problems are man made and there fore can be solved by man and that past mistakes could be corrected with leadership and courage. He understood history and pursued a future that would not look like the failed past.
President Obama will do the country and its people well by addressing the future and staying above petty politics of the moment. The economic ground work for continued progress has been established and now it is time in 2014 to make full employment a reality, rising wages for the average American a standard and a tax system that is fair where everyone pays a just share of the tax burden.
The road map for the future should avoid the mistakes of the past and it can be accomplished if leaders are mindful of history and our past. President George W. Bush was not and there fore his policies doomed the future of his administration and the economy.
This commentary written by John Lucia
Note: See previous commentary dated 12/28/10 titled, What Will The New Year Bring Politically.
