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Everyone needs a break from the pressures of work and the President of the United States of America is no exception to that. After all, despite being the leader of one of the so-called “super powers” of the world, he still has all the rights to take a much-needed holiday just like the rest of us, mere commoners. On the other hand, jeers and controversies about his 10-day vacation in a $35,000 weekly worth of stay at Martha’s Vineyard cannot be avoided because at the end of the day, he still is a very important public figure having a very delicate obligation to fulfill in public office. Aside from his supposed splurging while the rest of the American population is trying their hardest to make sense meet, his untimely vacation during a time when Obama bailout and health care issues are being debated over, is now under fire.

The Obama bailout plan and health care program are the government’s proposed solutions to the ballooning economic problem in the country, which are heavily opposed by many (especially coming from the opposition wing) because both heavily rely on people’s taxes. Aside from that, the programs also sound a bit too ambitious considering that the government is already scraping whatever resources they can find to fuel these plans. Some think that these are just economic glitch quick fixes the government did not study thoroughly. The controversies are more pronounced that the man of the hour is missing in action. Like the famous adage says, “When the cat is away, the mouse will play.”

Critics of the Obama administration cannot be helped from taking this as an opportunity to bash the current activities of the government while the President is away from the oval office. Some also see it as a chance to spread false and fabricated information about loopholes of the Obama health care programs. To make matters worst, there are also a lot of parties who scrutinize the cost and expenses of the President during his time out from office with his family and cook up issues that these expenses were shouldered by the people of the United States of America.

The issues about the President’s 10-day vacation are uncalled for and truth be told, most of them are also baseless. Tying them up with the Obama bailout plan and the health care program is also pointless. I think that the media is just creating so much hype about this and such act is not in any way helpful in solving the economic problems at hand. What the country needs now are not speculations or baseless controversies. What we need are solutions, feasible solutions to save our dying economy.