Reaction to President Barack Obama’s re-election is mixed according interviews with people along Front Street in Georgetown on Thursday.

But most people said they hope the President and Congress will work together to fix the problems our country faces.

People were asked what their reaction is to Obama being re-elected to a second term. Below are their responses:

Randy Jackson of Georgetown:

It was a black day in America when President Obama was re-elected. I think the U.S. has become the entitlement society.

It appears that my country wants handouts instead of working for it.

I think the re-election of President Obama is a reflection of the entitlement society taking over.

As a Social Security beneficiary, I am concerned that this will have an effect on my future.

Democrats say there are 30 million people without health insurance.

Are we going to penalize the 250 million of us who do have it because of the 30 million who don’t?

People who can’t afford it now will not be able to afford it then and their employers will have to help them pay. That will make prices go up or taxpayers will have to pay.

Moro of Georgetown:

It will be another four years of recession. I voted for Obama four years ago, but he has let me down. His agenda is the same. I don’t see anything different.

The auto industry went on bailout. Why? Because the economy is not good.

Tomorrow, if the telecom industry is hurting, is he going to bail them out and brag about it?

The key to a better economy is gas prices and that depends on comodoties, which people can’t afford. No wonder why people are on welfare and food stamps.

Everything has gone up and people get more money and benefits.

Anne Sanders from Beaufort, S.C.:

I was distressed to see Barack Obama re-elected because I think he is a weak leader.

He has shown poor judgment in foreign policy and I don’t like his fiscal plan.

I am grossly opposed to his plan to “redistribute the wealth.”

I truly believe that President Obama would like to dumb down this country and make it more like European socialist countries. But I don’t think that would work here.

I think this country is moving in the wrong direction.

I am very concerned about what my children and grandchildren will have to face in the future.

I don’t agree with where Obama wants to take this country, especially redistributing the wealth.

The saddest thing is that this country is polarized. A lot of people are upset about the result of the election and people are being nasty on Facebook. It is so much easier to to be ugly to people on Facebook and things are said that would never be said in person.

Ben Fluitsma of St. Augustine, Fla.:

I don’t like the way Obama handles the economy. He borrows too much money from other countries.

The Chinese already own half this country. We don’t need to borrow any more from them.

Gary Reid of St. Augustine, Fla.:

I am glad he was re-elected. I think he was the best choice of the two candidates.

I am particularly pleased with the senior programs what will remain intact.

Romney was going to destroy them with a voucher system.

That concerned me because there would be a lot of disenfranchised seniors.

I think Romeny is more interested in Romney than anyone else.

Shirley Horn of Myrtle Beach:

I love it. I followed the election all the way through and I was fair, looking at both sides.

President Obama is better for the middle class and people who need help.

If Congress will work with him and both sides compromise more people can be helped.

I think Romney is more for the rich and would take away from people on Medicare, including veterans and older people. I can’t see my mom going and getting a voucher.

John Belusz of Georgetown:

It’s not surprising. I voted for Romney. It was close. I thought it would be close, but I thought Romney would win. I don’t think President Obama has a good plan for the U.S.

What he should do is concentrate on foreign policy and let the states take care of themselves.

I don’t think our country is being handled the right way as a whole.

It seems like our government wants people to rely on them more than themselves at a local level.

Obama seems like a good guy and he is definitely a good speaker, but we need less government.

Katie Maleckar of Georgetown:

I am thrilled. I think re-electing president Obama is the right thing for the country.

I see the economy improving. If we would have put Romney in there, he would have destroyed all of these businesses.

President Obama seems like an ordinary person to me. He is not sitting in a place above everybody and he can relate to people.

Shaquur Abdul of Georgetown:

I think it is a good thing. He stopped two wars that were going on for 10 years and costing 900 billion a year. That really hurt the economy, making the rich richer and the poor poorer and taxing the middle classand people below the poverty line. I want him to make improvements on the Healthcare bill.

Healthcare is a serious issue and I’m glad that is one of the first issues he attacked. How can people work if they aren’t healthy? Politicians need to come together to make it a better nation for our kids.

Susan Edwards of Greensboro, N.C.:

I think he deserves four more years because he inherited a big challenge and he has done a good job under the circumstances. He needs four more years to finish what he started.

Anyone with any business background at all would know that it would take more than four years to solve our country’s problems

I like that he is open to people from all walks of life. He is a very real person.

I am also glad that if President Obama has to appoint Supreme Court justices he will choose pro-choice people. We don’t want to take away women’s right to choose.

I hope both parties work together for the good of the country.

By Clayton Stairs

cstairs@gtowntimes.com