Matt Damon hits out at Barack Obama

Actor Matt Damon has criticised US President Barack Obama for failing to fulfil his promises.

Damon campaigned heavily for Obama to win the presidential elections in 2008, but now feels bad on his failure to fix the US economy and unemployment problem, reports contactmusic.com.

"I think he's rolled over to Wall Street completely. The economy has huge problems. We still have all these banks that are too big to fail. They're bigger and making more money than ever," he told The Independent.

"Unemployment at 10 percent? It's terrible... They had a chance that they don't have any more to stand up for things. They've probably squandered that at this point. They'll probably just make whatever deals they can to try and get elected again," he added.

The actor says he isn't happy with Obama's handling of education in the country.

"They have to get people who actually know about educating kids in positions of power. Now they're trying to get business people to come and manage schools like they're factories. It's not going to work," he said.

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck paid for auditions from joint bank account

Matt Damon has revealed that he shared a bank account with best friend Ben Affleck before they rose to fame.

He said that they often used to share their funds to pay for audition trips.

"I started coming down here to New York by myself with money I had made in local commercials in Boston," the Daily Express quoted Damon as telling 'Piers Morgan Tonight'.

"Ben and I actually had a joint bank account and the bank account was money we had made from doing local commercials and we could only use it on trips to New York to audition.

"When I look back at that, a 16 and 14 year old, we were really young to be taking the bus by ourselves to New York and spending a day going to an audition - we were living adult lives as teenagers."

Matt Damon Condemns Sarah Palin - "Terrifying Possibility" - Watch Video

Actor Matt Damon has made his position clear while speaking out in a YouTube video about the Republican Party's choice of hockey-mom Sarah Palin for Vice President.

Damon compares the addition of Palin to the John McCain ticket to "a really bad Disney movie", and thinks it is crazy that this woman could become President, which he thinks is a really terrifying possibility.

Damon feels "there is a good chance that Palin will become president", apparently concerned about the age of hopeful John McCain, and says he does not want "a hockey mom from a small town in Alaska starring down Vladimir Putin."

Damon does seem to bring up some good points, and we have also wondered why everyone in the media as turned Sara Palin into a super-star. A year ago she was asked on camera about the VP position and she said she didn't even know what the Vice President did all day.

Compared to the years of experience that Democratic VP pick Joseph Biden brings to the table, we think the Palin choice may have been the end to John McCain's chances for the White House.

Watch Matt Damon Criticize Sarah Palin



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