for an important topic to comment about. I guess since nobody else is either, therefore, everything must be hunky dory. But something gives me the sense that, in fact, there are just too many important things to focus on and everyone else is missing the point. Where do I start?
I drive thru towns or on highways and see an inordinate amount of “for rent” or “for sale” signs. That can’t be a good sign. People or companies used to do business in those stores and now they’re not. They must have gone out of business and there’s no one to take their place. We can understand businesses do go out of business---others come along with newer, better products, and put older ones out of business. But on such a wide scale basis? We know that can’t be good. And if no one’s taking the place of those empty stores, where did all those people who worked there go? They must still be unemployed---and some probably even lost money.
I drive down neighborhoods and see a lot of broker’s signs, or even more telling, a more than normal amount of “for sale” signs “by owner”. People have to sell their houses and because there’s such an excess supply, prices are dropping rather than leveling off. And prices are putting such pressure on owners that they can’t/don’t want to pay a commission. But why are they still falling when interest rates are so low that usually this revives a market?
Instead, the news of the day focuses on Weiner’s pickle, as the Daily news says. That’s the one about the congressman who all of a sudden finds his member in underwear twittered to some unknown female across the continent. The titillating part is that he doesn’t know if it was his. Seems like he’s been out of touch lately? Hmmmm
And then there’s the issue of should Kentucky authorize tax credits for expansion of a creationist museum. Like this is necessary? It’s an expansion….does that mean the original is not successful so they need help in increasing the size of the failed original? But what are our tax dollars doing supporting a religious project? Oh, it’ll create jobs? What, there’s no bridges left to fix, highways to modernize, mass transit to invest in, energy grids, schools, preschool education….things that this country needs to benefit all? Instead, some feel it’s important enough to build an amusement park that attempts to make fantasy into reality? Isn’t that mostly what museums are for; to educate people? But exhibits showing people living along with dinosaurs is flat out wrong, and a Noah’s Ark has nothing to date to show as evidence of its existence. This is not education! It’s an agenda!
How about that Harold Camping? If HE doesn’t give one the creeps, he’s the 89 year old geezer who claimed he calculated that the end of the world would be May 21. The day came and went no more eventfully than any other day; except that a young girl committed suicide because of the prediction.
What happened to serious topics like climate change, healthcare, education, alternative energy options, mass transit; some things that create jobs? Instead we occupy ourselves with entertainment news, and freak show entertainment. News that makes us glad all is not serious enough that we have to think about real solutions because we’re incapable of solving our problems without consulting some 2500 year old dogma.
Sarah Palin? Donald Trump? Would we entrust the use of nuclear weapons to these people? Have we become a “Reality Nation”? Is our attraction to the Barnum why we watch these circuses? We tried Wilson, Truman, and Bush II. All are devoutly religious leaders. Are their backer’s objective problem solvers or have we found ourselves dealing with more of their idiotic creations than problems they’ve solved?
Why is the news dialogue giving air to the self promoters looking for opportunities to advance their own images rather than time to serious people debating the issues that concern us more than whether Trump eats pizza with a knife and fork or Anthony Weiner, for some reason, refuses to categorically state his position in the, pecker in the briefs, case? Have we become an “Enquirer” Nation?
Instead, we’ve allowed the dialogue to become hijacked by ideologues that crow patriotism but have less interest in the country than promoting their own interest. How can a faction be so secure in their positions that they would refuse to consider an opposing view unless they were convinced it was some infallible deity professed instruction? Yet in actuality, it’s their self serving objectives they conceal and rationalize in the form of god’s guidance.
The news of the day was that hardly any jobs were created last month. Why aren’t we running around like chimps on fire demanding that the fire be put out? Why aren’t those that run the country feel the pain that those without jobs feel. Because they’re insensitive? They have theirs and everybody else is on their own? Sounds like it when Eric Cantor says this!
Cantor and his cronies are an embarrassment to humanity. Is this the America we want when we can’t help our own? When they controlled the White House they ignored the pleas of the Hurricane Katrina victims. Now they’re in control of some power again and this is their response to tornado victims? Just like the unemployment insurance issue at the end of 2010. This is compassion? What a crock. I hope everyone in Missouri who was affected was a Rebublican/Tea party voter---just to see how they take care of their own. Apparently being of the same party is not necessarily “their own”. Good luck; and America, wake up!
Instead of talking like there’s a 911 emergency to get people back to work, the conversation and the political dance these days is about decreasing the debt. Notice I didn’t say deficit. It’s the national debt that they want to reduce by trillions. Like let’s pay off the mortgage to the house before we talk about how we are going to put food on the table tomorrow. So those who have their own agenda to keep the electorate off track so they don’t realize what’s really going on. Isn’t it in the national interest to have an educated workforce? Or is the game plan to ignore education, keep the masses ignorant so they’ll vote out of fear for whomever the fellowships recommend on Sunday? Don’t ya get it? Cut expenses because it’ll create jobs, and keep taxes low because it’ll trickledown and create more jobs? Who benefits most from lower taxes; those without the money to pay taxes or those who make the most? Lower revenues, less to spend on social programs. Do you really think this policy affects people who don’t have jobs and hardly declare any income, or are the ones at the top the beneficiaries. Did you ever hear of the fox minding the chickens? Do the likes of Eric Cantor’s comments sound like this will help America? Please, think before you pull a lever. Are we better off today, or was it better 11 years ago?
Yes, Democrats might be spineless, all inclusive wimps; they mean well. But it comes down to the lesser of the evils. Do we want the Cantors, Palins, Trumps, Michelle Bachmans and their religious cronies? Can we risk it? More irreparable damage will be done to this country if the conversation continues like this for another 5 years. Jobs and infrastructure are more important than worrying about the budget for now. We will have a better opportunity to solve our financial issues when there are more people working than just cutting expenses. Cutting expenses doesn't create jobs. Feeding the populous now is more important than being concerned about what we don’t know tomorrow. If we don’t eat now, there’ll be no tomorrow.
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