Just a quick note regarding our economic situation. What situation? I didn't do this. I had no hand in this; but the Republican soothsayers and their teabagging friends want us to all lock step and follow them into the past to re-live the joys of Nazidom. Where is the freedom of press? Where is the freedom of speech? And where is the justice for all of us when way too many of THEM profited by the nonsense going on in the halls of government and finance.
It doesn't take a PhD. to figure out who is getting doubled over for a royal screwing in the next election. Watch carefully as those right wing (I'll never call them conservatives....William Buckley must be twirling in his grave) AHoles try to pin the ills of the world on the present resident of the White House.
During the first two years of his presidency, he and his financial experts tried one way to get us out of the problem; namely spend us out. This works if the people in the middle and the bottom of the economy spend the cuts and tax savings given back to them. The upper crust keep the savings to in new financial paper. They do not, as those brainiacs would have you believe, put the money back into business to create jobs. They pull all the wagons into a circle and divide up the freebies given to them by US.
Protections for the working class in this country are now being sold away as so many scrap cars going to the re-cycling bin. Unions will be as hard to find in this country as hens' teeth. Mark my words, if we don't drop into a second recession (early depression) by the beginning of the fourth quarter, I'll take up smoking and drinking again while standing in an open grave; not too far to fall when the end comes.
I believe in the United States of America. I believe in its people. I do not believe in organized religion and lock-step organized democracy. Such a thing cannot be. It is a dictatorship either of one person or the proletariat as a whole; and we all know how successful such a dictatorship was for the fine people of Russia. Aren't they all driving Mercedes Benz now??? Some folks in China have learned to live with the enemy and make some money. We send them money and they send us junk; and that's O.K. with the politicians here at home. Gimme my cut, I gotta get to the game.
We are still in for a rough ride. I see that there are some people who feel that the worst is over. These folks have put houses back on the market at ridiculous prices which rival the psychotic amounts we saw when the 'Bubble' burst. They ain't a gonna get that money back....not right away; and not for at least five to seven years. The houses and properties were fifty to one hundred per cent over-priced. There are still more foreclosures to come I am sorry to say.
What's scary is that even John Boehner ( I hope I spelled that correctly ) is starting to sound like the voice of reason in Washington. He understands that there can be a two or more party system, but something has to give. Not taxing the rich and giving everything away to offshore corporations just flushes our hard work right out to sea. It's fine to be hard left or hard right, but in the reality of the light of day such thinking only drags us away from what we want to be; what we can and should continue to be. This is not a country that raises the flag because it is told to do so; it is a country that respects itself and the generations which came before for all the hard work expended to give us the freedoms and rights which are the envy of the rest of the world.
We must move ahead; but cautiously. We must remember that although the house of cards came down in only a few days, re-building will take a bit longer. For our children and their children to come we have to bite the bullet and get this done; but get it done right.
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