From Boom, To Gloom, To Doom

Last night, the President gave a hopeful, inspiring and joining speech.  I felt compelled to get up and do something for my country, getting his message that now is the time for us to do something... now is the time for us to come together... and now is the time for the bullshit to end.  The only thing that ended was that feeling... because minutes afterwards, it was back to more of the same with the comments and rebuttals.  I logged onto Facebook to join the community of insight, and there wasn't ONE mention of the speech.  Funny, since it was only a few days ago that the status bars were filled with responses to EVERY single play of the football game.  Nice priorities, people.  It's sad, but we deserve every bit of getting fucked that we get. 

The speech wasn't perfect.  While we need to think about the future, trying to sell new technology at this point is like trying to sell a pool in the middle of a drought.  Plus, people aren't going to get it... we are a nation of lazy, greedy, uninspired, stupid people sucking the life out of the system, then biting the hand that tries to feed us.  It's amazing how people think all that the government provides, right down to street lights, gets paid for.  Sadly, the marching drones that the Republicans have in their pockets that they get to vote them into office don't even realize they're getting screwed over.  They're fed lies and propoganda and those draining the system the most (the poor, the elderly) are the ones who vote their own demise and are too dumb to know it.  And they're not even the biggest tax payers.  Certainly we cannot expect to have to pay taxes to pay for all of it... that's un-American.  There has to be another way.  Guess what, there isn't.

Watching the commentaries afterwards, there was one resounding theme.  Democrats were psyched to get the ball rolling and do what we need to do... and the Republicans wanted to just sit around and blame the mess on Obama, deflect their own wrong-doings and not take responsibility and expect results instantaneously, all the while, with them butting heads to stop any hope of progress.  Two years to fix years and years isn't realistic.

Jobs are the number one priority, although there are jobs to be had.  I see signs everywhere for help wanted.  The problem is that this country has lived above it's means for so long and there is such a sense of entitlement that the idea of going on unemployment is a much better prospect than doing a job that's beneath them.  Even our kids have a sense of entitlement, with sports and entertainment stars making what they do... and the lotteries, etc... kids figure that's their ticket, so rather than learning in school, they are too busy trying to get rich on YouTube doing some stupid shit.  Hard work will definitely not be an aspiration of the youth, rather, it will be the pursuit of easy money.  Not once have I heard any plan from Republicans on how to create jobs... even with the $82 million in Bush tax cuts that went right into the pockets of the 'job creators'.  The Stimulus Package created jobs, exporting trade agreements created jobs, the health care bill would have created jobs...

I supposed the Republican's plan is to let the President go down in flames... all the while, pissing gas to fuel the fire.  This way, in less than two years, they can continue to blame it all on him and waltz in talking about turning things around with no real plan, as usual... get elected and then we can all bend over and get fucked again for another 4-8 years.  We're doomed.