It's The End of The World As We Know It & I Feel Fine
October 12th 2008 16:21
In a political "change" year it is the duty of every individual American of every age, sex, and gender to look within their hearts and minds to visualize the direction they would like our country to take over the next eight years.
In past Presidential elections "change" simply meant a choice between a philosophy rooted in a belief of American prosperity from the ground up through strict government oversight as opposed to a philosophy that is rooted in pro-business and American prosperity through limited government interference.
From the battles and debates in Philadelphia during the conception of our Constitution, to the blood that was spilled on American soil during the Civil War; we have always been trying to figure out a balance between these philosophies in our American government.
The balance has always been apparent through shared responsibility by splitting up the government into three separate branches which are nationally, state and regionally elected as well as appointed and approved; which is the reason why no Congress, Supreme Court or President has ever had the power alone to take our country to prosperity, distort or change the Constitution or to tear her down through their own individual devices.
When our country makes poor decisions such as the one to work hand and hand with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to put the keys of high priced homes into the hands of individuals who could not afford the mortgage and the market collapses with the end result of foreclosures from predatory lending; this is not a Democratic Party problem it is an American Problem
When our politicians have the ability to bolster their campaigns with millions of dollars from corrupt financial industries who influenced them through lobbying efforts with the deal being that they turn their backs while all of this went on, it is not a Republican Party problem but it is an American problem.
I can't understand how we can continuously keep having the same arguments and finger pointing on issues that are simple in nature year after year. Corruption is not blue or red it is simply green and unlike most of Congress and the man sitting in the Oval Office it is bi-partisan
Fannie,AIG, Lehman brothers and Freddie as well as a slew of other credit and bank institutions played us for suckers, got away with it and Americans are understandably angry and hurting but the answer isn't to misunderstand the issue and claim it was because of the Republican philosophy of promoting business which is the driving force of our economy and gave us the prosperity we enjoyed the during the eight years of the Clinton Presidency nor is the answer to look back to 1999 where the Democrats were working in good faith to put more middle and lower class Americans into homes but were duped by financial juggernauts who were only looking to fatten their wallets by scalping consumers whom they knew could not afford the mortgages they were approving.
In all of this mess the real problem I'm seeing is that there is no political punishment for any of the characters who drove us to the worst financial mess since the Great Depression….
George W Bush Got his Two Terms…
The Democratically controlled Congress will only grow bigger because of a successful marketing camping convincing the public that a "dim wit" from Texas caused the financial mess and was somehow smart enough to steal an election, put together an elaborate plan to have our nation attacked to get 90% approval ratings, purposely turned his back on the city of New Orleans because the population was predominately African American, came up with an idea of a war on Iraq all through his own imagination without any warning signs for the soul purpose of oil greed and ultimately was the cause of higher oil prices because of his Texas oil company ties that fattened the wallets of oil company CEO's and than packaged it up by saying every Republican is a George Bush clone even though everyone in his administration is headed back to the civilian world.
Maybe I'm way off here but the only people besides the American Tax Payer I see paying the price is the Republican Party through public image who are caught in the red glow of a bull's rage through party association. I'm not going to sit here and say that is the right or wrong way for you to think but it's not going to be the shovel that digs us out of this mess.
A vote is a personal choice and involves more than the issues I've mentioned but our country is at a crucial point and we still have a lot more pain to absorb over the next eight years and beyond
This pain will come with shortages in the food we eat resulting in higher prices, having to deal with our deteriorating environment which will cause global chaos through nature's wrath, more issues with energy as we come closer and closer to a global energy war with China, Russia, India and other emerging markets that have caught up and surpassed us in energy consumption and a continuation of conflicts with rogue nations and terrorist regimes.
I personally am not seeing where either Presidential candidate is going to make a difference in my personal life or the countries direction domestically or internationally if elected into office. What I termed as the closest thing to having two independents running for office has become a "party politics" free for all and I plan on holding my nose and voting for one or the other in the Fall.
My only question is how bad it is going to have to get before our country can come together in the likes of the days, weeks and months after 9-11. With the financial crisis not improving after the bail out it's almost like we're trying to put out a forest fire with a water hose and the world is also feeling the problems our nation created
I'm not the one who has the answers for these problems as there are no simple solutions nor is their easy fix. The only outcome I can see happening in November and ultimately January is a huge stack of problems for whoever inherits the Oval Office and a drastic need to mend the wounds of a divided nation along racial, gender, religious and social lines.
My only hope is that person we elect can bridge the gap and bring this country together after a divisive and nasty election process that has only been designed to drive us further away from each other…
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