I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are two things that have always bugged me to no end. People that do not vote, then complain about government and people that complain and offer no solutions. Complaining does nothing to solve the problem working together on solutions does, or so I'm told. However instead of working on solutions all the varying degrees of conservative American's can do is snivel and cry like a 2 year old being told no in a grocery store I believe the correct term here would be throwing a tantrum. You know the kind where you tell your child they are not being appropriate then you give them a time out. I often think that many of them actually slept through history class in high school as well.
When our 32nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, took office on March 4, 1933 The Great Depression was in full swing. 1 in 4 American workers were unemployed, 2 million were either homeless or living in Hooverville's, crop prices had fallen some 60 percent, drought and the Dust Bowl were making it so farmers could not even raise crops to sell and as a result they were foreclosed on and lost farms that had been in families for generations. To top it all off banks were failing as they failed hard working people lost their life savings, unlike today in the early 1930's there was no F.D.I.C. to protect their deposits. Then, just as it is now it was banks that lead the way in to the depression. Then just as now a Democratic president must lead Americans out of a hole dug by Republican president.
Someone once said something to the effect of, a people that fail to acknowledge their history are doomed to repeat it. In October of 2001 American and British troops invaded Afghanistan to find, capture or kill those involved with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Success' were quick as the allied troops quickly unseated the ruling Taliban, a group that ruled the country under draconian Islamic law and gave shelter to those involved. They then turned their focus on to the mountainous northeastern part of the country along the Pakistani border to begin the search for Osama bin Laden and the rest of al-Quida. Some how though the focus was turned to Iraq which was said to be making weapons of mass destruction or WMD's.
Iraq was no threat to American soil in fact since Desert Storm, with the exception of gassing Kurds he was being the whipped pup he was. He was not harboring terrorists, in fact he considered terrorists a threat to his regime. So rather then focus on the mission at hand George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq, against the better judgment of just about every nation on the planet with the exceptions of the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland. As it turned out there were no WMD's and they had abandoned their programs in 1991. however Islamic terrorists and insurgents showed up in droves. While Bush was proclaiming mission accomplished on the deck of an aircraft carrier soldiers and Marines were dying in what could be equated to a 21st century version of Vietnam. All the while running up trillions in deficits.
Then in 2008 the mortgage crisis hit, once again banks and financiers are in trouble, Bush authorizes billions in bail out cash for the banks and makes a token gesture to the ones that really need the help, people losing there homes to foreclosure. Banks are still failing, as of this writing 103 so far this year. American jobs disappear and unemployment pushes the 10 percent mark. History once again, starts to repeat itself. No it is not 1 in 4 workers unemployed but 1 in 10, but the unemployed numbers of today are a bit deceptive because they only count those getting unemployment benefits and not those whose benefits have run out and are still unemployed. Many have been unemployed for over a year and they are in a catch 22 of companies that will not hire people that have not worked in the last six months.
All of this started under the Bush administration and his 8 years of fumbling and playing for his puppet master Dick Cheney. Barack Obama has only been in office 10 months and it was less then a week before conservatives started calling his presidency a failed effort. If you paid attention in history, you would know how long it took FDR to lift out nation of of the worst economic crisis in its history.
All conservatives seem they can do is belly ache, complain and call a 10 month old presidency a failure. They offer no solutions nor ever bring any to the table. They accuse the President of being a Socialist, I can tell you one thing for sure, I am a Socialist and Barack Obama does not even come close to being one. We are the only nation where a person can go bankrupt because of a major medical issue in their family, health care should not be a commodity for sale to the highest bidder it is a right that is called for in the guideline of our nation the preamble of the Constitution, where it says "...promote the general welfare...", my guess is that conservatives slept through civics as well or they would understand the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment. The point is that people are dying because they have no health insurance and in our nation that should not acceptable but apparently to conservatives it is.
So conservatives, what ever your degree, quit complaining and offer solutions instead. President Obama, although I have never met him, seems a reasonable man that is always willing to listen to both sides. You might find people will like you much more when your not throwing a tantrum.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are two things that have always bugged me to no end. People that do not vote, then complain about government and people that complain and offer no solutions. Complaining does nothing to solve the problem working together on solutions does, or so I'm told. However instead of working on solutions all the varying degrees of conservative American's can do is snivel and cry like a 2 year old being told no in a grocery store I believe the correct term here would be throwing a tantrum. You know the kind where you tell your child they are not being appropriate then you give them a time out. I often think that many of them actually slept through history class in high school as well.
When our 32nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, took office on March 4, 1933 The Great Depression was in full swing. 1 in 4 American workers were unemployed, 2 million were either homeless or living in Hooverville's, crop prices had fallen some 60 percent, drought and the Dust Bowl were making it so farmers could not even raise crops to sell and as a result they were foreclosed on and lost farms that had been in families for generations. To top it all off banks were failing as they failed hard working people lost their life savings, unlike today in the early 1930's there was no F.D.I.C. to protect their deposits. Then, just as it is now it was banks that lead the way in to the depression. Then just as now a Democratic president must lead Americans out of a hole dug by Republican president.
Someone once said something to the effect of, a people that fail to acknowledge their history are doomed to repeat it. In October of 2001 American and British troops invaded Afghanistan to find, capture or kill those involved with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Success' were quick as the allied troops quickly unseated the ruling Taliban, a group that ruled the country under draconian Islamic law and gave shelter to those involved. They then turned their focus on to the mountainous northeastern part of the country along the Pakistani border to begin the search for Osama bin Laden and the rest of al-Quida. Some how though the focus was turned to Iraq which was said to be making weapons of mass destruction or WMD's.
Iraq was no threat to American soil in fact since Desert Storm, with the exception of gassing Kurds he was being the whipped pup he was. He was not harboring terrorists, in fact he considered terrorists a threat to his regime. So rather then focus on the mission at hand George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq, against the better judgment of just about every nation on the planet with the exceptions of the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland. As it turned out there were no WMD's and they had abandoned their programs in 1991. however Islamic terrorists and insurgents showed up in droves. While Bush was proclaiming mission accomplished on the deck of an aircraft carrier soldiers and Marines were dying in what could be equated to a 21st century version of Vietnam. All the while running up trillions in deficits.
Then in 2008 the mortgage crisis hit, once again banks and financiers are in trouble, Bush authorizes billions in bail out cash for the banks and makes a token gesture to the ones that really need the help, people losing there homes to foreclosure. Banks are still failing, as of this writing 103 so far this year. American jobs disappear and unemployment pushes the 10 percent mark. History once again, starts to repeat itself. No it is not 1 in 4 workers unemployed but 1 in 10, but the unemployed numbers of today are a bit deceptive because they only count those getting unemployment benefits and not those whose benefits have run out and are still unemployed. Many have been unemployed for over a year and they are in a catch 22 of companies that will not hire people that have not worked in the last six months.
All of this started under the Bush administration and his 8 years of fumbling and playing for his puppet master Dick Cheney. Barack Obama has only been in office 10 months and it was less then a week before conservatives started calling his presidency a failed effort. If you paid attention in history, you would know how long it took FDR to lift out nation of of the worst economic crisis in its history.
All conservatives seem they can do is belly ache, complain and call a 10 month old presidency a failure. They offer no solutions nor ever bring any to the table. They accuse the President of being a Socialist, I can tell you one thing for sure, I am a Socialist and Barack Obama does not even come close to being one. We are the only nation where a person can go bankrupt because of a major medical issue in their family, health care should not be a commodity for sale to the highest bidder it is a right that is called for in the guideline of our nation the preamble of the Constitution, where it says "...promote the general welfare...", my guess is that conservatives slept through civics as well or they would understand the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment. The point is that people are dying because they have no health insurance and in our nation that should not acceptable but apparently to conservatives it is.
So conservatives, what ever your degree, quit complaining and offer solutions instead. President Obama, although I have never met him, seems a reasonable man that is always willing to listen to both sides. You might find people will like you much more when your not throwing a tantrum.
