"New Year's Eve Day," we call it, the last day of the year. December 31, 2010 this day is a bit special, not only is this the final day of the year but also the last day of the first decade of the 21st Century! It is raining and gloomy today. Somehow, this feels more special than the turn of the century. Humankind still dominates the Earth slowly trying to repair the damage wrought in the name of progress, while continuing to rapidly destroy our world in the name of progress. The war to reclaim & preserve nature is growing. Going Green is now an in thing to do.
In the year 2008, the U.S. made history by electing the first black man for the office of president. Barack Obama, His big slogan: "Change, you can believe in!" The voters, in an attempt to send a message to the Republican Party, voted an overwhelming number Democrats into office, giving them a majority. The message voters were trying unsuccessfully to send is simple.
- Stop the pork barrel/ear mark spending add-ons to appropriations bills that are vital to sustain the nation.
- Stop excessive and unnecessary deficit spending and
- create a balanced budget and work within those means
- restructure the government to run more efficiently, yeah I mean cutting jobs I know, kind of counter productive given the state of the economy
The Democrats apparently failed to decipher the message of the voters. Between 2008 and 2010, the Democrats played host to a series of failed policies & financial debacles from Wall Street to the mortgage industry. Banks failing daily, skyrocketing unemployment. Now in fairness to the Democrats, all this financial turmoil can be tracked all the way back to the Nixon Administration (in my opinion). The Democrats simply happened to be at the helm when the bottom fell out. American must have been thinking that the Nation's Financial Infrastructure had begun to crumble. The truth is, it had started crumbling long before the bankers & Financial Management Companies were forced to make the problems public. Every time the Government thought they had plugged the hole another would pop up. The Bankers & Financial management Companies let poor business practices cripple the financial infrastructure of our Nation using their political ties to the Republicans to do it.
Who is paying the price? The citizens are paying the price in lost jobs, foreclosures. The Corporate Executives get fat bonuses and sit around laughing at the poor schmucks that they ripped off. It really pisses me off that Corporations can get away with crap like what Enron & MCI World Com. They aren't the only ones either. Many Corporations get away with just about anything they want because you can't arrest a corporation. You can't put a corporation in prison for fraud or other crimes. Corporate entities are the reason many Politicians sell out their constituents, big money!
In 2010 the off election year, meaning no presidential election, the voters attempted again to tell politicians that they were done with all the failed policies and the change they were promised came in the form of financial ruin. for many families the shame of not being able to provide for their families due to loss of income, rising interest rates, Being over extended on credit lines. The country on the verge of a depression slapped the Democratic Party so hard President Obama said "Ouch!" (Not really, I just made that up for effect.) The Republicans applauded the voters for letting the Democratic Party know that the country needs to run under the guidance and policies of the Republican National Party!
Say what? Wait! NO!! That is not the message! The real message is: Stop plotting your same old tired and ineffective political strategies! Stop blocking all the legislation vital to the security of our nation. Stop clogging appropriations bills for the Nations Budget with your god damned pork barrel projects/ earmarks. Call it what you will but you are fleecing the taxpayers. The Citizens of the United States have had enough! STOP IT!!
Hello Mr. Republican, Mr. Democrat listen to us, before we bitch-slap you right out of your cushy leather chair in that fat-cat Washington office, out into the cold, snowy streets of the city(that is code for "recall," having them removed from office by the same citizens that elected them. No actual threat of physical violence is intended)! It is the policies of both parties that need to be corrected to the tune of a "government by the people for the people!!!" Not: "Government by the Politicians for the Special Interest Groups!" You are infringing upon but outright violating the Constitutional rights of the Citizens' of the United States and apparently, we are paying you to do it… *face-palm*
The Wiki-leaks debacle will be forever remembered as happening under the Obama Administration, along with the mortgage disaster, the Automaker's bailout, the Insurance companies' bailout, the Wall Street bailout. I may have a couple of those listed under the wrong administration. You get my drift though. How much more can go wrong under the current administration? Who is going to bailout the Government? The Citizens will bare that burden of course, through tax increases and reduced services.
The Federal Government has simply gotten too big. We need a law to separate pork barrel/ear mark appropriations from being attached to necessary expenses for the nation. All appropriations bills should be singular in nature. i.e. ear mark for funding to finance a land purchase in Florida so a nudist colony doesn't buy the land, is not vital to the nation in any way. That is a state matter. Federal funds should not be used in such a manner! We need to restructure the entire Government. Cut the number of representatives in the house of Congress in half. Cut/reduce expense accounts. Monitor & limit the use of government vehicles. Yes, I repeated myself. It bears repeating because politicians don't listen unless you're making them money or voting them into office. Once in office they forget what you said.
Between the potential threat of terrorist attacks and the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. Americans are being arbitrarily forced into giving up their freedoms in the name of National Security. National Security is the hot topic with regard to potential terrorist attacks but the thousands of illegal immigrants entering the country is no biggie. I agree that Terrorist threats are an important issue. One that deserves our attention and some type of response is required. However, we should be securing our own borders first in the interest of National Security. The influx of illegal aliens is out of control. It is not just the Latino's that can cruise across the border. Hello?? Do you understand the words that are written here? Terrorists can go to any country south of the border, work their way up through México, and enter the U.S. just like any other illegal immigrant. From Canada to the north, we are also vulnerable. It is time to put the people of America first, not political agendas'. So any way, that is my rant covering the year of 2010. As far as the situation facing Americans in 2011, I have a separate rant for that
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