Why don’t we ever learn
Are We Crazy?
So last night I made the same mistake I keep promising Myself that I won’t make that mistake again. I watched the news on CNN and MSNBC. It was very annoying. You have got to wonder how stupid they think the American Public is. In fact I am wondering how stupid I am. And that is the point of this blog.
Every time there is an election, I go to the polls and vote. After all I was taught that if you don’t vote then you don’t have a voice. So after all these years, I keep voting and waiting for something to change, but it never does. What is the point of voting? Even when we elect the people that I vote for I don’t have a voice. It doesn’t matter who we elect, we get the same garbage. I know that I am somewhere to the left of the liberals or as they are now known, the progressives, but I keep trying to elect someone who will do what they say they will do. But it never happens. When will I catch on? I think I am there now.
This mess with the oil spill by BP in the Gulf of Mexico is just the latest example. In our economic system it is the job of everyone to make as much profit as possible, not money, but profit. That is what BP did. They didn’t install the proper safety equipment. Why didn’t they do that? Because that would have costs money and that would cut into profits. Because when George W Bush was in the white house he got the congress to get rid of most of the regulating bodies in the United States. So BP figured that they could save money and not have any thing to worry about. Until a few days ago they were right and I am betting that when the dust settles they will still be fine.
Our intrepid congress is holding hearings and everyone they question says it is someone else’s fault. According to these people there are three companies involves in this. They are BP, Transoceanic, and our old friend Haliburton. But I think there is a forth player and that is our government and we elected them. I helped elect our president, you know the man who said, “Yes we can.”
But I want to know what we can do. The old money firms on Wall Street, having messed up the economy royally are doing just fine. But the American people aren’t doing so well. The number of unemployed has reached an all time high. If you add in the number of partially employed the number goes through the roof. I know the Tea Party and the Republicans are very angry about this but both Democrats and Republicans voted for T.A.R.P. And once Mr. Obama was elected he helped the congress pass another bill to continue giving money to these same companies. Where were the needs of the American People when this was done? Well they were nowhere. Instead of talking about the unemployed they talk about the number of new people that have gotten jobs while the number of unemployed stays at just under 10%. When will we catch on that 1 in 10 working Americans doesn’t have a job.
When Mr. Obama was running for President he spoke a lot about building alternate sources of energy and they are out there but so far the only thing that he has proposed is more off shore drilling. Its safe isn’t it? Apparently not! The strange part of his proposal is that there isn’t enough oil out there to change our dependence on others. He didn’t say this was a first step. It was just an idea. In California they have wind farms and they are neat. We can build more and more of them but no one is doing that. There is solar energy, expensive but not so if we do it in a big way. There are lots of other things we can do. But will we do it, not in my life time. There is too much money involved in keeping things the same as they are.
So here we are, going along and letting every thing go up in smoke and just watching. We do have power if we use it by not listening to the advertising and pushing for real people to run for office and then electing them. Just watch what will happen when the Economic Bill comes to the floor of the Senate. I am willing to bet you that the only way they will pass it is to remove regulation for the bill.
So let’s all stand by and watch as it all goes to hell. Have a great day.
Peace, howie
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