Friday, June 11th, 2010
The State of the Union
For the past week I haven’t written anything. I have been thinking about what is happening in this country and it is very upsetting to me. I know there are people here on My Space who agrees with me on this issue but we are few and the enormity of the task has me a little discouraged. I will take these items one at a time.
Of course there is the oil spill. Those of us that have been involved in trying to save our planet have been meeting a stone wall. It started with global warming and many people said that we couldn’t be the cause of the warming. Then the effects began to be seen. The ice caps are melting and the polar bears are dieing. We lose more and more species every day in every part of the world. But we continued on our marry way putting out carbon gasses and watching the temperature rise. But suddenly a catastrophe has taken place. British Petroleum’s oil spill is causing the death of many species of fish and coral. The oil has made land fall and is beginning to destroy vegetation and land animals. BP has put a solvent into the water to break of the oil but it is even more toxic then the oil.
Our government stands by and lets these criminals decide their own sentences. We should be involved and we should have every scientist that we can find working on this problem, but we just wait for something to happen. This will be President Obama’s Katrina. Yes he gives speeches but he does nothing. The same is true of our congress.
Let’s leave this problem for awhile and look at the political divide in this country. To begin with almost no one trusts our government. I don’t trust them and citizens on both the right and the left agree. Out of this lack of trust we are spawning very scary groups that want to take power. We have the Tea Bag party, we have more and more militia groups with weapons, and we are only one nut away from domestic terrorists. Now if the terror is caused by an American we don’t call him or her a terrorist but we call them criminals. But if they are from somewhere else we call them terrorists and are willing to suspend the constitution. I hope you haven’t forgotten the Patriot Act. It has attacked the Bill of Rights. It is still in force and once again our government is more then happy to let it stay in place.
We have had a financial breakdown of immense proportions and we still haven’t done any thing about the jobless or the homeless. But we can feel good because the people that caused this are doing just fine. Our government made sure of that. Once again our president has ignored the suffering of too many Americans. The right wing believes it is the fault of the progressives but they forget that it started during the Bush administration and almost everyone in congress voted for T.A.R.P. It was the beginning of the give away of money that we didn’t have; to the people that least deserved it. Then there was the stimulus package. It was pretty much the same thing. Once again we spent money that we didn’t have.
We have been fighting two wars for almost 9 years now and they are further adding to the debt. There is no end in sight. Our brave young people are dieing and we are not accomplishing anything. If I remember when President Obama was running for office he promised to end these wars. It is not happening. Our lead generals say the best we are doing is holding our own.
Then the State of Arizona passed a law that is racist, in nature, and over half of the American people are in favor if it. We stand by and don’t work on immigration reform which may have forestalled this law. The federal government complains but does nothing. Many cities are going to punish the State of Arizona, but this is not the job of the cities. They are doing this because they don’t see the federal government doing anything. Our federal government just stands by and watches it happen.
Next the State of Kentucky elected a member of the Tea Party to be its junior Senator. He has already made remarks that are racist in nature. At the same time the State of Texas has changed the history books to reflect political beliefs and not history. They equate Jefferson Davis to Abraham Lincoln. They ignore our seizure of large tracts of land from Mexico They ignore our treatment of Native Americans. Texas supplies the majority of text books used in our country.
If you read your history, while you can, you will see that this, in many respects, is how the Civil War began. Now this may not happen but our government stands idly by and watches. But what is happening is pitting local government against state government and state government against the federal government.
So what is to be done? We write blogs and editorials, people demonstrate. But it goes on and on. How can we stand by and let our country go down flames. Now this has left me depressed, as a person, as a parent, and as an American Citizen.
I have gotten very tired of the lies and the false promises. I can’t see myself voting for another president who will lie to get elected, and they all do, to serve the people that paid for his/her election.
And so it goes! howie
