I know I am a bummer, but the truth is this has not been about Democrats and Republicans since Nixon was booted from office. It's about rich people and poor people. It's about the people that can twist the government to their will versus the rest of us. It's about the world we could live in vs the world we do live in. It's not about big government or small government, it's about effective government or incompetent government. Obama's financial team is a who's who of wall street. Clinton signed the bill that ended Glass-Stegall effectively setting the stage for the 2008 bank failure, and those surpluses he was running? An accounting trick where he borrowed the money from social security to make it look like he was doing better than he was. In the end it's not about our leaders, it's always, always, always, always about the person in the mirror.
A funny thing happened though on the way to the debt ceiling. The Tea Party? The grass roots group that was financed by big energy (the Koch brothers) and big finance (Mellon-Scaifa, he endorsed Hillary by the way) and big media (Rupert Murdoch a huge anti-communist?) Tried to do exactly what they said they would do. End the debt no matter what. More importantly they didn't care who got hurt. Real leadership and real change requires sacrifice. Big energy, big finance, and big media know this, are fine with this, just so long as the sacrifice doesn't come from big energy, big finance and big media. Oops!
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I'm talking in circles here. That's because I am not taking sides I am merely pointing out the obvious. The problem with getting to good government is the problem of being reasonable. It takes a certain kind of person to flat out hate Walmart. It also takes a certain kind of person to tell a single mother of 3 that she should shop in a more expensive local store. It takes a certain kind of person to think the government is incompetent and should be starved out. It also takes a certain kind of person to believe that and to expect some one to show up when they call 911. Willfully blind is easy, but it will never fix what ails us.
Recipe's and Pop culture next week. No more preaching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXYd5eHfRIE&feature=related
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything he said in that video, more importantly I and a significant number of other people were saying the same thing at the same time. I do not doubt the mans integrity. What I do doubt is that there are market solutions to all problems. I doubt that it is always right to sit idly by ( in the case of civil rights) waiting for a market correction. Ralph Nader is full of good ideas and truth, he can't be president the way the system currently works. Paul is the same. Revolutions bring change, they also hurt a lot of innocent people. Before we burn the place to the ground I say we get together and try to fix it.
ReplyDeleteIt is hyperbole to suggest that voting for Paul is burning the place down, vote your conscience always, but my point is the revolution the tea party is advocating has no proven up side and a huge potential down side. Most if not all of the current tea party that embrace Ron Paul also embraced the Iraq war and the thump the Arabs foreign policy that Paul decries in the video. In fact there was serious Paul hate then for the man they quote now. We have to get the crazy back in the box, catch everyone else's attention, and stand together if we want peaceful change. Violent change... maybe, but definitely not yet and only, always only, as a last resort. We have problems, but we are a long way from there.
I see any other contender as 4 more years of business as usual. I don't believe there is any chance whatsoever of an American recovery under the same old system.
ReplyDeleteThey spend us into oblivion, look at the numbers, see that it cannot continue, and then sign off on a budget that will take us deeper yet. The system is badly broken and fixing it won't be pretty or pleasant. Ron Paul is the only one I see that truly acknowledges the facts and proposes actual solutions (major surgery rather than band aids).
One of the definitions of "crazy" is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. I think the "crazy" vote is for anyone other than Ron Paul. I think the simple fact that the corporate media is so afraid of him that they try to pretend he doesn't exist should be reason enough to vote for him. After Iowa they the big news cronies didn't even acknowledge that he came in 2nd by a margin of only 154 votes. Watch this video; http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/indecision-2012---corn-polled-edition---ron-paul---the-top-tier . It's disgusting that they call themselves journalists and use lame slogans like "fair & balanced." What are they afraid of? Their corporate overlords are afraid that Ron Paul will disrupt business as usual.
Agree, and Agreed. On top of everything else Paul is consistent, doesn't waffle, and doesnt twist his beliefs to please the republican base. This means 2 things. One, he is probably unelectable in the current 2 party system, two, bankers that talk like libertarians want their bail out money, oil men that are making huge profits and hate government want their search and drill subsadies, Insurance companies that hate socialism sure do like laws forcing people to buy their product.
ReplyDeleteThe corporate media ignores Paul the way they ignore everything that changes the narative they have agreed upon. They do this because real change makes most Americans uncomfortable. In the Daily Show video Paul's supporters cheer loadly when he rails against the war. Stewert rightly calls out the medias smug eye rolling. Transfer that scene from the straw poll to the republican convention and the cheers are drowned out by groans and the wink to the audience (psst, me+you, we know the guy's nuts) is unnessicary.
They are afraid of what most American's are afraid of, looking in the mirror and seeing a fearful spoiled child that borrowed themself into oblivion and slaughtered over 100,000 people because Osama had 20 box cutters and a plan. Ron Paul blames America first, which is what grown-ups do. How can I alter my behavior to fix my problems? Spoiled children lash out or cower then still want to feel good about themselves. Paul will not be effective as President until Americans are effective as grownups.
Well Spoken K-rock
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