Humble Musings on the Crisis of the Middle Class and the Todays Political Climate

What’s going on with the mind set in this country. I mean, do people not give a shit that they are voting AGAINST their economic best interests. Seriously, it’s getting ridiculous. The main culprit is the Republican Party and the “right” Democrats. What the hell. 

First I’m gonna start in on the Democratic party. Listen, the left does not have all the answers. Hell they might not even have the best answers. But they also haven’t even had half a chance. We give the Republicans almost a decade in office (more on that further down) and the Democrats are supposed to fix the nations problems in two years. REALLY!! Is this country high? Did we take to many of the drugs that they sell on TV commercials? TWO YEARS! And everyone expects the President to fight a war, end another, bring us out of a recession (it ended), overhaul healthcare (on this one the blamed goes to Congress), end partisanship (it takes both sides) and about a dozen other things he promised to work toward. One more time everyone, 2 years!! The guys not even half way through his Presidency and already we’re throwing him under the bus. Come on people. 

Oh and I’m not through with the Democratic party, not by a long shot. WTF is up with all these Dems running, scared, to the right. That’s not what the country needs. The Tea Party is a relatively small group (less then 20%) that makes such a big noise and all the sudden everyone thinks the rights the way to win. Everybody’s so focused on winning re-election instead of helping out the people. Get your heads out of your asses and do your job! 

And speaking of the right wing. First of all, if politicians haven’t noticed, the people are tired of both the Democrats AND Republicans. Why? It’s pretty simple really. 8 years. We gave the Republican party almost 8 years of uncontested reign. And what did we get for it. A foreign terrorist attack, 2 wars, a nation trillions of dollars in deficit (from a surplus they inherited), they fact that almost the entire world universally despises us, and one of the biggest recessions in recent memory. 8 years. And Super-Obama is supposed to swoop in and fix it in 2 years. Are we really that dense of a country? And don’t get me wrong, there is a lot more Obama should be doing. But give the party the benefit of the doubt. The recession ended in the summer of 09, and don’t let that right wing family member with the community college degree tell you otherwise. This comes from reports from financial experts. Not Joe the Plumber. Combat operations were ended in Iraq. There was a healthcare reform bill that passed, and as stated above, the President has nothing to do with this really. This is Congress’ fault. The Dems pushed one way. The GOP fought back. The Dems kept giving in until finally they were like “F you!” We have the votes, and this is going through. So we got a watered down reform bill. But hey, at least it will help some people, now that its finally started going into effect. And President Obama did try to work with Republicans in a bipartisan way. Why do you think he had all those meetings in the first year with Republican leaders over what they thought were the best solutions. But let me ask you this. How long do you think you would be able to work with people who spend half of their time calling you a terrorist, non-American, facist, Hitler? He gave it a year. I would have been done with them after a few months. So how about we step back and take a good look at the big picture. If you feel Obama is a failure after the first two years it’s because; A) You’re not really giving him a fair chance, or B) You hated Obama the second he announced his candidacy. So in the end what I’m trying to say is, are we really gonna cut this party down before it even has a chance to finish the job. I think they should get a fair shake. 

And I know this is getting kind of long winded and I got off on a different tangent so I’m gonna cut it off here. A sort of to be continued if you will. My next post, I want to talk about taxes. Boy does this country need a lesson in exactly what taxes are, and what they do. And that will segue into my initial argument, that the Middle Class does not vote in their financial best interests and why.