Thursday, September 16, 2010

BloggeRhythms 9/16/2010

This line headed a news item this morning. "Feds find minimal impacts on jobs, oil production from Gulf deepwater drilling moratorium."

However, local folks, including two U.S. senators disagree, saying the area's a disaster job-wise and people are suffering miserably. Add that situation to the new health care law and the illegal immigration issue and you really have to wonder what the administration's actually all about. Because it seems there's some kind of agenda at work here that's moving full steam ahead to reach goals completely at odds with the desires and welfare of the general population.

On the other hand, many legislators seem to have woken up to realize their political futures are over, but nonetheless, they're making last ditch futile attempts to divorce themselves from D.C. and all it currently stands for. But the problem really seems to be that nobody, including administration leadership, seems to know what the overall goal actually is. Because, when you add it all up, nobody's being helped regardless of social status, party affiliation, religious beliefs or any other criteria you can think of. To wit, at the moment, everybody's losing everything.

For the last two years of the prior administration, and the first two years of the new one, the unemployment rate's skyrocketed, the middle class has almost disappeared, sinking downward, the real estate market's gone down the chute, oil prices have escalated, illegal immigration's gone out of control, unemployment hasn't been this high since the Carter administration, health care costs will soon escalate, education's close to evaporation, we've walked away from an unfinished war and increased our commitment to a military struggle that not only can never be won, if by some chance we do, it has no strategic value at all.

Now, this isn't the first time that something like this has happened. Several administrations have made total disasters of their time in office. And, on those occasions a successor's arrived, made necessary repairs and the country's recovered and moved forward. But, it doesn't look that rosy this time around. Because while I have little doubt that incumbents will be replaced in great numbers, I don't see anyone on the bench or in the bullpen that will come in and save this game.

In fact, the folks waiting to take over have far more on their agenda than simply turning the economy around or insuring our military supremacy. There's a whole array of social issues on their side of the coin that have nothing to do with our economy, world status, taxes, or base issues affecting our daily lives, yet those issues will be pushed because they're driven by groups with particular axes to grind. And, there's one thing that's certain, very few politicians have spine. So, good, bad or indifferent they'll do what they're told.

What that means for us is, perhaps a change in voting habits. Because if nothing else, what's now clear is that every election in the future has to clean house (no pun intended) and blow ALL incumbents out, no matter.

That's it for today folks

Adios

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