Sometimes I wonder if I am the only person angry about what is going on in our country. 3 years ago we were told Mission Accomplished. What do we have now? April was the deadliest month for American service people in 2006. I still have folks telling me that we had to go into Iraq because they attacked us. If you told me a year ago that Americans would have laid dead for days in the streets of a major American metropolis while our government was unable to put together a concerted organized response to a natural disaster, I wouldn't have believed you. We are told it is our patriotic duty to shop while we are 'at war' and, oh, by the way, here is a tax break to help you do so (oh, but don't you poor people expect anything). Oil companies making record profits, but our so-called leader says there will be no windfall tax for them. He does, however, expect them to reinvest their profits in alternative fuel development. Why should they? Oil and gas has been pretty good to them.
And what is the public response to all of this? We complain that it is too expensive to fill up our SUVs while slapping a yellow 'support the troops' magnet on. As if supporting the troops is synonomous with supporting this f*cked up war. Anyways, I do wonder if I am the only angry person about all of this. I look at a car with the ubiquitous yellow magnet and think, are they upset that funds to provide healthcare and rehabilitation of our wounded vets are cut? Are they upset that this war is costing one billion dollars a day while our social services are being gutted? Are they ticked that our press corps are such pansies, swallowing everything that this administration dishes out that it takes a comedian to speak truth (or rather 'truthiness') to power (and from what I have read, the 'power' wasn't all that amused :-))
Do they feel like vomiting when they see that lying sack of sh*t tell us, 'I am the decider', 'Mission Accomplished', or better yet, 'Brownie, you are doing a heck of a job'?
As so often happens, whenever I do feel like I am the only one who sees the Emperor has no clothes, Bruce comes along.
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=312f0735-0a0d-4bcf-9e78-d815dbfa3bad&f=jazzfest&fg=copy
'Dedicated to President Bystander', indeed :-)
We can only hope that...
'There's gonna be a judgement, that's a fact
A righteous train rolling down this track'
I love this guy :-) Thanks Bruce (and Steven Colbert!).
2 comments:
You're not the only one. I've not been to every country :), but I think it is probably the best country on Earth. That being said, it speaks volumes about humanity. Why? Because we have so much room to improve. When the oil is gone, we will 'embrace' alternative energy sources. When there is no more top soil we will genetically engineer meat sacs that grow on hooks in warehouses. Then when nature shows us that this too is wrong, we may 'learn to love' vegetables. People still smoke. 40% of nation is obese. Instead of setting the standard we set bad examples for the rest of mankind to follow. And they do. They just lag behind a little.
Definitely being a US citizen is the best! What is so disheartening is that our leaders don't lead. In Europe, the governments took a stance, decades ago, not to allow a crippling reliance on oil. They taxed gasoline high and used the proceeds to build public mass transport that even covers rural areas. This also encouraged development of high mpg vehicles. Our government is reactive, not proactive. We are reacting to scarce supplies, instead of planning for them. Of course, we have the government we wanted and deserved. If someone had tried to come in and institute higher gasoline taxes years ago they would have been voted out of office.
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