GaryK’s Thoughts On The State Of The Union
You can correct us if we are wrong but we decided to do something crazy and watch back the State of the Union address just to make sure we heard what we heard. We do keep in mind that we are all fair weather fans when it comes to our favorite sports teams or our favorite sports heroes. We do keep in mind we all have our favorite politicians and we will hear what we want to hear but pretty much we hate them all. Just remember, in order to get to $19 trillion of debt, it takes them all.
We heard the president tell us we need to do better. We heard the president tell us we are not living up to who we need to be. We heard our president tell us there is still too much racism, divisiveness and all that crap. And lastly, we heard our president tell us he believes in us and eventually we will get better. Mr. President, the only reason why this country is where it is and not in the biggest hellhole in history is because of us. Without us, our hard work, our sweat, our toil, our ingenuity, our smarts, our tenacity, our wanting to to better for our families…WITHOUT US, you and the rest in DC are nothing. We fund you…we vote for you…we back you but you and the rest have done nothing more than hamstring us with $19 trillion of debt, massive amounts of regulations, mandates, fees, taxes and rules. All you have done is put massive and major headwinds in front of us and the abilty of us to flourish. You actually think you are smarter than us and in order to get by, we need you to oversee and need your oversight. Mr. President, it is the other way around. After $19 trillion of debt, highest food stamps ever, tons of poverty and homelessness even with the trillions of our hard earned dollars thrown at it, we need to oversee you and you need our oversight. We are not out of hand, you are. We are not the failures, you and Washington DC are. It is all of you that refuse to get your house in order. It is all of you that refuse to balance your books. It is because of you we have a central bank that had to keep rates at 0% for years and print trillions just to keep things running. Don’t worry about us Mr. President. Get your own house in order…and that includes both parties.
Reagan’s First Inaugural: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
correctomundo
lofty platitudes- blue sky rhetoric – a preacher-style sermon is what I heard.
The reality is that he promised ::
rebuilding infrastructure (roads-bridges) – didn’t happen.
building unity- nope
transparency- “chuckle”
health-care reform- gave some friends lots of money to build an amateur website that created more confusion on top of a dysfunctional bureaucracy.
He did manage to hold on and cheerlead us through a most turbulent time, but we were reacting to all upcoming crisis by printing money and distorting our economic/financial system.
I think he would be well suited to a Professorship at Ivy league school, or as US ambassador position where he can do the vision thing without any real damage
does he get frequent flier miles from Air Force One ??? – LOL
Just to go off on a political tangent..I have realized that the market can be a somewhat effective presidential prognosticator. What if the collective investor intelligence (oxymoron??) foresees a Bernie S. sweep due to the self destruction of the Republicans and a HRC indictment. Dems edge out Reps in congress and by this time next year we’re up in the morning at 5am waiting for our daily potato ration. All of a sudden Mr Obama would look like Pericles in retrospect.
JUST A BAD POLITICIAN…NOTHING MORE
Sitting here cringing after reading your missive!
On the money. But until we figure out of hurting their pocket books they will all (both parties albioet a few sane ones) keep feeling that they are the elites and we should all listen to them and do as we are told.
This president and the other 535 cohorts will continue to abuse us until we either throw them all out and start over, or pick up pitch forks and torches and run them out on the rails, and until we the people retake our civil duties seriously we will continue to get what negligence of our duties deserves, screwed!
u r being too nice