It is looking more and more as if the Super Committee in charge of decisions concerning the National Debt have just wasted their salaries. I hate hiring people who can't get a job done! I think to myself, if they worked for me I would fire the lot of them. Then it occurs to me that these people are working for me and I cringe!
The scary part of all of this is Congress can't accomplish anything because it is representative of the American people! We voted them in. We are a severely divided Nation and I can imagine Lincoln turning over in his grave. We won't admit it but the problem is not with Congress. We are the problem.
We have voted our emotions too many times. We have voted without knowing the issues, without realizing the consequences, and sometimes we have voted without even realizing what we have voted for.
In "the old days" we had barbershop conversations, talked on our front porches, even might have gone to town hall meetings. In the old days people read newspapers and we had more reliable news on the television.
For some reason in the past twenty years we have become afraid of political discussions! Is this because we feel like rats in a maze and there is no cheese? that we have lost a sense of power? I don't think so. I think it is there for the taking. It would be easier now than ever before to pack a City Hall meeting. I think we have become lazy. We don't read. We don't investigate. We have lost the art of pondering. No one made us sheep. There is no conspiracy. It is just easier to graze on the grass and go about our day without giving it a thought. We take the easy way out.
They are calling this a "do nothing Congress" when they are just doing what we are doing: nothing.
There will be another election in one year. We have time to read, to discover, to educate ourselves on the issues. Time to decide what kind of world we want this to be.
There are other issues but the Economy will clearly be the biggest one we talk about in the coming year.
The National Debt wouldn't be an issue at all in a good economy. Do we still believe in the "Trickle Down"
theory? We get our jobs from rich people so we have to be nice to them? Yasum Boss Sir kind of mentality? What is the roll of Government? Should we really wait until the bridges fall down before we repair them? Where can we cut money with the least amount of pain?
I am a bit disappointed with the art community. I thought we might have a deeper understanding, more insight, more empathy, a clearer vision, a different view. We are as isolated and lazy as the rest and our "do nothing Congress" is representing of us. You get what you pay for and you get what you vote for. How could anyone vote for someone who couldn't find Lybia on a map?
The future is going to be more of the same because we seem to like it like that.
The scary part of all of this is Congress can't accomplish anything because it is representative of the American people! We voted them in. We are a severely divided Nation and I can imagine Lincoln turning over in his grave. We won't admit it but the problem is not with Congress. We are the problem.
We have voted our emotions too many times. We have voted without knowing the issues, without realizing the consequences, and sometimes we have voted without even realizing what we have voted for.
In "the old days" we had barbershop conversations, talked on our front porches, even might have gone to town hall meetings. In the old days people read newspapers and we had more reliable news on the television.
For some reason in the past twenty years we have become afraid of political discussions! Is this because we feel like rats in a maze and there is no cheese? that we have lost a sense of power? I don't think so. I think it is there for the taking. It would be easier now than ever before to pack a City Hall meeting. I think we have become lazy. We don't read. We don't investigate. We have lost the art of pondering. No one made us sheep. There is no conspiracy. It is just easier to graze on the grass and go about our day without giving it a thought. We take the easy way out.
They are calling this a "do nothing Congress" when they are just doing what we are doing: nothing.
There will be another election in one year. We have time to read, to discover, to educate ourselves on the issues. Time to decide what kind of world we want this to be.
There are other issues but the Economy will clearly be the biggest one we talk about in the coming year.
The National Debt wouldn't be an issue at all in a good economy. Do we still believe in the "Trickle Down"
theory? We get our jobs from rich people so we have to be nice to them? Yasum Boss Sir kind of mentality? What is the roll of Government? Should we really wait until the bridges fall down before we repair them? Where can we cut money with the least amount of pain?
I am a bit disappointed with the art community. I thought we might have a deeper understanding, more insight, more empathy, a clearer vision, a different view. We are as isolated and lazy as the rest and our "do nothing Congress" is representing of us. You get what you pay for and you get what you vote for. How could anyone vote for someone who couldn't find Lybia on a map?
The future is going to be more of the same because we seem to like it like that.
