There are more things to talk about and write about these days than any time I can remember. My Bookmark list is so long there's no point in adding to it anymore. Work and life continue to place blogging on the back burner. I wanted to say so much after November 4th, but I didn't get to it, and now those thoughts seem dated to me. But it was a great moment for the country and now the Democrats have the biggest opportunity in modern political history. Obama has the opportunity of a millennium. I just hope he listens to the right people. I feel confident that he will.
When was the last time a new president has faced challenges this serious and complex? At least financially/economically, perhaps never.
I've been surprised and disappointed that there hasn't been more outrage among Americans over the bailout(s) and related bullshit. But then again, why be surprised when so many Americans can't be bothered to educate themselves on current events under the blanket of the complacency-generating theory that "there's nothing we can do about it." So we turn on the sitcoms and put the pacifiers in our mouths. It's embarrassing.
We are living history in so many ways, yet not much has changed yet. But things will, and they have to. Greed, corruption, arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence have left our country's finances, and our Constitution, on the precipice. Our 401Ks are now 201Ks, if we're lucky, while the looters walk away with their bounty and the banks who dealt in obscene leverage and opaque and insane financial instruments are getting hundreds of billions, from us.
If, as a collective people, we aren't pissed now...perhaps we should change the name of our country to the United States of Catatonia.
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Labels: annoyed, at home, life, politics