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Posted: April 27 2010,1:28 pm |
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My apologies for the long, meandering narrative, and I completely understand if you skip reading it; but it was something that I needed to put out and get off my chest.
And thank you Doug for allowing us the freedom on "your" boating forum to lay these things out. (Now if ya choose to kick me out because of my "abuses", I rescind that "thank you". J/K)
I have never stated that I'm behind Obama anymore than I have been behind any of the other buffoons that have sat in the Oval Office. I'm just of the opinion that all of this petty $hit that is goin' around and this abyssmal divide between fellow countrymen is goin' to be the ruin of this nation; not any bills or laws set down by ANY administration.
To say that it is counter-productive would be an understatement. We're so busy with all the infightin' and rhetoric about conservativism and liberalism, Republican or Democrat, haves or have nots, etc., etc. etc., that we are losing our grasp of what's most important.
Point-in-hand; the Health Reform that they're pushin' so hard. Everybody is so wrapped up bitchin' about it and yet there hasn't been one viable alternative laid before us. Same goes w/the economic situation. Nothin' even remotely intelligent has come of any of the protestations or counter-proposals. The bulk of the argument is leave it at "status-quo". That my friends, would be the true suicide here. The real reform should have been targeted at the insurance and pharmeceutical companies. This is the source of what's really wrong w/healthcare in the US today.
Practically everything that's happened since Carter has been about partisanship and not this country. Carter; not even worth a mention in any argument for or against his admin. Reagan; I'm sorry fellas, but I believe his deregulation and relinquishing things into the citizens' hands has been one of the major disasters of the 20th century. If the populace based their decisions on the ideal "free enterprise", there would be no problem. But the decisions made at levels by people who don't even know that people like us, day-to-day, paycheck-to-paycheck, hand-to-mouth salt-of-the-earth workin' class people exist. Their decisions have mostly been based on pure, unaldulterated, obscene greed w/no concern who may or may not survive. And unfortunately, IMO, this is the only time that the "trickle-down effect" has really made an impact.
Geoge Bush, Sr., again this is just my opinion, was about as effective a president as Jimmy Carter. Nothing really memorable nor earth-shattering during his tenure other than his failure to expulse Hussein from power after the first Gulf War. Oh; and he fathered that moron of a son who I believe is guilty of the finacial rape of this country along w/his many undeserving-of-office cronies. They should all be brought to trial for their actions.
I had little problem w/Clinton. Though he may have been amoral while in office, which btw I believe is an issue between him and Hillary as I don't believe that it truly affected his decisions regarding policy, as I and my Family prospered under his administration, though it probably had little to do w/who was or wasn't in office. But his signing of the NAFTA agreement into law was, again IMO, devastating. Not because it opened up the borders for trade; but rather it exposed an inability and/or unwillingness of Americans to compete at the same levels that our competitors are. Now that in itself would not have been a problem save for the fact that not enough consumers were/are willing to pay 2X, 3X, 10X, or even more for the same product that they could buy from a foreign competitor; even if it was of inferior quality. Economics, in many cases, makes that decision for many ofm us.
I won't even begin to address the most recent Presidency and his cabinet before Obama's. I think y'all know eher Bush, Jr. stands within my opinions.
So there ya go. That's a "small" piece my opinion and I'm sticking to it. I beleive that I have based a great majority of it on my own rationale and not the blatherings of the morons in DC or the media; but rather on "history". I am also aware that I may lose some "friends" because of it; but I honestly believe that if we as Americans don't begin to compromise amongst ourselves, we are essentially "dead" as a nation of meaning; for it is truly the people who govern this land and as long as we allow thepoliticians and other "industries" to dictate their prtisan BS upon us, there is little hope for a future that even remotely resembles our gloried past.
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