I said I'd come back when I had something to talk about... I just didn't think it would take two years for me to be ready to rant again.
So here's what happened:
Perry got elected again... the useless bastard... so what else can I do, but update my status on FaceBook. My status ignited a thread of my friends bickering a little bit, which led to me getting all sorts of flamey. Here it is:
Lindsay KM I'm not ashamed to admit that I am so fucking mad that Perry got reelected I screamed a little... Now, back to drinking to celebrate how useless and powerless the Texas Governor actually is... I just wanted someone who wasn't embarrassing.
Dot A I'm fuckin embarrassed. and drinking heavily
Kimberly D Me too!
Melinda F feel like I'm watching a scary movie, republicans are everywhere, dundundunnn
Cynthia M Hey, you probably don't remember a guy named Clements . . .
Sarah H Its because Obama llama ding dong has ruined democrats name.. people who usually vote democrat, voted republican..
Melinda F People are jumping the gun in blaming Obama, I hope for America’s sake he’s given the time he needs to prove himself and repair the country.
Sarah H he's half way through.. how much time does he need?
Melinda F with all the years of damage he needs to repair, I think it's fair to give him all 8
Sarah H well.. I doubt he'll get 8 years.. a term is only 4 not 8.. with only 40% of the country satisfied with him, I think its safe to say that he's half way through.. not to mention, with the shift from Dem to GOP at midterms.. I think it speaks for something..
Melinda F i know a term is only 4, two terms would make 8, it speaks to an uneducated public
Sarah H it also speaks to an uneducated public, that 40% is less then half.. which would not be the majority.. but I think your right in the sense that he appeals to the uneducated public who can't make enough to support themselves and need all these government programs he wants to create to take from the rich and give to the poor.. Ive worked hard to get where I am.. why should I have to pay more taxes to fund programs to help people who can't or won't work as hard as I have?
That's where I got annoyed and stepped in...
Lindsay KM Strap in... this is a long one...
1) Obama does not appeal to an uneducated public. Bush does. Palin does. TEA PARTIERS DO. The Tea Baggers named their movement off of one of the biggest prick moves in our history (that's right... The Boston Tea Party WASN'T this act of righteous indignation everyone want to remember it as... the Tea Act was already repealed and all those jerks did was completely screw over a merchant's property).
2) When Bush took over, Clinton left him with a SURPLUS of money... Then Bush took 8 years driving our economy into the ground and I don't know why ANYONE would ever believe it could be fixed in two years. When Obama was sworn in, I was watching... I didn't see anyone hand him a magic wand or the ability to cross his arms and blink (a la I Dream of Jeanie) to make it all right again.
3) We were in the Great Depression for 14 years. Do you remember what caused the Depression? A stock market crash... due to frivolous investing and spending by the people AND NOT THE GOVERNMENT for a change... a decade of the Roaring 20's and then one day everything STOPPED with next no warning and then the Depression.
This Depression, whereas not as bad as the Great one, was caused by years of our GOVERNMENT THROWING MONEY AWAY on a war that shouldn't have happened... by Bush giving money to his friend's businesses for this war to ensure HIS FRIENDS (not his people) were okay... It was caused by letting businesses run wild without rules on how they can treat people... Did Obama organize sub prime mortgages while I wasn't looking? No, that would be Bush's laissez faire policies not paying attention to the fact that BANKS WERE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF POOR PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY COULD. People who don't understand mortgages and loans because they never had someone to teach them and they were preyed on by banks and credit card companies because government didn't think they needed to protect their people.
4) It took Roosevelt, considered to be one of the greatest presidents who ever lived, 14 years to pull us out of a Depression that happened overnight. He did it by making some SOCIALLY DEMOCRATIC decisions (not socialist, for any ignorant fucks who can read this far without getting a headache and a nosebleed) to take care of his people, even the ones against him who didn't like is policies. If you think that Obama can fix shit in two years when the previous administration took EIGHT to fuck it up, I'd say we should just keep the math simple... if Overnight = 14 years, we'll say the equation for how long Obama should get would need to be 8 years x 14 years... 112 years... AWESOME. I don't think he'll live that long but maybe we can put him in some kind of stasis? We'll have to rewrite that part of the rules to allow him to have a longer term, but we can pull it off.
5) People in America shouldn't bitch about taxes... go live damn near anywhere else in the civilized world and taxes are worse. And if you don't like paying taxes, next time your house is on fire, just let it burn... I'm sure you wouldn't want your money being used on a fire department that services everyone and when you're old and receive your medicaid card, make sure you set it on fire like kids who got their draft cards in the 60's. I'm certain that you wouldn't like your tax dollars making sure that insurance can't fuck over old people.
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What do you think? Am I right? Are they right? Why are the Dems jumping ship? Complacency? Laziness? Not reading up on the candidates? It's too hard to stop watching Jon Stewart long enough to get to the polls? Tell me!
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"BANKS WERE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF POOR PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY COULD. People who don't understand mortgages and loans because they never had someone to teach them and they were preyed on by banks and credit card companies because government didn't think they needed to protect their people."
With ALL DO RESPECT dear sister, you were half in the bag when you typed that. Please, please say that you were. Otherwise you have officially jumped ship to insanity. The one, and only good thing I credit Bush to, is giving everyone the opportunity to own a home. Which had the plan gone as it should, we would all be part of an amazingly profiting America (what with everyone paying into a whole new tax area). The bottom coming out of real estate world had nothing to do with someone not reading fine print (the bank doesn't sell you a home, the realtor does), it had to do with people getting greedy, buying more than they could, refinancing to keep up with the Jones and thinking that their investments would all be 'flips'. Credit card companies haven't done ONE THING new in the past 50 years. Interest rates and penalties on defaults are the same. The only difference was that once you are a home owner you have more opportunity to borrow. The housing market trick fuck is something I truly don't believe can be placed under a party affiliation. Every idiot with a pen knew good and well that a 3/5 arm would fuck them sideways come judgement day.
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