This rant was edited and published in The Daily Astorian on
July 13, 2012. Click on the link below:
It seems to me there is this intentional blinding apathy
about anything political significant that is currently happening today by too
many that scares the hell out of me.
Unfortunately most people don't won't to know and think that
as long as it has no direct effect on them it doesn't matter. This couldn't be
farther from the truth; eventually it WILL directly affect you and all of us.
It's an attitude we can no longer afford.
Case in point, the bankruptcy of the City of San Bernardino:
First Stockton, then Mammoth Falls now San Bernardino is
filing for bankruptcy, does this concern you? It should, even if you're in Key
West, FL.
This story is an example of how the walls of Rome, in this
case cities in California, are falling because of the unbelievable pension
benefits they're paying to public employee unions. Granted these cities have
spent millions on other wasteful programs but these unions not only have a huge
stranglehold on cities but on the State and Federal level as well. It has to
end NOW!
California is a big indicator of what the rest of the
economy nationwide could be in for, an epic fall. The days of make work jobs
and massive do nothing city, state and federal agencies providing gold plated
benefits has to be drastically altered very soon or a total collapse of the
national economy is imminent.
Some will ask what can I do? First you need to educate
yourself about the local, state and national economic issues. Then support candidates
who you most agree with and then VOTE. Write and call you representatives as
well, if enough do it they will be forced to listen.
The 2 party system is extremely flawed and what we're stuck
with right now. Hopefully one day that'll change but until then we must elect
candidates who are not going to keep maintaining the status quo by kicking the
fiscal can down the road to the gates of hell.
More taxes, more government, more laws that undermine our
freedoms, more needless regulation, more government interference in trying
inject itself into the economy, more money being printed by the Federal
Reserve, more social welfare programs, more EPA and United Nations controlled
energy policy, more federal disregard for protecting our borders and more climate
change nuts controlling the narrative that adversely affect the national
economy clearly hasn't worked and isn't the answer.
Worse still and more importantly are citizens who are
willfully ignorant, or so selfish and apathetic they don't give a damn as long
someone doesn't dig into their own rice bowl or enter their little halo of a
world. Is that the kind of American you want to be, really?
Make no mistake it WILL affect you, maybe not today,
tomorrow, a week, a month or year from now but eventually it WILL. We must take
a hard fiscal right hand turn before it's too late. If you don't care about it
personally just think of the world we'll leave for our children and
grandchildren.
Ignore the main stream media who daily make this election
cycle about social issues. It's the oldest tactic in the world. They run
interference to get voters on both sides emotional charged and lead you away
from the dreadful financial straits we're in.
One must believe that a job, a roof over your head and food
on the table is more important than any social issue. You can be assured that
people without these 3 necessities could care less about the social world
order. And more likely than not without it cause disorder as a result.
In a perfect world we'd live in a perfect social society but
it'll never happen especially if people don't have jobs or are under the thumb
of an oppressive centralized government who believes it can be all things to
all people. I sincerely hope that this offends you if you're one of the many
who don't care about politics. If it does and it motivates you to act then, all
the better.
