So what happened to President Obama?
I knew we weren’t going to get much out of him re: the environment, it wasn’t high on his agenda. I didn’t like his plan to expand oil drilling but I liked him getting our troops out of Iraq and providing health care. I didn’t think he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, but, I do like that the rest of the world seems to have a better view of us, because of him. I guess when you get placed too high on a pedestal you fall hard and fast. What has he done, or not done to make you so angry?
People who support our cool, private and formal President are up against a loud unified “tea-party” Conservatives vs Liberals — one accusing the other of not staying on top of the facts. I’m glad our Liberal forefathers fought for our National Parks System, Medicare, Federal Highways, banning nuclear testing, clean air and water, public schools, religious freedom, and being able to sit anywhere on the bus we want regardless of our skin color. I am very grateful they stood up and fought the hard fight to provide these wonderful American ways of life for us.
Who were they fighting? Who didn’t want these things? Most people simply hate and fear the unknown. There is no evil motivation. If you show them a plan for a better way they fight it, dealing with what they know is easier then figuring out a better way. That thinking was manipulated by the powerful money handlers who were profiting from the unregulated timber industry or cheap child labor in factories. Factory owners lobbied against mandatory education and the timber industry didn’t want National Parks.
Just like now, Corporate interests don’t want public healthcare available to all Americans and have convinced many Americans that the government is going to kill grandma and infiltrate their personal lives with this crazy healthcare for all scheme. If healthcare was to become available to all Americans then some innovative Americans would go out and open a small business not needing corporate insurance benefits anymore. They don’t want that.
What did out conservative forefathers achieve for us?
Ronald Reagan played a big part in the USSR breaking apart and losing it’s power. George HW Bush had a short successful war. Nixon brought our troops home from Vietnam and re-opened trade with China — some may say China trade wasn’t such a good thing, because before that we made our own toasters and jeans. Conservatives are pro-life and Christian. They don’t like government intervention, they prefer corporate rule. They refer to Liberals as elitists, I’m not sure where that came from.
As for me, I was raised in a Republican, military, Methodist, household. My father hated “All in the Family” and he loved Nixon. I remember sadness and tears in my household when Nixon resigned. He said the presidency always involves covert happenings that the public has no business knowing. In my mind, that, is big government and from that time on I silently went my own direction to find truths. Nixon was big government and I think we should be much more afraid of his kind than of Obama.
Conservatives don’t like “Obamanomics” stimulus and infrastructure and all Americans having health insurance; too costly. I say we need to work together to get jobs back in America. Small business needs to prosper. Corporate growth needs to stop being the impetus. “Improving stockholder profits” needs to stop being our battle cry. Americans need to move back into main street and open their hardware stores and butcher shops and make glassware in their small factories on the edge of town. Stop hating and start coming up with solutions. Yelling, table pounding, hate-filled accusations are just counter productive exchanges of air
Stuff made in China is cheaper than American made stuff (for the most part) because the Chinese have little kids making it. They don’t have rules. No 40 hour work week with overtime. No clean air and water rules, their factories pollute at will. They don’t have a strong liberal front fighting for them.
We need to change our buying habits away from Target and Wal-Mart (unless they start stocking the shelves with American made products) and go back to main street. Obama didn’t create this mess, I’m not sure he is doing everything right to fix it, but, I am sure it can’t be fixed without our participation.
