Daily Rant – September 2, 2009
September 2, 2009
Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? It’s a silly comedy that actually has some salient points. It is about the dumbing down of America to the point where people are so stupid they can no longer solve their own problems. The most watched television show is a reality show where entertainment is a guy getting hit in the groin in various ways. The government has made it so the only jobs are provided by one energy drink company (i.e. Gatorade) which is being used for everything including irrigation. This kills the crops so the result is a huge dust bowl.
Anyway, take it into today’s world and you see that we could easily be headed toward a similar future. Dumbing down of our schools by letting everyone pass so they will feel good about themselves does nothing to help society. People are not stupid, they are just being allowed to get by with failure.
We have an inept government right now. Look at what has happened since the lame duck session of George Bush. He passed the stimulus bill and Democrats jumped on board. It worked so poorly they want to do it again. We are trillions of dollars in debt and adding to in every moment, but we need to spend more money? At this point, they can stop pointing the finger at the previous administration. Democrats run everything and have nobody to blame but themselves. Besides, when does it become the current administration’s fault? After they are out of office? We were promised Obama would fix everything. He hasn’t. It’s gotten worse… much worse!
Next we had the mortgage meltdown. Barney Frank and his pals told us the sub prime mortgages were not in trouble. I guess that’s why we had to bail out all those financial institutions. Even banks that didn’t need the money were forced to take the handout so that other institutions wouldn’t be at an unfair disadvantage… What? If it’s a disadvantage to borrow money from the government, why are we letting them do it?
Next came the car company bailouts because they were “too big to fail”. This was really unpopular with the public, but they did it anyway. Trillions more dollars down the drain. And what happened? General Motors went bankrupt anyway. What did the bailout solve? Nothing!
Then Congress brought up the Cap and Trade bill which will drive our energy prices through the roof all in the name of stopping global warming… which is not happening. Polar bears are on an increase. Because the ice flows are growing and hunting seasons are longer thanks to global cooling, more cubs are surviving and populations are increasing. What will happen as a result? People may become extinct!
What do we have to say about the Health Care Bill that has not already been said? If this passes, people will be outraged. We’ve made it perfectly clear we want no part of this, so why are they REALLY pushing it? It will cost them the house and senate in 2010 and the presidency in 2012. Republicans better make something of it and not do what they did under Bush.
Cash for Clunkers. This program is a microcosm of the ineptness of government run anything. We are broke as a nation and yet some legislators (most of them from California) think it’s wise to use our money to help people buy cars. But the cars that are considered clunkers are perfectly good and could be given to poor families who can’t keep their real clunkers running. Instead these trade-ins are scrapped. And now car dealers are having trouble getting reimbursed by the government! Good plan!
If things weren’t bad enough in our own country, Obama (remember the guy who didn’t want to interfere in Iran) wants to interfere in the Honduras situation. A thug dictator was elected and refused to leave office under the terms of the constitution so the PEOPLE had him removed from office. Obama thinks he should be put back in office. Maybe Obama is afraid this will happen to him once people find out he is not a US citizen?
The final insult is this swine flu farce. It has just been made public that the government wants to FORCE people to get vaccinated. Wasn’t this a free country?
- FedUpEditor
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