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Calm Waters

By Mike - Jan 30th, 2009 at 12:19 pm EST

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Personal observation I have become obsessed with watching CNBC and CNN and MSNBC now that Mr. Barack Obama is our president. I will flip over to Fox News for little ten minute intervals just to remind me of how crazy they are. I just watched Obama and Biden speak with the labor force leaders and sign what I am assuming is a bill or something like that, that Biden has been put in charge of to help generate jobs and economy for this broken nation of ours. I’ve watched the ridiculous partisanship that is still going on with the republicans who seem to be quite comfortable with acting like a bunch of spoiled little brats that didn’t get their way and will make damn sure that the president doesn’t move forward on the economic crisis and we need to rename this entire event. It’s not a crisis, it passed crisis levels months ago. The goofballs that report this stuff is calling this a class war. I like that. I think it’s time for the middle class and the poor of this nation to rise up and fight for the right to live in this free nation of ours the same way or at least close to the same way the elite do. I have a problem with the fact that everything we do in this country has the word war attached to it. If we could change that verbiage and mindset I believe we would see significant change in attitudes. Barack Obama has become president during a time when the economic wasteland is at a level that may not be fixed with just more money and more rhetorical mind sets. Obama is looking at our current situation the same way FDR had to look at our nation. We are going to have to put forth programs that help those Americans that need this assistance the most and need it right now. I find it infuriating when I hear the rich and the monitors of the rich on CNBC throw their arms in the air and wail about Obama working towards helping the middle class, the elderly and the poor in this country. We need entitlements for a large section of Americans right now. Barack Obama is obviously not ok with having the attitude that there is nothing we can do about the four million Americans who are out of work. Barack Obama does not accept that we have to watch small businesses and for that matter a number of big businesses fail because of the current situation. My frustration and heartbreak comes from an elitist group of Americans that really believe that they are better, smarter and cooler than other Americans. The playing field needs to be leveled. I sincerely believe that Barack Obama is doing exactly what needs to be done right now. I also hope that they are looking to the future as to how we level the money and assistance that is happening right now so that we can become the nation that we are capable of becoming again. We are not a kingdom where only a few prosper and the rest of the peasants get what is left, but, the problem is that we are exactly that right now. I’m listening right now to CNBC argue about bonuses. How can these people sit there and argue about bonuses. Those individual’s that are getting this bonus do not deserve them and as a middle class disabled American I believe they never deserved those bonuses. How did we get to this place? How is it justifiable to give someone an outrageous bonus for doing an absolutely horrible job? I worked my entire life, until I became disabled and I was given a bonus, a raise when I did a good job and if I didn’t do my job correctly I was fired. I don’t’ have a problem with ridiculous salaries. A salary has to be worked for. These people have to do exactly what the rest of the nation does on their thirteen thousand dollar a year job. They have to work for it. And if their salaries are in the millions then they better be working real hard to make things work, to make things right. I have mixed feelings about the banking system. I believe we should let the banking systems and the auto industries either get their act together or just go away and let the banks and companies that are successful take over. We need to bring this nation and its economic insanity down to a level that is fair and moral so that the middle class and the poor feel like what they do in this nation matters. By bringing the playing field down to a more sane and level place will also guarantee that entitlements will not be needed for the middle class or even the poor, elderly or disabled. The markets have become so emotional over the entire situation that it’s painful to watch them, well, painful and also humorous. I will sit and listen with an unfair sense of happiness that they are also worried about the future or I will have to take a break and change the channel because they have said something so unbelievably stupid and selfish that it just makes me crazy. They are frantic. They are losing their nice comfortable little kingdom and I believe that this is exactly what should happen. Knock these self righteous children off of their mountain that was made out of greed and corruption. Let them find out what it feels like to work thirty years on a job, saving money for retirement and have it all go away immediately and there are no solutions. I believe that the Barack Obama team is doing exactly what needs to be done and I am a little surprised at how difficult this is going to be. I think, unlike the rich, Obama is looking toward the future and we need to put policies and incentives together to get the current problem taken care of. If this means some of the kings and queens of this nation won’t be able to buy eighty thousand dollar rugs or purchase another new jet then so be it. Let them wine and complain. We need change and we need it now. I am an old hippy that has spent most of his life watching this government and nation slowly journey on a downward spiral, actually it’s been longer than thirty years, and I find it strange sometimes to remember how old I am. The downward spiral has finally caught up and is now going down at an alarming rate. For the first time in many, many years I have a sense of hope, I believe that our nation can become what we are so capable of becoming. I was the greatest of cynics and naysayers and anyone who reads my blogs knows this but here we are with a man that is willing to make the changes that need to be made. He has surrounded himself with people who are also focused on getting things done. Unfortunately economics isn’t the only problem that Obama faces. The wars and the Middle East that the previous administration completely screwed up have to be fixed and the greatest struggle is the whole mindset that goes on in this country about winning. We lost these wars the day we dropped bombs and sent our solders there. No one can deny that Barack Obama is doing exactly what he said he was going to do. It’s pretty damn exciting. We finally have a president that cares about all of the peoples that call this country their home. It’s funny watching those who thought they were the kings and queens find out they are the same as the rest of us schmucks.Hippy Mike

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