Peon Wakup Call: Hello? America? On energy, we better do it FIRST before we get left behind in the global marketplace. 'Peon' Commentary included.
Link to original blog post: http://www.politicalpeon.com/2008/08/peon-wakup-call-hello-america-on-energy.html.
OK, here's how I see it. We will have to get a 'lil bit' uncomfortable to get where we need to go. The future of good-paying jobs for Americans is in energy. We need to get off the stick and support it, demand it, require it. If we don't, another country is going to do it first. This is our future, and I am only speaking to the issue of jobs for Americans.Here's another reason to elect a President who will partner with business and actually lead us in a new direction with respect to these goals. We need to get off our dependence on oil in the middle East, and from foreign leaders like Venezuela's Extremist President, Hugo Rafael Chávez. We need to get off the stick and elect a President who will facilitate these changes without putting 'politics' into every single solitary issue of great importance in our country and our world.I know the amazing things that have occurred in this country and not through reading any books. My parents were born and lived through 'The Depression', World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and came into the middle-class through the years of a thriving steel industry. If that generation could do what they did, we can do this.When Barack Obama says 'We are the ones we've been waiting for.", I believe he is saying that we have the power to make change. We have the power to think through these issues and make informed decisions. We have the power to say 'Hey this ain't workin', let's do something else." Our power is in our vote. Our power is in our voices, and strongest when our voices unite.When Barack Obama says "Yes we can.", I believe that he is trying to bring our minds into the light of possibility. For many of us the possibility of the American dream has been overshadowed by loss, tragedy, endless struggle, and roadblocks, while at the same time, we turn on our televisions to see the affluence and prosperity that everyone else on earth seems to be enjoying. It's not true of course that everyone is affluent, but it is another unintentional, yet insidious way of lowering one's self worth and esteem. It has not been true that in America, anyone can succeed if they work hard and try. Many can and have. Many work very hard each and everyday and see little from their toil. Often the messages are "You are not trying hard enough!"Even still, we are so fortunate. Even still, we are grateful for our our country, and are well aware of the advantages we have in this great nation. We just want to do better, and to have more opportunities. I believe that those opportunities will be in changing the way we think first of all, and changing what we want. Capitalism is not bad in and of itself, but when coupled with extreme greed, and no checks and balances, no partnering with the American people, if Capitalism were naked, it would be a 'Girl's Gone Wild' Video.We can take it back. We have this opportunity to take back our country. I believe that Barack Obama is the person who can lead us in a new and better direction. I hope that you will join us, if you have not already done so. He is not 'The One', nor is he 'The Messiah', or any of the things that the other side may say. There is no 'koolaid' drinking in the campaign. If you really know Democrats, then you must know that we rarely agree on everything, we cannot keep our big mouths shut about it, and that our disagreements in the past have often been part of the reason we have not been able to win elections, so the 'koolaid' drinking thing has got no legs at all.I'm done. Nap time.Peace and Love,
Megan
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