Everyone wants to point the finger somewhere else when times get hard, especially at the Government. I'll be the first to admit it; the previous Administration fucked a lot of stuff up and were asleep at the wheel on a lot of issues. If they felt something was too tough an issue or they couldn't make money for themselves off of it, then they just threw it to the wayside and ignored it hoping it would go away. No such luck. Now the new Administration has to go to drastic measures to try to salvage what they can of this broken down fiscal American dream.
With all the finger pointing going on, I have to wonder, why aren't we as citizens taking more of the blame? We are so quick to push off everything on 'the man.' Remember this very cliche but also very true saying, when you point the finger, there are always 3 pointing back at you. We were all here nine years ago and we all saw this coming as it drew nearer, but yet we did nothing until it was upon us. Now that there is a real big problem, everyone and their momma has got an interest in politics when it was clear that no one gave a damn about what was transpiring in Washington before this little 'recession.' It's sad that over 500,000 people have to be laid off for people to get off their fat asses and take notice of what's happening around them. People should be ashamed of themselves for not taking more initiative to be alert and demand more from their Government.
America: where more people vote for crap like American Idol than President. We pay attention to everything but what we should. We know all the top football players, who won what Superbowl and when, baseball and soccer this and that, pageant mom shit, clubbing every night, the price of weed and alcohol, rap music and Top Model obsessions, and the list goes on and on. This situation we are in is just a product of the decline of the Protestant work ethic.
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