There's something unsettling about hearing a television commentator, specifically when one of them is commenting on the economy, talk about Twittering. To hear Ali Velshi of CNN say the word, "Tweet," really diminishes his authority on the subject. I'm all for new communication vehicles. But, let's leave the Twittering to Miley Cyrus and the like.
As somewhat of a non sequitur, it kills me that House Republicans are going on about "spending." Suddenly, after blowing through nearly/more than a trillion dollars in budget surplus and creating the biggest government in history, they are concerned about "spending."
I think that they believe their grand plan to dumb down the populace, through a lousy education system and the processed-food-industrial-complex, has surely been successful. Because, they seem to think that we are stupid and have no memory. That we can't make the connection between the eight years of their reign and the current condition of the country - oh, hell, let's just say it - the world. God bless 'em. They've got big ones.
I say eight years, but let's be honest and call it the thirty years since The Gipper took office. God, it's been a long road. And, politics aside, I look at the facts and see that we now live in a country where the divide between rich and poor is greater than ever before, 46 million people don't have health insurance, obesity is rampant, twenty-five percent of kids drop out of high school, people all over the world think we are arrogant and some of them would like to kill us....I could go on. My point is, how have these years served us, The People? Unless you believe that no one has had any control over any of this, then you have to conclude that we have been had. Without lubrication.
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