Unemployment is higher than it has been since the Great Depression. Has been for going on seven years, now. The national debt is zooming toward $18,000,000,000,000.00. I remember when Democrats used to blast Reagan for allowing multi billion dollar deficits. Of course, he did it while contending with a Democratic congress (all eight years in office) and winning the cold war. A few years later, the Clinton administration (with the help of Gingrich’s Republican House) proved that a booming economy can outgrow billion dollar deficits. Unfortunately, it turned out that booming economy was built on credit as faulty as that of the 1920s…what kind of an economy will we need to build to outgrow multi-tens-of-trillion dollar deficits?
As if all that weren’t enough, we’re suffering floods and tornadoes of epic proportions in the Midwest; droughts of equal severity in the West and South and forest fire season has barely begun. Cold, snowy winters; mild, unusually warm winters; hot, sticky summers and cool, lovely summers are all evidence that human behavior is destroying the planet so cut it out! The environmental patients scold us. Cut what out? Oh; driving your car, heating and cooling your house, using indoor plumbing and eating meat. You know; everything that makes life worth living.
As of today, July 30, 2014, the southern border of the United States of America has been eliminated in all but law. Hundreds of thousands of central and southern Americans are flooding into the border states and the feds have forbidden the authorities to do anything about it. I don’t think there has been a time in my life when border and immigration laws have actually been upheld.Whenever someone suggests anything helpful (enforce the laws, build a fence, don’t give folks who are in the country illegally jobs, housing, schooling or welfare benefits) some asshat in Washington yells “we must have comprehensive reform!”
By this, they usually mean that we need to address the border concerns as well as what to do with the people already here illegally as well as how to handle the folks who came here legally, i.e. in compliance with the laws we’ve already passed.
In other words “comprehensive reform” means “We can’t do anything until we can do everything.”
That’s stupid.
You know how stupid that is?
Imagine your contractor told you he can’t do the wiring or the plumbing in your house unless he can do the wallpaper and the flooring at the same time.
If you had any brains (or just any idea how a structure is built) you’d fire that contractor.
Or imagine if your doctor told you he was going to administer the anesthesia while performing the incision at the same time. I’m betting you’d object and rightly so.
But we live in a culture of idiocy; we don’t see why it’s important to get married and then have kids. The fact that some folks have kids all over the place and never manage to get married and build a stable home and family for those kids is lost on them. Don’t hit me with the ‘some singles provide stable homes and familes for their kids’ crap. Of course some do. And some smokers never contract lung disease. SO WHAT??
These are the sort of people who believe that paint and primer in one is an improvement.
Airplanes are falling out of the sky. There have been four major airline disasters in the last two months. One plane simply vanished off radar, two were shot down by villains on the ground and one…who knows? All may well have been felled by deliberate acts of bad people.
Russia has invaded Ukraine and the US does nothing. Libya is a mess, Syria is in flames, Iraq and Afghanistan have reverted to their pre- invasion barbarity. American influence in the world is at pre WWI levels. Gaza has become the staging ground for assaults on Israel that everyone with a brain in their head said it would become when Israel ceded Gaza to the Palestinians back in the 90s.
Gaza built tunnels into Israel so they could attack by stealth, they use schools, playgrounds and hospitals as missile launch sites, they won’t let families leave neighborhoods after Israel warns they’re going to retaliate and it’s ISRAEL that the world blames for civilian deaths and it’s ISRAEL that our Sec. of State John the traitor Kerry says must cease fire.
Ebola is on the rise in Africa. We let it just fly into Dallas Texas.
Seriously people, what would it take? Frogs? Locusts? Boils? Does hail have to fall out of the sky and burst into flames before you begin to wonder if we’re doing something fundamentally wrong?
Actually, if burning hail fell from the sky, Harry Reid would take to the senate floor claiming it was the Koch Brother’s fault and Leonardo DiCaprio would make PSAs saying it was proof of global warming.
Ramses II has nothing on the stubborn blindness of the world in the 21st century.