Note To Politicians: IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID!
Politicians are running scared this week as the incumbents in several races have been getting the proverbial guillotine in the primaries. What could be the problem? What is going on that could be causing so much voter ire that they simply would vote in someone who they don't even believe in just to get rid of the guy holding the job right now?
It's so simple that I can't understand how these guys in Congress are missing the point. It's not really about deficits, or Iran, or healthcare-those things are made up issues that the simple folk eat like brownies at a pot convention. Its not about earmarks or the fact that Obama is black on the outside either.
What it IS about is the fact that Wall Street got hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts while the people footing that bill got a pink slip and a foreclosure notice. It's also about the fact that tens of millions of our fellow citizens, including this one, haven't had work in months or even years, and we don't get any unemployment assistance anymore.
What's going to happen as millions more join up with me and no longer have any unemployment assistance? Are we supposed to sign up for welfare? Are we supposed to tell our banks, apartment managers, utility companies and grocery stores that the economy is improving so they will get paid soon enough?
To the untrained eye, it would look like the people in Congress are a bunch of stupid jackasses. How can they not see something as huge as this white elephant/8000lb gorilla in the room with them?
Well, if they don't wake up, they may find that 25 million unemployed people are far more aggressive in their responses than just firing the ungrateful in Congress, they may just send us into a tailspin of domestic distress that could lead to protests that make the antiwar marches look like child's play.
It's so simple that I can't understand how these guys in Congress are missing the point. It's not really about deficits, or Iran, or healthcare-those things are made up issues that the simple folk eat like brownies at a pot convention. Its not about earmarks or the fact that Obama is black on the outside either.
What it IS about is the fact that Wall Street got hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts while the people footing that bill got a pink slip and a foreclosure notice. It's also about the fact that tens of millions of our fellow citizens, including this one, haven't had work in months or even years, and we don't get any unemployment assistance anymore.
What's going to happen as millions more join up with me and no longer have any unemployment assistance? Are we supposed to sign up for welfare? Are we supposed to tell our banks, apartment managers, utility companies and grocery stores that the economy is improving so they will get paid soon enough?
To the untrained eye, it would look like the people in Congress are a bunch of stupid jackasses. How can they not see something as huge as this white elephant/8000lb gorilla in the room with them?
Well, if they don't wake up, they may find that 25 million unemployed people are far more aggressive in their responses than just firing the ungrateful in Congress, they may just send us into a tailspin of domestic distress that could lead to protests that make the antiwar marches look like child's play.
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