My excuse for not going to the gym tonight was that I wanted to see Obama address the nation and watch him verbally smack the Republicans in the face. I’ve been following the debt ceiling red herring and am curious to see what happens.
I thought Obama made good points. He outlined the issues, and explained fairly simply what is going on. He talked about how raising the debt ceiling is routine, that it’s happened many times before without this level of ridiculousness. He said that this is no way to run the greatest country on earth, reminded us that holding the world economy hostage to get the spending cuts you want is foolish.
But he missed the point. We, the people, are completely sick of this political bullshit. Millions of Americans are out of work, losing their homes or dying because of the inability to afford the care they need. And you’re all sitting in the chambers whining about a debt ceiling that normally is raised without a thought? You’re threatening to cut money from the economy that desperately needs it? You’re holding us on the brink of defaulting on loans and letting the credit agencies potentially send us into meltdown for the second time in less than 5 years?
The American people are pretty sick of it folks. Most people don’t know what’s going on because it’s too complex, too confusing, too pointless, too STUPID to spend any time determining your rationale. We just want to be able to provide for our families, not get fucked over, and pursue our rights to life liberty and happiness.
We all compromise every single day with the people we love, people we hate, and people in between. Tax the rich and put the money back into the economy so we can climb out of this recession and tackle the problem for real.
