Will The Democrats Come In And Bail Out America Again?

To the Point: " In three years, we'll elect a democrat and everything will be okay again!"


yes, but the challenges are even merely daunting...It will not be the typical Republican one term, democrat the next to clean out the mess! We're all familiar with that and we think of it as the swinging of the pendulum. It's always the dems who come in and save the world. Because in the end, even though government grows peversely during Republican years, this growth is mainly in areas of self-interest. It has little to do with the public good! But these eight years are different! You just can't reverse the clock this time around. In some instances we are virtually at a point of no return. Or we have set into motion events that we may not be able to reel in any longer!

Look at the burden bequeathed to whomever inherits this office. Eight years of government will have to be reversed just to save the budget process and the financial underpinning of government. Jobs have been shipped off shore. What are we going to do to reinvent them? People don't trust the private sector enough to invest their money in it? What is going to happen to a housing market where people have sucked the equity out of their investments just to keep going? What are we going to do about eight years of students tossed into the milieu who have no education to speak of? What are we going to do about the hundreds of thousands of shell-shocked troops who are going to need care and medical attention? What kind of a burden is that going to place on our infrastructure? Can you reverse the effects of global warming? Can you automatically bring us back to a position where we have clean air and water? What are we going to do about a steam-rolling China that can buy us with the trillion plus it owns of American dollars? What are we going to do about foreign relations where we have polarized virtually the entire nation of Islam? When this government has to go to a remote place like Mongolia and then resend Rumsfeld to tell the Mongolians thank you for sending a couple of hundred troops to Iraq this is more telling than anything else? How this signals the deterioration in our relations with the rest of the world is there for everyone to see....How do you reverse all of the enriched nuclear materials that have been allowed to disappear off the world's markets? How do you reverse the effects of hurricane Katrina where just yesterday they talked about tossing all of the people affected by the storm out of their hotel rooms and just cutting them off? How do you apologize to the seniors who died because they didn't get attention in time? Who were not evacuated? Who did not receive food or water although it could have been delivered if FEMA had not simply become another sinecure for a friend? How do you reverse those things and so many others? How do we develop an effective alternative energy source? How do we eliminate the long years of abusing the earth with our thoughtless mining policies? How do we purge this countries of all of the self-interested politicians whose only thoughts are to fill their pockets at the public's expense? Can we reverse the effects that are rising Ocean levels and temperatures? Will this globe support such thoughtless contempt not only from us but also China and other nations too concerned with building millionaires than learning how to live on a small blue planet? Whoever takes this job will face the hardest job ever conceived by man, a job that will be thankless and frustrating and opposed by the business industrial complex and all those who earn their livings at the public trough.


Les Aaron....
The Armchair Curmudgeon

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