Who Believes This Woman?!

Ok, first off, if you haven't read this article ... read it: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090515/ap_on_go_co/us_pelosi_torture

Now then, what's wrong with this country?! Is this woman for real? If you watch the press interview she did this morning she contradicted her own story like 4 times. And when the mainstream media is all over her, you know it must be bad. I mean, they are peeps. Family. Pals.

Beyond that, why are we even talking about this story still? Umm ... did anyone else notice that we are blowing an extra 1.8 trillion dollars we don't have? Did anyone notice that Obama's solution for the impossible budget for medicare is to overhaul healthcare and make it MORE EXPENSIVE?

Isn't that like trying to heal a gunshot wound by stabbing the patient in the heart? Ok, maybe I could come up with a better analogy but come on. Am I wrong?

It saddens me to see our country in this point of disrepair. Even if we didn't have an incompetent president, we still probably couldn't stop this spiral toward bankruptcy that was started a decade or more ago. So what do we do now?

Go bankrupt I think. And our leaders are gladly steering the ship directly into the black hole. Do they just not see it or is it that they just don't care. Maybe both.

More than all of this though; why as the people of America are we so lazy that we don't get rid of these people who are too ignorant, apathetic, or corrupt to save our country. It's time that we step up, get out, and save our own country.

Unfortunately, we'll go bankrupt and become a 3rd world country instead. Maybe that's extreme ... but what if it isn't?

Oh, and George Bush might have sounded stupid when he talks while Obama sounds brilliant. But let us see actions which speak louder than words and more elegantly than any speach given.

Last thing ... I don't want our country to fail. I don't want to be in opposition to Obama. I just can't agree with much of anything he is doing. Oh, and if someone knows of a promise he has kept from his campaign, I would love to hear it. And if there is 1 ... or 2 ... we just need to give him another 4 months and I'm almost positive he'll take care of that also.

So that's my vent for the night. Let Palosi follow the footsteps of her president ... and lie. Truth will be revealed in the end.

What's Wrong With America

I think my ultimate problem comes from my youthful ignorance that has been devastated by my new adult maturity. I mean, am I the only one that grew up in this great country actually believing it was a great country? I guess the real thing that has crushed my dreams and my little world has been learning that the people who run this country are adults. 

What?

I mean, I always knew that adults were running the joint however I never realized how incompetent adults are ... a lot. So now I are one. I'm an adult. I do really dumb things on a fairly regular basis. I make dumb decisions and say dumb things. It happens.

What scares me is how it seems that I'm not alone. So why all this chatter about my ignorance? Well, because what's wrong with America is we have a bunch of adults who run it, and those adults act like children. That's right. Children.

For years now I have had the wits about me to realize how stupid we as a country are when it comes to our finances. And now I fear we are quickly coming to a day of reckoning. No, not your children and grand children and great grand children. YOU. You will pay for the dumb mistakes we as a country are making. YOU will pay for the dumb financial decisions YOU have made in YOUR personal finances. YOU were raised this way. 

You see, 80 years ago people didn't think like we do. They actually believed that you should earn a buck before you spend a buck. That's right! No plastic. And at some point that philosophy changed. It's no longer what Americans believe, in general. 

So the result. Well ... get ready America. A day of reckoning is coming. And that day could be tomorrow.

I end with this: As I begin this blog, I begin it with the words from my father. 

"Hey Josh, what did the market do today?" 

"Well dad, it dropped about 280 points. I think it's down to about 6600 or 6700. Somewhere around there."

And then he said it,

*sigh*

"I've worked my whole life, Josh. My whole damn life. That money in the market ... that's all I have. And those thieving sons of bitches that run the banks and companies and all of that ... they have ruined it for me."

He said this with tears in his eyes. 

"Don't worry dad. You've got 8 or 9 years before you were going to retire anyhow. It'll come back up."

But I knew that was an empty promise. Maybe it's right and true. Maybe it's not. All I know is, my dad has worked hard his whole life ... making a buck before spending a buck ... and this is how his country ... our country, has paid him back. With tears in his eyes. 

I'm sorry dad. Uncle Sam has failed you today. And I'm afraid he is failing us all.