Is it "The economy, stupid?"
January 12th 2008 20:30
As it becomes more apparent to more Americans that the current Bush is economy is based on what his father termed "Voodoo economics," or using the power of the presidency to enrich the few while attacking the rest of America, the economy has emerged as the most important issue in the upcoming elections. Shame on you, America....for many reasons.
First, for not seeing this coming. I, and many others, predicted the housing crash as long as three years ago. The "bull market" was obviously unsustainable. I st ll remember doing work at a broker's house about a year ago, and her constantly pitching to me that it was "time to buy." I told her I would call her in about three years when the bottom came. Of course, she told me it was a short lived dip and it was time to act. What really convinced me that housing was going to take a hard hit was living in Florida for about a year. That market was so overblown and unsustainable that anyone should have seen it coming.
There is also the hard hit the dollar has taken. Again, all you had to do was look at the huge deficit spending and reckless economic policies. Throw in the credit crunch and an expensive military adventure, and there ya go...dollar downturn. So if was going to be your most important issue, it should have been so last year, or before that, when pressure could have been brought against the idiocy of Bush and company to change tracks before the train wreck. My point is that everyone should "pay attention" to issues before they are serious problems.
My second "bone to pick" is to ask why. Just why is the economy the most important issue? With the "war" in Iraq still going, with the attacks on our Constitution made by Bush and Co., with cronyism and corporate excess making a mockery of the government contracting system, with even Mr. Bush realizing that climate change needs addressing, with a health care system that is in bad shape, why the economy?
Don't get me wrong, the economy is important to me too. I have a family, and I am not even in the same zip code as the top 5 percent. The company I was a supervisor for closed and I decided to go into business myself. So I am very concerned about the economy and whether or not people will want to pay for my services. But it was an issue for me six years ago. And I know that other issues are every bit as important.
Many in America take the same head-in-the-sand approach toward climate change and global warming. When the new beach is somewhere west of Miami, when the Gulf Coast has moved inland several miles, they will say "hmm...we have to do something about this." Modern America seems to be much more reactive than proactive. If we don't change that, we may well find ourselves one day passed by. That's not anti-American thinking. It's a rational approach to a real world.
First, for not seeing this coming. I, and many others, predicted the housing crash as long as three years ago. The "bull market" was obviously unsustainable. I st ll remember doing work at a broker's house about a year ago, and her constantly pitching to me that it was "time to buy." I told her I would call her in about three years when the bottom came. Of course, she told me it was a short lived dip and it was time to act. What really convinced me that housing was going to take a hard hit was living in Florida for about a year. That market was so overblown and unsustainable that anyone should have seen it coming.
There is also the hard hit the dollar has taken. Again, all you had to do was look at the huge deficit spending and reckless economic policies. Throw in the credit crunch and an expensive military adventure, and there ya go...dollar downturn. So if was going to be your most important issue, it should have been so last year, or before that, when pressure could have been brought against the idiocy of Bush and company to change tracks before the train wreck. My point is that everyone should "pay attention" to issues before they are serious problems.
My second "bone to pick" is to ask why. Just why is the economy the most important issue? With the "war" in Iraq still going, with the attacks on our Constitution made by Bush and Co., with cronyism and corporate excess making a mockery of the government contracting system, with even Mr. Bush realizing that climate change needs addressing, with a health care system that is in bad shape, why the economy?
Don't get me wrong, the economy is important to me too. I have a family, and I am not even in the same zip code as the top 5 percent. The company I was a supervisor for closed and I decided to go into business myself. So I am very concerned about the economy and whether or not people will want to pay for my services. But it was an issue for me six years ago. And I know that other issues are every bit as important.
Many in America take the same head-in-the-sand approach toward climate change and global warming. When the new beach is somewhere west of Miami, when the Gulf Coast has moved inland several miles, they will say "hmm...we have to do something about this." Modern America seems to be much more reactive than proactive. If we don't change that, we may well find ourselves one day passed by. That's not anti-American thinking. It's a rational approach to a real world.
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