1. why is there $4.19 billion in the new economic stimulus plan for acorn? how exactly is this going to create jobs? seems like a pay-off for their work during the election to me, but, then again, who am i?
2. why is obama asking republicans to put aside politics to get the stimulus plan passed when this plan is a wish list of democratic spending items? so the republicans should put aside politics, but the democrats don't have to? all this talk of being bi-partisan is making me nauseous. friends, bi-partisan does not mean that one group gets what they want while the other doesn't.
3. why is there talk of reinstating the fairness doctrine? is it just me, or do we take freedom too far and end up destroying it? for those of you who don't know what this is - the fairness doctrine requires that for every talk radio show (or other things that are broadcasted) there has to be equal air time for opposing views. while it sounds good, it actually kills freedom of speech. the last radio station to suffer the consequences of this doctrine from the early 80's was a christian station, which didn't have an opposing view to the christian beliefs it expressed. the radio station lost its license to broadcast. talk radio died during this time because of the costs and challenges of ensuring the regulations were followed.
4. in a time of economic crisis, why did obama immediately reinstate legislation that sends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars (i think it was between $700 and $800) to foreign countries for abortion? this will surely create the approval and respect of the muslim nations that we have become so desperate to receive.
5. speaking of muslims, why does obama believe that telling the muslim extremists that we "respect" them will all of a sudden make them not hate us anymore? is it just me or does trying to use rational means with irrational people seem extremely naive? friends, i hate to be pessimistic, but the muslim extremists are always going to hate us. they hate us for who we are, not because we don't respect them. what exactly had we done to them pre-9/11 that caused them to murder us? nothing. we were just being us.
they aren't going to like us just because we send some hippy love vibes their way. this is the nature of being irrational. you can't talk someone out of being irrational with rationality. have you ever lied awake at night worrying and tried to convince yourself everything was going to be okay in order to go to sleep? it doesn't work, does it? that is because fear is irrational. it cannot be driven out by rational thinking.
this is my opinion (which isn't worth a whole lot): obama talked about putting our childish ways behind us in his inauguration speech. part of childhood is naivete. it is time we all wake up and smell the roses. america isn't going to change because of inspiring speeches. the economy isn't going to prosper by turning to a welfare system (winston churchill once said that trying to create prosperity through a welfare system is like someone trying to lift themselves off the ground by standing in a bucket and pulling up on the handle). despite its appeal, big government has never helped prosper a nation. religious extremists aren't going to respond to rational conversation. america has to stop trying to please everyone, we have to give up our obnoxious insistence that the world owes us something, we have to stop confusing rights and privileges, we have to stop putting off personal responsibility and relying on government to save us, and we have to get off our butts and work. this is what made this country great, and this is the only thing that will allow it to return to prosperity.
sorry to be so negative, but someone has to be realistic.
cheers,
jw <><
3 comments:
realistic views are not what We are told to believe. We are told to think of something that has fairy dust and rainbows in it. Thanks for your realistic view.
Go Jon. Jon for president!!
ugh. politics.
i'd vote for you!
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