@Floopay said:
@Ebbm said:
@PowerHerc said:
Obama, like Bush, is just another puppet who does whatever the banksters & war-mongers want.
What's hilarious is that his supporters hate Bush a lot but a cannot see that Obama has continued rendition, warrantless wiretaps and Gitmo while interceding in Libya and upping the ante on the end of Americans' due process rights with this latest drone attacks on American citizens business. Obama has picked up the baton from Bush and carried it even further.
Want to know another good one? - Remember that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize almost immediately ofter he was first elected POTUS and has since done everything to prove he's quite undeserving of it.
I think that the biggest problem is that Republicans and Democrats keep bitching at each other when the real problem is the system. At this point there is no viable way of voting for a candidate that isn't going to continue bullshit like this. Regardless of our politics, we need to come together to tear this corrupt system down.
I think me and most the people I know are living pretty well and enjoying their quality of life. So for me the biggest problem is people bitching about a system that is working. I mean yeah, there are problems, but the problems people have with 3% of the things done wrong by the government are blown way out of proportion until everyone seems to forget the other 95% of things that are being done right, and the 2% of things that don't really matter one way or the other to be completely honest.
Thanks for reading,
Floopay
You're welcome.
So what you're saying is; "As long as it doesn't directly affect me and I don't actually feel any of the effects of what our government is doing, then anything they do is fine by me." Living pretty well is relative.
Considering the position the U.S. had at the top of every category that mattered (Education, Industrial capacity, Military strength and actual wealth; gold reserves) at the end of World War II yet chose to steadily squander for short-term profits and considering the constant erosion of the earning and buying power of the middle class in this country starting in 1970 and continuing right til this day. I'd say much of that "pretty well" and "enjoying their quality of life" is largely an illusion. The buying power of the dollar has steadily and continues to sink while real wages and benefits are dropping across the board for the middle and lower classes. The cost of housing and education have sky-rocketed and continue to do so, causing those who do seek to own a home or get a college degree to incur massive, often crushing, debt in pursuit of the American Dream. Being relatively comfortable now, in the near term, doesn't mean things must be going pretty well for our system. The Standard of living we have, as high as it is, could've been and should've been much higher for everyone of us. Not just the elites.
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