Just Fucking Stop It!

So I've done my best to hold my tongue here but I have fucking had enough of the Obama bashing on sites like facebook that have no impact on the world. Lots of people are guilty of it down to my mom as if their voice is actually meaningful. How fucking ignorant do you have to be to think that the world is going downhill because he has been in office for this past year? I think a great majority of everyday people who pay no attention to politics just think bashing him is the easiest thing to do as we rightfully did with Bush. That's how people choose to be involved in politics in the 21st century. Maybe racism is still much more intact than anybody wants to admit if they hate a black President and question his abilities because of his color and they will still discriminate against gays as lesser people for the sake of arguing. Fifty or sixty years ago when a high standing member of society thought his town went to shit he didn't blog about it, he ran for mayor. Now we go off of second hand information trickled down from the blogs of other people as a reason to make a stupid fucking survey question that makes you sound even more ignorant than you really are. Do people even read into his agendas or do they just see that they don't like what he's doing because their family already has health care or they don't have a family member who relies on the automobile industry or banks to survive?

First of all, national health care has been an American dream for many years now and when there is a President that finally wants to tackle it he's now an asshole. I really liked Clinton and the peace that he kept as President, however he regressed in the fight for universal health care. Of course all know that Bush avoided it entirely so he could wage a war on oil so it wasn't even an issue. Do I like the idea of universal health care? Fuck yes I do. Do I like his plan? No, not particularly. But wouldn't his idea be better than nothing at all? I'd like to think so, but apparently not, because assholes like Wolf Blitzer, Larry King, and Glenn Beck all have enough zeros on the end of their paychecks to not worry about their health. I'd like to think that the poor people who wish they could see a doctor once or twice a year would outnumber the greedy celebrity fucks that can bash the President on television because his plan doesn't cater to them. I would like to see Glenn Beck tell a cancer patient that can no longer legally be refused health care after this bill passes to tell him or her to their face that it was a terrible idea. Not to mention how he will go down as the worst President in history for it. I've read comments from doctors and their families talking about how this bill will ruin them. They couldn't be any further from wrong, however they'd have to work for a living. Instead of raping HMO's for 1000% markup on anesthetics and treatments like they have for decades they would instead have a cap on these things, but they also gain what is it 72 MILLION new patients for their troubles.

Next is the bailout dilemma for the banks and automobile industries. Do I feel like it was right? No. Was it needed? Yes. The Bush administration has even went as far as admitting that they knew it was inevitable with the automobile industry but they didn't want to be the ones held responsible for doing it. It's pretty much like faithfully paying your rent for 8 years and then moving out but stopping to fix your hot water heater first, it'd be pointless. The bank crisis could have been adverted entirely if laws were put in place a decade ago now to keep banks from hoarding money and refusing to lend it, but closed minded assholes feel like the banks went from healthy to life support in the first 90 days of the Obama administration. Without bailing out the banks and the automobile industry the backbone of America would be left to rely on commodities like Google and Windows that don't have the 200 year staying power like General Motors or Wells Fargo do. But people who don't research these things think the money is somehow being taken out of their pockets and would rather see the unemployment rate at 25% and the housing market in a depression than worry about where their money that they are ENTITLED to for being an American in the future is. By the time I am 68 or 70 or whenever I am eligible for retirement I can safely say that there will be five more Presidents who will alter all of these laws and nothing in fact will change.

Just yesterday, democrat turned republican, Rudy Giuliani who was the mayor of New York City on 9/11 claimed that there were no terrorist attacks on America during Bush's time in office. Are you fucking serious? The republicans are having too much fun because the same exact government agencies that have been in place since the Bush administration missed key information on a failed terrorist attack under a democrat. I'm not going to sit and tell you if Bush or Obama is a better President either because that isn't why I wrote this. Obviously if your son or daughter is in a body bag in Iraq right now, if you're one of the 10% of the country who has been unemployed, or if you are a same sex couple, I have a feeling you didn't like Bush. If you reaped the benefits of a thriving oil business or got wealthier during the Bush administration on shady business practices, I see why you hate Obama. If you are a college kid who has no worries in life beyond smoking pot, you just need to keep your mouth shut about politics because it only makes you sound like an uneducated bigot. I feel like Obama is actually making a change in the country and even if it's not best right now, in the future it will be. Did anyone else see Obama elect the first transgendered cabinet member this past week? No, nobody did. It didn't even make the news outside of a footnote on CNN. Will that ever be discussed as a stride towards equality in America? Never. We'd rather talk about what could have happened with the underwear bomber three weeks after the fact. More people die every single day for no justifiable reason overseas than that airplane can hold and they refuse to mention that. My grudge isn't even with the people bringing the news to us and how biased they are because that will never change for as long as we are alive. My grudge is with the people who won't even acknowledge one side of the story much less both sides. The internet has bred a bunch of people who think three minutes of reading headlines a day makes them both political and analytical yet they still don't have the desire to go out and vote or go to their town meetings and attempt to change things. So to all of you 21st century hippies that feel like 1 million followers in a facebook group will change things: Fuck you.