America the Crazy

When did America turn into Crazyland? Somehow, growing up, I don't recall the fact that Ronald Reagan talking to kids about his jelly bean jonzes, or Nancy Reagan asking drug addicts to "just say no" were causes for such moral and ethical outrage. Perhaps a few good-natured jabs at the notion that a message from Nancy Reagan would really lead a crack-head to give up the pipe just because the first lady said so, were about the most an indignant left wing could muster.

So now, a sitting President isn't allowed to address the students of America to work hard, stay in school, and help the President think of ways to achieve full graduation rates by 2020?

Spare me the details of his "socialist agendas". The man won an overwhelming victory on election night, and he is our President. He was elected to try to fix the economy, health care, and our status in the world. Unlike our previous President, he has a more pro-active approach to all three. I'm not suggesting I agree with all of his moves thusfar, but I appreciate the fact that he's trying to help the country out of a recession, two wars, and a faltering health care system, that is crippling our competitiveness in the world.

I can understand criticism of his policies, and even people who have an issue with his stance on certain issues. But let's be clear. This is NOT a man interested in turning to a Communist style of Government. This is not a Nazi. This man has done nothing to indicate that he's going to "Bring the crazy".

Introducing concepts like "death panels", public school socialism indoctrination, and the like just sounds nuts. I used to think that people like this were just the fringe of society. I still hope that's true.

However, I'm hearing it more and more in my conversations with people "in the streets", and in restaurants, the office hallways, and the like. And it has to end. This is our President, and he's qualified, and has stood in the national public spotlight for years now. I would suggest that none of his efforts to try to fix what has ailed America has been an abject failure.

But what has been a failure has been a lack of leadership for the common sense cause. No one has stood up to some of these people and said, "that's just nuts!" And they should. No one is suggesting death panels. No one is suggesting Obama wants to indoctrinate your son or daughter into being a Hitler Youth. People have been watching movies for so long, they seem to have forgotten what reality is.

People out of work? "that's all the illegal's fault"
Got no health insurance? "can't have health care for all! That would be wrong!"
Looking to reduce dependence on foreign oil? "drill baby, drill"

We've become the land of the uneducated, the land of the fat, lazy, stupid, jingoistic, "me first" ,"FU!" bullies. It's time for the people of common sense in this country to stand up and say "ENOUGH!!!"

• I'm for a PUBLIC OPTION. It helps insure more people, and makes us competitive with the rest of the world again.
• I'm FOR a Cleaner environment, and if Cap and Trade is better than what we have today, SO BE IT!
• I'm FOR another Stimulus, because I think the one we have had so far IS helping.
• I'm FOR more spending on Education. Because people should understand that things like Science and Evolution are real. Certain aspects of their explainations are subject to debate, but their theories are rooted in fact, study, trial and error, and have a foundation for support. People need to learn these things, or America will be marginalized from the rest of the world.
• I'm FOR pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan, because we can do no more good in either place. If you disagree, convince ME that all of our money spent over there couldn't have been better spent on the poor, uneducated, or otherwise disadvantaged we have here in America.
• I'm FOR a lower corporate tax rate, as long as we also eliminate many of the existing loopholes currently being exploited today.
• I'm FOR Free Trade, because import tarriffs are the fastest way to shut down our economy.
• I'm AGAINST people who have clearly malevolent intentions towards our President, and hide it under false pretenses (ie. carrying guns to town hall meetings, calling Obama a "Hitlerite" or "Marxist". These are just code words.)
• I'm AGAINST people screaming in town hall meetings, as if the bully credo really works (might makes right!). If it does end up working, it will be a truly sad day for America, because we will take our place with a long line of countries that have succumbed to fear and intimidation.
• I'm AGAINST doing nothing, and waiting for the market to fix things.
• I'm AGAINST the endless commentary railing that "I want my country back!" For most of us, we're glad to finally have OUR country back...from the lunatic fringe that brought us the likes of Tom Tancredo, Mike Huckabee, and Sarah Palin in the last election cycle.

and I'm FOR whatever works. But right now, we need to be trying these things, not shutting them all off in favor of a Laffer Curve Theory that hasn't proven any more apt at economic recovery in the 80's than Clinton's tax increases did in the 90's.

I'm FOR electric cars, increasing legal immigration, and pragmatic solutions to what ails us today. Perhaps increased taxes on Social Security and Medicare. Or perhaps raising the age of recipients instead. If opening the fed window to all home owners to refinance their homes at 4% is an option, we ought to pursue it.

Don't like what I'm for? Don't worry. It's not like a single thing I've pushed has actually been passed into law. We've got far bigger issues to worry about. After all, Obama may want to go to a 7-11 tomorrow, or something, and we can't possibly have THAT! We need to boycott 7-11's! And why 7-11s? Does Obama have something against Cumberland Farms!? Or County Fairs!? I KNEW he was a Socialist...