Government

I'll take this late hour to rant a little about our government here in the United States as well as our news media. I'll start off with the news media.

In foreign countries, such as the UK, it is easier to obtain truthful nearly unbiased information than it is in the United States. The BBC is more truthful than MSNBC or Fox put together. I'll take my first swings at Fox. Honestly, I like Fox. They report more "news" than NBC. Though it may clearly be republican, I don't have to watch 50 minutes of puppies and mutated babies before I get to hear a 5 minutes quip about what I actually want to hear about. Now, NBC... I hate NBC with a passion. Not only are they clearly democrats, but they will sit there and have a specially educated line up of human interest stories and music that is just not news. I prefer to watch Fox, even now. I know that they want Obama to fail, but that is why perhaps they are the best source. They will give you the dirty side, which in times like these, I would rather see than the fluffed up, polished side that NBC tries to show.

But onto actually ranting about the government. Obama, as much of a good speaker as he was, is just a politician. He is driving our economy further and further down the rails towards destruction. A bail out may be the solution, but the magnitude he is planning is just far to big. If all his plans go through, the United States will have a thirteen trillion debt ($13,000,000,000,000). The United States cannot possibly pay that off in my lifetime.

One thing that tires me about my own country-men is their blind following along political lines. I live in a democratic state. I tend to have republican views, but I do understand democratic views . I however, try to stay informed on subjects. I will not pass judgment or even discuss a topic I do not understand. I do find, that during the elections, many people did not know Obama's or McCain's stances. A few times I would take McCain's stances, say they were Obama's, and people would still say they liked Obama's better.

Ignorance is one of the traits that runs like water here. I may not be the most informed person, but I try to imagine I am not a patsy, like some of the people who blindly supported one candidate over another. If we lived in a perfect world, we would not have two parties who had views based on being the opposite of the other party. I don't want to chose Republican or democrat. I usually sit comfortably in the middle. My state does have Sen. Lieberman, who is in the middle for the most part, but the majority of politicians pick sides. It's almost as if at some point they just turn themselves off and blindly follow some misguided alien ideology.

As it is, we're fucked. But the United States is truly run by the people. The economy will be fixed only by the people. And once that issue is resolved, we can set ourselves on the right track to fix the rest. Will Obama fix much of it? I doubt it. Could he? Maybe. As it has be said before, only time will tell.

--The Blogging Gerbil
AKA Sean