Friday, January 16, 2009
Less Than A Week
I continue to worry that a new President - no matter how competent, sincere, and brilliant - can sever the Gordian Knot to release us from the constraints imposed by an army of lobbyists several times the size of our Congress. I am confident that President Obama will pour his heart into it, that he will put forth real proposals that could make thing better for our country. Sadly, there is no doubt that nearly everything that needs to be done for the betterment of most regular folks will go against the perceived short-term interests of the captains of some powerful industry or interest group.
We, the People, must have patience where we sense that time is running out.
We must have the wisdom to take the long view - the view that seeks the betterment of our children's grandchildren.
We must turn away from the hateful, empty rhetoric that will pour forth from The Machine... empty rhetoric whose only purpose will be to paralyze.
As long as our elected officials are paralyzed, the parasites who dwell at the top of the Greed Pyramid will be free to suck ever more life from the People of the Republic. The parasites at the top of the Greed Pyramid are indeed insatiable. No amount of wealth or power or privilege is enough. The fight may be hidden, but it never stops.
Press on. The fight will become manifest in less than a week.
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I wish I was as optimistic as you are about our ability to persevere against the Greed Pyramid.
All I see is them lining their coffers with our money and laughing. I am disappointed that Obama is so willing to give them billions more. Sounds like more of the failed 'trickle-down economics' to me.
Although I voted for Obama (and would again given the chance), the more I see of our President-elect, the more I am reminded that he is a Poitician first and foremost. Politicians are the only people on earth that can fiercely attack someone one day, and then the next be their buddy and call them a 'good guy', as Obama did with Bush...for one instance.
It seems duplicitous and ingenuous to me and makes me not trust him. I am not confidant that our elected officials are interested in our best interests.
The political climate is much better now, but only time will tell if they will, indeed, put this country on the course that it's citizens deserve.
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