We went for a short stroll in Wayne National Forest today. The day was overcast and the temperature was in the upper 60s.
Watched the President's speech tonight. Was hoping for really bold FDR style proposals to get the economy moving... but alas, just got the same ol', same ol'... nothing bold or anywhere near large enough to accomplish anything significant, or to feel optimistic about. And there's nothing to convince me that, even as tepid as these proposals are that the ultra conservatives who sense political advantage from uncompromising opposition will do anything other than they have since the President was elected. Not exactly a promising outlook for the next year or so... Hope I'm missing something, but I'll need convincing.
And as far as this lie I've been hearing recently by ultra conservatives, that SS is a Ponzi scheme, and broken beyond repair, that the next generation of retirees and those thereafter won't receive their benefits is outrageous. And as Lenin said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Don't believe it for a second. The fix is easy, but it means that those with everything already will also have to pay their fair share. They try to act like victims, but it's the poor and middle class that are the victims. What the privileged have, they've stolen from the rest of us. It's time for them to get what's coming to them... and I don't mean more tax breaks, or golden parachutes or bonuses for defrauding the elderly, poor, and middle class of their homes, retirement savings, and investments...
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.--Evan Esar
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.--Albert Einstein
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.--Joseph Heller
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