The Political Bird has Broken It's Wings and The Day The Dollar Died!
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To fix the bird!
I'm not sure myself if politics in our country has ever been as confusing as it is these days. Maybe my own perspective of our country clouds my understanding, but as I see it now both sides are broken. Our country is turning in upon its' self, the media fuels the fire, die-hards from either side are becoming irrational and everyone is bashing the other side. Debates become wars of words, twisted and tangled and used to misconstrue and misdirect the truth. The points get lost in the rambling and tempers flare. Understanding and patience, wasted in the haste. Something has gone wrong. No one has a definitive answer, so blame gets tossed back and forth like the ole' hot potato! The right wing is broken, the left wing is broken and the body can't fly on it's own. It sits there staring down in dismay, wondering as it wanders in circles. When will it fly again to the sky it once soared upon?
One side declares 'this' must be done to fix 'that' which the other has caused. Some find it better to walk away to regroup in hopes of 'starting over' again. We suggest through votes the worthy bandage only to find the blood still seeps through the wound. Those we've chosen for solutions just band-aid the bandage to cover the awful appearance. We pour whiskey on wound, and some salt and a lemon. We refuse to step back to determine how bad the damage really may be. Then go about our ways. Come back to check and replace the soiled bandages. All the while forgetting the suture that's needed. That's o.k. though, scars build character! Let us not forget some wounds can have permanent disabilities. There are great minds on either side that could do wonders working from a common ground. I think a bridge is needed, stretching from both sides over the canyon or a path from both sides of the mountain, headed to that common ground where the political bird with broken wings lays in wait.
The Day The Dollar Died!, ....a scary thought!
What If We Let Something Like This Happen?
The Possible Future of Our Country?
Do you feel what is showed in the video could happen?
See results without votingAre so many of us American's blinded to what is happening to our country? Are we all caught up in what the 5 o'clock news is telling us on a day to day basis that we've forgotten to put the pieces together? Do we no longer see the big picture? We seem so caught up in the daily grind we care nothing for what the future beyond tomorrow will hold. We sit back and watch in entertainment the short comings of our political figures. Some now celebrate their November victory, then turn the cheek already expecting celebration 2 years from now. The other side frowns and speculates on the next marketing scheme to win back support in hopes of crashing the 'party'. Why is our country, The United States of America so divided. Where did we leave the "United We Stand", "and Justice for All"? We can't have a lame duck when this country was made to Soar as an Eagle!
Our Economy Falls, We Will Fall With It.
Where is our dollar heading? How did we let it get this bad? I know our country has survived it's many years of debt, but are we so naive as to think it can't get worse than it's been in the past. We've bailed out everyone, with minimal success. The unwealthy continue to face job loss, foreclosures, bankruptcy, rising prices on the shelves and at the pump, no raise in pay to keep up with living cost's, no improvement in unemployment and so on, yet the news takes no concern to it other than a mention of this and that, and back to the weather and traffic and the best black-Friday buys.
If our dollar fails, it will not be "divided we fall". All of us will feel the pain. The rich will begin to lose what they have, because the upper and middle will have nothing to spend, the poor nothing to gain. We will find ourselves in worse a situation than our country has ever seen. In my opinion this ugly picture hangs just around the next corner. I must ask why we let our government continue to interfere with the free-market system. It functions well when left to it's self, even in recession it survives with less of the injections our government has given it. Printing money out of thin air and playing with interest rates doesn't work in a situation that we find our country in. Price inflation is all around us, but we continue to believe the CPI numbers from the mainstream media, and that deflation is what we should worry about. Maybe because that way Wall Street and the Bankers can keep getting what they demand.
This is the piece of info that got me to thinking and brought about this hub- -our national debt has grown by 70.7% over the past five years, compared to 41.8% during the previous five years, and 14.3% during the five years before that. Meanwhile, our GDP has grown by 17.9% over the past five years, compared to 27.5% during the previous five years, and 32.9% during the five years before that. We have gone from our GDP growing more than twice as fast as our debt, to our debt growing at nearly quadruple the speed of our GDP.
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Thanks for the comment Dr.Pervez, so true. Thanks for the invite to your hub, I'll check it out.
Republicans and Democrats as political parties are two sides of the same coin.The only difference that I can see is that the Republicans represent mostly conservitives and the Democrats mostly liberals.
Together they will ether kill us with conservitism or kill us with liberalism.
Like I 've said before If,rich Republicans can't get their liberal tax cuts they are not happy and the rich Democrats don't get their liberal taxes they aren't happy.The only difference is who gets the most benefits. Even the so called conservitives are liberals when it comes to getting their share of the loot.
Sounds all too true, I guess I'm somewhat unwilling to accept that, and keep hoping until some political savior of sorts comes around and helps renew my faith in our system.
Hi Jeremey,
Well written hub, great video, you do see the conspiracy behind it all…you have researched a few chaps already who stand to gain huge from an American meltdown. Your hub answered it self in a round about way. We haven’t seen anything yet…
All eyes are on California next year, they are a key to our financial recovery, a state or government cannot claim bankruptcy, California is ten’s of billions in the whole and no paddle. As another hubber so simply put, the Liberals want more taxes, the Conservatives want less taxes, and I want freedom from government tyranny and legislative suppression. Obama is not the answer; neither is Palin…what then is the question?
At least now , we have a bit more balance. I have more hope now than I did prior to the elections.
Thanks for coming by Jason, I have a friend in Cli who's been telling me some horror stories out there. Him and his brother lost their home building business two yrs ago and have been living off selling supplies and tools while starting an underground sort of recycling group. They got a neighborhood together to not put recyclables to the road but to break it all down themselves and sell it to the large scrap and recycling centers. He says certain beaches are becoming sleeping grounds for the homeless at night, it's getting bad. ...and the question you bring up, What then is the Question!! is the ? "We the People" we better start asking ourselves and each other in a more 'united' fashion or we may soon see much worse all across the country.
.............and breakfast pop we do have balance in the house but unfortunately not in the minds of the people I fear. I think too many people just expect our economy to miraculously fix its' self somehow. I'm getting a bit nervous as to the future my children are going to grow up in.
Just back from a European trip, I saw first hand how wothless the dollar has become and it seems that "the best" is yet to come (look at Rusia-China decision about using their own curency rather than the dollar).
If this is not scary enough, I don't know what it will take for America to get off its high horse and start facing reality.
Enormous greed, supreme arrogance and total denial got us in an imposible situation and we are still being lied to by corrupt politicians who are using the media to keep us disinformed and pretend we are too big to fail. Other empires have failed and we are on our way to share that some fate, rather sooner than later.
A little of "greed" is good. A little food is good. Too much of anything can be "bad."
Hi, Petra. Hope you enjoyed you're vacation. The Russia/China deal, all over Europe, there is no doubt a bit of trouble across the globe. The more I watch the scarier it gets.
Thanks for the comment dallas, your world are all too true!
Great hub, I'm going to submit this to reddit, and see if I can drive some traffic to it.
Already Did, but thanks, a little more traffic never hurts.
This one of the best political hubs I've seen in awhile. Usually you see someone putting down one of the parties. I agree that if both sides would just work together we might get somewhere.
Good job.w2
thank you Barbara for the compliment. I believe politically my personal views and opinions are a jagged line down the middle, so I try to be non-partisan although these days it seems either side can go any way they want when ever they feel the money sends them or pulls them that way. Obama is in Soros' pockets, like Regean was is Goldman Sachs, and on the othe side even Palin and McCain are getting rich off playing a role. It all seems like a big act everywhere all for the benefit of money, power and Greed. To hell with them all, time to vote in the plumbers, the garbage man, the teacher, the nurse, the artist, and musician....the real people that I see everyday and can relate to and understand. The more I learn about our government throughout history and today, I truly dread what the future holds. New World Order used to be a conspiracy theory in my head, but I honestly believe if the 'people' don't do something soon, in 10 years there will be no more real rights or freedoms. We will be slaves to our own inaction!
Hi Jeremy,
Has anyone ever said these words to you? "Neither a lender nor borrower be." Do you see the wisdom in the words?
You've brought up several points, the first sentence of your article started with...
"I'm not sure myself if politics in our country has ever been as confusing as it is these days."
I would submit to you that almost certainly every time America is involved in war there is much division, and that division is polarizing to the unity we proclaim as our founding principal.
What do we know about the revolutionary war? Polarizing factions argued about declaring independence due to high taxes, a monarchy that did not represent the people etc. Some people left and returned to England because their opposition to the ideal of independence was that strong.
Civil War...Need I need even get into it? So polarized was the nation that family members would rather kill each other than end an immoral practice.
WWI-Most of the country agreed initially that we should not get involved, but things began to change after the sinking of the Lusitania. The administration itself began to come apart in a reflection of the countries division, and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned his office.
WWII-This war may serve as the only example showing a majority of Americans unified in their desire to fight, but we had been practicing restraint until the attack on Pearl Harbor. That is one of the big differences, we were attacked…..Not the first time, but certainly the most heinous based on the countries resolve to get involved after the attack. Even in this case however, not all Americans thought going to war wise and there was an isolationist minority even after the Japanese “surprise” attack.
Surely war has always polarized the people, but what was different after WWII
Why I see things differently today, isn’t because of only the war though. America has since the end of WWII , become the super-power/policeman of the world, and we became somewhat arrogant, as well as “privileged”, believing we were somehow entitled. After the war men and women began enjoying the “American dream” in greater numbers than at anytime prior. “Everybody” got a home in suburbia, a new car, and 3.5 kids in the yard. The men and women that sacrificed so much to win the war were in my opinion truly “The Greatest Generation”. They had defeated evil on two fronts and brought about economic prosperity on a scale never before seen in the history of the united states. They only made one mistake in my opinion…They gave too much to the generation that followed.
The “Baby Boomers” grew up with more sense of privilege than any generation before them, and passed that onto their own kids, but having never felt the hardship experienced by generations prior, we forgot where we had come from. “Those who forget the past are destined to repeat it”.
My grandmother lived through the great depression, and she always used to tell me of money…“Always save 10% of everything you earn“, and “Neither a lender nor a borrower be”. I “tried” to save, but wasn’t always as successful as I could have been. Like many middle class Americans I borrowed when I “needed” to. Now, I’m not in a terrible situation like some in the country are, but I certainly have brought some things upon myself that I could have avoided had I heeded the words of my sainted grandmother.
You are absolutely right to be questioning both sides of the political isle. The problems we face as a nation today were generated over a 65 year span that can be traced to both parties not heeding the words of my grandmother. We have brought upon ourselves a desperate situation, that I am afraid will continue just as your video example shows if we do not unite as a country. We can only start by by putting aside our differences about war, politics as usual, and petty social issue divisions. We must get back to fiscal responsibility….Not only that, but we must abandon the arrogance that makes think that we are entitled in the first place!
Excellent hub Jeremy, voted up in all regards except funny….
Coming of Age, thanks for the wonderful comment. Much appreciated. I enjoyed how you related the history of of 'wars' here. I had actually tried to bring light light into how the wars, and the resulting prosperty had made our country arrogant in a sense and helped lead us to where we are today. You had more luck in doing so, than I did in that hub, 'The American Dream and What It's Become - Part 2', I couldn't figure out how to say what I was thinking in that hub. You briefed it here. As for your Grandmother's words, they hold great wisdom, and I believe my Gram's and Great Aunt had similar words of wisdom. I think we'll see the Great Depression, round 2 in my lifetime, I feel it actually may be the awakening some of us just might need. As strange as it may sound, I think I would survive better in such a situation as compared to alot of people. I haven't done much more than 'survive' my whole life. Unfortunately I am in the greatest struggle to survive right now. But thats a story in it's self. Thanks again.
Yo Jeremey! Put me down for the same thing "someonewhoknows" said. This is America. Land of the most imprisoned on planet Earth. We're number one. There should not even be a republican party. The GOP represents the 1% who own most everything. They set their sweat shops up all over the world. This is America, the protector of Big Business. Nope. Choose vanilla or chocolate, You're getting a poop cone.
There should not even be a GOP. They are all corporation and slavery. However - every democrat that is elected becomes a republican when he takes office. Just in actions, mind you. It's like pro-wrestling. The folks ringside need to see a show. God bless.
My american politacal is somewhat lacking I suppose, but see your point. Who, what where, when and how the Republican party was birthed is something more of us should make ourselves knowledgable on. That will become a little project of mine. I have read some of your writing with a lack of commenting because you appear to possess a bit more knowledge than myself and have lead me to a self education routine. Your knowledge is greatly appreciated especially with the pleasant attitude that seems to come with it. Thanks for coming by.
drdspervez Level 1 Commenter 18 months ago
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