Exit of the Rich Boy Vaseline Gloves Silver Spoon Frog Killer.
ONE OF THE THINGS that hit me in a “real” place about bush—aside from my protesting him and getting locked up over it—was watching him gut programs like the one that helped local teenage girls who were pregnant and needed housing. A fire lit in me that day that threatened to eat my heart alive.
ONE OF THE THINGS that hit me in a “real” place about bush—aside from my protesting him and getting locked up over it—was watching him gut programs like the one that helped local teenage girls who were pregnant and needed housing. A fire lit in me that day that threatened to eat my heart alive. My girlfriend was a social worker and that was the population she dealt with. She would come home and tell me about how the program was ending…give me real life glimpses of the people who were affected by it, what it meant now…and then I’d look to the TV and see that imp’s face, that gargoyle hunch, that smug grin. I won’t write what visions it gave me because I’m not sure of the exact laws laying out what you can say about past presidents without getting visited by government agents. But the class war that the GOP champions has hurt a lot of people. I’m one, too, but I’m nothing next to those young women he pulled the apartment keys away from.
I think I may be sad and then angry about how Obama handles some international stuff. That is, I don’t expect him to be honest about Israel, and I don’t expect his administration to change our overal imperialist nature, decrease military bases around the world, stop toppling govts we don’t like in countries far away, etc. And that will be something for us to address. But I do have a lot of good feelings about what our government might do domestically now. Health, Social Programs, Jobs, Environment, Art, and Science-wise. I’m excited about that.
Tags: Art, Bush, Domestic programs, Frogbomber, Health, Imperialism, Obama, Science, Silver Spoon
The lesser evil is the least that we can expect without being disappointed by the Obama Administration. Change was proclaimed, but its not going to happen overnight. Faith and hope is present and the masses are going to demand that change minimally at the domestic level. It will be while until government is truly transparent and of the people. Heck at least we’re a tiny bit closer in comparison to the previous administration, right?
hell yes. the marches ayer showed us a lot! i do have hopes for a lot of change. obama campaigned on enlisting the People, i feel he means it, and its clear many of us aren’t sitting around just waiting. dont get me wrong, i am excited. i mean…i meant that part.
but i had to add the notes on imperialism etc because its very important. and unless we change that part, the rest will fall again.
Nice, Nez
And I think people underestimate how fixing our domestic problems are interrelated with the foreign. First budget wise – money we spend on the war is money we could’ve used to save these failing domestic programs.
If we searched harder to find ways not to cut these failing programs because they were a priority, maybe we would’ve decided not to overextend ourselves overseas. They’d be forced to find a more concise and effective plan for our defense and admit that Iraq wasn’t necessary. And it’s not guaranteed but we might’ve ended up with less enemies that way.
And the best way to be a leader economically and be seen as fair and just is to keep working on improving those qualities in our own country. If we don’t do that, not only do things get worse for people living here, but we weaken our standing with the rest of the world and our ability to be effective overseas. You get your priorities in order and fix yourself, lots of other things seem to fall into place.
that’s a whole lotta wisdom there.