Articles of the Day and a Lament

Robert Scheer has a lovely short article about the main failure of the Obama administration and Amy Goodman writes about the corrupt media.

My sister sent me a great cartoon about historical perspectives and tax rates. It might be a re-blog.

But hey, let us have a moment of silence for America. While we do so we can think about the unemployed and we can think about those in severe poverty. We can think of people in their twenties, like myself, who are college educated and can find nothing. Or the uninsured who will go bankrupt because of health care or bad mortgages. Maybe the elderly who might see their social security gutted or privatized. Austerity is a good euphemism - but what it is really saying when we use this word is, essentially, pain. Pain for those that didn't have the privilege of being rich. Pain for those with the wrong upbringing or the wrong skin tone. Pain for the sick. Pain for the weak. Pain for those that this country has turned its back to. Everyone that voted for the Republicans to take control, yet again, of Congress have the blood of the underclass on their hands. The underclass even voted for them, thinking that, for some reason, they will listen to them.

They won't.

If the Democrats, traditionally the party of the middle and working class, don't listen to the poor masses then why do they think the Republicans will? Obama, in his moderate neo-Clinton capacity, will probably vote for whatever Congress gives him. I, for one, can't wait for the Bush tax cuts to be permanent; it'll be nice to have clear class divisions so that when the poor revolt from frustration and destitute then maybe they will take down the right people. Most likely not. Chances are we will keep voting for the Grand Ole' Party of Freedom and Capitalism until the last house is foreclosed and the last industrial job is lost. There are no liberals in this country. There is only fear and corruption and greed and ignorance.

I am a man without a Party. I am a man without a Country. I am lost in this un-Reality where the paupers vote for princes and where the rich will continue to consume and consume until everything is spent.

Fuck you America.