Signs of American Decline

Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that this country is heading the wrong direction, a new NBC poll showed that over 60% of the populace believes the country is in decline and headed the wrong way. This number does not just represent the angry but wholly illogical tea party but independents and democrats as well. Why you ask? Because people can see with their own eyes how bad things have gotten. Unless of course you work for the government and then everything is hunky dory. Steve Rattner, the administration's former car czar, was recently asked how to save ten of thousands of jobs in GM and Ford. His response was "Fuck the Unions." That's all well and good except that if it wasn't for unions there would be no middle class. One of the reasons work sucks so bad nowadays is that there are no unions. Unions fought for a livable wage, time off, health care and job protection we no longer have. Sure unions do on occasion screw up just as bad, particularly police unions that keep bad cops on the streets of teacher unions that refuse logical pay cuts to help struggling schools, but these are far from the norm. Every one of my friends in a union makes good money, a real middle class living. Everyone else, myself included, make wank, and get fired for any reason they can come up with (for me, I was making too much money and it was cheaper to fire me and hire someone to do the same job for less money ala Circuit City. We all know how well that went). A national union is the only thing that will save this country at this point. As people in our own government can't see that we as a people aren't making enough to get by, pay raises have to be implemented. The middle class is being squeezed out of existence here with only about a third of my friends well off and 90% of them work for the government, a union, or both. Those in the private sector get raped. So if Obama's administration can't figure out what's wrong with this country and people who work for him have the idea that by paying people less we can save this country, they are 100% wrong. And a dick. Studies show the rich are getting richer, the poor poorer, and the middle class disappearing. Which is exactly what I said would happen fifteen years ago with the passage of NAFTA. All of our jobs will go to cheaper countries. The only way we can compete is to lower our standard of living. Not for the rich mind you but everyone else.
There was also a story out the other day of a guy who was arrested for firing a AK-47to scare of a gang that had surrounded his house. WTF? Every man has a god given right to protect himself from anyone (government included). This arrest of a black man has racism all over it. I guarantee if I was on that jury no way would he see time. I'd try to give him a medal. Godspeed.
With the Republicans apparently going to capture the House and possibly the Senate, gridlock is going to hammer us like a rock come December. Hope all of you out there don't like things like your unemployment check (done by December for extensions), tax cuts (will expire without extensions) or paying the Alliterative Minimum Tax (never adjusted for inflation so it socks more and more people every year). Next year will see the biggest tax hike EVER, the crash of the stock market (which may happen this year and soon if the Hindenberg Omen comes true in the enxt 25 days), and the realization that we are living in a depression, a fact more and more economists are questioning due to fabricated numbers by the government on things like inflation and unemployment. Anybody voting for morons like Sharon Angle or Jan Brewer( her debate last week was embarrassing) should be shot. Mind you I have relatives in Arizona who are die hard Republicans so they enter that list too if they vote for that moron. Recently she made unfounded allegations about beheadings on the border and then refused to answer questions by reporters when asked. Brilliant. Once upon a time we had great female politicians like Elle Grasso and Ann Richards. Now we have retards like Palin and Buchannan. It'll be a long time before we have a female president with this lot unless the world really does end and Palin becomes our next prez with VP Glenn Beck. Oh the humanity.