Serious Problems Abroad and At Home

The week is barely half over and I already have my douchebags of the week set up. But that's a column for another day. Let's see what occurring in the rest of the world.

The Middle East has been set to broil with protests breaking out everywhere, including Bahrain which is bribing it's people with 3000 dollars to stop the protests. Sounds a whole lot better than the measly 300$ they threw at us doesn't it? The funniest protests by far were the ones that took place in Iran. The good Iranian people, of which most I have met have been fine, upstanding individuals, stood up to the fake democracy of their homeland and was quickly put down by the dictatorship there. At the same time Admadinejad is giving a speech praising Egypt for overthrowing their repressive government. Hysterical. We should be formulating ANY revolt we can in that area to get Iran back in our good graces. We used to be close allies and we could again if the religious whackjobs are ever thrown out of power. We have the same problem here, only our fundamentalists are much much worse.

Which brings us to the our lovely government. Obama's budget is not sever enough for the Tea Partiers and too much for liberals. Technically, they are both right. We can't cut funding to low income people because they are the ones they need it the most. WE also can't go on as business as usual as we don't have the money. If the answer wasn't so fracking obvious, it almost be funny. SS can be fixed by raising the retirement age a couple of years (we are living longer) and means testing that says, if you make over this much or have a net worth over a certain limit, you can't collect SS. Plus, by eliminating the idiotic payroll cap on salaries, I could fund SS for the next hundred years. NOT ONE POLITICIAN HAS EVER MENTIONED THIS! Why? Because rich people would actually have to pay their fair share of the freakin' taxes. Boo Hoo. Huge cuts to subsidies like farms and oil would save us in the hundreds of billions as would fixing out medical, legal and working environment situations. But we continue to plug the leaky dam until we all drown.

It has been shown we make less money now than in 1970. Why? Because unions have all been decimated and are actually being made illegal in places like Wisconsin. Our standards of living are failing faster than at any point in American history and continue to slide. Sooner or later, the middle class will be gone and we'll all be asking, what happened. We let it happen with our silence. We cannot do this anymore. Egypt has shown us peaceful protests can bring down a government. How long before we see similar things outside the White House. But the question is: Will our Army side with us or the government? Past experience tells us not to be looking to them for help. We are more like Iran than you think. Our elections are fake, our politicians lie and steal from us, and we remain quiet. For how long is another matter.