Was enjoying a bite this morning at a local diner, sort of sad knowing it was going to close because of the lack of business.
As the order was being served, the waitress made the comment that" Obama would only look after the black people." There was about 7 people sitting around the counter and the oldest man said that though he liked McCain he thought he was to old for the office and that Obama would be good for the country. We all agreed in the room, it was amazing. I stated that who ever was handed the job, they would be in charge of an America that is in the worst shape in our lifetimes. Again everyone agreed, it was easy because across the street is a boarded up factory, and with in 1000 yard radius, 20 years ago 10,000 people worked at many factories and machine shops.
This diner is a reflection of the state of our nation. it is run down because of the lack of business. The capital that supplied the means of production for this venture has disappeared. 10,000 middle class jobs vanished along with the jobs went the cleaners, the hobby shop, the toy store, the barber, the dress shop, the coin collector. It makes me cry when I think of the broken dreams, all in the pursuit of profit. The American public has just found out that it has been hoodwinked by the Republicans, like thieves in the night they issued tax credits to ship the jobs overseas. Then they blame it on the unions, the government regulations and every other source of "restriction" to there ability to make a profit. For a long time it worked, we believed that crap, all the while ignoring the basic fundamentals.
We are going to experience an economic depression, the war has shown the truth to the world that we are in trouble. The war has not produced the amount of jobs needed to fix the economy, If this is a real war how come there are no factories churning out war material? We lack the means to produce enough ammunition so it is being produced by Israel. The truth is war is armed robbery, plan and simple. This time it is the American people that are being robbed, not the Iraqis. Bloated War profiteers, full of the nations treasure, as they charge us the taxpayer $45.00 for a soda. They wallow in the riches that they have plundered Like Greedy Old Pigs. President Eisenhower warned the Nation of the dangers of allowing the Military Industrial complex a free rein in running the country. Well it happened and we are in ruin!
It is time for reason to return to Washington, Barak Obama represents all of the hopes and dreams of returning to that sort of reason, he is like Roosevelt, a populist, and educated in rhetorical arguments. With John Edwards as his VP we will have the ticket for effective change. We must throw out the wicked war mongers replace them with diplomatically principled representatives. As Roosevelt said " All we have to fear is fear itself" These words are truer now then 60 years ago.
Basically all we are saying is give peace a chance and rebuild America. It is an easy choice when presented to the American voter do we want to continue with bridges collapsing, while trying to occupy the Middle East or do we want to fix the mess that has been created by the G.O.P.