Anybody today who thinks that the US can be "fixed" is totally insane. Go ahead, do your protest rallies, grassroots your local candidate, stand by nObama, do whatever the hell you want, it won’t make one fucking iota of difference at changing things. Let’s forget all the crap that Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton and Dubya did to give control of this country to the rich and powerful, and look at what’s happened just under nObama’s stewardship:
• "Cash for Clunkers" has disbursed hardly any money to the car dealerships who bought into the program, and if the government delays the reimbursements for a long time, a lot more car dealers – plus all their employees -- will be out of business.
• The government mortgage write-down program has a less than 10% national completion rate. The banks that took billions in government bailouts, and riding on record quarterly profits, who can cough up millions to bonus their management sleezeballs, are denying mortgage relief to the thousands of homeowners who qualify, and yet will almost surely lose their homes.
• The stock market and its investors surge higher and higher every day, while restaurants, back to school retailers, and small businesses by the thousands bleed money because no one on Main Street has the cash to buy what they usually buy.
• The pharmaceutical companies, coal burning power companies, and insurance companies have already gotten their hefty assured profits from the Cap and Trade and the "Universal" healthcare bills, while the air that Mr. Average American breathes still is toxic and he continues to pay higher and higher medical insurance – until he gets dropped because he’s sick.
Yeah it’s been SO MUCH better with nObama – I can hardly wait to see what the next three and a half years "bless" us with. But there IS a way out!!
If you want to use the grassroots effort, the Brave New Young Generation, the righteous anger of Joe Average, all the dwindling and nearly powerless resources Main Street America has left to counter the power of the rich and powerful CHANNEL IT INTO LEGALIZING POT!!!!
It’s perfect timing: the FDA now can regulate nicotine as a drug, over 13 million people in the US use marijuana, the Mexican drug cartels are using profits from pot grown in US national forests to finance their violent wars, the tobacco companies -- with all their equipment, distribution, farm contracts -- are the perfect venue to be suppliers of government regulated maryjane cigarettes. All they need do is change their raw product from tobacco to pot. And best of all, the powerful and intractable interests that run our Congress and country would be more than happy to have a good portion of the American population so stoned they don’t really notice or care that their rights, economic status, and opportunities for a better life slowly disappear.
This is our time. This we can do. If you can’t assure our children they will have a better life, we can at least give them a nice high to get them through it.
Cynical? Nasty? Hey, pull your head out of the sand and LOOK at what’s happening. Forget your "interpretation", your "hope", your "good efforts" – they have zero effect, if you’re honest enough to see it. Let’s get pot legalized – it will cut off the Mexican drug cartels’ moneystream, free thousands from our prisons, allow law enforcement to concentrate on REAL crime prevention, add to government revenues through stamp and sales tax increases, let us all breathe free (literally) of happy smoke ... yes, it will save the "tobacco" industry but that’s a small trade-off.
If we do ANYTHING of worth for the next and following American generations, let’s make it legal for them to get high on pot. They will certainly need it to cope with their futures.
And hopefully these efforts will pay off , for on the day that nObama announces that Congress has successfully passed a non-binding, unfunded mandate proclaiming that every American should have quality healthcare, we can all get really, really stoned and laugh it off.
LEGALIZE POT NOW!!!!!!