You’re damned if you’re do you damned if you don’t

So while watching everyone who knows everything talk yesterday and today they all seem to have the answers on what Obama should have done. The problem is Obama is in a no win situation. Everyone claims Vice President (the real President during the Bush years) Cheney would have went with 14^th Amendment route. Obama couldn’t have done that, yes it would have made sense but somehow it would be a villainess move. That would be what the Republicans would have pushed and that would have become the talk not what deals that were made but how Obama abused his power. That would have fed into this whole anti Obama pro socialist Obama talks.

The decision he did make and allowing this one sided deal to go by isn’t helping him either. Everywhere you turn people are talking about the things he should have done. You hear it as if Obama had done it there would be no excusable backlash at all. People talk as if anything the Republicans would have said would have been meaningless even to those in his own party. Again not the case.

Look, Clinton got out of debt Bush got us back in.Clintonraised taxes and though people were pissed we were doing ok much better than now and the second term of the Bush administration. This debt ceiling talk came up 7 times during the Bush years and Obama himself voted against raising the debt ceiling, this isn’t anything new. It is however the next big issue to the healthcare issue. The war on terrorist talks isn’t an issue because on Obamas’ watch Bin Laden was killed. No one on either party wants to tackle jobs head on because that means you open the door to wages and retraining Americans and that costs so most politicians do what they have been doing as of late, talk around the issue and use any reason under the sun as an excuse for why there aren’t Americans working.

What is becoming strange and Obama himself can’t seem to get across, and it maybe the lack of trust from the American people, is we need to raise taxes on the wealthy. We need to put the names of those companies willing to ship work overseas because their dodging taxes and regulations. We need to find some sort of fair balanced way to insure all workers for a certain company get paid equal. Right now Ford pays those in Michigan far much than those in the southern states and yes it’s a no brainer more work is going down there.

Everyone is bringing up the Clinton era like it was pre Nixon or something. The American public wouldn’t have been so pissed off about raising taxes at all. The problem is the news media would have chose to go to Tea Party voted in politicians as well those who represent them to get their take on things first and that would have been the news for the next two weeks. Then what we would have gotten accomplished would have been overshadowed by something overblown and the spin would have truly taken it to another level as they have so many times since Obama has been in office.

The guy hasn’t had much of a chance since he got in office, we’ve heard rumblings of getting rid of him as soon as he got there. He came into 2 wars, unemployment and a debt crisis while still having to try to implement his own ideas. Obama could have easily spent his term fixing the mess Bush left behind, but then he’d be viewed as not doing much. He would never have had a chance on doing what he said he’d do and he’d become an easy loser in 2012.  Instead he tried to balance the two and it has yet to work out. Fixing the problems that were left as well as doing what he set out to do hasn’t panned out well at all. Not sure what will pop up before next year but I’m sure it will be big because between the Republicans and the news media everything has become bigger than it needs to be.

I agree with the Republicans not to raise the debt ceiling however

I’m sure by now with all the news coverage this debt ceiling crisis talks is getting the American people see what is happening. This has now become a political strategy on both parties. The plan is to now raise the debt ceiling until next, election year, and no one cares about the American people. This issue should have been fixed before Obama came into office hell before Bush, and during the time it has come up since he has become president. The problem however is always fundamentals between what each party cherishes and wants to get rid of.

One problem is that all we here is both parties want a one sided compromise. Obama wants to of course raise taxes is that 2% and for some reason the Republicans are looking to cut Medicaid and Social Security. We know this because it’s all we hear on the news. I posted a list of the programs that were on the table and to be honest Social Security and Medicaid aren’t as big of a budget cut as the media makes it out to be. The news media again plays into the what both parties are selling as opposed to throwing out a program like Interracial Food Aid grant. That program costs $544 Million, you mean we can’t cut that down a bit or out completely? How about less money given to the Department Of Treasury, hell figure out what to do with all those dollar coins we aren’t using? No, the media somehow finds it better to keep the same talks about taxing the wealthy and Medicaid cuts. It sounds better than talking about programs people have no idea what they’re for and couldn’t give a damn about anyway. Which brings me to the point again why not just place programs like them on the table and sacrifice them to the Republicans and then force the republicans to place that 2% on the table as well.

As of now both parties are divided within themselves, last night John Boehner postponed his address because he didn’t have enough votes on his end. Some republican with good reason aren’t for such compromise like raising the debt ceiling even for six months. They’re right it just continues a cycle that is now out of hand. Harry Reid is looking to extend the debt ceiling to 2013 and he has a few in house issues as well. On the other side it seems the president is once again alone as his party seems to be on their own page without out him and that’s been happening often. With all that’s going on and from what the polls have showed people will blame the republicans if nothing happens. The fact is Obama will pay the price next year in the elections since he is the president.  I’m sure the Republican presidential hopefuls are cool with that.

Obama has just spoken and says he’s looking for something to come across his table by Tuesday. Something needs to happen because playing politics isn’t helping the American people and it’s not helping either party as well. What once seemed ok to watch, this bickering back and forth has now become tiring to the American public. Personally I say it’s about time. All parties are at fault for what is going on and has been going on for decades and raising the debt ceiling does nothing but what previous politicians have been doing, leaving it for the next administration to deal with. We shouldn’t have to raise the debt ceiling just cut programs that won’t directly affect Americans and yes raise taxes since most Americans say they’d be for it if it helps. Again following what John Boehner has said many times the American people have spoken and we are saying we want this dealt with now.

Let’s take our country back

It’s obvious something will be cut in the next few weeks, the question is what will it be? Both parties are playing these silly games with our lives, mostly poor people lives and we should be sick of it. We should demand to know from the politicians not a website what programs are being looked at to be cut. As of now the Republicans are bent on only disclosing that Medicaid, Social Security and Planned Parenthood are three of the programs on the table. What else?  Maybe Obama and Boehner should do a prime time reading of every program and give a description of that program on every fucking network, Animal Planet, HGTV, Nick and Cartoon Network included. No debating or making faces just flat out read the list of programs and what they are, by definition not theory or speculation. These programs cuts will affect America and all Americans one way or another.

What we also need to do is start finding people looking to get in the political arena for the first time with no background in politics at all, stop looking at these career politicians and re-electing them, they’re the problem plan and simple. Politicians on both sides are cool with divided line thing, it’s something to do while they’re working. The truth is when voters from both parties come together on an issue that’s when a problem occurs, politicians fight the people Missouri legislators are proof in that. The people of the state of Missouri voted to have a higher minimum wage that also would become higher automatically through time. The bill was reduced to keeping the minimum wage the same at the federal level and the increasing aspect was ignored all together. Then there’s the puppy mill cruelty prevention act portion of the bill which was watered down to the point that the politicians might as well had not acknowledged it existed at all. So what are the politicians doing now, trying to make it harder for our citizens to make voter initiatives. Do they want to really do this, not really because in the end most voter initiatives are debatable between voters and party lines which give politicians something to fight about. This time the whole state, people from both party lines, agreed on both portions of Proposition B and the politicians failed to delivery. Wasn’t that the big theme last year Obama wasn’t listening to people so the Mid term elections came and John Boehner talked about how the people have spoken? They spoke this time too five years ago and what happened? Both sides agreed with gutting the bill. The only people that were pissed in the interviews I saw and heard were the people fighting for those causes in the first place, not a politician.

 Sly James will be Kansas City new Mayor and he has no experience in politics AT ALL and he gives off a vibe of wanting to listen and work things out. We need to vote more of those kinds of people in office today more than ever. We just have to hope that those people we vote in don’t find them selves dragged into the mud of politics. That brings me ultimately to our President. Obama gave off the feeling he wasn’t going to play those games, and yes I want to believe that he really did want to get away from the pick a side, we win you lose style of how things go in Washington but he didn’t. At this point he can’t.

 Trust me no one no matter what party they affiliate themselves with wants to see head start, flood and coastal emergency, food safety and inspection services and state and local air quality management gone at all. Who wants kids not getting an early education, unsafe food, poor air quality and incase of floods if you live on coastal areas no emergency response? (had that by the way about 6 six years ago) Is that really something that divides us a nation safety and education? If we find issues as a nation we agree on that puts the pressure on politicians, look pass what’s being fed to us and find common ground as a people. Demand that our politicians to act like grown ups and make them do the jobs they are supposed to do. They’re content with the who’s right who’s wrong debates and sound bytes, it’s their jobs, they get paid by us to do this song and dance and we should stop the music.