Sometimes, you just have to stop making excuses. Today I am creating a place other than the journal or the diary to start expressing all of the various randomness that crowds my brain all day long.
Was it the political campaign this year that really pushed me over the edge? Or raising two teenagers? Or dealing with my own chronic illness? Maybe it's the failing economy... maybe it's the beginning of the middle age crazies...
Or facing the undeniable truth that the world is going to be changing in radical ways in the next couple of years.
Whatever it is - the deep restlessness in my soul can't be denied any longer. I need to express myself. I need to find art and music and write poetry and rant and tell stories and experience things... NOW... while I am still healthy enough to be fully engaged. NOW...Now is the time.
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I appreciate the anger at taxes (who enjoys them really) and I would also share a measure of your outrage at how some of our monies are being "allocated." I should think your ire would not be solely focused on Obama, however, as he has been in office around 60 days.
The structural problems that led to this debacle have been metastasizing for a long time. It has been a bipartisan failure and, moreover, a failure of an electorate that will not own up to its feckless and myopic pursuit of paper wealth and mountainous personal debt.
We, as a people, have assumed wrongly that what is good for Wall Street is good for Main Street. We largely accepted the shibboleth that a less progressive tax code would unleash a golden age of growth and innovation. Regulation of any sort was anathema, an unholy and envy-driven attempt to hem in the entrepreneurial vigor of those (now fallen) "God's of the Universe." Washington is merely a reflection of these fundamental misunderstandings of economic theory and history.
In this sense, I am, strangely enough, a classical Burkean conservative: you can not expect a government to be more wise and virtuous than the people who comprise it.
Now given these comments, it will not surprise you that I am not down with the Populist Rage currently gripping the country. It is like the town drunk cursing and throwing empty whiskey bottles at the store that sold him the booze in the first place. Is the drunk mad with himself or more angry that the bottle is empty?
My question to you and the American People is: What did you expect to happen?
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