Enough Is Too Much!
Enough Is Too Much!
At the risk of losing some readers of ViewPoint, it is time, past time, to give vent to the topics of the day. Certainly, the disgraceful behavior of members of Congress who clearly, without any apologies, made it abundantly clear that their main concern as representatives of the people was to dismantle the presidency by unseating Barack Obama.
Now, it doesn't take a high IQ, or even a high school graduation certificate, to know that the United States government has survived for hundreds of years despite every form of antipathy known to man being thrown at a sitting President, Members of the Congress , individual Senators, or Congressmen, yet no amount of low blows, ugly implications, spiteful declarations has, or will, removed a President before an election, or an individual from the Congress absent appropriate charges. So why, why do the many eager candidates for the Republican presidency in 2012, use their time and effort when they have the opportunity to speak, turn to Obama's term in office rather than immediate actions designed to increase employment, end foreclosures, improve the business economy and by so doing, tell the 2012 voters how and why they should be the next President.
Isn't it in their individual best chances for the role to cast a wide net while they have the opportunity? Aren't they aware that they are literally on the wrong track. Just as a speeding train heading into a tunnel knowing that at the other end a train is moving rapidly in their direction on the same track and disaster surely looms. When Michelle Bachman refers to Barack Obama as "Our one term president!" does that mantra create a ground swell of acceptance in her ability to govern this country for four years?
Has she used her platform to hammer home the ways and means she could utilize to change direction in the Oval Office when she is sitting there?
When all the candidates stood up in a debate before a national audience, how many viewers, listeners, or next day readers, could understand which candidate had the best, most incisive, easily understood plan of action slated to begin the day of inauguration for that person? In fact, it boggles the mind to realize that none, not one, of the candidates offers a government headed by that individual which begins with steps to increase employment (not just words - actions!). Can you think of any single decision that current members of the Republican, and Tea Party, would agree on as intransigent, beyond discussion, no way position, other than the words "no new taxes!! Is there one member of either political body, who has the guts to express a thought that maybe taxes have to be raised somewhat in order to get the country running again. What is the background for the Republican belief that raising taxes is a sure way to bring a halt to reducing the unemployment? Is there a history of that kind of reaction in any administration where a tax increase brought employment to a grinding halt?
What we're dealing with here is as devastating and detrimental as the fanatic separation between various tribal cultures in several parts of the undeveloped world and the deadly results of generational beliefs that dominate the positions they take on matters of deep concern to both groups. Compromise is not a spoken thought or word. It must be the way it is because it has always been that way and we won't change! When and why has that become the lief motif of legislators in this country?
The temporary end of the money crisis does not signify a calmer, cooler ability to agree on matters that have been set aside while the incredible gulf in the House nearly brought the House down. Every vital bill that has been tabled has to be back on the floor for action as soon as Congress reassembles. Just as the no-sayers have confounded ordinary attention to governing the country, it is an obstacle that will be resolved when the 2012 elections will see a huge turnover in the House of Representatives. Voters around the country know who held up decisions until the day before deadline. They know that failure to even talk about a tax increase at any level. for any reason, makes about as much sense as disbanding the armed forces as soon as they are all home from the wars!
We do not stand for tax increases unless there is a clear path to economic improvement. Only those who have no idea of where the country gets its money to function at any and all levels, would entertain a verbal position that says - 'find another way!' That kind of nonsense borders on stupidity. Let's try to become a nation of open minds, show a willingness to listen, and a belief that 'compromise' is one of the nicest words in the English language!
Richard Carlton
August 15, 2011
Issue No.18
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