Obama’s latest stimulus package targets the growing number of recession victims, which bothers the Republicans.
Obama’s plans to clean up the environment and stop global warming within ten years worry the automobile moguls—still moguls based on the victims’ forced generosity.
Obama’s efforts to accomplish twenty-first-century post-partisanship have so far not convinced the targeted “intelligent” Republicans. What will happen once they can’t spend $35,000 on a toilet seat?$450,000 on a Caribbean retreat to celebrate their latest bailout?
We’re not here referring to the Halliburton price tag in Iraq of $25 per sectioned styrofoamcafeteria plate, after all.
I don’t get it.
I don’t get the bottom line that crack-addicted, uneducated indigent populations are supposed to get straight and run off to a computerized university and work nights because some middle-class social worker is sent into the inner city to visit them with a pile of forms. Or even if she doesn’t, because that outreach costs hard-earned taxpayer money.
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Worries about hard-earned money bring me back to the question whether I should spend some of mine to go see blockbusters like Laredo, Frost-Nixon, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Why bother with Nixonian memories when the apocalyptic accomplishments of the late sixties are more relevant?
Why bother with a Western when our cowboy has just returned to his Wild West, cutting brush instead of lives with his scythe?
And why go to a movie about renaissance when a real one is on the horizon and we may not have to dream of it much longer?
Let Obama’s new directions be more than Hemingway’s “short happy life,” what with his Democratic Congress ready to combat expanding poverty, disease, and illiteracy here and abroad.
One bottom line he should borrow from the Neocons: forge ahead with your dreams and let nothing stand in your way, even when the other party has won a majority in Congress. Even when the only ones benefitting from your policies constitute 99.5 percent of the citizenry. That’s the American way, isn’t it? Whether or not the fate of the nation and the world may depend on Lieberman’s vote and McCain’s maverick whim leading him our way.
Waking up into the Obama dream is a slow recovery from a terminal illness.
Let nothing obstruct this dream.
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