Where's the change? Christ, give the guy a chance to take off his coat and hat,will'ya? He's not even been sworn in yet.If he happens to be an honest man with the right intentions he just may be the man we need to prevent a full scale revolution. Or not. But what else did we have to chose from? I don't think there's much doubt that the alternative was a train wreck looking for a place to happen.

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I have to admit that I voted for him because I felt letting the extreme right continue  in the driver's seat would be an incorrect strategic move under the circumstances. At least Obama made sense for the most part. If he happens to be an honest man with the right intentions then he may even be the right man to have in office. We won't know for a while. Naturally, he can't speak out about the real issues without discussing treason, conspiracy and mass murder. He wouldn't be where he is if he went that route. Meanwhile, if this be the case, he has to play the game. Those who have already achieved any degree of power will boot you right out of the picture if you don't play by their rules on the big issues.  A  smart man will sacrifice his ideals to a point just so long as he's aware of how to use the small issues  to eventually accrue enough power--so, that in time he's able to influence the large issues for the good of his cause. Hopefully his cause is us!

This is how I see things in any political or business situation and I voted for him with that in mind. Any one who believes that you can climb to the top without kissing up, testing your own fortitude and sometimes even bending your own values, is not seeing things clearly. You'll never accomplish anything if all you do is buck the old boys. The problem right now is that there's a good many of those old boys on the hill. They have plans for us that will turn the United States into a third world country. They're the mega rich Elite who really call the shots. Look at the confusion in the financial markets right now. What a coincidence that this occurs right after the elections. There's always an issue on the burner. If it's not the war it's torture or it's health care or drugs. There is always something to keep you from thinking.  ReadThis

These are very confusing times, because that's how the big boys want it. You can't think about what's happening to your money, the fact that the cost of everything has shot up, gradually to a point where the cost of living is out of line with the income of almost 70% of working America, who now live on credit. They have every intention of continuing outsourcing manufacturing jobs, and some services , and leaving us with cleanup detail at minimum wage. It's difficult for some to retrain or go back to school in order to change their careers. Even health care or teachers--some other field which is safe from inflation--only pays enough for a meager existence. We all want to be remunerated at a fair rate for our investment, sort of like the way people who have large sums of money are paid for their investments. There should be no difference in investment value between money, labor, education, time, responsibility and dedication. If we all get some intestinal fortitude, there wouldn't be much they could do about it. There are ways to hurt the rich. Start stockpiling staples as much as possible. Just get to the point where you're prepared enough to not have to purchase anything for a couple of weeks. Naturally, we should have some negotiating plans and someone to present them but this is just a simple outline, describing what can be done.

What to do begins with an open mind and strong spirit. When the answers come from informed sources we have to be intelligent enough to recognize them and strong enough to act. It won't be business as usual and it won't all be easy but this is--in a sense, a war. It's a war in the respect that this will be the last action we take to avoid an actual revolutionary war! No one wants violence or civil unrest, especially no one wants bloodshed, but this is the direction we are heading. Some of the population are only recently beginning to feel the repercussions from the actions of the extreme right. There are many more who have been living, or attempting to live, under these dire conditions for years. I'm not talking about those who refuse to work, I'm talking about those who work sixty to seventy hours or more on two or three jobs--just to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Ask yourself, "why should this be?" These are people who are working for those earning millions--who cut the quantity and quality of their product, take advantage of their employees by paying 1970's pay scale, cutting insurance and 401K programs, disallowing sick days and vacations by implied threat. If you are a professional who is on the top end of the scale then perhaps you don't experience this but if you are an hourly or low-end salaried manager (many times a salary is offered to someone who is a hard worker, making it appear as a reward when in fact it's a trap to work more hours without overtime pay) then you are all too familiar with the process. For all of these years that this has been going on, it only becomes increasingly more widespread as jobs are shipped out of the country. The so-called "trickle down" economy has become "trickle out" economics. The rich, who have cried for so long that they need more money so that they can create more jobs have been exposed as being full of it.They have an obligation to this country to help it maintain a strong base economy. Now though, those same robber barons  who have enjoyed record profits for years have somehow gone broke and they want us, the people who they have deserted, to give them money! When 75% of the nation is living on borrowed money and many are on the edge of poverty they say that we just have to tighten our belts and adjust--but when it's them, we need to bail them out. This is why we need to take action now. It's time to change reality.

The corporations have created the joblessness, the inflation, the healthcare crisis, high insurance rates and reduced benefits, high prescription drug costs and all of the rest by means of their greedy actions and without regard for the effects on the people who truly make this country work.  It's gone on for far too long. Why? Because of lobbyists, politicians' relationships with CEO's and corporate heads, the church and the religious right, our right wing military's and government's infatuation with war as a business, the bottom line, the rich wanting to get richer. It's become an infectious disease. The results are in plain view although they keep throwing up barricades, distractions in the form of illegal immigration, war, fabricated terrorist attacks. We could continue to lose our civil rights and freedoms. We would lose the option of legal recourse and will eventually live under marshall law.

We can wait, and hope that Barack Obama has the same ideals and goals in mind as the middle class. That he truly sees what's happening and plans to turn it around. If this is the case, he'll be asking us to do things, make certain temporary concessions, sort of the way that Jack Kennedy asked the country to do in 1961. We were in the throes of a neo-con takeover then also and he saw what was coming. The lines between the government and the mob were getting thin. The CIA, serving the far right which was led by the Rockefellers, was also working with the Cosa Nostra. Circumstances of the times made for some odd bedfellows. and it's really no surprise that these explosive dynamics left the Kennedy's dead, Johnson in office, and a major influx of troops into Viet Nam.

We have nothing to gain in this matter except what we should have had from the start. We're not rabble rousers, revolutionaries or criminals. We are citizens of the United States of America. We are proud and we are strong and we don't take a shafting from anyone, leastwise a pack of robber barons. We should have started by saying no to any and all bailouts. We're still heading in the wrong direction,  and we need to tell Barack Obama how we really feel. Don't be quiet, make noise and make it often. Be an American!

Authors Website: http://1bigdragon.blogspot.com/

Authors Bio:
I was born in 1951. I had the benefit of experiencing the na�vet� of the 50', The Ozzie and Harriet years, when Dad went to work in a suit and tie and Mom stayed home in
high heals and an apron. Yea, that was life for me. I lived in a predominantly Irish neighborhood in South Boston. My Grandmother and Grandfather came to America from Sicily in the early 1900's and finally settled in "Southie", opening one of the many corner markets, a grocery and butcher shop. They learned English and made sure that it was the first language of their 7 children, 3 sons, my father the oldest of all of the children and 4 daughters. My Grandfather died with throat cancer in 1943, which brought my Father home from Panama, where he was stationed with the Army, to run the family business, as the others were still children. My Dad basically took on the role of Father to his brothers and sisters and along with my Grandmother, kept the family going. When my Father met my Mother he was 29 and she,20.They married in 1950 and when I was born in 51 they moved into the 3rd floor flat above the store where my Grandmother occupied the 2nd floor. I had one great advantage while growing up in the 50s. My cousin Janet, who was several years my elder, kept me attuned to the music and the lifestyle of teens of the era.I was also very sensitive to politics at a very young age. When Kennedy ran for president in 60 I actually helped campaign by passing out flyers and buttons at rallies. When he was murdered in 63, even at my young age, I felt a twinge of distrust of the government, as though something wasn't being said.That feeling stayed and amplified throughout every other assassination and demonstration and by the late 60s I was a full blown radical.Not in the sense that I was for peace and love but that I was against war and propaganda.In 1970 I moved to Florida. I met a "hippie" girl, got married and had a beautiful daughter. I now had to support a family so I put aside (as much as I could) my nonconformist ways and worked hard to advance myself into a career position with a New York based car rental co. As time went on my "hippie" wife came to love the material world which for me was just a means of survival. When the firm filed chapter 11 and sold all assets to another company (which turned out to be the largest car rental co. in the country)I lost my job. My no longer hippie wife divorced me, I filed bankruptcy, my house foreclosed and what was left went to her.I learned a great lesson in corporate loyalty and would never give myself over to a conglomerate again. Losing my daughter was devastating and I turned back to my old ways of drinking and drugs. Although I was responsible and worked and paid bills I sank deeper into a dangerous lifestyle.This continued until the late 80s when I met my current wife,Cindy. She helped me change my ways and things were great until the late 90s when I began developing symptoms which dr.s had a difficult time diagnosing. Through several years of excruciating pain,tests,scans and surgeries finally left me out of work and disabled with a multitude of problems.Now, I keep busy reading,writing, playing my guitar, taking care of my Lhasa Apso, Dusty, Cocker Spaniel named Lady, 19 yr old kitten,Chloe and my Green Cheek Conure named Sarge who is my constant companion. My wife, Cindy, saved my life in many ways and I'll never figure out why she keeps me around. Most times I even annoy myself. I love her dearly. She's my life. We share interests in collecting US coins and stamps, an occasional game of pool(she always destroys me)and when we can afford it,which isn't often,travel. After all we've been through I feel fortunate for what we have and though we don't have much what infuriates me is that we are better off than 70% of the people in this country. Any person who is willing to work should be able to live a comfortable life in this country. Me? As long as I have her I don't need much else, except maybe, to change the world.