Time warp

Well I wasn’t happy when I looked at last night’s election results.  The guy that spent 150k won by a 2-1 margin and the guy that attached signs to my truck won as well.  One result illustrated the power of money and the other the iron grasp of the local good ole boy network (and an old, uninformed voting public that just votes for whomever they voted for last time)

I really wish I could time warp to January 2013 (if the world still exists) to bypass what is sure to be just a horribly negative presidential campaign that will do more to divide the country than anything else, regardless of who wins.

It’s all about redirecting the focus of the masses.  You get them fighting each other and then the people that are truly in control are able to play their games without anyone noticing.  It is satanically brilliant.

I am already so tired of seeing all the political fodder fly about.  My conservative friends seem to solely focus on the leeching aspect of society.  The people that simply work the system and spend their lives feeding off of programs that allow them to exist without working for it. I have equal disdain for this practice and think this element of society should not exist.

I am also a realist.  The quick and easy answer that conservatives will give you for people that are receiving some sort of assistance from state or local government is “get a job!”  I have to laugh at how easily that rolls of their tongue and it is a clear clue that they don’t have any first hand experience of what the job market today actually is.

The white picket fence mentality really bothers me here.  “everything is ok in my little world so if it isn’t ok in your world, too bad”  Even though I have been gainfully employed my entire life and not received any sort of government financial support I still have compassion for others not as fortunate.

I am not willing to tell old people that if they can’t afford to pay their living expenses or medical bills, “tough shit, guess you should hurry up and die.”  If a long time employee of a company is cut loose through no fault of his own in a move to pad corporate bottom lines I wouldn’t tell him “too bad, so sad, I heard Wal-mart is looking for greeters”

Yes I expect anyone that is down on their luck to attempt to stand back up, and keep doing so.  Government assistance should not be looked at as a permanent solution to anything.  Yes I know there are plenty out there that view government as their “parent” that hands out an allowance as a reward for doing nothing.  These people suck, plain and simple.

But I am not willing to cut out the legs of the millions that are in true need of help because I hate the leeches.  Many of my conservative counterparts think that is exactly the course of action we should take and then we just deal with the consequences.  Hopefully they don’t mind shoveling the bodies off the street in front of their pretty white fence.  It would obstruct their view.