Forgive me if I sound like a pessimist but America did this to itself. America gave up on what it was originally fouded on long before Bush or Obama came into office. We were headed for a cliff long before either of them became President.
It's easy to place blame on our leaders (past, present and even future) but we (I mean everyone) had a hand in this as well. I actually think the blame game is getting pretty old.
We all know America is screwed up as a country. We haven't exactly followed any of the founding fathers' advice now have we? We kicked God out of school, basically let marriage fall by the wayside (we've got a pretty high divorce rate), have done nothing positive or encouraging for our children (our eduacational system is a joke compared to other educational systems of the world), lied, stolen, cheated, raped, murdered and did anything else we could think of that wasn't morally right.
The bigger question is this, "Can we all put aside our differences and work together for a change?" I mean things aren't going to get any better if we're constantly divided. Not you and me or you and orphanage. I mean EVERYONE. It's easy for Republicans to be on one side, Democrats on another side, liberals to be somewhere in the middle, etc, etc.
Honestly I think we needed this economic downturn to teach us a lesson. We already had a bad reputation as a country and we were only making it worse. Now that we see how bad it's gotten, we suddenly want to jump up and try to do something about it. Too little, too late if you ask me.
America needed to learn their lesson the hard way and that's why everything is falling apart right now. Sorry for being so pessimist. Believe me I'm not saying everything is all honky dory and I'm not disagreeing with you or orphange. I'm just saying I'm of the opinion that this needed to happen for us to realize the shape our nation was in.
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Date: 2009-10-24 10:07 pm (UTC)It's easy to place blame on our leaders (past, present and even future) but we (I mean everyone) had a hand in this as well. I actually think the blame game is getting pretty old.
We all know America is screwed up as a country. We haven't exactly followed any of the founding fathers' advice now have we? We kicked God out of school, basically let marriage fall by the wayside (we've got a pretty high divorce rate), have done nothing positive or encouraging for our children (our eduacational system is a joke compared to other educational systems of the world), lied, stolen, cheated, raped, murdered and did anything else we could think of that wasn't morally right.
The bigger question is this, "Can we all put aside our differences and work together for a change?" I mean things aren't going to get any better if we're constantly divided. Not you and me or you and orphanage. I mean EVERYONE. It's easy for Republicans to be on one side, Democrats on another side, liberals to be somewhere in the middle, etc, etc.
Honestly I think we needed this economic downturn to teach us a lesson. We already had a bad reputation as a country and we were only making it worse. Now that we see how bad it's gotten, we suddenly want to jump up and try to do something about it. Too little, too late if you ask me.
America needed to learn their lesson the hard way and that's why everything is falling apart right now. Sorry for being so pessimist. Believe me I'm not saying everything is all honky dory and I'm not disagreeing with you or orphange. I'm just saying I'm of the opinion that this needed to happen for us to realize the shape our nation was in.