Posted by
IndyBlogger on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:15:11 AM
Our country is coming to a cross roads its greatest challenge. It is a country divided, split just about 50/50 with two side equal passionate about the direction for this country but with a totally different directions in mind. Obama is not going to unify this country or the world. He is not the messiah. At the present time he is having trouble bringing his own party together. Woman have started to complain that they have not been represented in his government. The press has started to complain he hasn't been open. Foreign governments have said he is more of the same. He hired someone to manage our money, that lied about his own taxes, that should make everyone mad. Republicans obviously don't like him. The stimulus bill is full of leftist pork and the people of America hate it. He signed the order to close Guantanamo which a majority of American oppose. We are approaching a reality that this President can't and won't deliver as promised. This day is coming faster than I thought. I thought it would take much longer for anyone in the press to even question him much less disagree with him.
What are people left to do? How can they possibly deal with the dissapointment and anger? You try to ignore it and say it will be ok, but at some point you can't ignore it. You write congressman and senators and get the weakest of replies. You could vent in a blog or facebook to no avail. At some point during this administration I think the boiling point will reach new a height that we have not seen in America since the Civil war if we can't find a way for our government to listen and represent its people.
I often held the belief that the dismantling of the Federal Government and a return to States rights is a key to the answer. Smaller more localized government can control spending better to match the needs of its people. The 50/50 split we have can manage their states the to what is good for them. The representatives are accessible at least more accessible than at a Federal level. Its helps the avoid the mass one size fits all approach to wasting our money or to hand-outs on a scale we have never seen before. It certainly won't fix all the problems in all states, but it will be a start toward the right direction.
If you have some other ideas on how people can more involved or we can solve some of the problems before there is violence please comment.