I miss the 90's and even the early 2000's for that matter. As much as i don't really believe in that kind of thing, perhaps the Mayan calendar is dead-on, maybe it really is all going to come to a screeching halt in 2012. Go ahead and fire up the joint, take that shot, and try to get into that hot friends pants before its too late (the whole "end of the world" thing works, trust me). Seriously though, in general the world is in a shitty place right now, and more specifically the US *is* a shitty place right now. Pardon me, but i'm sick and fucking tired of all the bad news from every corner of American life, everything is a doomsday prophecy from the media. In some ways i think they egg it on as if they forgot what they reported about before the "Great Recession." There was a time i could remember feeling good about the world, don't get me wrong it was never perfect, but it was progressive. Now, not so much, its as if we've forgotten how to function as a cohesive society.
And the federal and state deficits- i'm so done with hearing politicans moan about it, i'm tired of it being an excuse to make everyday Americans lives a living hell. Politicans are not businessmen, they don't understand the adage that you have to "Spend money to make money"- this is how FDR pulled the nation out of the Great Depression. You can't expect that cutting benefits, crushing unions, and killing public works projects is going to somehow stimulate the economy. Oh lookit, you closed your states budget gap- give your millionaire self a pat on the back while unemployment looms at an all time high and jobs are still as scarce as the fountain of youth. Fired a couple hundred public employees, layed off teachers and police officers- yah crisis averted, lets get back to business-as-usual. Good Job!....jackass. And the cycle continues because people will still be broke and you will have yet another budget deficit and it all happens again with you or a different rich asshole in office. By the way has anyone heard any congressmen or governor willing to take a paycut, get rid of their pension, or drop their benefits- not a peep- weird......
As a nation we've crutched ourselves so much on the world that we've lost the ability to stand on our own. Every time someone takes a piss in the Middle East oil shoots up $10 a barrel- why? its anyones guess really because we have enough domestic production at home but we don't use it. That would give people jobs and the economy may start to recover and then all our fearless elected officials wouldn't have an excuse to try and push draconian agendas through. Its beyond ridiculous. I sometimes have this sinking feeling that this is what Rome felt like before the fall.
Perhaps people felt this way before- in the Depression, during civil rights- but i think our government was a lot more agile then, filled with wiser people, fewer lobbies, and less special interests. Great Recession- it should be called the Great Clusterfuck but i guess that doesn't have the same ring in the headlines. Its all very depressing to the point where i don't read as much news as i used to, at this point who really cares anyway its that deja-moo feeling of i've heard and seen this bullshit before. Frankly an end of the world senario doesn't seem all that bad at this point. So heres to 2012- politicans you've got one more year to really fuck things up! Who's up for shots and a game of naked twister....