04.15.09

Shut Up, America

Posted in Political Commentary at 22:27 pm by Josh

I’m not even going to link to an article about the “tea parties”.  Let’s just say we all know what’s going on.

First, if you are going to protest, please come up with something original.  Throwing tea into a Boston harbor in a wig doesn’t make the statement you think it does; it makes you look like an ass.  And it wastes good tea.  If you must throw useful things into a river (which, by the way, does not have a positive effect on an already-struggling economy), why don’t you toss the newest Ford Explorer into the harbor while wearing a John Deere cap?  Otherwise, people will think you’re protesting something to do with tea and cotton hair, and I think we’re all well past that, don’t you?

Second, don’t blame the Obama administration for anything yet.  The man has been in office for three months and already he’s done more than GWB did in his first eight months (and he only did anything in the last four of his first year because of that whole 9/11 thing).  You may not see the whole picture yet, but you elected President Obama, and enthusiastically, might I add.  Don’t lynch him before he’s has a chance to make a difference.

America, we have to be done with Band-Aids.  “It’s not fair that the government spends $700 billion on bailing out the wealthy.”  No, it’s not.  But that’s capitalism, kids, and you’ve supported it since seeing the light of day outside of the womb.  If you don’t, good for you, but then the problem isn’t bailouts.  It’s economic structure.  Either way, no one should be bitching about the stimulus package until we can see the ramifications of it.  “Well we haven’t had a chance to read the stimulus package to really support it.”  That’s why we elect leaders.  No taxation without representation meant just that; it didn’t mean each person was present, but that representatives for the people were present.  You elected President Obama.  You elected his House.  You elected your senators.  You have representation.  On top of that, some sizeable majority of Americans don’t read a single book in a year.  A single book.  I’m not talking about Dante, here.  I mean Danielle F’ing Steele.  We don’t even read shit, let alone the sort of language that would be posed in the written stimulus package.  Stop crutching on the easy thing to crutch on, pretending to represent the American people when you start flapping your lip to a media that will eat just about anything you give them as long as it doesn’t appear to support traditional American values.  No one would read the stimulus package even if it was available, and fewer would be able to honestly vote on it.

So here’s the deal: I’ll get off my soapbox if you get the hell off of yours.  Ready, and…GO!

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