Elections 2010: Commit to Vote
Lets be realistic folks
Lets be realistic folks. There is so much noise that it is extremely difficult to even think clear. Thanks to a recent supreme court decision, corporations can spend unlimited amount of money on their pimps in congress and media to make so much noise that no one can hear the truth. To lie so much and so many times that people start believing it. To distort facts so much so that they become unrecognizable. Thanks God it all happened in our lifetime (Unless you are less then two years old). Hopefully, therefore, it will not be too hard to remind you all that. Here is the extract of all this noise:
Obama is a socialist or preferably a Muslim (Confusing! right! I mean the right that is never right!). All the people in this government and Democratic party are not patriotic or preferably, are terrorists (Confusing again!). Everything they are doing is not American, although most of them are Americans for many generations. Democratic Party policies are totally undemocratic, although they were elected democratically, with a sizable margin, after a long time. Democrats should not be doing what they were elected for or what they promised in their election campaigns, rather then that they should follow the guidelines provided by Republicans, who were brutally rejected by voters in last elections.
On the other hand, all the Republicans and preferably tea partiers are without any doubt the only patriots left in America, and they have the unlimited authority to issue the certificates of patriotism and anti-American to anyone and everyone they want, specially because we have a black president, who's dad was not a European white person but a damn black Muslim. We all, must, fully submit to their policies and guidelines, if we want to be the certified patriots. Everything Republicans are proposing is democratic. although they couldn't win the elections. All they say or do is American, irrespective of the fact, what they did to America, just last decade.
As I mentioned before, we do not have to go to far back to analyze the facts. Lets just go back to 2008. As soon as we enter back into that time (Gosh, I so much wish that someone had built a time machine.), we find that Republicans are in charge. We are in the longest recession of our history. Even the most conservative economists, analysts and financial experts are talking about a double dip recession (Commercial real estate dipping right behind consumer real estate), possible depression and an staggering unemployment rate pf up to 20%, the unemployment rate that is theoretically and historically enough to cause a revolution and break the country apart. Country is fighting two wars, debt is pilling up and trade deficit is widening, continuously. Average income is down with 5% and cost of living. specially important things like health insurance and college tuition is skyrocketing. Millions of people are losing jobs and homes. Every month the jobs loss is ranging from 600,000 to 700,000. There is serious credit crunch and it is impossible to get money for anything. World's leading financial institution are crumbling down and whole world economy is going into recession. Our international standing and respect is down to the bottom. Situation is so bad that even the most conservative government in United States history, comes forward with breath taking 800 billion dollars bailout plan. Democratic congress is faced with very tough choices. Either pay billions of dollars of hard working tax payers money to the crooks, who are responsible for this crash at the first place or let the whole financial system and economy go down the drain and make the life of an average American even harder. In the situation, in which even conservative economists were predicting an unemployment rate of 20%, a double dip recession or even a depression, Democratic congress approves this bailout plan, which Republicans are still not calling a bailout plan. It is under these circumstances that Democrats take over White house.
Now, fast forward to 2010. Go back to the websites, blogs, radio stations, newspapers and TV channels of the same conservative economists and experts. None of them is now talking about a double dip recession and a possible depression or 20% unemployment rate. Obviously, they are still very reluctant to give Democrats credit for that, but surprisingly, they are crying, why unemployment rate is still over 9%. Answer is simple, because what your daddy Bush and his friends did. Contrary to that, the facts are that our economy is out of recession since June 2009 and after the longest recession (just another one caused by Republicans) in our history, it has been actually growing. For eight months in a row, after a long time, employment growth is on positive side. Of course, Fox news doesn't want to talk about it.
In spite of the extra-ordinary circumstances, under which Democrats took over power and while Republicans were saying no to every thing, they have made following landmark achievements, in just two years:
1. Wall Street reforms
2. Health care reforms
3. Credit card regulation reforms
4. Student loan reforms
5. End of combat in Iraq, which was draining our economy like crazy.
I realize that we still have a long way to go. We are far from our destination. A real and complete change. But, this is the time to really "stay on course". Please, do not give up. Republicans are counting on our lake of enthusiasm. All their hopes and wishes to win back the Congress are based on our lake of energy. They are hoping that many of us will not even vote and will hand over to them an easy win.
Prove this wrong. Wake up and commit to vote. Remember, in 2008, we did not work for an election campaign. We worked for a movement of change, that is not achieved, yet. We must keep moving forward. Tame down the noise. Listen to the facts and your conscience. Ask yourself this question. Do you want same people back, who are responsible for this mess at the first place. People who still want to borrow 700 billion dollars from China to give a tax break to the wealthiest?
Elections 2010: Commit to Vote
By: Navaid Syed
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