What in the World?

What in the World/Loss of Freedom

The cost in maintaining all of this is the loss of  Freedom.  

Here were are with the Middle east on fire, gas at $4.00 and climbing (no driving vacation for me in my Ford Excursion),  14.5 Trillion in Debt, adding 1.5 Trillion this year alone, oil approaching its all time high, real unemployment at 15 to 25% depending on where you live, housing continues downward;  this means if you owned a home worth $200,000 3 years ago to day it is worth about $140000 if you are lucky, retirements put off because the 401k are still 201ks; health insurance climbs by 15 to 25% this year alone, (unless  you are a congressman);  the SES, senior executive service got a rise this year;  the total number of government employees increased and the private sector decreased;  the NFL has labor issues because they can not decide how to cut up the Billions of dollars we spend to see these cry babies play in the sand pile, (I am a diehard Viking fan);  shell just spent 4 billion dollars just to have the EPA tell them there may be an air pollution issue in the artic for the 200+ Eskimos that live down wind about 70  miles and therefore; go drill some place else.  They paid the government 2.25 billion just for the leases.  If I were Shell I would just quit drilling and let us buy oil overseas.  Oh, that’s what’s happening now. 

I just took a breath and hoped I could not think of anything else to add to this made for TV Reality soap opera we seem to be living in.  Where is the politician the public leader who will just do what is right and damn the media and the political correctness that seems to drive all decision making in the public sector.  I do not think Trump will be president but he has hit on a cord.  Tell it like it is and do not apologize for success.  So he is rich so what.  So he is a self-promoter so what?  He has hit on a theme at this moment in this country and that is people want to have a say.  A direct say in what is happening.  They are tired of bought and paid for politicians on both side of the isle.   Maybe a billionaire self-promoter is what we need.  He has enough money he does not need to make it big after his political career.  He already has.  So maybe we should be looking for the a superrich individual that only has the countries interest at heart not some ideology but a basic moral constitutional view of government.  

Well I got wound up again.  It seems that there is so much BS and spin that it is impossible to discern what is true and what is spin.  The trouble with spin is that it has some words that are true but they attempt to get you to a conclusion that is not supportable in fact but is supportable in word.  It is political lying that we cannot call lying.  If you are in public life you cannot call a person you disagree with a liar even if he or she is.  Even if the lie has not one fact in it and 100 of 100 persons other than politicians would vote the person is lying.  This has to stop.  Our legislators have to tell us the truth.  Even if they think we cannot handle it because we lack the brainpower.  So they just continue on lying.  After all their votes are already paid for by some special interest not  “We the People”.   The only truth being told is by the idiot from Wikileaks.  He should be tried as a traitor and then jailed.  So I am left with spinning (lying) is ok or telling the truth that may get some of our soldiers killed is ok.  We have not, nor will we prosecute the Wikileaks guy but we will put the soldier who gave him the information in a deep dark hole never to be heard from again.  He thought he was doing all of us a favor.  

Reality in American politics is not fact-based reality it is reality that is base solely on perception.  Perception is totally controlled by the media and mainly by TV.  Therefore if you want to know what a candidate is thinking is all you have to know is what cable channel he is on.  Fox News and Obama make my point well.  Sarah Palin and Fox News make my point the other way.  Obama has only been on Fox News one time.  Sarah Palin is on the other channels as the main scapegoat for Tina Fey and others of her ilk.  News is not news anymore.  It is entertainment.  Reality TV at its best.  Why do you think Trump is doing so well.  He is just running another reality TV show and we tune in and based on what episode it is we then vote just like on Idol.  We have an emotion and then we act on it.  The problem with voting this way is that we are tricked by the media in to having emotions that are not supported by the facts.  We become true believers (witness Obama the Rock Star).  Emotion has driven us into an economic disaster that we need to turn around now.  We now have on cable TV the foreclosure reality show, the union reality show, the deficit reality show, the supreme court justice reality show, the bombing show, the war reality show with riots, tanks and guns, the oil reality show and on and on.  We have lost our way and depend on the TV reality shows to tell us what to feel and therefore what to think.  This is not the way to a better life.  It is the way to loss of real freedoms.