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Negrological
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Username: Negrological
Post Number: 6
Registered: 09-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 01:50 pm: | 
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I'm in the mood for a political rant so here it goes:
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Desperate Actions by a Desperate Administration.
Our dear President, with sagging approval poll numbers, and no answers on how to deal with domestic issues reached out in a desperate attempt to recapture old glory. When all else fails, the Bush Administration counts on subjugating American fears by turning the nations attention towards Islamic extremism, Al Qaeda and terrorism. And this formula has been successful since 9/11, but is it so now? Between the Kartina disaster, gas & oil price gauging, no-bid contracts, and last but not least the $200 Billion Iraqi quagmire, the White House has much to answer for.
How the White House plans on dealing with recent reports that much of Katrina’s disaster relief is going via no-bid contracts to companies outside of the affected states (Louisiana, Mississippi & Alabama), is anyone’s guess. 90% of those no-bid contracts has gone to companies outside of those states, so it’s a foregone conclusion whether or not the displaced residents of New Orleans will indeed receive job training benefit.
There is a company in Alaska receiving no-bid contracts to build mobile homes in Louisiana at far more expensive rates than could be done with a local company. This is a complete and utter waste of tax payer dollars, but you hear barely a whisper from conservatives. When the occasional report about a big screen TV purchase at BestBuy (with a Kartina debit card) surfaces, then conservatives will be heard screaming loud and clear about ‘waste of tax payer dollars’.
How come no mention from the Bush Administration about the inevitable gargantuan heating bills that will arrive this winter? What’s the White House going to say when people (especially the working class) start receiving $1000 - $2000 heating bills and can’t afford to pay. The gas gauging is absolutely out of control; the Saudi’s routinely charge about $65 a barrel for something that costs roughly $4 a barrel to bring from the ground. This is something never talked about by liberals or conservatives. Then you have oil refineries processing the oil and reselling it to the consumers at record margins. Times are certainly good if you are an oil executive and don’t expect the White House to do anything about it.
Dick Chaney’s unexercised 433,000+ Halliburton stock options have tripled in value since he assumed the role as Vice-President and we can all imagine the smile on that chubby face as he watches that stock ticker day by day. For those of you who don’t know, with Halliburton’s current valuation, this translates into $27 million. Now, when Chaney accepted the job as Vice-president these shares were ‘supposedly’ put into some obscure charity, but rest assured once he leaves office those shares will quietly be transferred back into Chaney’s name. No, individualism obsessed, conservative republican is going to walk away from $27 million. Bottom line, the Bush administration isn’t going to do anything to curb gas & oil prices.
As President Bush stood up and tried to recapture old glory, boasting how 10 terrorist attacks were foiled since 9/11, this thought should keep crossing peoples minds. Does Bush really think the American public is this dumb? For a time, yes, the American public stood behind the President with a ‘hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil’ attitude, oblivious to what was really going on. This isn’t the case these days. It’s so bad now, even Bush’s conservative base is starting to question his judgment over Supreme Court nominate Harriet Miers. Times are bleak for the White House and they only have themselves to blame.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1510
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 01:59 pm: |
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Negropological:
I wish I could believe the gist of this article, but the American people have proved time and again they can't keep their eye on the ball--
Right now the Administration is burying the news of all the trouble they are in with warnings of Al Quaeda attacks and alerts and I think next year they will trot out abortion, gays and welfare moms and retain their majority in the Houses.
In fairness to them this generation has either been brought up to respond like Pavlovs dogs to certain buzz words or is so apathetic and out of it nothing gets to them.
I think its every man woman and child for his or herself time. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2687
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 03:02 pm: |
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Negrological, America is currently inflicted by a malaise of resignation known as the "well, what are ya gonna do?" syndrome. Everbody is just shaking their heads and shrugging their shoulders. The direction of the country will change on its own when things get so bad, they'll have to get better. |
Negrological
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Username: Negrological
Post Number: 7
Registered: 09-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 04:33 pm: |
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Chrishayden,
Your observation is valid...the unfortunate truism is the American public by-and-large can’t be trusted to make wise decisions on it’s own without coercing. People, whether consciously or subconsciously, are comfortable being told what to do and how to think.
Most people probably aren’t sitting around at home worrying about abortion, gay marriage and other insignificant issues. The reason why these are issues is because Americans have been convinced by the powers that be. It’s disconcerting to know how easily people are psychologically manipulated.
Cynique,
We are most certainly are living with the ‘me’ generation. As far as Black Americans go, this is the first generation since we first arrived to the ‘new world’ aboard slave ships that just doesn’t care (for the most part) about the advancement of the people. We’ve bought into the American ideology of individual success.
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