The State of the Union
January 28th 2010 00:29
Tonight, Barack Obama will give his State of the Union address. As such, I'd like to present the state of our Union as I see it.
State of the Union - January 27, 2010:
As of this time, the state of our Union is wretched. The economy is in awful shape with no real prospects for substantive improvement. Unemployment is way up and doesn't appear to be headed down anytime soon. Our elected officials in Washington spend most of their time pandering to special interests and they bend over backwards to help Wall Street -- but they do virtually nothing for Main Street. This is not the country our founding fathers envisioned. We...are...in...trouble.
What will "we, the people" do to get things back on track? Consider this metaphorical action plan:
Our country is a car and we still owe a TON of money on it. It's constantly needing repairs and we keep going to loan sharks to get money to patch it up. We're driving recklessly on a curvy road on a rainy night and the car is slipping and sliding all over the place. The "adults" (the House and the Senate) are bickering back and forth in the front seat while the driver (Barack Obama) is fiddling with the radio -- seemingly oblivious to what's going on. The kids (we, the people) are sitting helplessly in the back seat SCREAMING at the "adults" to slow down and pay attention. It's all to no avail, though. The front seat's not listening. If things don't change, it looks like we're headed for disaster.
There is hope, though. At various places on this road, there are some rest stops. We (the people) in the back seat plan to kick as many of the front seaters out as we can at every stop. We'll try to get some more responsible adults to take their place and, hopefully -- eventually -- a responsible driver who has at least a shred of concern about us in the back seat. What is our goal? We want to make sure that the bickering, clueless adults don't cause us to careen off a cliff and plunge to a fiery death before we can find more capable replacements for them. That is our only chance at self-preservation. That is what we must do.
Will we succeed? Based on the recent mood of the country, I'm hopeful that we will.
State of the Union - January 27, 2010:
As of this time, the state of our Union is wretched. The economy is in awful shape with no real prospects for substantive improvement. Unemployment is way up and doesn't appear to be headed down anytime soon. Our elected officials in Washington spend most of their time pandering to special interests and they bend over backwards to help Wall Street -- but they do virtually nothing for Main Street. This is not the country our founding fathers envisioned. We...are...in...trouble.
What will "we, the people" do to get things back on track? Consider this metaphorical action plan:
Our country is a car and we still owe a TON of money on it. It's constantly needing repairs and we keep going to loan sharks to get money to patch it up. We're driving recklessly on a curvy road on a rainy night and the car is slipping and sliding all over the place. The "adults" (the House and the Senate) are bickering back and forth in the front seat while the driver (Barack Obama) is fiddling with the radio -- seemingly oblivious to what's going on. The kids (we, the people) are sitting helplessly in the back seat SCREAMING at the "adults" to slow down and pay attention. It's all to no avail, though. The front seat's not listening. If things don't change, it looks like we're headed for disaster.
There is hope, though. At various places on this road, there are some rest stops. We (the people) in the back seat plan to kick as many of the front seaters out as we can at every stop. We'll try to get some more responsible adults to take their place and, hopefully -- eventually -- a responsible driver who has at least a shred of concern about us in the back seat. What is our goal? We want to make sure that the bickering, clueless adults don't cause us to careen off a cliff and plunge to a fiery death before we can find more capable replacements for them. That is our only chance at self-preservation. That is what we must do.
Will we succeed? Based on the recent mood of the country, I'm hopeful that we will.
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