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So anyway I posted a thread tonight that has all the state of the union addresses from 1790 until now.
I read over a bunch of em.
x/y/z problems exist, we are fixing them, life is better because I am the prez.
I am 42 years old.
As long as I can remember people were fixing education, SS, military, war, peace, jobs, inflation, and so on.
In my 42 years I have seen us go from no computers and crappy B&W TV's that got 3 stations (with the only cartoons being on Saturday Morning usually) to all the shit we have now.
We got us some ipods, microwave ovens, gps hand held systems, great online porn (it really sucked back in my day), cell phones, medical advances, and the list goes on.
And yet I am STILL hearing the same shit from our politicians. We can make your life better, we can make you safer, we can stop job losses, fix the economy, make sure your SS is there, blah blah blah.
We the people have thrived in spite of your policies, not because of most of them.
That is NOT to say you have not done really good things to make it all happen - but what you have FAILED to do is see the good you did. You keep making the same mistakes over and over.
Yes you have a place, yes you can help us progress. We welcome that with open arms.
But somewhere along the way you kind of forgot about all that. You are NOT the solution to our problems, you are the catalyst that can make the solutions easier by being better stewards of how our funds are spent.
And let's be honest, most of what you do is decide how our money is spent and appoint people.
Invest it in US - from health care to jobs. Instead we have a government now (and have in the past) that wants to invest it in themselves.
The wonderful and diverse people of this land have time and again outpaced you. We are a good people mostly who just want to live our simple little lives and have the basics we need to flourish - health care, our govt stopping discrimination, security, and being secure in our daily lives that our government is not harassing us at every turn ad treating us as the problem.
You want a better and more productive America? Then cut the crap and leave us alone on many issues and just do what we want you to - collect taxes and pool those resources to help us each out.
We WANT to work with you, we want to accomplish greater things together as a whole. But when you ditch us and take our money for wars and foreign aid while leaving us to rot on health care and poverty issues we get a little ticked.
We gave you the power to collectively use our income and resources for the betterment of us all - not for the few. We wanted us to be one team working for us all. Time and again you have let us down.
It is no wonder we don't trust you anymore. And yet, when you don't trust us you want to search us, fingerprint us, watch our emails, etc and so on - while on the other hand telling us we cannot see what you are doing.
Hello...You work for US and not the other way around.
It is all the same anymore. You tell us we have problems (the same ones for a long time) and that YOU have the solution. If you had the solution we would not still be talking about the problems we were when I was a kid.
You are 'Epic Fail' - and maybe for once you should listen to us.
But I am not holding my breath.
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