This posted by PaulDavisTheFirst on the website for the Anchorage Daily News, in a comment in response to a rant by Paul Jenkins on January 29th:
the last time a president tried to tell it like it really is (carter), the country thought he was being a real downer. congratulations for all those who couldn't take the advice to wear an extra sweater or turn down the thermostat - you've basically made it impossible for any president or national elected leader to realistically describe the country to itself.
you want reality? we live in a country that has outsourced its manufacturing capacity, wildly redistributed wealth toward the top 5%, promoted a consumer culture that has been powered by credit, failed to enact a health care system that stands any real chance of bringing our costs into line with other industrialized countries, launched a series of massively expensive wars primarily in defense of our interests in the energy resources of the middle east, failed to significantly develop alternate domestic supplies of clean energy, failed to maintain our physical infrastructure, created a culture that is endlessly focused on our lives as consumers when most of us spend more time as employees and citizens, semi-consistently cut taxes to the wealthiest people (in marked contrast to what has been done during the most economically productive periods in US history), deregulated industry after industry out of some naive and historically absurd notion that they will police themselves in accord with our national interest, sold our political system to the highest bidder (which these days can legally be a corporation), stood by as political gerrymandering and absurd senate rules drain the vitality our government's decision making processes ... the list goes on and on and on.
What do you think you'd feel about a president who said all that?
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/01/29/1674405/americans-grow-weary-of-political.html#ixzz1CUZ85RCJ
I like how thorough he is in describing our country's economic policies.
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