Top Ten Politcs

(repost from election night...as relevant today as then)

Regime Change?

Yea, so on this eve of the installment of our same 'ol dude from crawfed texass, I figured I would list all the shit that I wanted him to change for me over the next 4 years he is in office.

1.insurance...if i have to get another BULLSHIT piece of crap day job or a job that requires me to work over 38.75 hours a week to be able to afford health coverage, i will be so disappointed. Seriously, you know how many people out there HATE their jobs but stay there because they cant afford insurance? The productivity of your population is directly relevant to their quality of life...i.e (moron) that if you make someone miserable in EITHER WAY (force them to work somewhere they hate, or make them bitter by over-charging them to be healthy) your economy suffers. Exporting jobs just makes your countrymen hate you too, so just fix it at home (or make your campaign contributors force their companies to). Busloads of old people smuggling drugs in from canada shouldnt be something you should worry about, so just fix it ok? I'd rather you not procrastinate over this in addition to procrastinating over the other things on my list. (This is the easy one)

2.Taxes: Use taxes to BETTER things for the population, not to pay for the FUCK UPS of your predecessors. I think each president should be fiscally responsible for their own actions. That would probably make you think longer and harder about who you appointed to your cabinet, huh? Probably make you think about your relationship to the rest of the globe, huh? If you tax cigarettes, fund cancer research with it. If you tax booze, pay for ads against drunk driving. If you tax ME, help me out a little...like, reset my credit report or something. I didnt sign up to pay for wack ass shit that I dont see the relevance in! I don't really want my taxes to pay for the Star Wars research we still owe that agency from 1983...I would rather my hard earned money go to pay someone's salary to run this country correctly, if you get my drift.

3. You are not going to convert me to your form of religion, so please stop trying. All these references and allusions and semantic games have got to stop. The sermons belong in church. You can be faithful and devout and have that come through in your actions while still being impartial. You can have values and not praise god at the beginning of every speech. I know you are playing to the masses. You credit your election to your faith. I credit it to alot of people who are christians. See, if they can put their faith in a notion that cannot be proven, its not a far stretch for them to put their faith in a man who is a member of their club. I would just appreciate substance, not flowery talk when I hear my president address me.

4. Stop feeding new slang into the media. I was watching a local new program today and the lady referred to terrorists possibly getting across the mexican boarder as "thugs"....a term now thrown all over the charts thanks to you saying that they are murderous thugs in Iraq blowing up their own people. STOP please stop. I want to become educated about what is happening in the world and my neighborhood, but its getting too hard to stomach the sensationalism that is now our news! I shouldnt have to go online to find unbiased information. Talk about propaganda!

5. If you police everyone else in the world and hold them to our standard, how can you get angry when some other country does the same? If you police the world, who is policing us? You assume that us Americans are capable of governing ourselves while you all are busy worrying about other countries. I got news for you - WE CAN'T. We pay you to make sure that WE are doing everything ok too. Don't be pissed off when an Iraqi volunteers to help liberate his country only to blow up a mess hall and kill some of our soldiers. We taught him how to do that by saying we were coming in to liberate them, only to set up our own form of government and establish a larger ally in the middle east. We taught him how to do that with our movies and cop dramas for christ sake! They lie, we lie, you lied. Get over it. We gained our country from britain with farmers and buck shot and strength in belief that we hated them. Do not lessen others' beliefs just because they differ from your own. We have seen how a small, unlikely group can persevere over the favorite. Don't forget that.

6. Cut a little fucking red tape. Permits and applications and forms and... i mean by the time i filed all the reports about my car getting stolen, I was over the fact it was fucking stolen! Noise ordinances? Shit you LIVE in a city where your neighbor is 4.5 INCHES from your wall....YES THERE WILL BE NOISE! Back in the day if it was too noisy you asked ACK ACK to be quiet and he either did or he beat your ass and you moved to a cave farther away. None of this "ill call the cops, ill have you fined, ill sue your ass..." i thought the legal system was to protect you from harm, not to be used as blackmail to get your way!

7. Fund higher eduction. fuckit FUND ALL EDUCATION like your life depended on it, because it truly does. Children ARE our mother fucking future (whitney got something right, way to go whitney). How many little people out there could potentially create something to improve our future? who knows, but they may never get a chance. People save money their whole life to send their kids to school here in the United States and then, when they graduate, they go back to their country to try to better it. When we send our kid to school here, they leave and have no clue what to do with their degree! There is something wrong here. Either the system is fucked up or we are breeding LAZY ASS kids.

8. Work on the environment, please. I could go on for days on this one so i will keep it short. you gotta grasp the fact that nature is extremely important and should always be considered before 'the bottom line'. My water sucks, my air sucks, my trees are gone...hell, pretty soon 'healthy human' will be on the endangered list.

9. Encourage diversity. I know you say it, but mean it. Narrow views breed ignorance, and it is not bliss. You may not like everyone or their views but at least be open to meeting them and listening. The human response is to fear what it doesnt understand, so encourage people to try to understand things that are new and different. It is so frustrating to be around people who spew ignorant remarks about something or someone that they dont understand. That is why most of the world considers Americans arrogant, we feel we are better than others but don't even truly understand who the 'others' are or what they are about.

10. Support families. I wasnt rich, I wasnt even middle class, but i think i came out ok. Its important to fully grasp the concept that a bad family can only breed more bad families. Be tough on deadbeat dads, abusers, dilinquents, offenders. Put the child first. I think we try to do this, but can do better. There are bad parents out there. There are people who dont know how to do anything other than what they saw when they were growing up. Only a few make it out....only a few break that cycle. Whether it is violence or racism or arrogance, ALL these things can create people who in the end cause more problems than they are worth.


SO basically this reads as a rant. After re-reading it, its also a list of "Reasons Why I didnt vote for Bush" in the first place. hahaha. There are other things I hope he addresses, of course, but I think this time, THIS TERM, he needs to change alot of things. His effect on this country will be judged on what he does THIS time around. More of the same, just says he can't learn from the past and enjoys passing the buck to the next guy. If that turns out to be the case, christians....its on you...

(Worried yet?)