I have been deliberately absent for the last 6 weeks or so in an effort to salvage some of what is left of my sanity and avoid having a massive stroke for all of the political nonsense that has run rampant since the midterm elections.
That being said, I have still not been able to completely bury my head in the sand and ignore politics. What I am missing now is any sort of objective presentation of the news. I no longer pay for my TV, and I have to say that the liberal bias one hears about so often listening to Boortz or Hannity or watching Fox is, indeed, a profound and obvious reality. This week it has been nearly impossible to get anything other than Charlie Sheen stories (after stories, after stories...), or American Idol updates, or inane sound bites of Obama trying to 'organize' peace in Libya. Qadaffi (sp) may as well get on Al Jezeera (sp) and give Obama the finger.
One of the big issues here in Ohio has been the SB5, which, last I was aware, passed the Ohio Senate and is generally expected to skate through the House and right to Kasich who is waiting, pen in hand, to pass the Bill. What has been impossible to find throughout the presentation of this issue has been coverage of anyone in favor of this Bill. Our state capitol has been shown to be inundated with protesters, many of whom are bussed in from other states, and many of whom are members of private sector unions. It is made to look like the vast majority of the State Of Ohio and the country in general is against this Bill. I have literally heard only ONE statement aired on the news in the last 3 weeks from a citizen supporting the Bill. Biased? Naaahhhhhh....
Maybe it isn't bias. Maybe it is just the fact that everybody else IS AT WORK! The rest of us don't get to strike, protest, walk-out, drag-up, and for the Politicians, simply leave the fucking state to avoid doing our jobs! The public sector Unions and the Politicians are the same people. They eat from the same trough. A trough filled with money from OUR pockets. Non-union, non-government wages STOLEN from us to pay at least 40% more to people who generally do less, contribute nothing or almost nothing to their health care or retirement, and who will draw down 90% of their 3 highest earning years, and be availed of Social Security and Medicare for the rest of their natural lives! And if you want to whine about Union dues...That's OUR money, too! You wouldn't have that money if it weren't stolen as taxes first, negotiated into your pay and benefits, and then recycled as campaign donations to politicians who give it back to you, with interest, in the form of contracted wage/benefit increases!
Oh, and lets not forget the non-creation of jobs, the government's total inability to come up with a budget for more than two weeks, the fact that gasoline if $3.50 a gallon...Let's spend some money sending weapons and aid to Libyan Rebels. Realizing of course that if we don't stabilize that area, gas will be astronomical...However, maybe if our illustrious liberal leaders had let us drill for and refine our own oil supplies starting in the 70s...No. No. You Libs are right. You Green Party fruit bats are right. This system we have now is working just fine. It just needs to be "Organized"...That is, after all, why you elected a "Community Organizer", right?
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