Promises Promises
Most of the candidates have been in a position to do something about all the problems in our country.
They all say that they have ideas of how to fix things.
Why haven’t they done it before?
They have had the opportunity.
They have all been getting a fat paycheck though.
I’m a bit disillusioned with the process.
John:
You have to listen VERY carefully to what the presidential candidates are truly saying. If you keep your emotions from being distracted by the verbiage and concentrate of the actual words coming out of their mouths, for the most part they are saying absolutely nothing. It’s either that, or they are answering a question they wanted you to ask.
It’s totally the mad hatter down the rabbit hole. (My apologies to Charles Lutwidge Dodson for defaming his book)
In the end it’s just going to be a bunch of loose words with little or no action. They’ll cut the interest rates a couple of more times to help Wall Street but the average citizen will get what they always get, “We just couldn’t get it past the President. It’s all the Republican’s fault” or from the other side, “Congress just wouldn’t approve that much spending. The Democrats just can’t get their heads together.”
But let’s say they did push through $800 for every taxpayer. That should just be ducky for inflation and the devaluation of the dollar. If they’d just leave the damn thing alone it would work itself out, but oh no, we have to be constantly meddling and when we do we are always acting at our worst.
If you think they know what they are doing then why did the Fed require an emergency meeting and whack off .75%. Are they that dumb that they can’t see it coming.
Thanks for your comment.
The way to political success is, “Tell them what they want to hear.”
First you use a poll to try to find out exactly what it is that they want to hear then you can’t go wrong.
Also, if you can make the other person look bad, you win by default.
Your ticket to success is to be able to get away with blaming someone else for anything that goes wrong in politics or in the workplace.
Those few sentences above are all that would be necessary to publish a “Middle Manager’s Handbook”.
In US, there are always two candidates of two parties who compete. These circumstances exclude real competition. In Germany, there are several political parties in parliament which leads to a great variety of thoughts and ideas.
Both great parties, SPD and CDU have become rather the same and it is difficult to tell, what is the difference between them.
My point is, if the voter can only chose from two parties, than why should the candidates ever invent something new? More real competition is needed.
Rainer,
I agree with you entirely. Both political parties in the US are in a ’self perpetuating’ mode.
They are not working for solutions but are working against each other.
It is my opinion that the US needs at least another strong independent party and perhaps a smaller and weaker 4th party to feed new ideas into the system.
Thank you for reading and commenting on my articles.
Perhaps if people in ‘high places’ start reading Blogs and the discussions that they generate, constructive change might occur.
When people play the game of ’self-interest’ to the exclusion of ‘what’s right’, the system falls out of balance–it becomes unstable.
Please see the article regarding “Balance” on http://www.wholelivingtoday.com/blog/
Poll vs Pole. Both used to drain you pocket. One by politicians the other by dancers. Then there’s the “push poll” that’s supposed to make politicians dance.
Teddoid.
Might be a little off the subject but I saw on TV about a month ago that there’s a dance studio in our area that is teaching girls as young as 4 years old “pole dancing”.
What happened to ballet for little girls?
I suppose that there is more money in “pole dancing” though.
Where’s our society heading?
Maybe that’s another subject for a future post.
Bring on the third(or fourth)party.The Founding Fathers set up a government of three bodies to prevent the he said he said from happening so why not continue that theory.Too bad Perot had to be such an ego maniac,he had the best chance.
As for present cantidates,only one is using the term “we” can make a difference together.Now will he follow up with it.Truth is that the only time things get done is when WE get off our duffs and get involved.Beware of the cantidate that says what “they” will do for “you”.