Financial Shakeup this weekend

[Wellardmac]

emayer wrote:

I see your point now and agree. More accurately my statement should be:

"Ask not what society can do for you; ask what you can do for society."

It is easy for us and others to lament our leadership, but unless the average Joe becomes engaged in current events and actually votes rather than expecting the next government handout we are destined for failure. Our politicians and media know this and continue to provide just enough fodder to the masses to keep them complacent. Personally, I find many of our current politicians insulting in that they actually believe we trust their rhetoric and excuses. For the most part, they are probably correct as the average voter dosen't care enough to question their statements and call them out on the facts. As you rightly said, we are to blame and should be ashamed.

I agree 100% and is downright depressing. These guys feed the (m)asses what they want to hear, then do what they want. It astounds me why noone calls them on failing to make their actions match their words.

I looked at McCain and figured, "oh well, I dislike him, but at least we might stand a chance of getting rid of the AMT." - that's already looking like it's all hot air. Pretty bad when you can't even trust a republican to do the right thing on taxes.

Then on the other hand you have Obama who on a good day is only hot air and words (and no track record) and he can't even be consistent with his words - never mind his total lack of a track record to back up his dreams.

It's funny because I look to Europe and I see that despite the issues they have, you can generally trust them to try to follow through on their wacky words... not always, but mostly. The funny thing is that when something doesn't get done it's generally because it's unpopular with the citizenry - they scream a unified no and things don't get done... people protest, they go on strike, they visit and lobby their representatives. Here that just do nothing... they might whine about it a little... there might be a storm in a teacup in the media for 10 minutes, but generally noone is held accountable and noone seems to care.... that's the real issue... if you're apathetic, then we deserve all we get.