Monday, August 9, 2010

What is the matter with our government?

I like President Obama.

I really do. I don't subscribe to the notion that he is an undercover radical Moslem, or that he was born outside of the USA. I tend to share his idealism, his hopes for our country and his desire to fix what he sees as wrong with the US. The economy is a problem he is doing his best to fix. Things like the gulf oil spill weren't issues he has any expertise at all on, but he is took a leadership role insofar as it was possible for him to do so. The war in Afganistan is a reality he is facing up to, as is Iraq - and he is doing fairly well considering just how unrealistic some of his campaign positions were. He has shown a willingness to make the hard decisions I didn't expect from someone who's positions are far more liberal than mine.

I'm not a fan of his class-war rhetoric though, and the attempts to divide the country into the rich (over $200,000/year earners) vs everyone else is something I find disturbing.

What really has me bothered right now though, is this video.

This is truly bothersome. Why is it we can have ARMED INVADERS from another country illegally entering the USA, shooting our citizens and committing other crimes, and all the Federal government does is put up signs warning residents of the USA not to enter certain parts of OUR OWN COUNTRY, because there may be armed citizens of another country there?!!!

You're kidding me, right?

Isn't this why we have an Army, and Air Force, and the Marines? To protect our borders from foreign invaders? What the hell is going on?!!


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