Recession. Depression. Genocide. Human rights. In recent years our country, the whole world in fact, had heard all of these words and arguments. So let me ask you: What really matters?
Right now there are things happening all over the world such as the genocide in the Sudan, where no one will step-in and help.
Human rights are being violated in different places all over, like Tibet.
Russia and Serbia are either going to cause the second Cold War or WWIII and no one can decide what should be done, and we’re probably going to be at war with the entire Middle East before too long. Is there a big red reset button somewhere that someone can just push and start everything over? No, seriously, is there?
On top of the world’s issues, we as a country have constantly been hearing that we’re a broken country, but on the other hand we’ve also been told we are fine and just whining. While I don’t believe that we’re completely broken I don’t think we’re really fine either. Does $5 for a gallon of gas and a stimulus check out of next year’s taxes really make us OK? I don’t think so.
Now, the Congressional Budget Office is saying that the fiscal deficit for 2009 will be around $438 billion (double that of 2007!) because of war, the economy and the recent government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
To help make up for this money, there’s talk of raising taxes, raising prices of goods and even taxing company health plans now. This is all good and dandy I guess, unless you work somewhere like I do and after payday you have $20 or $30 for food after paying bills.
There are average middleclass people who already can’t make it paycheck to paycheck, so what’s going to happen to them? What’s going to happen to people who already make below poverty level?
Nobody can answer that, not even the politicians making the decisions. In my opinion, things would get a lot easier if any, I repeat any, politicians understood and could communicate with the “average” person.
Maybe they should work at Wal-Mart or McDonald’s for a couple of weeks and see how it works out for them.
Another thing that really makes you think about our society is that the biggest deal right now is the fact that Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, has a 17-year-old daughter who is pregnant. Stop the press! Please, let’s travel across the country and find the other 999,999 17-year-old girls who are pregnant and put them on the cover of People magazine.
I know when I graduated high school, there were at least five or six girls pregnant in grades below me.
I’m not saying that it’s the best idea but I don’t think it’s the end of the world either and I definitely don’t believe that it should have anything to do with the presidential election!
With all that said and all the problems in our country and around the world, should our biggest concerns right now be whether our president is black or white or whether the vice president is male or female? No, it should be who can do the least amount of harm before the planet explodes or something? C’mon people, communication, common sense, and one love.

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