To start off, I will be the first to admit that I don’t know a whole heck of a lot about politics. To be completely honest the system in America frustrates me enough to not want to care most of the time. However, when politics escalates in congress, the White House, legislation, anything that is big enough to effect me and to flood news networks with articles about government defaulting, I’m American enough to pay attention. Since I’ve stated my partial-ignorance concerning politics, you may take this post as seriously as you want to.
I don’t know how many people are paying attention to the current outpour of government defaulting news that is currently streaming the internet and news networks, but apparently its beginning to get serious with John Boehner walking out (and even ignoring) President Obama’s attempts at compromise.
Whether you know about the possibility of government default or not, you more than likely already have an opinion about Obama. Given your positive or negative feelings toward our current president, you can’t deny his genuine nature. He truly cares about this country and every single person in it from the rich to the poor. People can tell that he honestly wants to fix the government in order for us to become that great nation – the ultimate superpower – that we have always claimed to be.
Now that we’ve reviewed our feelings about Mr. President, I would also like to point out that he isn’t perfect and that NO ONE IS. With that said, I would like to pan to Boehner. Since I have attended and graduated high school, I am pretty well apt at distinguishing those mature adults who are able to diffuse and compromise on a situation in order to come to a reasonable solution from those ignorant, childish “grown-ups” who only have a vision for themselves and their future. I feel pretty well backed to pose that Boehner is one of those ignorant people. I would even go as far as to say that the Republicans (and even the Democrats, if they exist) who are backing him are part of that juvenile problem of being unable to compromise. While Obama has put a ridiculously generous offer on the table, all he really asked for was tax increases.
I know that many of you are gasping in your seat right now thinking, TAX INCREASES?! Well, yes, slightly. Now I don’t want to delve into it for fear that I would misconstrue or misinterpret what was actually going on, so I will put this link here to one of the articles I was reading. From my interpretation of the articles I read, Obama was calling for a tax system overhaul to get rid of the absurd tax breaks given to the rich under the Bush administration.
Now. That’s not too ridiculous is it?
Being the dick that Boehner is (sorry, I’m a bit upset right now), he decided to walk away, and according to the article, refused to take Obama’s calls on Thursday night.
Now, if I could shout this directly at Boehner, I would love to. Seeing as I don’t have that power, here goes: Not compromising doesn’t make you a hero. It doesn’t show your courage or your backbone. You don’t have strength because you won’t back down. You’re not a strong person because you can’t see another point of view or because you are too afraid to switch to the other side (God forbid). Not compromising makes you stubborn and unfit to govern or to lead. Not being able to compromise depicts you as childish and incompetent to the public. You are not a leader, you are barely a follower. Your imitation of a leader is tiresome to the entire public as well as our government. Step down and let a real leader compromise. Let a real leader show that they can handle the situation. Let a real leader lead our government in the direction that it needs to go to become great. Because under your leadership we will all sink and drown.
Over the years I have come to realize that what our government was based on is slowly losing its steam. A government of the people, by the people, and for the people is slowly becoming non-existant as our government becomes less afraid of the people while the people become more afraid of the government. Our elected leaders need to realize that they are there to represent THE PEOPLE, not themselves and their own agendas. Our government needs to realize that the people have the power. We need to take control and take away the power from those officials that we deem unworthy and unfit to represent our interests. They need to know that we are in control, that we are the power, and that we will not tolerate incompetence and selfishness any longer!
Here are a few articles that got me riled up enough to write this:
Obama furious as Boehner walks away from debt talks
WRAPUP 1-Obama seeks to salvage U.S. debt ceiling deal
The Party That Can’t Say Yes (opinion)
February 5th, 2012 at 5:24 am
nice