I am going to make your day…. I had a couple of drinks with dinner… SO…. HERE COMES THE RANT!:
Stand behind the president… Republican’s want fair taxes. The poor suck. Pray in school. Darwin was a liar. USA is the best! We have the finest health care – the fairest society… USA number 1!!!
If you don’t let George Bush piss on the constitution the terrorists win! Oh- and if you don’t torture anyone you catch guilty or innocent the terrorists also win!
et cetera ad nauseum.
Lol….
Sometimes you have to jump off your parochial prejudices and try to look at the real world as it actually exists.
If I am incorrect about wages in the UK or quality of life issues then I stand corrected. I might have gotten it wrong – I am not wedded to it. I pulled statistics from the UK and US census and statistical sites – but was hard to try tie the data together. Ever try to pull general data from Google?!
I am not recalcitrant, just think that the US has rewarded the greedy financial people in our society at the expense of most of it’s citizens. And inheritance taxes wiping out old English estates is poetic justice. Most of that money was stolen from the peasants anyway. The sad thing is that the people in our society who want lower taxes are in essence stealing it from the other 80%.
I think that most American’s are so apathetic about politics that they vote from fear or don’t vote at all. A small percentage of people (Fearmongering Religious Republicans – FRR’s) have done a great job of feathering their nests – at the expense of the people in our society doing the mind-numbing work. Maybe when the gap between rich and poor increases to an even larger number there will be some blood in the streets. Until then – keep drinking the Kool-aid.
