A lads debate blog response

I have not always been into politics. This undulating political landscape continues to fascinate me, to the point that now I'm actually blogging about it. (To be fair though, I've been looking for a new creative output.)

This blog response is specifically for an ol' chum of mine's post: http://therealmomentaryfocus.blogspot.com/.

I agree that America needs to wake up and see what is going on. However, I argue that we need to wake up and see what is going on on a much broader scale than just election corruption. We are all losing it. In multiple ways.

 There was a commercial a while back for a cholesterol reducing medication, and on this NATIONAL TV commercial, while different 'non-actors' were discussing their 'score', a lady says, "I didn't even know people could have different numbers!".

What?!
 Honestly?!
 People have different EVERYTHING! Even identical twins have different fingerprints, so why oh why would you expect that people's scores would be the same?! Furthermore, if you assume that the scores were the same, then WHY WOULD YOU RUN THE TEST AT ALL?! What would that tell you?

This is the type of ignorance that we ignorantly embrace and champion, thanks to a diminishing intellectual society and an insatiable desire for consumption. This is what makes me embarrassed to watch "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursdays on CBS) and hear a laugh track after someone explains a math algorithm which is taught in the 6th grade in Japan.

Back to the debate and politics.

This same ignorance, allows us to become victims to the media and the political machine which continually segregates society and pulls us farther apart as a country. Why in the crap art so many hours of government representative's, including the president's, time (which we pay for) spent focused on issues of faith: abortion and gay marriage? When we are $16 TRILLION in the hole, our country continues to shift it's ownership overseas, and we have failing financial, educational, political, and healthcare systems?? We need to pick our battles people! I'm a Christian so I get where the Christian groups are coming from on abortion and gay marriage. But we all sin and we all need redemption, grace, and forgiveness. How, when we have been redeemed, can we say that others aren't entitled to the same? Before your mental rebuttal- how will anyone going in or coming out of an abortion or a gay marriage know that they are loved by God the same as us, if you are spewing hate at them? If you consider the two said hot topics as sins, then where is your zeal towards eliminating all other sins which humanity commits on a daily hourly basis? Instead, the media ignites our passions and stirs hatred to compel us to "get out there and vote". It concentrates on issues which are primarily founded in morals and faith and will therefore never be completely agreed upon, instead of issues created by man which can be solved by man. There's a great quote from somewhere that I heard sometime from someone (or I'm making this up), "focus on what you can control, not what you can't."

We will never be able to force someone into believing what we believe, or thinking what/how we think. But we will always be able to inform people with ideas, facts, solutions, which can cause great change. Don't make me listen to a Congressman/woman speaking out about Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, when the issue should be way down the priority list compared to our more immediately severe issues.

I've gone astray a little bit, which, if you read anything from me, you should come to expect.

Back to the blog response.

The government's role or influence in creating jobs is due to the fact that job creation is essentially a litmus test for the state of our union. If unemployment is down then, by a loose association, the economy is up because spending is up and on and on. If morale and confidence in our economy or government or whatever is down, then spending goes down, small business don't know what the future holds so they hire less to sit on what they have and avoid risks, and on and on. Therefore, the government's job is to provide the environment appropriate for job creation. But it's not the government's responsibility directly. What's ridiculous is the amount of power we have put in the hands of the elite 1%. Which, in my opinion (like the rest of this blog), is actually a SUPER-elite with how the chasm between them and normal civilization growing rapidly. These super-elite hold more power than ever before and seemingly have less ethics and morality than ever before. Does it maybe seem like something has shifted and certain people are reaping the benefits of others hard labor, while crapping on them? http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/05/ratio-ceo-worker-compensation

That's enough about that. I could write for hours on how mad that stupid graph makes me.

America is lazy and getting worse. We are also wimps. What's with all of this bullying BS?! There are these stupid stories all over the place now about how people got called names while at school, or beat up or something... That's called childhood. Deal with it. You know why we are having all of these issues? Because a lot of American people out there have been catered-to their entire lives with participation trophies, successful lawsuits against McDonald's and anti-bully campaigns. We don't have to create or work for our food or possessions, nor fight to survive, and we're seemingly a bunch of privileged snotty kids on "My Super Sweet 16". Get up and grind for the sake of your children, your neighbor, your community, yourself!

Which is a nice lead-in to disability and unemployment. Basically, these two programs, along with the other welfare programs for housing, daycare, and food assistance, need a greater sense of accountability. We need to hold people accountable while they are on these programs. I'm not sure exactly what that looks like at the present, but everything comes down to the fact that we are letting people exploit these systems with very little penalty, if any at all. These programs aren't shams- my Mom has had MS all of her life and is now on disability, so I know. But I also know of people who have twisted their ankle and gotten on disability. We are catering to people so much that we expect only soft work, not hard, with a minimum level of effort. Because- oh NO! - we don't want to make someone break a sweat while they are working, because then they would feel self conscious and go take a bunch of pills from a way-too-easy-to-obtain prescription for relief, then sue their employer for the OD. WTF. This kind of stuff happens. Shame on us for watching it on Judge Judy or whoever is on now. Shame on the Justice Department for a disturbingly-broken system. Shame on the person for avoiding any shred of personal responsibility for their OWN life.

I disagree with the blog because I think this vote does matter. Though we are in serious need for election reform, the difference in ideas is quite tangible. Voting is necessary, I believe. The shame is that it takes public and secret agreements between investors and politicians, ridiculously harsh and obscenely expensive ad campaigns which are nothing but scare-tactics, and years worth of not doing any actual job except campaigning. Campaign reform is huge and necessary and we in dire need of new ideas and new people and more logical ways to handle our governmental and societal business.

I'll spare this entry with the specific ideas.

Regardless of any cynicism- I believe in you, me, and us. It's your turn.