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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Too quiet.. US troops are in Afghanistan because . . .

I've been quiet about Obama for two reasons. First, he needs his 100 days to stop campaigning and start getting to work. Second, he's making too dang many mistakes every day for me to even start talking about. I'd be talking all day.

He's busy this week trying to convince us his budget is smart. He's not convincing me. I do love the fact that he's not trying to sweep the cost of the wars we are engaged in under the rug any longer, and including them in the budget. That's a plus. But it's also a minus. Because the budget doesn't answer the question: Why are US troops in Afghanistan? Click on the link and you'll find that Google found two answers, neither of which are from the government or the military. In fact, the answers are from people like you and me that really do not know the answer.

Obama ran on making a change and being open. He's making a change - sending more troops to Afghanistan. But he's not being open about the reasons he wants more American soldiers killed there. Ask all your friends and strangers you meet for the next few days. Their answers will be no better or worse than the answers on the two pages Google can find, really lame answers.

The best answer I heard this week when I asked that question was "to keep the price of heroin low". I checked, and turns out that's true - more heroin is leaving afghanistan than ever before, bringing supplies way up and costs way down. Interesting, but still not excuse enough to have one more death of an American because he was ordered to go.

I really love the answer by one of the regular folks that says: because we are part of NATO. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Anyone looked at a map lately?

Wanna talk economy? No, neither do I. Gotta be rich to get bailed out, that's the lesson of both Bush & Obama. Republican, Democrat. It doesn't really matter. Just don't ask how the money is getting into their pockets and we'll be at peace. I was very sad to hear of protesters being arrested last week. Obama promised to bring change and listen to people. I guess his definition of people is different than ours.

2 Comments:

Anonymous connie VanMatre said...

I too feel discoraged with the President..I voted for him so i feel i can say what i think.
He and Hilary both said we'd end the war and create jobs....that's what i thought they said anyway..
Seems there is no jobs happening, in fact, there's less and less every day. Small towns like the one i live in - in Ohio- are handing out fines to all the poorest of the poor for a county wide clean up...some got fines for a lawnmower, or a car that needs tags. ..others for even less..only the poor are being targeted. the town is a hick town, poorest county in Ohio. biggest store in the whole county is a "Dollar General"..they want to outlaw yard sales..and are forcing poorest of the poor to paint their houses and fix them up. this is no time for that. people are hurting.
seems like everyone wants money any way they can get it..Landlords are raising rent..causing even more hardship..it's like a nightmare out there.
we need real jobs with real paychecks..not promices of jobs a year from now. without welfare to turn to what can people do to survive? Something has to happen. and soon or people will be freezing to death next winter if they don't starve to death first.
here more people work off food stamps than have a job...all the jobs are 30-50 miles away.

5:58 AM  
Blogger Cholla Needles said...

Thanks for your comment, Connie. I am with you 100% - the government has become more oppressive, not less. Continuing and causing wars. Letting rich people and government workers who committed horrendous crimes off the hook, while fining people who dare to have a yard sale to make a few dollars to buy some food for their family.

I guess we should have known. Politicians lie. Always have, always will. Obama preached hope before, and now he's preaching hopelessness. The rich will become richer. And so we go.

7:16 AM  

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