Name speaks for itself: These are topics I hear people talk about all the time or have actually consumed people's lives or, sadly, are television channels and I do not understand why anyone talks about these topics at all. Please comment. :-)
Part IV - "Two...billion dollars...mwahahahahaha...oh, Mini Me stop running for presidential office..."
One billion dollars; that is what the Obama Campaign is expecting to amass in 2012 in the reelection campaign. Just to make sure "that guy" does not win again, Republicans are expected to suck up just as much if not more and spend like the world really is coming to an end. Oh yeah, because that is going to make American politics better. 'Hey everyone, how about we just add to the deficit we all keep claiming we are going to cut? That plan has totally paid off in the past.' For anyone wondering, yeah, I am rolling my eyes.
For anyone who actually bought the Tim DeLay argument that people spend more on potato chips then on politics, and so we should spend more money on politics because how can the American political system lose to crunchy potatoes, I have two things to say to you, and no neither will reference his moral character. First of all, considering the power of advertisements, the universal place of potato chips in the American diet and as a pretty universal snack, and the sheer quantity of anything Americans eat in our collective society diet that could be described as 'heart attack fast track', why is it surprising to you that we spend three billion dollars on potato chips? That is like someone asking me why we expect the sun to come up every day. I am amazed it was only three billion. I would have said five billion, considering McDonald's is at $8.64 billion per year. Second, on average every single night there are 60 million people in this country who have no home...and the money that could house all of them five times over you want to spend on TV ads and mobile advertisements for a group of people who do not understand the issues, do not care about these people and will do absolutely nothing to make the overall quality of life in this country...oh that is right, Americans do not care about human beings. Sorry, I forgot there for a second that anyone who thinks this is a good idea is a soul sucking demon. Silly me...
Now I could have put anything there for my second point. There is so much good we could do in this country with two billion dollars, perhaps starting with repaying all the people who lost money to the fraud they experienced thanks to the banks during the last recession. Or even better, why not use that money to actually do what you should have done, that being sue and finally hold these banks responsible? Maybe you could invest it in low-income housing options which have not had a rise in overall funding in nearly thirty years. Maybe you could fix the welfare system you hog tied, stabbed and left for dead on the side of the road back in 1996. Or here is a really intelligent idea: why not invest in the new sovereignty of Tunisia, Egypt and Southern Sudan and all the other countries that will soon be free in spite of American and European involvement. That would at least start to serve as an apology for our part in keeping their people oppressed for decades.
You all do realize that most of the "Founding Fathers" found the whole idea of campaigning to be beneath them and most of them openly deplored it right? George Washington even stated bluntly that the moment any American split the country along party lines was the moment the system would begin to fail...oops, guess we did not read that line carefully enough. Hey Glenn, are you going to talk about that with the green chalk or the red chalk...wait, he is not going to mention it because it is honest and sensible and completely reflecting of the uselessness in the American political system...oh, right, thanks for reminding me. Gee, I just cannot seem to remember that all these people are so dumb it is comical.
Not much more to say on this issue really. I could comment on how disgusting it is that America is gearing up to spend 2% of the net amount of money spent by the entire world on development and aid, 2.5% of all our education spending, ten times what our entire welfare system spends in a year, and so much, much more, all for the purpose of showing two guys (and yeah ladies it will be two guys...this is America after all) whoring themselves out for no real purpose. I think South Park perfectly said it that the elections will be between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. Maybe I would pay ten bucks for a Pay-Per-View fight session for that, but not two billion dollars. To call that blatantly insane and ridiculous is the understatement of all understatements. But do not worry violent murders...I mean Army Officials, your budget will still remain at around $200 billion. I mean we only have enough of a nuclear arsenal to kill the world twenty times over; why not spend more money on you all?
To say I just do not get it is an understatement. I have actually hurt my brain thinking about this. So thank you America. As usual, thank you so very, very much.
We are Socrates' Corner...and we just do not get it.
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