Johnson's pissed.
I hear you John.
Still, I'm not sure that proposing our government start an opium habit is going to fly in the red states. Although, to be honest, it seems like the pipe has been passed around there a bit too much already.
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Let's look back a bit. 86 years ago, women gained the right to vote for the first time. This marked the first time that over half the population could vote. Now, less than half the population doesn't vote out of apathy.
135 years ago, people were granted the right to vote regardless of race. (A whole vote, instead of 3/5 of a vote!)
5 years before that, slavery was abolished.
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Now, When was the last time any real progress was made? We live in the 21st century, and people are still discriminated against all the time, we just can't always see it as easily. We have no separation of church and state, nor do we have equal rights for all. Gay people aren't allowed to be united in a civil ceremony because, well, I guess I just don't know why. Couldn't possibly be because of religion.
Now the laws that are being passed are regressive instead of progressive.
In 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson passed the Higher Ed Act, which was intended to provide access to college to people that were not able to access college without some assistance. These programs have grown into things like the Pell Grants, TRiO programs, Financial Aid, etc.
In 2005 George Bush the Dumber tried to cut out a large part of these bills, and has resisted efforts to reauthorize the bill. He is still trying to cut out sections of these bills to pay for his war in Iraq, and damages from Katrina.
This is what I call progress.
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We still have racism and prejudice in this country, but it is now based on things such as family income or mental/physical disabilities. Any wonder that "No Child Left Untested" doesn't allow for reasonable accomodations for students with disabilities? Students are being pushed out of schools because they are hurting percentages, instead of being given extra help because they don't fit an educational niche.
While I'm talking about prejudice, I don't want to imply that racism based upon color of skin has gone anywhere. Not to harp on an old subject, but I firmly believe that if the victims of Hurricane Katrina were white, never mind wealthy, we would have had them out of there the day before the storm, never mind had a reasonable response rate after the hurricane.
Agghh
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I'm disgusted with my country today.
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5 comments:
for some reason your blog today didn't cheer me up. huh.
i think we should add another prerequisite to being president. along w/ being 35 & born in the usa, you should be smarter than a dog's ass w/ diarrhea. maybe this will help prevent w's from happening again.
Amen to both very smart brothers! Hope this is not too big of an ego boost. You both smell bad!
why is it the gf, that i never feel better after your compliments?
well little brother, I think that there are other rules we could impose as well that might help, but having a president smarter than dog shit would be a great start.
As it is, I think we are going to have to wait a few years for that.
that didn't answer my question.
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