Forget the debates. If your mind is not made up now as to whom is the best qualified candidate to vote for in November well, I am sorry.
Sorry for this country, sorry for you and very sorry for the rest of us.
Countries are layers of people with different backgrounds and mindsets. How they arrived at that mindset is due to a number of things: the values instilled in them while growing up; the lack of any values instilled in them while growing up; the events and people who shaped their lives.
Many different mindsets make up this country:
1. Those who continue to want what's been given to them, free of charge, and no strings attached
2. Those groups and individuals who know only violence as a way of life; as a way to achieve what they want and will resort to it, whenever they feel threatened
3. Seniors who have been through much, learned much and kept this country together
4. Young people who have known no hardship at all, only peace and the good life (brought to them, courtesy of the many sacrifices made by our American military men and women)
5. Military veterans who have seen it all
6. Other cultures
How do you govern a country with so many different mindsets? How do you placate, pander to all of them?
Well, the answer is, you do not. Weakness is placating; weakness is pandering.
Governing is not about pandering to nor placating people or special interest groups. Governing is about doing what is necessary : It is the firm hand of governance: Directing; guiding; restraining; checking; managing and supervising.
It's about zeroing in on problems and providing solutions; it's about helping people understand that when a country is slowly being rendered helpless by economic calamity, some unpopular, hard and fast decisions need be made in order to stave off disaster, that very well may (more likely will not) sit very well with many of us.
But if we do not, collectively, agree that these steps must be taken, then we might as well be living elsewhere where there is definitely complete chaos.
I believe we all are going to have to swallow our pride, reorient our thinking, suffer some type of hardship, while we right this ship. But not to the extent and severe consequences that if we did nothing at all.
Personally, I believe that this financial fiscal cliff we are heading for did not need to happen. It was a daring and glaring undertaking of gross mismanagement by the malefactor of malfeasance.
If a Governor or a President is unable or unwilling to bring people together in a consensus of understanding of a country's grave situation, how it will personally impact them, and then not taking the steps necessary to avert the crisis, you do not have a leader. A bad mistake perhaps and a lesson learned, but definitely not a leader.
What's facing us, whether it be Romney or Obama is not a pretty picture. Four years under Obama has not worked. We're in worse shape now then we were before he assumed the Presidency.
We are the all, you and I. And the all also includes those who have adopted a blatantly ignorant and total disregard and/or lack of understanding for what is happening, for a myriad of reasons.
If Obama is re-elected where do you think you'll be at the end of another four years?
And, if Romney is elected, who do you think will reap the blame for decisions that will need to be made in order to fix a broke economy, brought to us courtesy of Obama, salvage what is left of the American Dream, create jobs and reform the welfare state?
Yup, you guessed it.
Sorry for this country, sorry for you and very sorry for the rest of us.
Countries are layers of people with different backgrounds and mindsets. How they arrived at that mindset is due to a number of things: the values instilled in them while growing up; the lack of any values instilled in them while growing up; the events and people who shaped their lives.
Many different mindsets make up this country:
1. Those who continue to want what's been given to them, free of charge, and no strings attached
2. Those groups and individuals who know only violence as a way of life; as a way to achieve what they want and will resort to it, whenever they feel threatened
3. Seniors who have been through much, learned much and kept this country together
4. Young people who have known no hardship at all, only peace and the good life (brought to them, courtesy of the many sacrifices made by our American military men and women)
5. Military veterans who have seen it all
6. Other cultures
How do you govern a country with so many different mindsets? How do you placate, pander to all of them?
Well, the answer is, you do not. Weakness is placating; weakness is pandering.
Governing is not about pandering to nor placating people or special interest groups. Governing is about doing what is necessary : It is the firm hand of governance: Directing; guiding; restraining; checking; managing and supervising.
It's about zeroing in on problems and providing solutions; it's about helping people understand that when a country is slowly being rendered helpless by economic calamity, some unpopular, hard and fast decisions need be made in order to stave off disaster, that very well may (more likely will not) sit very well with many of us.
But if we do not, collectively, agree that these steps must be taken, then we might as well be living elsewhere where there is definitely complete chaos.
I believe we all are going to have to swallow our pride, reorient our thinking, suffer some type of hardship, while we right this ship. But not to the extent and severe consequences that if we did nothing at all.
Personally, I believe that this financial fiscal cliff we are heading for did not need to happen. It was a daring and glaring undertaking of gross mismanagement by the malefactor of malfeasance.
If a Governor or a President is unable or unwilling to bring people together in a consensus of understanding of a country's grave situation, how it will personally impact them, and then not taking the steps necessary to avert the crisis, you do not have a leader. A bad mistake perhaps and a lesson learned, but definitely not a leader.
What's facing us, whether it be Romney or Obama is not a pretty picture. Four years under Obama has not worked. We're in worse shape now then we were before he assumed the Presidency.
We are the all, you and I. And the all also includes those who have adopted a blatantly ignorant and total disregard and/or lack of understanding for what is happening, for a myriad of reasons.
If Obama is re-elected where do you think you'll be at the end of another four years?
And, if Romney is elected, who do you think will reap the blame for decisions that will need to be made in order to fix a broke economy, brought to us courtesy of Obama, salvage what is left of the American Dream, create jobs and reform the welfare state?
Yup, you guessed it.
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