tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post5952712770373066250..comments2023-11-03T05:09:47.246-07:00Comments on Ramblings ~: What condition our condition is in.....Franhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-4149427886747350732011-01-27T23:44:30.224-08:002011-01-27T23:44:30.224-08:00Lib-- Sure its easy to make future promises of thi...Lib-- Sure its easy to make future promises of things to happen long after they are gone & retired. Too much fluff for me. <br /><br />B-- Good observations. We are just not drinking the koolaid. I am all for education, but the jobs component needs to be there too. Going $32k in debt for college to arrive to a no job situation is not going to cut it.<br />I guess so many recruiters & ROTC elements were prohibited from campuses because of their discriminatory practices were in violation of campus codes-- so now that it's OK to be gay in the military, it's open season to get everyone to sign up for war?<br />Military recruiters are predatory. I'll consider it after all those who voted for & funded wars send THEIR kids to be in the front lines of war. <br /><br />Nonnie~ It felt like it was selling so much positivity.... talking about the Brazillian mine story while not mentioning 48 miners lost their lives in the US in 2010. Or the biggest environmental disaster in US history. <br />Instead talking about electric cars being the majority by 2015? Buying GM Volt electric cars @ $40,000 each???<br /><br />He did say the oil companies are doing just fine w/o subsidies... but to just gloss over all that stuff to me made the whole thing too fake.<br />A lot of jive talkin'. <br /><br />They are now selling We do big things t shirts...Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-26743042219369036652011-01-27T22:08:34.957-08:002011-01-27T22:08:34.957-08:00i think the main aim of the speech was to put the ...i think the main aim of the speech was to put the rethugs in a corner. he positioned himself as the reasonable one, so the rethugs will have to tread carefully if they don't want to look like the extremists so many of them are. obama had already connected with the public with the tucson speech, so he didn't need any soaring oratory in this one (and there wasn't any).nonnie9999http://mikk2.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-31295613016688852642011-01-27T18:38:32.381-08:002011-01-27T18:38:32.381-08:00What Universe does Obama inhabit? I'd like to ...What Universe does Obama inhabit? I'd like to go there - where coal and nuclear are "clean energy" - where a 55 year old<br />woman goes back to school for a "new career" - yeah, lots of employers<br />lining up to hire her, I'm sure. Where we have 'withdrawn our troops" from<br />Iraq (pay no attention to those 100,000 mercenaries with trigger fingers<br />still there). The world "admires" what we stand for - just ignore<br />Guantanamo. Our future "requires our attention" to education - ignore the<br />dozens of schools being closed in every state. "We need" to focus on<br />colleges and universities - just be sure to be very wealthy so your<br />children can get there.<br /><br />And didn't you just love his demand to allow military recruiters at all<br />schools? I also loved his call to lower taxes for corporations. Yes, their<br />record profits make them very needy for help.<br /><br />He did "mention" Social Security - but only to make it stronger(?).<br /><br />There's more that made me feel queazy, but these were the points that made<br />me the most disgusted.<br /> ~BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-32104190218133299642011-01-27T15:59:21.203-08:002011-01-27T15:59:21.203-08:00It was a pep rally speech. We already had one che...It was a pep rally speech. We already had one cheer leading president and he was a disaster so Obama should not follow too closely in those footsteps.<br /><br /><i>Why do they always push these lofty goals soooo far into the future?</i> That's a very good question and one I have asked myself so many times. It's always "in the future" but it is never "right now".Life As I Know It Nowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733963455243806298noreply@blogger.com