Evaluation

Well, re-electing Obama wasn't the end of the world, after all.  On the other hand, it wasn't the best choice, was it?  Or are we all still convinced it was?  For my part, I finally figured out one small piece of the puzzle.  Obama isn't solving my problems... he orates constantly, he sermonizes, he lectures, he pounds the pulpit, he hammers away like Castro used to down in Cuba.  If we are now going to insist  repetition is a good thing, well, okay.  But good for whom?  There's lots of noise up on the podium, but I can feel somebody's hand groping big-time in my lower middle-class pocket, you know, the one where I keep my steadily  thinning wallet.

Let's do a reality check:  Has inflation stopped chewing into our hard earned dollars?  Are we paying less for groceries?  For gasoline?  Have our taxes gone down?  Is it costing us less to feed and educate our kids and put new shoes on their feet?  Did we get a big raise this year to compensate for the shrinking value of our incomes?  Did our social security checks increase by 10 or 20% over the past few years to keep up with our expenses?   Has the government reined in their run-away spending?  Let's say it another way.  How badly do we have to hurt before we admit it?  Or is saying we are right more important than fixing our  problems?  The good thing is, in this country nobody forces us to do anything in our own interest.  That is a good thing, right?