I’m tired, I’m really am. Some of my favorite TV programs used to be Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Meet The Press. But now I would rather watch old re-runs of The Wayans Brothers and The Steve Harvey Show.
I’m tired of empty political rhetoric from the right about the importance of tax cuts for corporations and from the left about creating jobs for those suffering. Tax cuts have failed to spur job growth for 10 years in America and tell the black community how many jobs have been created when the unemployment rate for African-Americans is near 20 percent.
I’m tired of hearing how each and every politician knows how “real Americans” feel; how Republicans “know what small businesses need.” At this point it seems that neither side is truly in tune with what “real” Americans require.
We need jobs. We need opportunities and we need our so-called leaders to stop the hyperbolic oratory about how the other side is driving America toward a bottomless pit of tax increases and threats of terrorism.
While I’m at it, please stop with the fear mongering.
But, what’s really starting to wear on my nerves is stuff like this. Illinois Representative Joe Walsh plans to skip the President’s speech on jobs this week to host a small business forum in his home state.
Walsh called the President an idiot and in the same breath said that he doesn’t want to be disrespectful. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
If this small business forum is so important to job creation why is Walsh just now holding it? Walsh also said that he’s tired of being a prop for the President.
So Rep. Walsh, what exactly is this jobs forum you’re holding? Is that not a prop as well?
By the way, where is that Republican plan to create jobs?
I’ve never professed to being a subscriber to Republican ideas and theories but Rep. Walsh is one of the reasons why this American is wearing tired of leaders in D.C.
Next is President Obama.
Last week the President decided to remove a plan to reinforce smog limits championed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The President said that he decided to yank the plan due to its burden on business.
His Republicans “friends” wanted Obama to rid the system of this regulation and he did them a favor. I’m not sure what President Obama was trying to accomplish with this one but, if it was to please Republicans then he failed.
Republicans said that this regulation on smog was a job killer and now that the President has sided with them, they are still calling him a job killing, over-bearing regulatory loving liberal.
Those cracks that you’re hearing are that of the President’s foundation. His base is starting to erode to a pile of wet sand due to his unwillingness to fight for issues most important to them.
Then there’s the President’s jobs speech fiasco. President Obama requested to speak to a joint session of Congress to talk about jobs but Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, told him to have a seat and wait in the lobby until he’s ready for him.
Obama wanted to speak on Wednesday but instead he moved it to Thursday when the NFL season officially kicks off.
In my short 27 years on this planet I can’t remember such blatant disrespect geared toward a President. I also can’t remember a President who has come across weaker than Obama.
When an entire party of individuals tells the President to kick rocks and he listens, then the party that he belongs to has an issue.
At this point I’m just tired of listening.
Tell me to take my ipod earbuds out when somebody actually does something to help us.
-JH
