It is not simply the meltdown that is happening in the marketplace - this is scary, worthy of serious pause and debilitating worldwide.
It is that such a large percentage of the American people are supporting Obama and those with him who literally DROVE us to this party (I have to ignore the Obamamania in the rest of the world simply because of the corruption and naivetivity that plays such a part in the socialist leaning countries that we get so much press from).
This did not occur in a vacuum. We are reaping what Pelosi and Reid and Frank and Biden and Dodd and Kennedy and so many others on the left have sown into our government for years. This is what they said and acted out that they wanted.
THIS is what Reagan and Buckley and Gingrich and Will and Rove have warned about. Do you get it? Do you understand yet? Do you, Mr. and Ms. supporter of "Change"?
Do you see that by corrupting the marketplace with your infernal legislative and judicial activism in the name of "class equality" (another word for socialism) and by using government's awful powers to redefine success as evil while brokering power for your personal wealth, you have destroyed the WORLD's confidence in the only marketplace they perceived to be free of what they suffered with?
Do you see that when Reagan proclaimed this great nation a "shining city on a hill" that it was not mere oratory - it was about our leadership role in bringing nations along toward freedom from corruption. The rule of law and personal property rights and freedom of religion (not from it) and free market capitalism can NEVER be perfect because humans are involved.
BUT - those ideals are liberating... they allow hope and purpose and freedom that confiscatory government and dehumanized programs can never replace or even emulate.
Do you see how far you have drug us all? I don't think so.
I hear all the talking heads, including on Fox, pointing angry words at this President and administration. True, they should have fought harder. But who is talking about ACCOUNTABILITY for Barney Frank? Who is talking about HEARINGS - with Dodd, Pelosi, Frank, Reid and all the others - even Obama - ANYONE - being held accountable to the American people for what they have done?
I am angry. But I am more than a bit afraid that we have lost our country. I know so many good people who really get it, but we have not held on.
How can anyone in their right mind not see how we got here? It IS greed. It IS corruption. It IS rape of the American people. BUT, it didn't happen on Wall Street - it happened in congress and we don't seem to have enough votes from people who care to make it change.
I did say I was having a hard time holding this down.