Michael1942's Blog

Let us discuss the uproar about Russia and Ukraine. The U.S. is busy working towards a disengagement in a war in Afghanistan and the Russo-Ukraine issue is all the Congressional war hawks can talk about. Wars cost money and lives and we cannot afford it. It is well that they feel so strongly about the issue in Ukraine but not so much about American issues of equality, global warming  and government reform (of all sorts). It is an amazing thing to see all of the rhetoric that emerges near election time (all of them). Here in Illinois we have several (too many) candidates for State and Federal offices who all claim to be the one we should select to represent us. Keeping in mind that no one candidate is perfect or can aspire to be perfect but these aspirants continue to make these claims until they actually get the office then  all their rhetoric  is just talk! It is impossible for anyone to determine what they will do once in office, they can only talk about what they want to do but they seem to forget that the person they are looking to replace has said similar things when running for the office. Politics is a dirty business that will soil the hands of all who are in it, the survival will  depend on what things they can get done with the least amount of fanfare and rise above the guano pile that swallows so many. We do not hear much about these things but we certainly hear about what wasn’t done and what should have or could have been done. The Affordable Care Act which was labeled as “Obamacare” has helped more that it hurt in spite of a rocky start and has shown that the “cancelled” insurance policies were in fact substandard. It is unfortunate that politics has become the way legislature works instead of the way it should, members presenting bills for the good of the country and discussions on them to make them the best they can be. Instead what we have are presentations that become arguments and political fodder along party lines. I have decided to continue my practice of voting against long term servers in an attempt to renew the political “gene” pool. I urge everyone to do the same and dismiss the hundreds of political ads that elevate or denigrate a political aspirant. Remember the old saw still applies” If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, then it must be a duck!”

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