Hope and Change for a $100 Bill

So this is what "hope and change" looks like. 8.9% unemployment, $3.39 a gallon for gasoline, the president all but ignores the rulings of our judiciary, and our currency and standing in the world are diminished to microscopic levels. What the Hell happened? Is this the new "normal," now? Seriously? When the Persian people of Iran, our enemy, took to the streets in 2009, our government didn't want to meddle, but when the people of Egypt rose up against our ally Mubarak, well, he's got to go! Since when does America backhand it's allies and bow to its' enemies? Gas prices keep going up, and the news organizations tell us it's due to the conflict in Libya, even though we know for a fact Libya isn't even in the top fifteen of countries we get our oil from. We have plenty of oil here at home, but we aren't allowed to drill for it because of the potential for environmental disaster! Remember the BP oil spill? They told us if we didn't cap the well, it would just keep pouring out, maybe for a decade! If I learned anything from the BP oil spill, it was that there is no shortage of oil in the Gulf of Mexico and that America can bounce back pretty quickly from disasters. Yet, in a time when most Americans are short on cash, our government puts a moratorium on drilling, which not only kills jobs, increases our demand for foreign oil, and drives up the cost of gasoline, it makes us look down-right idiotic when the Chinese are drilling all over the world. Of course, that moratorium was struck down by a federal judge almost a year ago, but we're still not allowed to drill. 33 exploratory drilling projects were held up by the government, but don't worry, right? We're putting our money on "new" technology like windmills! But what do the windmills run on when there's no wind? Oh, that's right, they run on generators which need OIL and GAS! Meanwhile, as our economy gets worse, we're told by our news media that it's actually getting better! Sure, break out the booze, we're down to 8.9%! It's been a hard crawl, but the administration insists that this was handed to them by George Bush...no, wait- George Bush left office with unemployment at 7.9%, didn't he? And weren't we promised it would never go above 8%? Right. because of all of those "shovel-ready" jobs. Well, I know what to do with my shovel. But while we're on the topic, what ever happened to the $787 billion dollars we didn't have but spent anyway on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009? Well...according to http://www.recovery.gov $259 billion went to "tax benefits," $180.7 billion went to "contracts and grants," and $184.4 billion went to "entitlements." Where are the shovels? Where are the jobs? And where is the other 8% of your money? You see, our economics teachers in high school used to lie to us and tell us that we owed the money to ourselves, but the truth is we've been borrowing it from the Chinese communists for YEARS. So, knowing that we- no, wait...our grandchildren owe China, what does our government do? Well, the Federal Reserve wants us to print more money, and the people we just sent to Congress to deal with out of control spending and debt want to raise the ceiling on our "national" debt! And while all of this is going on, the states are in trouble with the union mobs because they just don't have the money to keep paying workers after they've stop working for the states!But the best part, the real gravy, here, is that if you disagree with our "post-racial" president on any of these things, or illegal immigration, or on the justice department, or anything at all, you're a racist. So- why aren't you angry? There are three possibilities- 1) You like what's happening to America. 2) You are so jaded that you don't even care. 3) You are too busy trying to figure out how to stay afloat to be angry. But if you are angry, then what are you going to do about it besides hope the cashier at the gas station has change for a $100 bill?