America’s Quiet Anger. James T. Gannon at The American Spectator.
Still waters run deep.
There is a quiet anger boiling in America.
It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans — and see their government reward those who do not.
It is the anger of small town and Middle American folks who have never been to Manhattan, who put their savings in a community bank and borrow from a local credit union, who watch Washington lawmakers and presidents of both parties hand billions in taxpayer bailouts to the reckless Wall Street titans who brought down the economy in 2008.
It is an undulating anger that actually speaks volumes. Read on.
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Truly! And the last paragraph of that article is what BOTH parties fear the most!
Well, it’s obvious by that lack of “bounce” in the polls that Obama was expecting after he signed the health care bill. He also thinks that if he approves of off-shore drilling along the East Coast that this will bring some Republicans over to his camp…and it won’t because they’re pissed off big time.
I have a young couple that lives in a house behind me and they are very nice, but when it comes to finances….not too bright. He’s a interior and exterior painter who doesn’t have a high school diploma. His wife, used to own a cleaning service but had a baby and gave up the house cleaning, hoping that industrial cleaning jobs would be enough. It isn’t.
Anyway, she told me how they were barely hanging on and her husband couldn’t get work and she was afraid they were going to lose their house. But then they went out and bought a HUGE flat screen TV. I mentioned that it would be a good idea for her husband to take the extra time he has while not working and try to get his GED, at least with that he can get a low-level job to fill in with a little extra income. But no…he wants to work with his “rock band” with hopes of getting a big contract with some recording studio. I heard his band…not good.
You watch, this couple will get a break from their bank and be able to bypass their mortgage payments or have them lowered.
Oh…and the reason that the wife cannot go out and work more, maybe start up her house cleaning business again? Because her husband “doesn’t do babysitting”. He has never changed a diaper…that’s “women’s work.” Not kidding.
Oh..and I forgot to mention. The couple I spoke of…have matching Harley motorcycles that they just can’t part with.
PMM, it’s the regular middle of America folks who get slammed with the excesses of the “entitled” in government and beyond. They are getting fed up.
Nunly, that couple sound like real social prizes. Not a lot of gumption for sure. But certainly a lot of sense of entitlement. To the same things that many others work very hard for. So instead of buckling down and working hard and sacrificing time, effort, or resources, for something significant (like responsible people do), they cry foul and demand life is unfair and expect somehow the road to be paved easier for them.
Does not make sense.