Talking, Not Listening Part One

From the Desk of HamsterPrez
Hamsterdam, USA

My Fellow Hamsters;

This is likely to be my last series of posts. I have finally discovered the problem to the problems, and there appears to be no solution. It's in the title. Everyone's talking, but no one is listening. Poll after poll after poll has told our elected officials what we, their employers, want and yet they fail at every turn to pay any heed. So caught up in their own sanctimonious and petty drivel are they that we no longer matter. They have completely ceased being representatives of ours and have morphed into professional politicians whose only focus is re-election.

They don't give a crap about us...that would take too much effort. Having been reduced to just another lonely voice screaming into the empty darkness had driven me to just shut the hell up. My voice among all the others offers nothing to those who refuse to listen.

And I'm just too angry about all the stupidity I see and hear. There are such easy answers to all of the problems we have, and yet those who have the ability and position to enact those solutions refuse to do so until and unless they get something in return. Louisianna gets $100 million dollars so their senator will not block a procedural vote. Abortion gets written into the alleged health care reform bill so that some politicrat from Nebraska will get in line with the party, despite the fact that what he is asking for is contradictory to the party's platform.

Dont' even get me started on Lieberman. He's been called the Senator from Aetna, but he's actually just the Senator from Lieberman. His actions have absolutely nothing to do with his constituents, the country, the sick and the dying. He's not holding things up to get something for his state or for the insurance cartel. He's doing what he's doing because he can and gives him an egomaniacal boost in self importance.

President Obama? He's so intent on the ideal of how government should work that he has completely failed to notice the reality of it all. It's great to want the system to work as you've been taught that it should, but at some point (long past now) you have to say "screw it" and just do what you know is right. And just. And that doesn't kill people. You are not only the leader of the free world, Sir, you are the leader of your party. Except they are leading you. Long ago you should have taken over the debate, gotten the country behind you, threatened these dolts with their political lives, and gotten your party to do what you said you were going to do. On this, Sir, you have failed miserably, and it's killing a lot of people.

The rest of the civilized world, and probably some parts of the not-so-civilized world, are looking at America now and wondering what the hell? We look stupid, inept, incapable and we are losing our position rapidly as the place that everyone turns to for answers and assistance. We are becoming a laughing-stock and all the pretty speeches won't make that go away. Our very credibility is at stake, and we're losing our grip.

I said earlier (and before in other posts) that the solutions to the major problems facing this country are simple and in my next post I will outline them. It won't do any good, of course. If the people who actually have a podium from which to speak can't get any traction, then how the hell will I? But, it will make me feel better.

HP

From the Hamster Nation HQ in Hamsterdam, here is this year's recipient of the Hamster Paradigm Excellence in Writing Award, Mr. Rod G. of Seal Beach, CA. Rod, or as we affectionately call him Big Rod, won this award months ago, but it has taken the Hamster Nation Budget Office this long to approve the funding for the Keith Olbermann bobble head doll, pictured with its proud new owner.

Many thanks to Big Rod for his contributions and thought-numbing conversations around the HQ.

HamsterPrez