So here I am. A freshman in high school. Sitting in math class when I hear the news. Bush won. Shit. Eight years later and we’re more screwed than we have been in awhile. Oil dependant and broke as Eric’s couch. That poor, poor couch…but I’m getting sidetracked. Damn ADD. I read something the other day that made me stop and wonder. The new president is coming into office and inheriting a $9,539,604,941,464.24 dollar deficit.. That’s a shit load of money.
It has continued to increase an average of $1.74 billion per day since September 28, 2007… which means if you were to split that evenly to every single American we each owe $31,333.61 apiece. Give or take. Do you accept money orders? HOW DID WE GET THAT MUCH IN THE HOLE!!!!!!! Oh yeah. That pesky little war. Forgot about that one! Jesus Christ people..With gas at almost $4 bucks a gallon and the price of everything going up daily, how can we catch up? How do we solve a deficit of that much. It’s unimaginable.
Can you grasp that? That much money would fill the Superdome! Someone call FEMA… our system has failed as a whole. How did a once amazing country get to this point? We had a surplus of cash in 2000. And after eight years of Elmer Fudd running the show, were screwed. We have more IOU’s out in the world than a crack head on the first of the month. I don’t mean to sound so anti-everything here but this shit falls back on you and me. We feel this debt as much as anyone. They raise prices yet keep wages the same in order to try and pull us out of it..
And it’s not working. I understand why we went to Afghanistan. But when did we become the world police force? It’s retarded. I was chatting online the other day to someone on Facebook and when they found out I was American they started asking why I feel like I’m superior to everyone else because I’m American? And I had no answer. I don’t feel like I’m superior to anyone because of my nationality. That question shocked and kinda hurt me. I’ve been reading about Americans traveling abroad and being attacked because they have American flags on their bags or shirts. Some people have resorted to putting English or Canadian flags on their items to avoid being jumped.
What the hell? I was considering taking a trip out of the states with a friend to Europe but now…not so much. I’m lost on this one. When did we fall into such disfavor? When did all Americans become evil in the eyes of the world?
Oh. That’s right. When we became the drunken douschebag at the party who starts shit for no reason or jumps into problems that aren’t his. You know what happens to that guy? He sobers up one day and figures out that no one likes him, he should have given up on being ‘cool’ after his last birthday and that he’s all alone. And I hate to see that happening to us.
The system has failed. Totally and utterly failed. And it’s up to us to fix it. ALL of us. So the time is coming for the ones who can help. And come hell or high water we’ll try to pull this country out of its nosedive. Or die trying..
