short sided sight

Short sided sight! Seems that we have become a nation whose only goal is to remedy the immediate and forgo the future. Seems like more bandages are brandished and less homeopathic heaps of help are ever considered or chosen. The right now is a hue and cry; emergency fixes become the method of resolution, and the immediate is the cincher for solving the issue.

Add the selfish fixation of politics and politicians as they stand in place, or worse, as they move backwards as the only progress taken to find solutions. Pontificate on who is wrong, to blame, to scapegoat then speak loud, speak fast, speak incoherently facing your fingers at others and dance a mad jig never really owning up to a remedy. Do a cursory correction, hope the population forgets and never figure out how to find the cure.

We reluctantly pass a law which encourages whistle blowers to come forward and identify the culprit, but seem to never listen to the whistleblower until the evil deed is done. Then we ring our hands passing the buck to someone else for not taking the first hand knowledge when it was first hand and making change. We recite past history finding the details dubious and disastrous make our marketing attempt to disown ourselves from the past only to let the devils in the detail go unnoticed and never acted upon.

What? The record of accidents ignited with the incompetence and disregard for anything but the bottom line from BP was not public notice? What? During the Bush/Cheney dictatorship we had no bid contracts with Halliburton for faulty facilities, mechanics and drinking water in Iraq and Afghanistan learning they could care less about quality? What? Transocean’s history of cutting corners in building rigs and equipment was kept a secret? What? We didn’t have record of drugs, pornography, kickbacks to the MMS from the Oil Cartel? What? No one knew that ‘Dickie’ Cheney held, as one of his first official VP meetings, a private invitation only sortie with his buds the CEO’s of the Oil Cartels? Really? All of this is new?

Then there is public outrage and 'by gosh darn' we are going to make changes, or at least make a lot of noise to make those changes. Is it going to be like allowing Wall Street and the bankers to reform the finance system? Will it be like the Health Insurance Cartel handling Health Care Reform? Is it going to be like the Oil Cartels running the EPA? (In case you answered yes to any of the above you are correct because in the last dictatorship the Bush/Cheney regimen it happened). Too much government was bad because it infringed on the American way, except the fine print also read it infringed on the corporations getting richer. Americans may think they elect the politicians but it is lobbyists who run this country.

President Obama, you inherited so much crap from “mission accomplished” Bush. Why anyone would even want to take on the challenges left behind by selfish, self serving men such as Bush and Cheney is beyond my thinking. But Sir, you wanted the job and promised us change. How about adding insight, foresight and finally stopping the hindsight in dealing with the welfare of this nation.

You are a man of belief so start believing in what is best for this nation and stop playing politics. We all know about the cronyism, kickbacks, lobbyist influence PAC’s that afflict and affect our elected officials and government employees, so don’t act dumb act smart in stopping this flood of greed and gluttony. We had eight years of careless and carefree government how about a government that is careful and caring?

Short sided sight, Sir, does not look well on you.