The Obama Generation
Yesterday evening my wife and I were driving on our way to get some groceries when a billboard called my attention. The sign was for the local 950 AM radio station in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota. The inscription “Obama Generation” made me think on two simple ideas. What would define the “Obama Generation” and who would like to identify themselves or belong to such group?
When our illustrious president Obama was in the campaign trail he promised CHANGE in different fronts. Mr. Obama has been in office for over a year and the only CHANGE that has occurred is with the trend of things in the USA; as a whole, things are just getting worse by the minute.
Career politicians CONTINUE to celebrate being in office for life, politicians CONTINUE getting “legal bribes”, the USA CONTINUES being at war and Mr. Obama is sending more troops to fight a war that cannot be won, healthcare insurance companies CONTINUE to raise prices and reduce coverage, CEOs CONTINUE to collect huge bonuses requesting Naive American tax payers bailouts, industry CONTINUES to shrink, small businesses CONTINUE to decline, our kids CONTINUE to score lower and lower when compared to their peers in other countries, inflation CONTINUES to creep in, the legal system has nothing to do with justice and CONTINUES to support special interest groups with laws supported by the Supreme Court, the trade deficit CONTINUES to grow, federal expending CONTINUES to rise, drug consumption and crimes CONTINUE to grow, unions CONTINUE to claim benefits with little work to show for their demands, etc, etc, etc. That is what is going while Mr. Obama is at the helm. Nothing has changed for the best in the first 13 months of his administration. Perhaps Mr. Obama is waiting to surprise the country (do not hold your breath).
Now that we have characterized what is happening with the Obama administration, the question remains, what type of person would like to associate themselves with an individual and ideology that, so far, has not been able to CHANGE a thing while in a position (the USA presidency) that took hundreds of millions of dollars in political contributions from organizations and individuals that do not expect anything in return (If you believe this, I have a bridge I would like to sell you). Obviously the people who contributed to the presidential campaign are not part of the “Obama Generation”. Perhaps the “Obama Generation” represents the millions of Naive Americans that have lost their jobs and are getting so many well-paid construction jobs repairing roads. Maybe the “Obama Generation” is made of people that are involved in all those new well-paid green jobs (doing who knows what).
It appears that there are no logical reasons for Naive Americans to be associated with a group labeled the “Obama Generation”. If you know of a good or logical reason please let me know. I will amend this blog with such reference.
