Thursday, October 16, 2008

Third presidential debate

The final debate for the presidential candidates that aired last night did not add much clarity or encouragement for all of us "Joe's" out there. I don't know about you, but boiling down what is commonly referred to as the middle class to Joe six-pack and Joe the plumber is not only a miserable and lackluster example as to how the hard working, still broke public is seen by our wealthy candidates and their cronies.
As one North Arlington resident put it, "Why did my father work so hard to put me through college and even though I make more a year than he ever made, he lived a better life than I do."
That's the point I think many people are worrying about – jobs that hardly pay enough to hang onto the home, feed the kids and live an existence that is not filled will constant anxiety, while CEO's and such high ranking persons are raking unbelievable fortunes in off our backs. How about those season tickets and trips to AMC we're can't afford anymore? Shall we live vicariously off the presented wealth of others?
Keeping informed often digs the incredulousness of it all deeper but here it is, for better or worse.




BTW Joe the plumber doesn't have a license and either does his employees who's business he says he wants to buy. He doesn't even have a plan to buy the business. It's really one of those 'what if' type of ruminations, so the entire bantering last night was just a diversion and in the end a delusion. PAU, folks. (That's politics as usual)