Citizens, It’s Down to You

[katty]

more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/11/citizens-it-s-down-to-you.html

Americans are, by nature, self-reliant. They’ve always been that way, and most would prefer to stay that way. But there are limits. “Yes, we are rugged individualists,” President Barack Obama told a joint session of Congress last week in his Big Jobs Speech. “But there’s always been another thread running throughout our history—a belief that we’re all connected, and that there are some things we can only do together, as a nation.”

OK, fair enough. But what happens when the government that is supposed to bring people together instead helps to drive them apart? Or simply ceases to function in any reasonable fashion? That is what we’ve seen in the last few months, and the problem is only likely to grow worse in the months to come.

[Arctic Dave]

1. "rugged individual" is a bullshit myth used to divide people and sell garbage.

Earlier settlers of this nation would never have survived without the help of the inidigenous population and could never have "civilized" it without slave labor.

[midnight]

2. There is a reason congress has been given authority to create jobs in times of crisis.... They need

to get the job done or be replaced.... Obama should hold them to account for doing their jobs, and let us not have to eat, shovel, any more rhetoric.....