What I noticed is that when a party loses an election they wonder "why" and then they examine the "voters" that the opposing party got supported by that gave them that win. And then they figure out how to get "that group" to vote for them the next election. That is basically what the Republican party is doing now. However, these parties are not genuinely looking at the needs of these groups, they are only looking for how these groups can be "marketed" for "votes". And their "talking points" are set around gaining these "voters" but that doesn't mean the politican is really going to "help" that group of individuals. They will only do whatever "minimum" they have to in order to "keep" that group of voters. I have touched on this in my other post, but it is just something that keeps coming up in my mind that I don't feel the general public sees tbh because they get swept up in the heat of the election and what they "want to hear" is constantly in the talking points of these candidates, while painting the opposing candidate to not be trusted.

For example, we now, for the first time have an African American President. However the African American men in America are suffering from at least 14% unemployment, which is higher than the national average.

During the Clinton Presidency there was an effort to get a way for Americans to buy more homes and be able to borrow money to do so. And that was carried along in the Bush administration as well. Unfortunately, Americans "over borrowed" and ofcourse we also had those that took advantage of that effort for "selfish reasons" and we all know the end result. But the bottom line is that Americans had "wants and needs" and "over borrowed". And what I see happening is now Obama has "wants and needs" and he is "over borrowing" and we are beginning to see that this too will have a bad ending. So, I do feel we have to stop and pay attention to "what we can actually afford" and "what we spend money on that could be cut".

I understand that Obama's "passion" is in the "social needs" of Americans, however, we do have to consider, "what we can actually afford to do".

It is my hope that our political parties can get "beyond" the egos of "winning or losing" this past election and actually move towards figuring out how we can actually resolve our present financially poor condition we are actually in first. I pray, that our politicians "stop" and consider ways to stop this divide going on in our country as well. A "good president" IMO will notice that because our country is divided that he should "listen" and "compromise" instead of being determined to march to his own drum of "ego". Especially considering he only won by about 51%.

When I listen to alot of the youth of today, they all seem to want to be "great" somehow. When did we get that way, what happened to just finding who we "are" and be the best we can be?

Open Eyes