Yesterday, a crowd gathered in DC to protest "Big Government". According to the New York Times the crowd was larger than expected, was profane and abusive, and included single-issue folks like gun advocates.
They had some totally offensive words for President Obama, who has inherited the most dismal mess since the sadly brain-damaged Gerald Ford assumed Nixon's morass.
The ostensible purpose of the assemblage was to oppose runaway government spending.
Okay, where have these "Guardians of the Public Weal" been?
According to Wikipedia, the Halcyon years of the Devil's Spawn Reagan assumed a Public Debt of 909 billion dollars. When the woefully inadequate George Herbert Walker Bush left office, according to the US Treasury website (http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np) , after twelve years of "responsible government", the National Debt was $4.188 trillion, an increase of 460%, or 38% every year. Where were the protests?
After eight years of the constantly criticized, fucking impeached, Bill Clinton, the National Debt had risen to $5.728 trillion, a total growth of 25 % over eight years. Less than inflation?
And here comes the idiot son, Bush(43), a privileged "C" student, a failure at every goddam thing, running a baseball team, oilfield investments, weekend service in the Air National Guard. So how does a drunken cokehead do with OUR economy?
In his too long, excruciatingly long, Banana Republic Dictatorship, with the suspension of Human Rights and the violation or annulment of six of the amendments known as "The Bill of Rights", the usurpation of Congressional oversight, and another, very important nullification, suspension of habeas corpus, "body of evidence", which mandates that there must be reason for one to be detained, "W" sodomized the nation and its working people, we taxpayers.
The Writ of Habeas Corpus is guaranteed by Article One of the Constitution, and is only to be suspended during times of insurrection (Lincoln ordered suspension during the Civil War, surely in compliance) and armed intrusion (Bush ordered suspension when a bunch of Saudis boarded domestic flights armed with boxcutters, surely not).
And our debt? Bush assumed a National Debt, on Inauguration Day (so much blacker than 9/11/01) of $5.728 trillion dollars. He left President Obama, on 1/22/09, with $10.625 trillion in debt.
Add two six-year-old moneypit wars, and an unemployment rate that grew, or crashed, from 4.2% in 1/01/ to 7.6% in 1/09.
So where have these protesters been? The economy is in hell, jobs are gone, we are dumping our money into bottomless holes in Afghanistan and Iraq. And we have the worst healthcare system in the Free World, and people in Canada and England, who have socialized medical care, live longer in five of six categories, male and female, while the other is a tie.
So, really, I know these people on the Capitol Mall yesterday are easily the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet, in the universe, but that is not the problem.
They are not the problem. The problem is why are they so goddammed stupid? Why do the most moronic, most uninformed, most oblivious, most ignorant, mush-brained people in the world even exist?
Our Nation provides 12 years of free education, and 10 are mandatory. With the least effort and application, anyone can go to college.
Success isn't guaranteed, but encouraged, because universities aren't funded for low graduation rates.
Another problem: these people are not just stupid, undereducated, misinformed, painfully ignorant, but malleable. After eight years of the most flagrant abuses of the Constitution and its Amendments, after thousands of billions of our dollars were burned to enrich a West Texas Oilman's petroleum portfolio, how have these cretins accrued a right to protest?
How does a Nation stand mute while a runaway Administration pirated every asset, squandered every resource, throttled every whit of global goodwill?
And now they protest?