Preface
I am a fiscal conservative, social liberal. Essentially I have been a man without a political party for some time. These comments are my own, I stand by them and my right to say them as well as your right to disagree with them.

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Usually I avoid talking politics. Reasons are because most people when engaged in the discussion have their feet firmly planted on a left or right, a red or blue side. There is no middle, there is no alternative point of view and it’s a futile attempt at a discussion. So I abstain.

Until now.

The U.S.’s downgrading by the S&P has me fuming. And it all could have been avoided. All of it. Yes avoided last week, yes even last month, of course last year and the four years before that and espcially any year back to oh lets’s say 1981.

With a timeframe of 30+ years, there’s enough blame to go around on both sides of the aisle as well as ourselves.

We have consistently voted into every public office people who clearly do not have our best interest in mind. On the other hand, we’ve also had professional politicians mislead us by misrepresenting themselves. And it’s those people, the professional politicians, in this country who I have the most contempt for.

Too many times all of you have kissed our babies and promised us a better life by charging things we can’t afford on our hard work. Too many times all of you have taken our credit card and rang the register with little or no regard to how the balance will be paid.

In many ways you were our elders, you were who we entrusted to do the right thing, you were our parents. Instead what we got were two bickering spouses who try to out spend each other because it makes them “feel better.”

We may not see the ramifications of the downgrade overnight. But we’ll be the one’s paying for it. We’ll be paying for it in higher interest rates and less purchasing power. It was all avoidable had our elected officials known when to say when and stop getting drunk at our expense.

It’s embarrassing and the only way to remedy it is by reining in the power we’ve given you. By voting you out of office and setting term limits on your service. After all you work for us, you’re our employees. Act like it.