The Irony of Ironies

As I should have expected a number of the Republican senators who voted against the stimulus bill are now out and about in their states telling their constitutes how much money they are bringing into the state from the stimulus. There are times I get really sick of the people in this country. Sure there are a lot of good people, but there are also a lot of ignorant ones also. There are are also a whole bunch of people whose sole concern is "me, me, me". The self serving and greed of many people in country make me sick. To call them hypocrites would be a disservice to hypocrites everywhere. We have stupid people voting for stupid politicians who feed those stupid people with more stupid ideas so those stupid people will vote for them again. It is no wonder that America, and most of the industrialized world are bound to continue making the same mistakes over and over again. The real scary part is that as technology speeds up the world moves faster which means the repeated mistakes are coming with less time to recover between debacles. This probably means that, where at one time we may have had 50 - 75 years to recover between screw ups, now we will be down to 25 - 40 years. And that number will continue to decrease. In other words we will be screwing up with such rapidity that there be no time for recovery. At that point we will, just like every other world power in the past we will implode.
Americans have this notorius habit of saying that this is the greatest country on earth. I guess that is a good propoganda belief but keep in mind that the vast majority of Americans have never been out of this country so they have no basis for comparison. At one time as a result of the result of the industrial revolution we were considered the world leader in many areas. Now, just check where we rank educationally, the number people incarcerated, the length of our prison sentences, the number of state executions, our number underage pregnacies, our national trade deficit, and our industrial output. Thanks to the Bush Administration we have lost the respect of much of the world because of our foriegn policies and our torturing of prisoners. We are now fighting now to just regain some of our respect in the world.
This is one time I hope I am completely wrong at least for the sake of my children and grandchildren,