We are reeping the rewards of the Hippie movement. But, just wait till Americans are pinched and our lifestyle is altered by inflation, high gas prices and Global Warming taxes. Americans will be angered them when they must feel the pain. Americans are not used to suffering and waiting in long lines. No way you can blame Bush or paint a happy face on misery. Keith Obermann can’t make this look like progress.
Another couple have seen their State education pensions cut, are just hanging in there until they can qualify for SS/Medicare, complain bitterly about the cost of health insurance and refuse to even think about any plan other than Blue Cross and would not accept anything that doesn't include dental and vision. They are aghast to discover the cost of Medicare supplemental insurance that is up to that standard. It is beginning to dawn on them that they are not going to get a cadillac plan from the government for the cost of a Yugo.
Neither of these folks can really afford the cost of gasoline or the cost of propane for winter heat/hot water or the present escalating cost of electricity. Even though one of them has a scientific bent and education, I have not heard one complaint about either AGW or carbon taxes or the dream of totally alternative energy production. If I bring that up, they literally take a step back, hem and haw, look away and change the subject, saying “But we must do something!.”
These are intelligent, educated professional people. They live their private lives conservatively. They would never, ever vote for anything other than a Democrat, they love all unions, they are giving zerO “a chance”, and they are quite willing to continue on for a full 4 years with the possibility of a second term. They will not ever blame zerO, the donks, liberalism, et al for a thing. Everything bad is the fault of “the greedy rich” (who are all Republicans) and of Bush.
They remind me of abused women who rush out to bail out the perp as soon as they are released from the hospital.