Angry. That’s the word you hear a lot about these days. The public is angry over…. well you name it. We’re angry over taxes. Anybody been happy about taxes? We’re angry about spending… except for what we each can get from our government, like social security, medicare, farm subsidies, etc. We’re angry about debt… except for all the individual debt we’ve accumulated over the years. We”re angry at politicians… all those selfish politicians we keep electing to send Washington money back to our towns.
I remember my days as a Corporate Computer Service Manager. No company likes to have their computer systems go down so invariably I’d hear from a lot of angry customers. Well after they ranted and raved for a while I’d say “Now what can we do to fix this problem?” One could understand the anger one might have when computers don’t work and how they impact a company’s business. But being angry doesn’t really solve the problem. Calm investigation and action solves the problem.
The media keeps saying the Americans are angry. Well yes, the present economic situation doesn’t make anyone happy. But if you step back for a moment and look at things rationally (how many Americans look at things rationally?), you’ll see there wasn’t just one thing that caused all this. There were many factors taking place over many years that brought us to this situation. Changing out some idiots in Congress for other idiots really won’t solve things. It will take whole scale changes in how we operate, how we innovate and how we address problems. We’d like to have someone say “this was the cause” but in truth there is no one cause. And it wasn’t Obama. It’s all kinds of things.
So after this election, and I’ll go out on the limb and say that the GOP will take over the house, we need to calm down and really figure out what needs to be done to fix things. We need to restore some sanity in this country. And I’m sure that the new crop of politicians we’ll elect will do that! Don’t hold your breath.