The Past, Present And Future

The year 2009 is now history and many Americans were affected in a negative way economically and financially. The worst recession since the great depression was felt by millions of Americans who only read about the great depression and there were those that thought severe economic times was a thing of the past. What took place in 2009 had its roots in the administration of George W. Bush because of ideology.

The bottom line is our political and industry leaders who make the decisions failed to learn from the past and in fact only gave lip service to the federal debt the Bush administration was creating. Industry leaders continued to transfer wealth from the average workers who helped their companies create that wealth to the CEO's and executives who compensated themselves with billions of dollars in bonuses, stock options and other goodies at the same time their companies were losing money, laying off employees and cancelling employees health insurance. The transfer of wealth has been devastating to the middle class, the economy and the resulting record number of lost jobs has been a dagger in the heart for millions of Americans.

For the present, we have seen President Obama take action he thinks will return our country and its people back to prosperity. Many safeguards have been put in place to correct the mistakes of the past. More are in the offering and the President needs to be mindful not to repeat the mistakes of the past. The country has seen economic improvement and the job market is a little brighter. The President needs to stay active, show courage and leadership and put programs in place to ensure that the future leaves behind the Dark Age of our recent past.


The American people have often been told our best days are ahead. We Americans believe that and know it can be that way. If our leaders gain wisdom about the past our best days will truly be the future. The decisions that President Obama makes in 2010 will say loud and clear what path was chosen. A repeat of the past is not an option. The future has to reject the failed policies of the past.

The Sunday Television News Shows

Jay Rosen had a commentary carried in the Huffington Post titled, "Simple Fix For Messed Up Sunday Shows." His gripe and a well founded one was that guest on shows like Meet the Press were allowed to lie about certain facts and were never challenged by the moderator. Jay is correct about that and he proposed that on a Wednesday following the show, those programs would give the facts out about the falsehoods that were said on the Sunday shows. In other words, a rebuttal by the networks to show how their guest manipulated the facts.

This writer has many times over commented in politidose how those Sunday shows fail to give the American people the facts concerning the issues and there fore abandon their responsibility as journalists to bring the real story to the people. Those Sunday shows failed to seek and present the truth in the run up to war in Iraq over WMD that did not exist. Ditto the massive debt Mr. Bush laid on the country and now they are using republican talking points to try and discredit the Obama administration. To top it all off they are starting all over again pushing the republican talking points that democrats are not keeping America safe. Never mind that the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil happened on the republican watch.

The networks and their journalists know that T.V. has become an entertainment business by their own choosing and that facts no longer matter to them. Some networks even questioned if Walter Cronkite would have been his same trusted self if he were part of the industry today. They asked that question after his death because he would not be able to answer the question. The networks were not about to ask that question while Mr. Cronkite was alive. They knew what his answer would have been. That says it all.