This really could be it

There is coming a time in the not too near future where we will have to make a decision.  The real question is what will you choose?  Will you choose to make this country stronger?  Will you hand the White House back to Obama?  Will you not choose and simply complain later?  It's been several decades since the country has been as engaged as it is now.  More people are out of work now than at any time in the last 70 years.  More people are not progressing more than at any point in this country's history.  And for the first time in the history of this country, we face a challenge from an enemy within.

We have an enemy within the borders of our country.  No, I am not talking about illegals that seem to come in at the rate of a thousand or more a day.  The enemy these days is misinformation.  I hate to tell the 99%ers out there, but a college education doesn't guarantee  you a job.  It guarantees an opportunity to compete for a job.  It doesn't guarantee you money, it allows you to try and earn money.  While you're discussing regulations, and what you need to regulate, consider this.  I went to Western Carolina University to start.  Tuition, room, and board were less than two thousand a semester.  That was in 1990.  Since then, tuition has trippled and so have expenses.  If Obama really wants to address the growing problem with college loans, do you punish the banks for loaning it, or the colleges for charging it?

Unemployment is probably way higher than we know it to be.  Part of that is circumstance but that's really only about 25% of the actual issue.  People have become unwilling to do jobs that are "beneath them" and the jobs that could be had take longer because there's more people to choose from than there was even five years ago.  I saw a sign once that said I quit my job to protest joblessness.  That's about as smart as I burned my house down to protest homelessness.

In other words, the movement would make sense, if it made sense.  You're protesting the banks because your loans are too high when in reality the cost of an education is too high.  You're protesting mortgages when the issue is Clinton and Carter forced banks to loan to you in the first place.  You're protesting joblessness when in reality no one starts at the top.  What you really should be occupying is Pennsylvania Avenue.

Misinformation knows no boundaries.  It used to be that you could disagree and people understood you disagree politically.  But that was back in the Reagan/O'Neil era.  They generally got along well.  The only time they didn't get along was from 8-5, Monday through Friday.  And strangely enough you cold disagree with the President as recently as Bush.  Lately though, misinformation says you can't disagree with Obama because now, strangely enough, it makes you a racist.  Folks, that card has been played until the letters are worn off.  Time for a new excuse.

At the end of the day, what will you choose?  Will you make the choice to continue the status quo and blame all your problems away instead of fix them?  Will you make the choice to change the country's direction?  Or will you make the choice not to make a choice?  That choice is yours and yours alone to make.  I will tell you this, if you choose the latter two, then misinformation wins.  And when misinformation wins, we all lose.