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In reply to the discussion: Obama is dealt 4 Aces and he folds his hand. [View all]Tarheel_Dem
(31,266 posts)Where did I argue that? And as for taking to the streets, everyone who cares & is concerned about these cuts had plenty of prior warning. As I stated, the president went on tour, and even used his weekly radio address to tell the American people about the disastrous harm these cuts would do to people, and the economy.
My question for the activists remains....instead of banging away, angrily, at a keyboard..why wasn't something like Occupy The Sequester organized? If people are as angry and upset as they claim to be, on the internet, I would've expected some kind of action. Typing screeds on the internet is not activism.
I'm watching a show on HBO, called VICE, and all over Europe, people have taken to the streets to demand action from their government. Where's the movement in response to the sequester? Occupy fizzled, in this country, because our citizens have the attention span of a fruit fly.
Gun control was another instance where activism might have made a difference, but the activists among us got distracted by something that is, and was never going to happen, chained CPI.
As for Meals on Wheels, every able bodied, caring person should have been using this powerful tool called the internet to organize the biggest, baddest march that Washington has ever seen, but that requires focus, which is something this country lacks, in spades. We move from one made up crisis to the next. It's so much easier pissing and moaning on an anonymous website.