National Journal reports: Things are bad out in Real America

[JoePhilly]

61. Actually, he sounds like a Republican friend of mine.

He started his own business when Clinton was president. Small residential furniture moving company. Grew it to 3 trucks. Was talking about retiring early.

Is business declined under Bush as wages stagnated. The middle class stopped buying new furniture. He had to close it in 2007, and he and the co-owner took their remaining truck and got hired working for a single furniture company. Now, as employees, they made low hourly wages, no benefits. Then mid 2008, he got laid off. Lost his home about a year later.

Since then, he's moved from brief job to brief job. But as a guy in his late 40s, he's losing out on physical labor jobs because the young guys get those. He's tried to find management jobs using his prior small business experience, but again, that business failed under Bush.

On one hand, he hates "big government", on the other hand, he thinks Obama was supposed to somehow rescue him from the banks when he couldn't pay his mortgage any more.

I should note that anyone who thinks Obama was going to somehow save every person from losing their home after the mess Bush and the GOP made, is crazy.

Whitmore, perhaps like my friend, is mad at the world. I have no issue with them. What I do have issue with is people using them to discourage voters from voting at all.

This is exactly what the GOP wants. They hate the government and will do anything to tie it in knots. Then, when guys like my friend and Whitmore give up because "the government is bad" ... the GOP's base of zealots will carry the day, and the GOP will take power and continue to dismantle the government.