Use Of Time

Obama in Chicago

“Yes We Can” was the slogan chanted by Obama supporters in Chicago On Nov 4th and 5th as Obama was named the President-Elect. As a huge Obama supporter and a donor and Volunteer to the campaign I felt like all of the hard work paid off. I put so much effort int this election. Why? I am a college student. I am worried not only about my next four years, but my children’s and grandchildren’s years.Whomever the next president was going to be, they were going to have to deal with two wars, a planet in peril, and an economy as bad as the great depression. I felt that John McCain was not fit to deal with these problems. Barack Obama. He was an intelligent, well spoken man coming from a diverse background. With a Kenyan father, and white mother in Hawaii, Obama saw both sides of the spectrum on Race, Wealth, Location, etc. Obama eventually went to Harvard and became the first African American president of the law review. His background in Constitutional Law and his Harvard background, I did more research on him. I read his book, titled “The Audacity of Hope.” He does a great job of not only giving an Autobiography, but laid out his plans to fix the problems facing our country. Ok, I’ll admit it. I’m a far left democrat. I’m a consequentialist. I’m a hippie. I’m whatever you want to call me. But I am also intelligent. I got an 1880 on my SAT’s and have a high enough IQ to be in the international high IQ society. I’m by no means stupid, and there is no way you are going to tell me that the same republican ideas we have had for the last 8 years are going to fix the problems in the next 4 years. So I pledged my support for Obama. I donated some money to his campaign and volunteered. I went on to his website, and being a product of the internet was instantly pulled to the big “Help Out” button located on his home page. I clicked it, and was taken to large online community of supporters just like me. I was able to make calls for his campaign, and meet people before the election. I joined the local Obama group in my school and tried to spread the word around campus. The weird thing was, people cared. People were asking questions and getting information about where the could vote and where obama stood on issues. Ask I walked around I could tell I was in the right place. Eastern is a mostly liberal school. People had the same ideas I did and wanted the same president. Election Day came, and we all sat in the common room of my dorm, after ordering Chinese food. The results started coming in, and we knew Obama was going to win. Swing state after swing state Obama was winning. We started celebrating early, and waited for someone on the news to say something. Suddenly, McCain came on stage and gave his congratulations to Obama. It meant it was over. We waited there for his speech to come on, and when it finally did we were captivated. He put into a speech everything we were feeling at the time. All the hard work and money that had gone into his campaign, and it was finally over. We won. This meant so much. This meant that our economy would improve, the war would be over, our planet would have a chance. It meant so much to me, and so many other Americans. Not to mention it was a historical moment. America was the one to break through barriers, give the American dream to everyone. It was the land of immigrants. And all this was proved true by this election. America truely is the greatest country on earth. I didn’t really feel much patriotism before this election happened. It was Obama’s path to the presidency that induced so much patriotism. Being a college student, I felt secure that I would be OK in my next four years. Everything was over, we won.

Today I read a news article about our wonderful country.

You can read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

I will summarize it for you:

A Hong Kong computer programmer who had legally resided in the US for 15 years (since he was 17) and fathered two American children went for his final green card interview and was locked up, detained until he died of cancer that the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) refused to treat him for. He had overstayed a visa (the DHS sent a key notice to the wrong address), and this prompted the DHS to lock him away and demand that he waive all right to immigration appeal and be immediately deported. In detention, his complaints of excruciating back pain were treated as fakery, and he was dragged around in shackles after he lost the ability to walk, taken on long, bumpy drives while official demanded that he drop his immigration appeals. The jailers who caused his death were private contractors with fat deals with the DHS to lock up immigration detainees.

As he lay dying, his family — wife and two children, aged 1 and 3 — were denied access to him while the warden considered their request to visit.

“Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses…”

But his condition continued to deteriorate. Once a robust man who stood nearly six feet and weighed 200 pounds, his relatives said, Mr. Ng looked like a shrunken and jaundiced 80-year-old.“He said, ‘I told the nursing department, I’m in pain, but they don’t believe me,’ ” his sister recalled. “ ‘They tell me, stop faking.’ ”

Soon, according to court papers, he had to rely on other detainees to help him reach the toilet, bring him food and call his family; he no longer received painkillers, because he could not stand in line to collect them. On July 26, Andy Wong, a lawyer associated with Mr. Cox, came to see the detainee, but had to leave without talking to him, he said, because Mr. Ng was too weak to walk to the visiting area, and a wheelchair was denied.

On July 30, according to an affidavit by Mr. Wong, he was contacted by Larry Smith, a deportation officer in Hartford, who told him on a speakerphone, with Mr. Ng present, that he wanted to resolve the case, either by deporting Mr. Ng, or “releasing him to the streets.” Officer Smith said that no exam by an outside doctor would be allowed, and that Mr. Ng would not be given a wheelchair.

I cannot believe this. He was never sent a notice, and was therefore detained. While in jail for an error on the part of the DHS, cancer grew in his back. The cancer fracture his spine in multiple places. The DHS workers though he was “faking” it so they refuse to treat him and brought him on long bumpy rides around new England.

Cui Bono? (Latin for “In whose interests?”)

Who are the DHS? They are an organization started by George Bush in “response” to the 9/11 attacks.  They are actually made up of private contractors. US Companies with one bottom line: Profit. I have a question for you. When tax breaks are given to the “wonderful” American Corporations, what do you think happens?

Here is an example. Exxon Mobile, one of the largest Energy Companies in the United States made record profits last quarter. 11.7 Billion to be exact. John McCain’s plan is to give tax breaks to companies like these. GREAT IDEA! It looks like they really need tax breaks and federal deals!

What’s funny to me is the connection that American’s do not see, or just don’t care about. You have George Bush, an Oil man in office. Since he has been in office, gas prices have soared to record highs, and energy companies have made record profits. Well, at least “the greatest country in the world” has a great leader.

Now we have two people competing for office: John McCain and Barack Obama.

The essential differences are who they are supporting.

John McCain = Upper Class

Barack Obama = Middle-Lower Class

I wonder which class the owners of Exxon Mobile are in?

Another thing. Taxes. McCain’s ads LOVE to say that Obama wants higher taxes. Ok, on what? That’s like saying “John McCain wants people dead.” Simply because he supports the death penalty. You need to be specific, but I gues the republicans are best at changing around others words.

This tax that they like to talk about is a windfall profits tax. GASP! SO HE DOES SUPPORT TAXES! I knew it! He’s a God hating, Bible Burning, Non Patriotic Terrorist! So what is a windfall profits tax? Remember that 11.7 Billion Dollars in Profit? Where do you think it is going to go? Into struggling American’s pockets? YES! George Bush and his oil friends are Struggling, middle class Americans! It is going to go into the bank, and then the rest is going into the hands of rich oil men.

So that tax… that tax is windfall, meaning once big oil gets enough profits…WHACK! The rest goes into the government and nobody sees it again. Right? Wrong. It goes to USEFUL things. Like alternative energy research, education funding, etc. Not to war. John McCain says “I hate war.” Yeah right. He only hates it when he loses. And no matter what he is not going to lose. No matter how much time or money any war takes, John McCain will not lose a war he swears to God!

So remember why we are in Iraq? Neither can I. I hink it has something to do with the terrorists that are in Afghanistan. We ended up going to the wrong country. Why? Afghanistan has no oil! Also, Papa Bush wasn’t fighting Afghanistan, he was fighting Iraq. So now we have a war. And John McCain will not let us lose that War!

So again I ask.

Cui bono?

In whose interests?