The Simple Solution: I’m Just a Bill

                      There is no good news on the television. The radio is all bad and newspapers are unfit for reading or wrapping fish. People are getting more desperate for solutions as bureaucrats look for someone to blame followed by  a first class public hanging. There is talk of a global recession that will negatively affect corporate earnings and lead to massive job losses. I’d say it’s a good thing its just talk or everyone would panic and fulfill the media’s prophecy of doom and gloom but that ship of fools has already left the crazy peer.

                  It seems that most of the media is more concerned in inciting bad news than they are at reporting actual news in an unbiased fashion. Many of the problems facing this country today can be traced back to speculative reporting based on soft information from ”unnamed” sources creatively edited to make a newscast look like an MTV video. I miss the good old days before color TV when my TV was in black and white and so were the facts on the news. The newscasters weren’t playing for the camera and sucking up for Emmys, they were reporting the facts. Today the news has become more entertainment than factual reporting.

                  It is so blatantly obvious that most of the media is backing Obama when they attack McCain and Palin like rabid dog packs at every opportunity that I find it necessary to peel back the skin on this one and expose the culprits. Why does the media care so much about who is our next President? There will always be news to report no matter who wins the election, right? So why the push? If you listen to conservative talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, or Sean Hannity it is because the liberal media wants to divide the masses and create conflict. They must think the liberal media is smarter than I do because I don’t think they could conceive of such a master plan much less implement it.  In rebuttal the liberal media claims that the right wing conservative media paints their own velvet Elvis picture of the news on behalf of conservatism and the Republican Party. So how do you know if what the media is reporting is truthful and accurate? You don’t and it isn’t. You need to do the work and find out for yourself what is right rather than who thinks they are right. By the way, I know that I am right on this. But don’t take my word for it. But I’m right anyway. The media hasn’t changed since the days of Washington, Adams and Jefferson. The media has always been courted by candidates and political partys alike and has always historically swayed one way or the other in it support and reporting.

                  It has been said that the truth lies somewhere between fact and fiction. I don’t see a lot of truthfulness coming out of Washington these days. People are trying spin a name on all of the bad karma that is affecting this country. Are we as a nation just having a bad year? Could we all be just having some bad luck? I don’t think so. Poor decisions accompanied by the urgency and foresight of a blind Koala bear were made by our elected leaders. Government spending is out of control and someone needs to take the national credit card and cut it in half before the Senators Gone Wild  video hits the market early next year. 

                Like I said people are trying to put a name on the horrible economy, a questionable fuel source for the future, terrorism, ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, unemployment and health care costs. I’ve been trying myself to come up with just one word that describes the current state of affairs and how to reverse it. The word I came up with is: Simplify. All of it. Your life, the government, foreign policy, banking, the markets, fuel consumption, everything.

                       When you get lost you go back to the last place that you remember before you took the wrong turn. We need to step back a little and remember what is important and how we became a great country in the first place. I know most people will probably argue that simplifying is a generalised and childlike response to a vortex of complex problems that someone like me couldn’t even begin to understand. I disagree, a word like “Change” which is the cornerstone of Obama’s campaign is a generalised response. Throwing a tantrum is a childlike response and everyone in the country with a fourth grade education should be able to understand how things work in Washington. I learned about our Government by one of the greatest institutions in our country. I still stand by the simple message of this song: I hope it moves you like it moves me.

I’m just a bill.
Yes, I’m only a bill.
And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it’s a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It’s a long, long wait
While I’m sitting in committee,
But I know I’ll be a law some day
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill.

I’m just a bill
Yes I’m only a bill,
And I got as far as Capitol Hill.
Well, now I’m stuck in committee
And I’ll sit here and wait
While a few key Congressmen discuss and debate
Whether they should let me be a law.
How I hope and pray that they will,
But today I am still just a bill.

I’m just a bill
Yes, I’m only a bill
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill
Well, then I’m off to the White House
Where I’ll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the president to sign
And if he signs me, then I’ll be a law.
How I hope and pray that he will,
But today I am still just a bill.
Courtesy of Schoolhouse Rock