I’ve avoided posting about the current economic situation, the public’s response and who they’re focusing the blame on. I’ve avoided it simply because I’ve never been more disgusted and disappointed with my fellow Americans than I am now. To their defense I realize that no one likes change and there’s plenty of change going on these days that affects everyone’s life either personally or generally but this overreaction, whining, crying and finger pointing, to me borders on the ludicrous.

And of course, like always, most of the blame falls on the President except this time the people appear to have lost their collective minds in that they seem to have completely forgotten the fact that President Obama did not create this mess.

It took decades of past administrations ignoring the situation, making wrong decisions, passing this and denying that just to make sure they lined their pockets along with lining the pockets of their “partners” and associated big business, ad infinitum. The end result of their antics was the collapse of our banks, mortgage lenders, housing market, auto industry, etc and our overall economy at the end of last summer and the final sign of the impending collapse was the massively overinflated price of fuel that hit the roof and dropped like a rock all in the space of less than 3 months.

As a consequence, all the dirty deeds (well, a large majority of them anyway) were aired before the public and more are still waiting in the wings. And lo, the sleeping American public finally woke up from their slumber of never ending complacency and screamed for change.

And our new President walked right into this mess. Did everyone suddenly forget that our economy went down the old proverbial toilet before Obama was elected?

Now, less than a year later, the public is jumping up and down like a bunch of frightened baboons screaming and pointing fingers at the President when he’s actually trying to keep the good ol’ United States of America from failing completely which is exactly what would have happened if he’d decided not to bail out the banks and the auto industry when he did. They also seem to not realize that it’s going to take years for the US to recover from this debacle if it ever does.

What no one seems to realize is that this is a whole new ballgame. There is absolutely no precedence for any of the decisions the new administration makes because no situation like the current one has ever existed before. The old way of doing business and running this country simply does not work any longer and if anyone bothered to reflect on this even a little bit would realize it. It’s the keeping to the “old way” long after it was obsolete that created this mess in the first place. Now “the powers that be”, for all intents and purposes, have to start from scratch to find a new way that will sustain us through the next several decades of rapid change. And change it will whether we like it or not.

Now the people call our President a socialist, a fascist and other such ridiculous terms when I can guarantee these people wouldn’t know socialism or fascism if it virtually walked up to them, slapped them upside the head and informed them that they’d been (hypothetically) living in it for over half their lives. In other words, these people have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.

And as far as those who have absolute audacity to equate our President with Hitler just need to be slapped…a lot. And then be forced to visit the holocaust museum followed by a tour of Auschwitz… in February. Just another reason to resurrect putting people in stocks on the public square just for being ignorant fools who have no clue about anything.

It’s a whole new world out there folks and we’re just at the very brink of it, a cusp if you will, and the “good old days” where everything remained the same for a decade or three are dead and gone. And for those who are blaming our President for trying to keep our country from going down the sewer and taking us with it, you better damn well hope that the current administration can find a way for America to survive just for the next 4 to 8 years before the next administration takes over.

There…I’m done.