Weighing In

I realize that I have not updated this in a few years. The initial purpose of this blog was to be more of a journal + movie review site. The new theme may be different to former readers. And with that, my first new post:


I'm not a socialist, per se. I have studied the history of the USSR, and I know it doesn't work. We will not become a communist state. It just won't happen.

Germany, however, IS a social welfare state, tuition is free, as is a trip to the hospital. They compensate by paying higher taxes. They also get like 6 weeks of vacation per year.

But despite the fact that capitalism may have "made this country great," it comes with a heavy price. The wall street corruption/collapse is a direct by-product of overzealous capitalists. Maybe we should try something else, this time. America's problem is that we all spend what we don't have. I think we owe China like $1,000,000,000. That's what... $1000 for every Chinese citizen?

John McCain keeps talking about the middle class. And I ask myself... WHAT middle class? Everyone I know is either well-to-do, or very poor and drowning in debt from student loans and credit cards and NOW are unable to find a job with the education they borrowed so much money to pay for. It's disgusting.

The "liberal elite media" is The Media. The hardcore right has to hide under the least popular news network (Fox) and the AM radio waves. And forget national newspapers. The notion of "change" is something that people can hold on to, and journalists reflect the voices of the people, and themselves. Right, Olbermann? Right, Limbaugh?

I know Obama won't save the world. But McCain/Palin would further ostracize America from an increasingly globalized international community. We are still a very powerful nation, of course, but it's time that we learned our real place in the world. It depresses me that European children who are half my age can speak 4 or more languages, and I'm struggling with two.

I don't delude myself into thinking my words will change your mind. Rather, I just want you to see my perspectives. My op-ed, if you will.