We are close to anarchy…word to the wise. : Veterans Today

In the media today we have so many opinions as to what to do about a “broken America” that one has to wonder, are all these commentors watching the same series of events? One thing is for sure, the American people are out of patience with both private (corporate) and public (elected and appointed) government.

Let’s start off with the New York Times and Bob Herbert’s Op Ed piece entitled They Still Don’t Get It in which he tells us that poverty in the suburbs in increasing exponentially, Black unemployment is as high right now as it was in the Great Depression of the 1930s and both political parties are more or less stymied as to what they should do about it.

In another Op Ed piece Gail Collins wrote a column entitled The Lady and the Arlen in which Representative Michele Bachman of the GOP made Arlen Specter a newly found Democratic Senator lose his cool twice during a television interview with her extreme politics originating in the Tea Bag wing of the GOP. Bipartisonship from the Obama camp has made no real gains for the American people. That much is obvious.

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse.

In yet another Op Ed by Charles Blow entitled Mobs Rule we learn just how fickle we can all be relative to our love affairs with politicians. They last as long as a snowball in July in downtown Miami. Here is an excerpt:

“Unfortunately, many now see Barack Obama as a left-leaning version of George W. Bush: just another out-of-touch emperor. It seems as if Obama and the Democrats made the mistake of believing that a heart once won was forever won, that people would be patient, and that the mob would accept their reasoning for lack of results.

They were wrong. The mob is fickle. And it’s back with a vengeance.

While the left slept, the right saw a void and leapt in. They feted the fearful to a steady stream of dread and circuses, and now the pendulum of enthusiasm has swung in the other direction.”

Oh so very true. The people are out for blood here. If you are an American politician, you must make no mistake about that.

In an editorial from the Times entitled Here’s How to Help the editorial board points out that if more Americans lose their homes as a result of this anemic economy, the President’s day is pretty much over. It must be a priority. Here is an excerpt:

“Unfortunately, advance word of coming changes to the antiforeclosure effort are not encouraging.

When the effort was announced nearly a year ago, the administration said it would help as many as nine million at-risk families keep their homes by the end of 2012 — by lower payments through loan modifications, mainly lower interest rates, or by refinancing loans for borrowers who have little or no equity.

Yet recent tallies show that through 2009, only 66,465 loans had been successfully modified, and through last November, 155,700 loans had been refinanced. That’s abysmal. An estimated 2.4 million borrowers are expected to lose their homes this year alone because of joblessness, negative equity and, in many cases, unaffordability as teaser rates expire on adjustable mortgages.

It would take 100,000 successful modifications a month, starting now, to significantly counter the threat that so many foreclosures would pose to the economy, according to estimates by Moody’s Economy.com.”

This is not government at its best.