Vote Anti Incumbent

The current health care issues are large.  Uncovered people and high health care cost are a problem.  Well there is an even larger problem coming when baby boomers get a little older and need retirement homes,  assisted living facilities and then nursing homes.  It is going to be a even larger problem than the current health care problems.  Senior care and nursing homes are not something that can be put off.  When a 85 year old person that lives alone has a stroke and cannot talk, walk or raise their arm, they simply cannot live by themselves anymore. It is not an option.  Many times there is not going to a person to give care and the hospital will have to transfer the person to a nursing home.  That happens now but with the huge numbers of boomers now moving past age 60, there will be a huge increase in the need for facilities for personal care in the not too distance future.

Major news outlets are reporting that the anti-incumbent movement is growing. No kidding?

I started Anti-incumbents.com back Sept 5, 2006. At that time, I saw many of the things everybody and his brother now sees.  I saw the government spending, the crooks on Wall Street and the government intermingling, the stupidy of George Bush, the war mongering of the US, the big business and government on the same team to screw over the people.  I was getting really mad and wanted a change.  But here in Georgia, my friends though I was going crazy.  They would just look at me with a puzzled concerned stair. They had not idea what I was talking about or why I was concerned.

Fast forward to now.  The same people who had no clue why anyone could be so angry, now ironically are some of the most upset and angry. So why is that?  Well I think the financial crisis did puncture their illusion that everything was doing fine.  They lost money on Wall Street.  The other thing is that they lost the election.  Most were Republicans.  They are mostly upset with the financial hit they took and are now vocal because they don’t mind blaming the other party is who now in power.  Are they anti-incumbents?  Not really.  They are anti the other party.  Yes, they are upset with their own party for obvious reasons (they are loosers), but for all their talk, would not blink in voting them back in, even the same people if given a chance.

So coming from Sept 2006, a time people thought I was getting upset for nothing, to now and seeing everybody and his brother shouting from street corners about the FED, the falling dollar, the Goldman Sachs crooks, the government / corporation revolving doors - well I just have to chuckle.  At least people are concerned.  Will they do anything meaningful about it.  I doubt it.