On them internets?
Thank heavens we made it through the last 8 years of this messy presidency and we call all still talk about it. Well we can talk about it for now I suppose. So it’s out with the old and in with the new but the new president Barack Obama has a long hard road ahead of him to make all that was wrong a little less wrong.
Barack is left with quite a mess for the country to face. Our economy is in the crapper, jobs that
Smoke another one Chief
where once here have now been long gone to developing nations to help reduce costs. Hell I can’t remember the last time I have seen something that was made with pride in the good old USA.
Mr. Obama still has many more challenges ahead of him, like failing health care system, poor educational standards, and this RECESSION we are not in according to some. Although this two party system has failed us all me thinks I really for the entire country hope that he is up to the job. We can no longer have marginally qualified people running our country. We need action and we need it now more than ever.
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ex⋅cel⋅si⋅or –adjective Latin. ever upward: motto of New York State.
I am a New Yorker by birth, not by choice, born April 1982 at NYU Hospital. Since my birth I have lived in this state for my ENTIRE life, again not by choice, and it has been getting worse here for years. Let me further explain myself here.
In 1984 my family moved to the Broome county area where I spent most of my life, went to school, attended church, visited the parks, and met the people. I also learned about racism, where I learned how people slip through the cracks, where I learned that New York is only the Metropolitan area surrounding New York City and only in Suffolk, Nassau, Westchester, or Albany counties.
In relation to education I always wondered how the classes in NYC could be so big and with all the funding that is thrown at them how their test scores could be so low. When I was growing up I was in a very small school that only had 2 kindergarten teachers and I was apparently the very first left-handed student they had as proof to their not being a single left handed pair of scissors in the entire district. Somehow I turned out marginally able to write a blog and function even with the lack of funding that was diverted to the more urban areas.
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