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The voice of De Anza since 1967.

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    As the world burns

    A hand of hope or death for society

    The transfer of power from George W. Bush to Barack Obama may be the only shining light of hope there is. With a crumbling economy and violent wars all over the world, we are truly watching the world burn from the comforts of home, thanks to Lucifer’s dream box.

    For now, the passing of a stimulus package is the first step on the long road to recovery, with the next step being to use the money wisely rather then carelessly flowing into the wrong hands.

    Obama has many more chances of awakening us from our dark age with a verity of New Deals. It would return respectable employment back to the public. With dwindling industries and society in need of salvation, this will be the most crucial issue in the first 100 days.

    The ecstasy of hope is a wonderful feeling to have, but unlike drugs, if the promise of a better life is not given, the crash will be painful to social stability with the possibility of a withdrawal into anarchy of chaos.

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    Any compassionate politician in Washington should know this, but sadly some are lacking the slightest esemblance of common sense. Yet, the last few lucky Republicans have decided to be more useless by acting as road blocks to the possibility of any solution.

    Rather than actually engaging in their civic duty, 219 backwashed or greedy simpletons would rather be Abramoffing while the world is dependent on America to escape this recession.

    At the moment, California is suffering from a similar dilemma. The Democratic majority is attempting to solve the budget crisis, yet the Republicans are just Abramoffing with the time that is not a luxury.

    One quick money saver would be to actually begin pulling troops out of Iraq and cancel all agreements the previous administration made with private contractors. That way, Halliburton is not charging the White House $500 an hour for a portable toilet in Iraq while California goes bankrupt.

    The ultimate symbol of corruption is when a nation transposes fear into its citizens just so its resources can be wasted on a playground that benefits only a small few. And they say Rod Blagojevich is an embarrassment.

    But we the people also need to be patient, as President Obama is not some magic genie who could make everything better by snapping his fingers. It’s going to take some time to undo the humiliation that has befallen to our nation. By crying for it all to be better is not helping the correction.

    Looking back to history, if there is no immediate action within the first 100 days, along with a lack of patience from the publics, then it won’t be long before democracy’s nightmare/flaw begins to take power (and it’s worse than Sarah Palin).

    Try to imagine rioters taking to the streets just to voice their rage against the state, while crafty ultra-nationalists manipulate the chaos to seek power for their own end.

    The last time such a nightmare came true, millions of people were butchered as the world was tossed into a conflict where the last democracy’s fought the greatest evil.

    If this is the path that society chose to take, then we might as well just abandon the morals of the nation in favor of the values we accepted in the last eight years.

    In the end, all we can do is just sit back and enjoy ourselves as we watch the world burn.

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