HockeyDad wrote:The Obama Cone Of Protection doesn't exactly cover what some people would have expected!
Think global, control your government local.
Thanks to the deteriorating conditions throughout the world, the proletariat will some day unite, arise, & shove that proverbial cone up the asses of those perceived to be the ruling elite. Hey, don't give me the fish eye! I'm not in favor of that, I just report the news.
TMC, people are numb after years of benign neglect provided by marginal yet expensive social programs that starve initiative and eliminate most incentives.
This generation was brought up by morally rudderless, feel good, anything goes '70's folks. Get used to it. The old expression "delayed gratification" has been replaced by Let's pull over & do it on the side of the road. The generation that preceded was equally corrupt (and rigid about their point of view) but they held it together & at least gave lip action to naive, yet arguably successful, idioms such as Pull yourself up by the bootstraps, Blood sweat & tears, etc.
my 2 centavos & some change