Recession or Depression?

Okay, I have been hearing a lot of flap about our economy? One of the things I just read was the report from the Whitehouse and Congress about record deficits. This came out as I was writing my last blog and did not get it in there. However, I thought that I could not let it go. First I need to say that I am a republican. I was formerly a democrat. And I now realize that either party is just pure B.S.
Apparently the republicans are already poised to blame the president and to make it their platform at next years elections. ALSO, apparently these idiots do not realize that less than a year ago they were in power and basically for the previous 8 years. THEY spent like hell and most of it was not for the benefit of the American people. Just take a peek at the Whithouse.gov site. Look at the programs that our President wants to cut and his reasons for wanting to cut them. I was enraged by what was there to begin with. My first thought was "Do we really have stupid people in Congress?" I cannot fathom that even half of those programs were ever started let alone continued.
One example would be the engine program for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. The Department of Defense (DOD) started 2 programs to reduce technical risk, understandably. But in 2007, with one of the programs working well, the DOD did not see a need for a second program and asked for it to be closed and did not request money for it. However the Wizards in congress decided to keep the program and have allotted money to it since then... I will now call them the whizzers of congress, since it seems that is what they are doing with our money..
I am sorry but who in heck do they think they are? I thought the experts in that area of need, would be the DOD? But hey, congress has always thought they know better than anyone else. That is why they tell our military how to fight a war!! Damn, you mean West Point and others, do not know how to teach warfare? We should just disband the military and send congress over to the hotspots and all the other spots that they have no problem in sending mere boys to die! Let them fight the wars, since they know better than the military!!! They listen to their own so-called-experts that probably never held a gun or did anything beyond classroom work. But OH WAIT....Aren't those experts called...LOBBYISTS? That is how I see it anyway!!!

Quite frankly, as long as the same "Good Ole Boys" are in congress, then the phrase "We the People" only means the people in political positions! The rest of us are expendable....to a point! I don't really like the moniker of being a sheep, that is why I am speaking out. I believe that many do not mind being called sheep.
I have always been the one to speak up for my rights as a human being. I have also seen MANY people only say "it isn't currently affecting me, so why should I make waves?" But when it gets to that point, it's then too little, too late!!
 
A little analogy here; We have this big hole that needs to be fixed. Congress has been stuffing money in it and it isn't even close to being filled. Soon, no one will have money to stick in it anymore and the hole will still be there. Lets stop putting money into holes and let's take a REAL look at what needs to be done, and fix it once and for all so that it can never open as big as it has. JOBS FIRST, then some of the other stuff like healthcare will come along without taking more from the working man!!!