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How Do You Feel?

By Pat Racimora on April 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM in Current Affairs

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The media tends to pretty much ignore the serious toll on our mental health that follows tough economic times like a thick, dark shadow. When greed, incompetence, and not giving a damn characterize those who are mostly responsible, the impact of outrage makes things even worse. We all know people who have trouble sleeping or are enduring that awful feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Will they call me into the boss’ office today? If not today, tomorrow? Can I make a house payment, and what happens once I miss a few?

Research on the impact of potential and ambiguous danger tells an unambiguous story–it’s devastating to both our bodies and our minds.

Ironically, the United States Government wants to help. Imagine that. I will quit with the snark now and wholeheartedly recommend a resource offered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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Titled Getting Through Tough Economic Times the SAMHSA guide gives “practical advice on how to deal with the effects financial difficulties can have on your physical and mental health.” Topics include health risks, warning signs and symptoms, stress management, getting help, and suicide warning signs.

This site even offers ideas regarding reemployment and foreclosures and how to find help in your own locales.

It’s an honest attempt to help, and you may want to send the link to friends who are facing hardships.
(h/t to Dr. Ken for the resource.)

  • Newly Independent

    NEW GLOBAL CURRENCY ON THE WAY.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ull_HZUxAMk

    Is this really gonna happen?

    • Newly Independent

      BTW: forgive me for being off topic!

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhXA3fXpCFk Woman Voter

      Where is my Universal Health Coverage? They have complete control and the first group of people they look after are the multi-millionaires???? What gives with that?

      Stimulate the working people, that are the wheels of the economy…not the GREEDOS!

  • I’mFedUp

    Pat, this is great. How do I feel? I have nothing bug pure rage, anger, hatred and disgust for anyone who was too ignorant to listen and voted for Obama. That’s going to take a long time to get rid of.

    I hate with more passion than I thought possible Pelousy, Dodd, Frank, Reid, Rahm, Geithner, etc. who have NO RESPECT for the American people and are flushing everything we are down the toilet for their socialist dream. Anger and rage don’t even begin to encompass how pissed I am. I want it to stop.

    • Seattle Moss

      Hey Paula Revere

      You’re such a patriot and I’m happy to call you my friend.
      At the starbucks today I was very tired but I did keep muttering
      obot,obot,obot as I stood in line.

      • wodiej

        LOL

        • Mary Miller

          Doesn’t it bother all of you that people who are trying the leagal way to get into this country are being turned away and his aunt is living in HUD with false documents..told by two different authorities to leave this country and remains here-illegally..stealing welfare? and all of her medical bills are free?? MY HEALTH INSURANCE IS $450.00 PER MONTH. Doesn’t it bother you?

          • Mary Miller

            10 years Obamas aunt has lived here illegally..10 years..stealing our money..why aren’t they investigating the people who are allowing her to continue to steal our money?

          • C.S.

            Yes, it does. And it bothers me that no one in our government sees it as a double standard, just like the double standard applied to Soertoro/Obama, and no one bothered to check it out or pick her up.

            • TexasMirth

              Double standard? The pigs in ANIMAL FARM made it perfectly clear:
              “All are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

              Obama’s aunt, Tim Geithner’s taxes, Chris Dodd’s sweetheart deal from Countrywide, Caroline Kennedy being considered qualified to run for the Senate with NO EXPERIENCE, (I know that was brief and now, is all but forgotten, but it was “pig” behavior, nonetheless) – and the list could go on and on. The rules simply do not apply to any of B.O.’s cabal.

      • andrew191

        I recall a cover from “National Lampoon” from the 70′s that had a giant American with flaming balls of humor in each hand that he was clobbering Tojo and Hitler with. The point NL was making was that one of the most potent weapons Americans have is a healthy and theraputic sense of humor. It has stayed strong even after a decades long attempt by the dour liberal left to crush it under a staid and gloomy jackboot.

        Humor may be the best tonic to get us through the next four years. I’m drinking it by the barrel.

        • http://noquarter foxyladi14

          i agree fully.there is always a funny.. there somewhere.
          every cloud has a silver lining..keep the faith…

  • Solara 7

    I mostly feel sad. It is all coming so close to home and I feel helpless to help my friends and family. I am OK for right now, but one never knows. It is that “other shoe dropping” feeling that does prey on one’s gut.

    I can be a good friend. I hope that is worth something.

    • wodiej

      I can be a good friend. I hope that is worth something

      .

      it is….

    • I’mFedUp

      It really helps. That’s the one thing that I am happy about…I love the people I have met who share my love of country and are such wonderful people. New friends is the upside of this, and they are people I might not have met if this didn’t happen.

      • KintheNorthwest

        ME TOO!!!

  • oowawa

    Pat, thank you for the lovely toons. I feel both really mad and very sad. I have, however, developed a meditation exercise that helps me a lot and I would like to share:

    First, down in the pit of your stomach, envision a little ball of soft blue energy that sighs, “Oh well . . . ” Now picture this little ball of soft energy moving pleasantly up your chakras, radiating with ever more conviction “Oh Well! Oh Well!!!” as it moves. Finally, envision this flower of blooming energy emerging out of your cranium as a big happy lotus of rainbow colors!!! Oh Well!!!! Now go outside with a happy deranged smile and share your equanimity with others!!!

    • Pat Racimora

      oowawa, you are such a hoot. I didn’t think I was going to have a hearty laugh today. Thanks!!!

    • I’mFedUp

      oowawa…Doesn’t that activity make you a Bot?

      • oowawa

        Make me a bot? I’mFedUp, the gears in my mind are so busy cranking out happy thoughts that I can’t even consider that possibility. possibility. possibility. possibility. possiblipity.

        • wodiej

          LOL…

        • I’mFedUp

          Oh nooo…the Pod People Bots got our friend Oowawa…We need to rescue our pal!!!

          • http://syd4.blogspot.com Stray Yellar Dawg

            The bots are on a rampage this week… join ‘em or they’ll take ya down:

            http://syd4.blogspot.com/2009/04/puma-alert-obots-going-after-john-coale.html

            • I’mFedUp

              The Bots are disgusting low lives with no brains. Yesterday they were WILD all over the place. Shows that the Fraud is looking like the moron we always knew he would. But, why do we get the really low quality dimwits?

  • Tricia Spiegel

    Research on the impact of potential and ambiguous danger tells an unambiguous story–it’s devastating to both our bodies and our minds.

    A classic study had mice in a specially-made cage that “collapsed” on a regular schedule. At first the mice were afraid but they got used to the pattern and adapted.

    Then they changed the pattern so that it was highly variable. The mice were never sure when their cage would collapse. These mice developed ulcers in a very short time.

    I think people with ulcers are going to increase.

    • politicalidentitycrisis

      I work at a hospital and get to see the admit lists, including trauma (my department). What we are seeing here is the number of assaults dramatically increased, as well as, the number of suicide attempts. Usually in May, we do see an increase in assaults, but these have all started in february this year. Also, the number of drug overdoses on my lists are usually 7 per year (for one physician we bill for, not the hospital), he already has 11 for 2009.

      • WMCB

        Hubby is a doc, and is seeing lots more drug overdoses and other suicide attempts come through the ER.

      • http://Scout Scout

        My friend who is a social worker for child protective services said domestic violence and child abuse has spiked this month. (in California, Bay Area)

    • andrew191

      Lately I’ve been having this recurring nightmare that I’m a golfish living in a Hamilton Beach blender. That’s bad enough, but to make it worse, through the semi obscure glass I can almost make out a human that resembles 0bama about to plug something into the wall outlet. Jeez, I hope it’s GFCI!

    • andrew191

      Ichiro just went on the 15 day dissabled list with a bleeding ulcer. Coincidence?

  • Entwife

    I am angry all day, every day. I am dysphoric and cry almost every day. I’m starting to have bad dreams. Two nights ago I woke up in a sweat of fear from dreaming that the rioting like in London was happening here and the fabric of America was being destroyed by class warfare. I believe that is Otraitor’s goal.

  • Peggy Sue

    I feel mostly sad and worried about where this is all going. I’m worried for my kids and about what sort of struggle they’ll be facing in the future. I’m worried about my sister who has health problems and whether she’ll get the help she needs. I’m sad that the retirement fund my husband and I had cobbled together has been so depleted, making a comfortable retirement look like an idle pipedream. And I’m worried about my friends and neighbors, my community and country at large.

    If worries could change the world, I think we’d be seeing the earth move. So, what to do? Stay informed, help out where and when we can and cherish what we still have left.

    I find myself swinging between anger and frustration and silly outbursts. I think having outlets of like-minded people, NQ for instance, helps relieve the pressure. We write, we get it off our chests, discuss and debate and jump up and down. That’s a good thing. As is laughter.

    But keeping our heads, remembering the central aspects in our lives is probably the most important, and that’s always the people and critters we share space with. So, there are tough times ahead, regardless of where you fall in the political spectrum.

    But people have lived through far worse and still managed to come up on the other side. And no, I’m not a Pollyanna. Just a realist.

    • Tricia Spiegel

      Really nice comment, Peggy Sue. I think you speak for a lot of us and what we are up against, but you just say it all better!

    • wodiej

      But people have lived through far worse and still managed to come up on the other side. And no, I’m not a Pollyanna. Just a realist.

      Couldn’t have said it better.

    • Seattle Moss

      Peggy,

      I find myself swinging between anger and frustration and silly outbursts. I think having outlets of like-minded people, NQ for instance, helps relieve the pressure. We write, we get it off our chests, discuss and debate and jump up and down. That’s a good thing.

      You all at NQ make me feel that at least misery has company and we can all plan strategy for taking back our country.

      • Peggy Sue

        Agreed, Seattle!

  • Seattle Moss

    Just so you all know

    I’m mad as all heck that obama would give up America’s position in the world and risk the end of the Western tradition so he can come across as wussy nice.
    obama and his minions are traitorous wimps.

  • wodiej

    Wow, this post hits home, thanks Pat.

    I’m ok for now but went through this in the 80′s so I’ve been there and know how difficult it is.

    I have been having trouble sleeping and that is very unusual for me. All this crazy spending, bailing everyone out and not making people be more accountable-it’s scary. I have a great counselor that I go see once a month just to keep the stress at bay.

    As for my feelings for Obama, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd and the rest…I hope they all burn in hell sums it up pretty well.

    • Seattle Moss

      I have been having trouble sleeping and that is very unusual for me.

      Yep…I have forgotten how to sleep of late!

    • Docelder

      went through this in the 80’s

      Yes, same here except in the 80′s we had Ronald Reagan who believed in America. Now we have somebody who does not believe in America at all paired with a congress who seem to be anti-America and waiting in the wings is a soon to be activist judiciary. Not to mention the G20 and the new banking and monetary system. World justice… what is that anyway? Some Utopian digression? I wish this were the 80′s all over again.

      • I’mFedUp

        Well said Docelder…We have had ups and downs and survived. We, however, have never seen our country elect someone so dangerous, destructive, America HATING, ever. NO GOOD WILL COME OF THIS. NEVER. Nothing, nothing good will come of this and IF America survives, we won’t be calling it “America” anymore.

        • Seattle Moss

          When you elect a person that actively ran on retreat and defeat of America…

          You get retreat and defeat of America!

      • Mary Miller

        Realize from his history in Illinois that his only goal is to get more money and keep more money for him and his friends who are muslims.
        Isn’t it obvious with him fawning over the ‘King of Saudi Arabia’ and giving the Queen of England an Ipod??

  • politicalidentitycrisis

    I am sad. I look at my kids and realize that they will never know the same America I knew and fear Obama is giving it away forever. Some of the changes being made will be permanent.

    Never before have a cried so much over an election. I cried about Hillary in the Primary. I cried about losing friends and my boyfriend because of my vote and my voice and my persistance. I cried over being ignored. I cried over being angry. I cried over Sarah Palin’s treatment. I cried over McCain’s treatment. I cried for weeks after after election. I have never done that before. Now I cry to lose the country that I love and all of our freedoms!

    A friend of mine, who listened to what I had to say before November 4th and is a strong democrat, but she hates Obama, had a very tough time deciding whether to vote or not and who to vote for if she did. She decided in the end, because of strong pressure from her democratic family (I was the only dem she knew saying country over party) to vote for Obama. Mainly because she believed the lies being told about Palin and hated her more. We got together on election night, even though she knew I was strong McCain/Palin. She reluctantly admitted that she voted for Obama, but regretted it immediately, as soon as the ballot went in the optiscanner. When at my house, she almost cried because another friend had told her she voted for McCain like I did because in the end, for that person, it came down to the fact that McCain has done everything he could for this country, except die for it, and that was her deciding factor because she knew that if he had to McCain would die for this country. She said she knew that Obama wouldn’t. It still makes me cry to think we chose pretty words over honor and duty. My friend wished she had looked at in those terms because she realized too late McCain is an honorable man and Obama is a phoney.

    • Mary Miller

      Obamas plan is to weaken the US..destroy our economy and way of life so we follow his suggestions…which are to give up and let radical muslims take away our freedoms and rights..work for the masses and listen to vulgar, degrading music while flipping off what we stood for…

  • I’mFedUp

    I cry a lot too. Out of the blue, it just happens. I think that this is way worse than the 80′s or the other times we have survived. I think America is gone, and until we REALLY do something radical, we are completely done for good. Obama is scum, filth and a deranged junkie. He doesn’t care. And I bet he and the scum wife fist bump every day about how it’s Mission Accomplished as far as their mentally sick agenda to leave nothing of America standing.

  • Seattle Moss
    • Docelder

      McCain extended a hand to immigrants… in it contained a heartfelt promise of “freedom”. Obama extended a hand to them as well… it contained the disingenuous promise of “something for nothing”. What can you say, they made the wrong choice. They like the rest of us need to now live with it.

  • DaddysDarlin

    How do I feel? As a disabled American living on 610.00 per month rent is 496.00, that’s with my housing allowance, the entire rent would cost my whole disability check, so I thank God I have that help.
    Everyone is hurting not just me, three of my children have been laid off their jobs, no prospects of work.
    I feel our government is doing everything for the haves, and have forgotten or simply just don’t care about the have nots.
    Everyone of those bastards on Capitol Hill have what they need, and they have it because WE are paying their salaries.
    I say if they aren’t doing the job they were hired to do, like protecting our Constitution, helping the American taxpayer, we should fire the lot of them!
    If I did my job the way congress is doing theirs, I would be fired in a heartbeat.
    I am so damn mad that they are allowing Obama to run roughshod over this country, its people, and our Constitution.
    His administration has never been TRANSPARENT as Obama promised time and time again.
    These back door dealings are what caused our problems in the first place. Congress must approve and hold hearings on all changes, yet they have not done their job. Why let someone who is so blatantly unqualified make ALL the decisions, without so much as a hearing?
    These guidelines were set up to protect us from giving ultimate power to ONE.
    I SAY FIRE THEM ALL AND START OVER, THE AVERAGE AMERICAN COULD DO A BETTER JOB OF RUNNING THIS COUNTRY THAN THIS ADMINISTRATION OR CONGRESS.

    • Solara 7

      Hear, Hear Daddy’s darlin!. I also have been thinking that the average caring and patriotic American could do a better job. We all saw what was happening with the car industry (building gas guzzlers) and the housing market (no down payment and shaky credit and low credit with a short-fuse–duh!).

      What we couldn’t see is the back room deals. But patriotic leaders would have never let any of it happen.

    • wodiej

      I agree too, not only that they are a bunch of damn hypocrites. Talking about conserving energy and us worrying about mortgage payments and food while they jet all over for leisure trips, have parties and eat fancy.

  • I’mFedUp

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wH5YqsuZiw

    This is why it’s official…we’re done and not going back. All of the people who called tin foil hat conspirators, take a look now you jizzbrains.

    • Docelder

      What is Obama’s message at the G20? A notice that we aren’t America anymore… a plea for the rest of the G20 to spend like there is no tomorrow just as Obama will. Why? because we can go from a global recession into a full fledged global depression…. hope and change on a global scale.

  • Athena the Warrior

    I’m both angry and frustrated at the same time. I have an Internet start-up company that I’m trying to launch in August although it may be pushed back to September.

    I’ve been able to bootstrap the company for the past year through my freelance event production gigs but that work went dead in late November in the middle of our busiest season. Obama hasn’t helped anything by attacking companies who engage in corporate travel. Those types of events are exactly the types of events we set up and tear down for. Now, I have to take valuable time away from working on my company to look for a job to pay the bills and those have really dried up in Chicago.

    It’s next to impossible to get a loan right now yet Congress is handing out billions to companies who screwed up in the first place. We entrepreneurs and small business owners are getting nothing to help launch or maintain businesses and the stress is building. If this administration actually cared about America they would give out loans to entrepreneurs/small business owners repaid after five years at a 10% interest rate.

    Oh yeah another great thing, I can’t file for unemployment benefits without getting the event production company in trouble for misclassifying the freelancers. Isn’t life grand?

  • Rich

    Great cartoons! I would imagine that most people will go back and forth between being very angry to being very sad, depressed or even suicidal. I guess the silver lining is that the government finally cares about people’s emotions and its impact on the body as well as the economy. The sad part is, like always, the government is very interested in a helping and finding a cure once there is a crisis but only gives a passing glance to prevention.

    Another possible silver lining in what is going on is that people are beginning to realize that what goes on, or does not go on, in the government effects everyone and not just a small minority. Let us hope that once things get better, and I believe they will, that the public attention on what government is doing does not go away.

    Rich

    • Peggy Sue

      Rich said:

      “Let us hope that once things get better, and I believe they will, that the public attention on what government is doing does not go away.”

      Bingo. In good times and in bad [and we're undeniably in bad right now], we need to stay alert, informed and prepared for whatever. I’m the first one to admit that I wasn’t paying enough attention until a few years ago. When my kids were at home, I was more focused on the day to day stress of family and work. Politics seemed a million miles away and out of my purview. And I suspect that applied to many Americans–the country went ticking along with or without us.

      Wrong, dead wrong.

      The country only works if we’re engaged because we are the country. Right now, the wolves have taken over the sheeple pen. I don’t think it’s a lost cause unless we go back to sleep or get distracted by the stupid stuff.

      Things will turn, eventually. But even when they do, diligence and holding these clowns feet to the fire is important. My eyes are wide open now and I don’t plan on closing them until I’m six feet under.

      • andrew191

        You do realize that you have to build a much BIGGER fire to roast giant clown feet. Don’t you?

        And I’m sure you would prefer that your eyes will be closed BEFORE you’re six feet under, not after. I’m hoping that’s a long time from now. :)

        • Peggy Sue

          You made me laugh again, Andrew. A wide-eyed wake might be interesting though. Not sure friends and family would appreciate it. Gotta get me some of those silver dollars to keep the lids in place.

          And yes, giant clown feet are what we’re looking at. Order your hot dogs now; we’ll have a weiner roast while we’re at it.

        • Ani

          :)

          Thank you, Andrew. Much needed laughs today.

  • Rah-Rah

    I thought I was doing okay… but the other night I had a dream that I got “voted out” of my job by my co-workers, kind of like American Idol or Survivor. It was weird. Freaky-weird. I have good relationships with my co-workers and higher ups, so it was pure anxiety that brought it on.

    But at least it was a somewhat entertaining dream; what with all the American Idol music in the background and Survivor-type tiki torches…

  • trish

    We have been in a recession for a year but the administration didn’t tell us until recently. We have a socialist govwenmwnt now, how long will it take the administration to admit to that fact?

  • trish

    government…oops.

  • cynic

    Would you be surprised that many, if not most, Obama supporters feel all those same emotions? We have the same deep anxieties about the economy, the deficit, the national debt, our jobs, the security of our investments and savings, eventual run away inflation, global depression, the possiblity of a serious breakdown in social order… Add to those a handful of concerns that we’re even more predisposed to worry about than many: climate change, expanding oceanic dead zones, accelerating species extinction, uncontrolled population growth, peak oil, etc.

    The main difference is that we aren’t putting all of the blame and focusing all of our anger entirely on the new administration. We tend to believe that they’re actually attempting to address terribly complex problems that have been a long time coming, and will unfortunately be a long time going. We tend to believe that their actions will prove to be appropriate and effective in the long term; we also acknowledge that some mis-steps have been made, and that more are probably inevitable.

    Don’t make the mistake of thinking that we’re all just fine and dandy, going through the day with self-satisfied smiles on our faces and sleeping well at night. No one paying close attention is.

    • Docelder

      No, not at all. We are all in the same mess whether we acknowledge it or not. The difference is whether we see the government as our savior or whether we would rely on ourselves. I would have more faith in government, if for example they actually debated issues like adults before they voting on them, and if they actually read bills before signing off on them. There is good in you yet, I can read it between the lines. At some point, we will all be in agreement. I hope it won’t be too late.

    • Mary Miller

      If what you say is so, then why does he allow his aunt to live in Boston illegally, illegally collecting welfare, illegally receiving medical benefits and in public housing set aside for poor Americans-paid for by HUD, for which citizenship is a requirement? Why? If it were you—JAIL—You are a real dreamer to believe what your wrote.
      People are fundamentally good..thats why? Not BO and his crew of tax cheats, muscle men and lobbyists for the companies he disavowed…wake up-get angry and write to Sean Hannity about what ails you..unless we refuse to be associated with Obamas lies and distortions the GM 300,000 is just the beginning of the end of workers as we know them..wake up get angry and do something

      • cynic

        So far as I know, the auntie is being treated no differently than millions of other illegal immigrants. I would want her to get neither preferentical treatment nor to be singled out for atypical enforcement action, just because of her relationship. She’s just one more face in a sea of people who have failed to comply with our immigratin laws.

        • I’mFedUp

          It’s called “illegal” because it’s against the law. She needs to go and so do all the other illegals.

          But what can we expect, Obama just sold America out to the world, WITH NO AUTHORITY TO DO SO, so I guess breaking all the laws of our country is n par with their filthy hate for America.

        • Hope Change and Unicorns

          That is the problem. We find people in this country that are illegally this new justice department gives them another year.

          http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512098,00.html

          If the justice department does want to enforce immigration law just have Obama be truthful to the American people.

          Let us know how screwed we are.

        • Mary Miller

          She is being treated very differently than other illegals. She is being ‘allowed’ to receive welfare with fraudulant documents..she has been given notice to leave two times since 2000. She lives in public housing because she supplied ‘false’ information.
          She is a criminal. Other illegals in any circumstance as described would be deported or in jail. She received two operations on her so called ‘medical’ condition..approved because she is on welfare illegally.
          She was told to leave the country during the presidential primaries..she is still here…
          If you want to pay for her..thats your right as an individual..but she has no right to steal from us as a collective group being taxed to provide benefits for our poor and disabled…She is not part of that group and has never worked a minute to be part of the group called tax paying Americans.

          • cynic

            Zeituni Onyango’s case is more complex than most people stop to consider. She’s been trying to obtain political asylum since 2002, fearing return to Kenya owing to her status as a member of a persecuted tribe.

            Unfortunately she lost her anonymity during the final days of the 2008 election. This came about by way of an unauthorized disclosure of her situation, which was in violation of Homeland Security policy and obviously politically motivated.

            I don’t defend her illegal status. Anyone who thinks for a moment will realize, however, that this is a unique situation that will probably require special handling. It would be the height of stupidity to deport an invalid woman related to the President, who could very easily be used as a high-profile political hostage.

            • Mary Miller

              She lost her appeal two times and was asked to return to her country. She is in and never was in any danger in Kenya. You are trying to convince us by inuendo that there is a big mystery surrounding her illegal activities here in the US. It won’t work. She lost her ‘immigration’ case two times our authorities realized she is in no danger. She knowingly and willfully is breaking the law by frauduently collecting welfare benefits that are deemed ‘benefit for US citizens’. She is living in HUD housing again set aside for US citizens-willfully breaking the law for 9 years.
              Don’t go there…she filed FALSE documents to procure the housing and illicit medical benefits. These acts of wrong and willfull law breaking defiance would put any of us in jail after 5 minutes..let alone 9 years and two operations later.

            • Mary Miller

              Political hostage in Kenya where his Obamas cousin killed thousands of ‘folks’ to propel himself to power? Your really not well read on him, his trip to Kenya to campaign for his ‘cousin’ and the horrific acts his ‘cousin’ committed while Obama spoke for him? Obamas ‘auntie’ would be considered royalty there in her shack. Get real..there is no free ride there in a deluxe HUD apartment overlooking the Kennedy Library and Boston Harbor..with food stamps and d the Mass General Hospital to take care of her limp…she would live in a small shack like the rest of their family. Thats her danger…

            • Mary Miller

              She lost her anominity when her neighbor turned her in for defrauding welfare..

        • C.S.

          Oh, very different! Unlike those “millions of illegal aliens” she isn’t a “face in the crowd” and any reporter with the smallest investigative skills would have been able to make his career reporting than Mr. Soertoro/Obama had relatives in the U.S. who were illegal aliens.

          There is evidence, not reported in the mainstream media and therefore considered “not credible”, that this was just another secret to be kept from the voting public; like dual citizenship and aliases and anything else that might tarnish his fool’s gold image.

    • Ferd Berfle

      We have the same deep anxieties about the economy, the deficit, the national debt, our jobs, the security of our investments and savings, eventual run away inflation, global depression, the possiblity of a serious breakdown in social order

      Christ. So why in the blue blazes did you and your kind vote for a fraud? That One isn’t qualified to shine shoes walk a dog take out the damn trash. If you addle-headed dimbulbs were really concerned about this country, you would have voted with your brain and not your hopey-changey emotions. Thanks for putting a boat anchor in the White House.

    • Senneth

      Cynic, frankly I don’t give a damn about what you feel. I’ve been a left-wing Democrat my entire voting life and have those same concerns you mentioned (I’m no longer a Dem BTW). What you didn’t mention, however, is the misogyny and plain hatred and nastiness this past election cycle, and those a**ssh***s who stole our election process because they wanted power (and the perks) and didn’t care what they did to get it. The end never justifies the means and you don’t ever seem to get that salient point. This administration is clueless about what to do er, um, ah… During one of the most critical times in this country we have a jackass masquerading as POTUS undermining the very foundation of our great nation and giving pieces of it away to all comers. Get a clue this administration is not addressing the problems. Hillary or McCain would have done that. This administration is adding to the general and personal misery of others while That One and his wife continue to spend our money like there is no end and fellow Americans are losing their dreams and way of life.

      • http://donnadarko.wordpress.com donna darko

        Exactly. Obama is doing all the wrong things for our country. He’s more Reagan than FDR.

        The one area I was happy about, environment and climate change, is only a mirage. See action number 93.

        95 unprogressive actions by Obama in the last 95 days

  • MsSoAndSo

    As a very empathetic person my reaction is always to wonder how will events effect a person and what will they do to cope. It’s like having your brain hard wired to immediately notice reactions as well as consider the personal impact (anyone who has ever taken the Strengths Finder assessment knows what I am talking about). I feel the angst in everyone, and it is astonishing to me that this isn’t comprehended by the bozo’s in Washington.

    The typical American knew we were in trouble long before the DC clowns caught on. They need to do something to help many, not just a select few. “Let them eat cake” is not an ordinary platitude any longer. There is a scary up-swelling of anger and stress from middle America, and something drastic just may happen if DC continues on this course of bailing out the privileged at our expense.

    The divide between the haves and the have nots is widening directly due to the out of control spending, bailouts and budgeting of Washington. We understand that, why can’t they? Perhaps Washington doesn’t want to change a thing, after all it is working quite well for them.

  • ooga

    I feel a lot better after reading all of these hilariously stupid comments.

    • Solara 7

      That’s not very nice, ooga.

    • Ferd Berfle

      Can you give us the number to Obamabot Central? See you’re one of those defective obamatrons and we’d like one that is less defective, if that is at all possible.

      A less defective obamabot would have made some attempt at jocularity, or what passes for it in the botWorld. The only reason you say these comments are stupid is primarily because, while you can read, your comprehension is a big, fat zero, just like your botMaster.

      Number, please.

      • andrew191

        Ferd, if venting here prevents ooga from going postal somewhere, I think we should tolerate it.

        • Ferd Berfle

          LMAO

          Perhaps, Andrew. But just once it would be nice to have an obamatron with at least a couple of brain cells to rub together.

  • KintheNorthwest

    How do I feel ANGRY. Since Obama came to office the country has been going to HELL! Monetarily and Emothionally.

    The government is printing and spending money like it grows on trees.
    Crime is going way up–Just look at this–Isnt it this the 3 or ??? in the last month http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hostage_shooting

    Unemployment rate is going up in %s that have not been seen in ages.

    Yet Obama and his Motley crew are spending money on themselves ($100 a lb steak dinners, weekly and bi-weekly use of Air Force private jets and the list goes on. while telling all of us to cut back and that every thing will be ok. Why did they take the Limo overseas–Obama could have gotten another bullet proof car over there and saved a ton of money. The designer dresses and jewelry Michelle is wearing over there (about 400 or 500 k at least),

    You damn right I’m ANGRY

    But I will admit I am really starting to get scared that my worse fears about Obama and his people just might be true.

  • samb

    Who is on the other end of the line, that is giving this advise? and what make them the authority, oh yea! THE GOVERNMENT SAY IT SO ,SO THEREFORE IT IS SO.

    • Pat Racimora

      samb, I sure do understand the cynicism, but I think that SAMHSA did a nice job with this. It’s pretty basic stuff.

      The health agencies, by in large, have had their budgets slashed to bits for a while now. It’s sad because research has been curtailed and actually many excellent scientists either work for the government or get federal grants. Science and scientists are victims of this mess we are in also.

      Obama has pledged to give more $ to NIH. That is a good thing.

      • samb

        I appreciate your point of view.

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    i was down in the dumps.a friend told me.cheer up things could be worse..
    so i cheered up..sure enough they got worse..lol

  • http://www.marklevinshow.com Seattle Moss

    Obama is a Disgrace.
    For Obama to say in France that America was sidetracked in Iraq is a blow to this country and every soldier that fought that war.
    To tell the Europeans that they need to lead the world when it has been the US who saved their asses in WW2 and set up economies for them through the Marshall plan is disgrace.
    Europe has been the birth place Marxism,Fascism and Communism and Obama apologizes for America.
    Kow Towing to the worst enemies America has while ignoring allies like Taiwan and Israel is a disgrace.
    Obama and his minions are national security threats to the United States.
    Obama is willfully capitulating American power ceding our ability to influence events
    Giving China a bigger role in Monetary policy insures the Yuan will be the world currency in a few years.

    Obama has never defended this country….PERIOD!!!!

    This reminds me once again of an Obot who told me she was voting for Obama because America needed to be punished…
    Disgraceful!

    • andrew191

      The Ayers, Wright, 0bama type of hatred for this country is now ubiquitous, and sadly, somewhat popular.

      I was briefly the secretary on the Vashon Community Council. I showed up early at one of our bi-monthly public meetings once to set things up. One other person was there so I introduced myself to him and asked which issue had brought him to the meeting. He said that he ALWAYS shows up at the meetings to prevent any attempts of the council to start the meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance. When others showed up I asked them if it was common for that guy to object to the pledge. I was told that they had eventually given it up rather than waste time arguing with him. I later found out that the creep is the President of the Vashon Democrat club. Need I say more?

    • BlueTopaz

      Europe was also the birthplace of Democracy.

      While I hate BO with a passion, I don’t think saying America was sidetracked in Iraq is an insult to the soldiers. BO has shown them disrespect in other ways, but they are not to blame for Iraq. Bush and his Have Mores are. We were sidetracked to line their already bulging pockets.

      You’re so right that BO & buddies are national security threats to the United States. Deep bowing to Saudis and improper protocol to the Queen are just more examples of where his loyalties lie.

  • http://www.marklevinshow.com Seattle Moss

    What is the result of ceding power as America has done today…We can only wish and hope that we don’t get attacked again.
    obots will only see the consequences of their willful defeat when they turn on their TV’s and only see Chinese and European news with a small segment devoted to the ongoing American civil strife and rampant hyper inflation.

    • BlueTopaz

      Actually, having European news would be a major improvement over the US media which gave us GWB, the war and BOjob. Even CNN International reports more info than CNN Atlanta.

  • http://www.marklevinshow.com Seattle Moss

    We all know what Biden meant now when he said that Obmaa would be tested and that we may not agree with the decision.
    Obama was tested in Europe and capitulated American power along with humiliating us in the process.
    The second part of this equation is the dismantling of America’s shield in the hope that we don’t get attacked again.
    Obama thinks that his messianic qualities will end terrorism by making all countries equal in the Marx model and end all war.
    This election was about National Suicide and now we are seeing the results

    Someday we will look back and wonder how people could hate themselves so much as to wish the defeat of their own country.

    • beachnan

      I feel angry, hurt, frightened, and sad. Mostly, I feel lost. I feel like this past year has been an awakening. I am now 54 and no longer consider myself a Democrat, and yet it is hard to pull myself totally away from the beliefs that shaped my thinking for many years. I realize now, that Democrat=good, and Republican=bad, as my former thought pattern, is not justified. I am against war, and yet, I realize that had the United States not gone to war in the past, we would now see a very different world. I have always believed that it was the right thing to do to allow others from different countries to come here because they believed in the American dream. Yet, what can we do to help all these people, when we cannot take care of our own citizens? I do not have health care, but others can go to our local hospitals to get free care. I don’t want to feel resentment, but I do. Because some people will work for less, my husband is having a hard time getting work, even though he has a licence and they don’t. I wasn’t in favor of going to war in Iraq, and I’m still not sure we should have, especially since most of the terrorists from 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia. I can honestly say, that I used to think that the people who drove around with big American flags on their vehicles were jerks. I was tired of being told I was unAmerican because I did not believe we should be in Iraq. This past election changed me. I no longer believe in the Democratic party, because they do not believe in democracy. I do not believe in the Republican party, because I do not agree with many of their beliefs. So where do I go from here? I believe that history shows that the pendulum swings back and forth from conservatism to liberalism. We are all members of the global community, and we must always keep that in mind, but we are also members of the community of the United States of America. I am a proud American, and I want to make sure that democracy is upheld. I do not want to see my President making unnecessary apologies for my country. It embarasses me that he bows deeper for the Prince of Saudi Arabia, than he does the Queen of England. I believe the pendulum will swing the other way again. I believe that deep down, most of us are very proud to be American, we just don’t need a big flag on our vehicle to prove it. When the pendulum swings, Obama better watch out, because all of his anti-American stances will come back to haunt him. (BTW-then I will feel much better!)

    • KintheNorthwest

      I was not one of the people hoping that Obama would fail. I truly wanted him to be a good president for our country. However, it looks like Obama and his croonies are slowly but systematically tearing down all that was and is America.
      I am not as much scared for myself but for the generations to come.
      Look what Obama and his croonies are leaving for the generations of Americans to come. The good lessons on how well it pays to lie and cheat. Then there is the national debt which will probably never get paid off and will just make all future generations even poorer.

      When Bush won the first time I felt that he had stole the election, but still honored Bush as President.

      Yet with Obama I feel he went way further in stealing the election and I cannot seem to get myself to honor him as President of the US. To me Obama is a fraud and will always be a fraud. —Just out of curiosity does anyone else feel this way?

      • http://www.hillaryorbust.com Hillary or Bust

        “Yet with Obama I feel he went way further in stealing the election and I cannot seem to get myself to honor him as President of the US. To me Obama is a fraud and will always be a fraud. —Just out of curiosity does anyone else feel this way?”

        Absolutely. For me maybe it’s because Bush never painted himself as someone who was above politics nor abused the good will of an entire race of people to get into office via affirmative action.

      • Senneth

        yes Kin. I also feel that way. I disliked Bush’s policies and he seemed to be an idiot (a dangerous one), but That One? Words cannot describe how much more I dislike him and his creepy wife and his creepy cabal. At least Bush was proud to be an American – That One, not at all.

        • C.S.

          I know our last two elections were not honest. I had no respect for GWB and I never considered him president but I did consider him an American; a misguided one, but a true native born citizen whose mistakes had been covered up by the Republican party.

          This man the Democratic party foisted on us with stolen primaries, delegates and unconstitutional disenfranchisement is even worse because it is quite possible that he is still a dual citizen and not a true native born citizen of our country and no member of the government is even trying to cover up his hate for We the People.

          And from the obsequious bow he gave the Saudi prince, he certainly has no loyalty to the United States. And his religious pretense (attending Wright’s Black Muslim affiliated church) was refuted by him refusing to put his hand over his heart for our National Anthem but who all but prostrated himself on the floor of the G20 meeting, at the feet of a Saudi prince who remained erect and accepted the servile respect from this representative of the United States! His religious preference and loyalty was clearly seen when greeting the Saudi representative.

          Our president bows to no monarch and no religion.

          Two hundred and thirty years ago We the People fought a war to win the Right to bow to no monarch. And this unelected Soertoro/Obama did just that. He can show respect a foreign prince, but he couldn’t even respect our country’s symbols while asking us to elect him president. He is not one of us.

  • beachnan

    Yes!!! It’s like living a nightmare. I see him as a fraud, and I keep looking around and wondering why others don’t see what I see. It makes me feel like I am living in an alternate universe. I cannot support this guy.

  • http://ksclematis ksclematis

    My individual problems are mostly medical at this time in my life, but for which I have insurance (expensive–on Medicare & supplemental). I can remember the ’30′s depression, Roosevelt’s programs for creating jobs which helped put food on our table. I learned many lessons throughout the years, some very lean years, and some very good years while I had my own business, until a large chain store moved in across the street, and I didn’t want to go farther into debt. I’m o.k. now, unless the country totally sinks the banks.

    But what I feel sad about is all the young people who were suckered by Hope and Change and Yes We Can. So many of them were having a great life when Mom and Dad paid their bills and they and their Moms & Dads now have lost ownerships they thought they had by living on several cedit cards, in homes they couldn’t afford and which they were suckered into buying by the high-rollers on Wall St. They never learned to save for a “rainy day”, and just couldn’t do without the things they “wanted”, didn’t ask themselves if they really needed, or would ever use them, or should put that money into savings accounts. However, many were also on the low end of the pay scale, without security of a job, and now they’re sleeping in their cars or under a tent.

    Not many could forsee that the economy could go up, up, up forever. And who could fortell the lies we were all being told by the greatest liar on the earth that the economy was doing great and just go out and spend, spend and spend more? I never thought I’d see the day that our country would be so far in the economic ditch with two wars and perhaps another one or two on the horizon! Every time I go to the grocery store now the prices have increased by .50 to a $1 or more for each item. Some prices have doubled or more. Where it will end, I haven’t a clue… I don’t know who can raise the US from the depths…. That’s what I feel sad and angry about.

    • Tricia Spiegel

      I so agree. The young ones seemed to think it was all coming for them and would just keep getting better. Those of us who have lived a while longer know that what goes way up often comes way down unless there is considerable ongoing monitoring and restraint.

  • mountainaires

    How Do I Feel?

    Where’s My Pitchfork?!

    This is what I mean: Barack Obama is engaged in a conspiracy to commit fraud on the American people. He is engaged in a cover-up of the financial disaster; a cover-up of the extent of our fiscal implosion; a defrauding of the treasury. He has violated his oath of office. He should be impeached, and his top cabinet officials at Treasury, along with the Fed Chairman should be indicted. What they are doing is committing a felony right under our noses.

    http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/932-Wheres-My-Pitchfork.html