{"id":311,"date":"2011-10-28T07:21:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningnewsinverse.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2011-10-28T07:21:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:21:56","slug":"the-scariest-halloween-in-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"THE SCARIEST HALLOWEEN IN YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">A\u00a0commentary by Bob Sparrow<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It\u2019s that time of year, a time for scary things.\u00a0 Here are some things that are scaring the shit out of me this Halloween.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Our government<\/strong>\u00a0 Never have we been so polarized.\u00a0 We see our government not trying to do what\u2019s right for the American people, but making sure the other party doesn\u2019t get credit for doing\u00a0what&#8217;s\u00a0right for the American people.\u00a0 If you want to start an argument, just take a right or left position\u00a0on a subject and you will very quickly see a \u2018house divided\u2019.\u00a0 Our government is broken and no one seems to care, much less know how to fix it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Politicians<\/strong> (Obviously I\u2019m not done with our government yet!)\u00a0 Today\u2019s<br \/>\npoliticians from both parties\u00a0are first, self-serving, then party-serving and rarely, if ever, think about 1) serving the people in their constituency, and 2) doing what is\u00a0best for the country.\u00a0 Our Social Security program is not good enough for them; our health care system is not good enough for them.\u00a0 Get them on the same programs as the rest of us, get them term limits and get them out!\u00a0 They are the problem they\u2019re pretending to fix.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Our position on illegal aliens<\/strong>\u00a0 What don\u2019t people get about the word \u2018illegal\u2019?\u00a0 We have always been a nation of\u00a0laws, except when it comes to this issue.\u00a0 It is now considered to be\u00a0prejudicial and politically incorrect (another scary thing) to try to\u00a0up-hold the law regarding this problem, because it is primarily directed at the Hispanic community.\u00a0 Bull shit!\u00a0 Illegal is illegal.\u00a0 We have good immigration laws, it\u2019s scary that we don\u2019t enforce them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The dumbing down of America.\u00a0<\/strong> Perhaps it\u2019s because modern technology has exposed more, but wow, are we stupid!\u00a0 People don\u2019t read anymore, they get their\u00a0news, thoughts and cultural enlightenment from reality TV and celebrity<br \/>\ntweets.\u00a0 It\u2019s scary how important what Lindsay Lohan\u00a0and Kim Kardashian are doing.\u00a0 Our commitment to education is best demonstrated by the ever-widening<br \/>\ngap between what we pay our professional athletes and what we pay our teachers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Retirement.<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s turned me into a sedentary curmudgeon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\" align=\"left\">\u00a0<strong>What\u2019s scaring you this Halloween?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\" align=\"left\"><strong>Use our \u2018Comments\u2019 section to let us know.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0commentary by Bob Sparrow It\u2019s that time of year, a time for scary things.\u00a0 Here are some things that are scaring the shit out of me this Halloween. 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