Obama Take us Back. Time to Get Busy.

Thursday our president gives one of the most important speeches of his life. He says he will present his plan for putting Americans back to work. Here is my three cents:

We the people need to take some responsibility for the broken country we are in. It is wrong to blame one man or 1,000---we all share the responsibility and we all need to fix our nation together.

Remember how life was after WWII? We were happy as larks. After the Cold War ended--party time! We decided to celebrate. After all, we were the greatest nation ON EARTH! So, we stopped saving and investing. It was time to spend, buy houses, and if we were short on cash, CHARGE IT! Education? High school "was good enough for MY old man..." and in fact good paying jobs for those without a college degree or special training were plentiful. All those bridges, roads, train tracks that we built are in a disastrous state---put people to work fixing out infrastructure. That is our foundation.

Then the Baby Boomers started wanting. Their parents gave all they had. An entire generation was hanging out drinking Coke Cola's and smoking cigs, driving zooped-up cars and finding ways to make money that often had nothing to do with hard work. Technology was running the show, jobs that fed the Boomers were disappearing, and we all just watched.

Man on the moon? Cure for Polio? A computer in every home? Am I the only one who feels we are drowning in cell phones and iPads? Can't we think bigger? The telephone was huge in its day, as was television. Vaccines were flying out of mankind's brains. "Giant Leap" for us, really? Or the beginning of the end?

Educate and train our population to keep up and surpass current technology. Tax the wealthiest more--DO IT. Get motivated to advance your well-being. Demand quality food, air, and water. If that means big corporations will lose some money, tough tooties! Our nation will save in health care costs. Rebuild America one brick at a time. Bring home our troops. Secure Social Security and Medicare, now and into the future. Legalize marijuana, prostitution, and tax those babies. Legalize gay marriage in every state---add up all that money spent on weddings, all the jobs.

I'll stop. Over 3 cents. But Mr. President, MOTIVATE us tomorrow to recapture our power as a people who can conquer our problems whether from floods, terrorists, loss of jobs, WE want to be that great nation our forefathers and grandparents died for.