Jan 28, 2010 Comments
I’m as mad as hell!
After last night’s State of the Union display by Congress and the Senate, so many of my friends on both sides of the aisle are amazed at the pure partisan display of politicism and stubborness on the part of both parties. We’ve all got to come together to solve the issues of our time. Republican and Democrats must stop the charade. We must, as one people, work together to find solutions for the problems we’re facing. Barack is our quarterback, but he’s got no team! How do you expect a quarterback to win with no team?
So many people on Facebook and Twitter are commenting on just how stupid Congress, the Senate, and the Military officers looked, applauding for only what they liked and staying seated and sneering at what they didn’t. These are the people we’ve elected to run our country? This is what yours and my tax dollar goes to? People who are immobile and unresponsive to the problems and challenges this country is facing? People who cheer only for what they want and could care less about the other side?
We’ve got to act and act now and act decisively. It’s upon every American to write their Congressman or Senator. Like the character Howard Beale in the movie Network, we citizens of the United States need to say, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
For inspiration, here is the original quote from the IMDB web site:
Howard Beale: I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad.
Howard Beale: [shouting] You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,
[shouting]
Howard Beale: ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
Howard Beale: [screaming at the top of his lungs] “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”
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