According to the polls, most Americans agreed that the country is on the wrong track, but yet they voted to keep everything pretty much the same as it was. Is it me or is something fundamentally wrong with this picture?
Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
— Newton’s First Law
“Obama Wins and Nothing Changes; The Wildly Unpopular Status Quo Is Ratified!” http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/07/video-obama-wins-and-nothing-changes-the
What’s fundamentally wrong is that the alternative was worse.
Well… I have to call my cleaning lady in the AM to tell her I’ll probably be terminating at the end of the year so I can use that money to pay my taxes. Hopefully she has other customers that will help keep her struggling business afloat.