This is the type of thing I don't quite understand, so maybe someone can help me out. I kind of watch the news, and see things like this Fast and Furious, Solyndra, etc. Everyone is in a huge uproar about them, saying how horrible Obama is.
Ok, there's NDAA which is definitely bad, but you even had Obama publicly saying it was bad. Then there's healthcare, but that's a whole other can of worms.
Nonetheless, anyone remember the Bush presidency? You guys are up in arms about 2000 guns, as if it's one of the most horrid things that the government could do? Are you fucking kidding me? What about bombing Baghdad back into the stone age for weeks, then moving in with 100,000 troops, for no real reason except you're trigger happy, want some military bases in the Middle East, and Iraq is an easy target? Didn't hear much back then, except you need to be patriotic, and weed out those nasty terrorists.
Or $500m on Solyndra? Ok, big mistake, shouldn't have happened, but really, who gives a shit? It's $500m. That's about the equivalent of 18 hours of the Iraq war. Or the secret CIA prisons, the torture, kidnapping of people off the streets in loads of countries, or how Bush so succinctly defined the US Constitution as just a "god damn piece of paper". I remember the US govt and media debating whether or not the US should even bother following that pesky Geneva Convention, and Bush on TV defending his "interpretation" of it.
And you guys are throwing a fit over 2000 guns in Mexico, and $500mm dropped on a solar company? I mean, neither are good, but fuck me, get some perspective. It's hardly the end of the US as you know it, which is what many of you make it out to be.