Topcoat Magazine: EJ Jacobs, Editor-In-Chief

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AND THE BAND PLAYS ON
Sen. Joe Wilson, bold enough to call the President a liar, ignorant enough to miss the irony.	2010. Tis been one year into the Obama presidency, but we are almost two years into one of the worst national and global recessions in almost 30 years. Unemployment, underemployment and foreclosures reached all-time records, and still continue to be high. In a time where the economic crisis does not discriminate, the politics of politics sadly remain immune. Republicans who voted in-step with the former president have done nothing but criticize and block the current administration’s efforts, both good and bad. Democrats have shown how useless absolute power can be in the hands of absolute morons. And the only third party to develop is not a moderate one for the fiscally responsible centerists, but an unfocused ultra-conservative group called the Tea Party. Before we start feeling for the downtrodden Joe Six-packs out there, remember that they spent much of 2009 questioning the legitimacy of an already verified presidential birth certificate, campaigning against health care out of some fear of geriatric death camps despite skyrocketing premiums and pre-existing condition clauses that exclude many who are eligible for healthcare from obtaining it. In a year that was meant to celebrate change, all we got and gave was more of the same. Even the terrorists went to the well and tried again unsuccessfully to blow up a plane with a suicide bomber. People are being laid off at a staggering pace with occupational fields disappearing for good. Instead of being focused on the situation at hand, most Americans are focused on The Situation on MTV. We cannot look to politicians or an unapologetically bipartisan media to create change. The most difficult change has to come on the most personal levels. We need to stop showering unconditional love and allegiance to political parties. We need to stop waiting on the government to create ideas and solutions and implement our own. We cannot be the band on the sinking ship when we possess the tools to create a stronger vessel. EJ Jacobs, Editor-In-Chief

AND THE BAND PLAYS ON

Sen. Joe Wilson, bold enough to call the President a liar, ignorant enough to miss the irony.

2010. Tis been one year into the Obama presidency, but we are almost two years into one of the worst national and global recessions in almost 30 years. Unemployment, underemployment and foreclosures reached all-time records, and still continue to be high.

In a time where the economic crisis does not discriminate, the politics of politics sadly remain immune. Republicans who voted in-step with the former president have done nothing but criticize and block the current administration’s efforts, both good and bad. Democrats have shown how useless absolute power can be in the hands of absolute morons. And the only third party to develop is not a moderate one for the fiscally responsible centerists, but an unfocused ultra-conservative group called the Tea Party.

Before we start feeling for the downtrodden Joe Six-packs out there, remember that they spent much of 2009 questioning the legitimacy of an already verified presidential birth certificate, campaigning against health care out of some fear of geriatric death camps despite skyrocketing premiums and pre-existing condition clauses that exclude many who are eligible for healthcare from obtaining it.

In a year that was meant to celebrate change, all we got and gave was more of the same. Even the terrorists went to the well and tried again unsuccessfully to blow up a plane with a suicide bomber. People are being laid off at a staggering pace with occupational fields disappearing for good. Instead of being focused on the situation at hand, most Americans are focused on The Situation on MTV.

We cannot look to politicians or an unapologetically bipartisan media to create change. The most difficult change has to come on the most personal levels. We need to stop showering unconditional love and allegiance to political parties. We need to stop waiting on the government to create ideas and solutions and implement our own. We cannot be the band on the sinking ship when we possess the tools to create a stronger vessel.

EJ Jacobs, Editor-In-Chief