What does matter?

If you take a survey and ask most people what's really on their list of worries, it's so surprising the answers you get. 

Today our great country is facing maybe it's most serious downward spiral  in our economy and foreign policy. On the economic front our country has just taken a gigantic step backward toward another recession. There is absolutely no growth in our economy. Our gross domestic product (GDP) is shrinking.

It seems the only growth is our continued purchasing of products made in China. Of course China profits from these products and then continues to loan more money to us.  Of course China needs us to buy more of their products and we're sure sustaining them.

China is now building a strong military facility on one of their "artificial" islands. Along with our dependent relationship to China the rest of our foreign policy is the worst it has ever been. Iran is now brokering a deal with the Barry Soetero to produce nuclear weapons, and the world knows that Iran is a big supplier of arms to terrorist groups.

Barry's administration refuses to to wage war against the evil radical Muslim ISIS, just remarking "it's Iraq's problem, not ours". What happened to America being the beacon of light for the world to send aid where it's needed?  Women and children are being raped, tortured, and beheaded daily by ISIS, and Barry continues to hide. And when he does speak he claims "climate change is our biggest threat". Really Barry?

ISIS is growing more powerful every day as it ravages cities in Iraq, and is now spreading to Syria and rest of the mid-east. The administration in office now has completely turned its back on our biggest mid-east ally, Israel. Barry Soetero overtly displays his vitriol towards Israel's prime minister to the point that Barry sent one of his top emissaries to Israel to campaign against Netanyahu in Israel's latest election.

ISIS is now recruiting the young Black unemployed to come and join their cause in their fight "against the evil infidel America". Add to that the racism fires fanned by the likes of Al Sharpton, and we may be faced with a gigantic civil war in the not too distant future.

Now add all this to our deteriorating economy with 93 million Americans not employed, and food stamps and other entitlement programs at an all time high, it appears we are heading in a downward spiral from which we may not recover.  It's clear there won't be any recovery programs started between now and January, 2017.

And if Hillary Clinton should become president of this great country our downward spiral will pick up speed and our fate could well be sealed.

The deep sadness is that so many Americans will tell you what really matters to them personally are (1) just gotta lose 15 lbs., (2) when's the new iPhone coming out, (3) gotta have Botox and surgery to look younger, (4) what's my status on Twitter, Facebook, and google, 
(5) shopping, buying, spending, (6) TV, "House of Cards", and maybe the biggest thing that matters to many Americans is (7) TEXTING.

Yeah, yeah, I get ragged on a lot by friends and family that I'm nothing more than a doom and gloom news junkie. Got news for you; I'm 80, and I'll be ashes in an urn by the time it really makes an impact on America. But when I pick up my 17-month old great granddaughter I don't feel very secure about what's in store for her unless something is done and soon.

And please don't ever forget ISIS is counting on us to pay attention only to those seven items mentioned above. It will make it easier for them to run over us and take away our democracy.
Time to really wake up America.

And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country..and our troops
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