The more things change, the more they stay the same

As usual, I skipped last night's State of the Union address. I could never stand them. Even as a young kid I was irradiated by the fact that they had to interrupt prime time TV on every single station tell show a political pep talk that is mostly smoke and mirror with a side of empty promises and half baked facts.

From what I've heard today I didn't miss a thing, as I expected. One of the key points coworkers, friends and talk radio people laughed the most at was the President's empty promise of free two year education. We all know that it will not happen, including the President. We all know it was never intended to happen.

While sounds good to the gullible, naive and hopeful; it is not possible since nothing is really free. In order for it to happen our broke government would need to divert already borrowed funds from another social program or raise taxes. Either way, the American Taxpayer will get stuck with the bill.

So therefore it will never get past the Republican controlled Congress. Which is exactly what the President and the Democratic Party want to, so they can make the Republican Party look like a bunch of evil people who don't want poor people to get an education. It's all just a political trick to win votes. Same old BS both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have been playing for generations.

In fact, some of the discussions made me think of some of the awesome quotes from (in my opinion) the best political commentator of all time, Will Rogers. The most appropriate being:

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

I spent a little time reading and laughing at some of Will Rogers' zingers on Brain Quotes and a few other places. The only sad part about reading what Will Rogers said about our government and two major political parties, is that they sound like he could have said them today, not 80 years ago.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.