You made me ... promises, promises

Knowing I'd believe...
Promises, promises...

Almost one year later, all those who fell under the magical spell (remember ... Obama!!! ;-) are beginning to see how promises play out when they meet the cold price-tag of reality.

But if we with the "Cadillac" health plans have to start paying taxes on our benefits, that's a huge middle class tax increase, and we were promised that wouldn't happen. Rebalancing the pay package doesn't save us from that tax hit — even assuming our employers would reshuffle things. Plus we love our great health benefits, and we were told if we liked them, we'd get to keep them. How is it fair to change the rules on us after we worked so hard to get what we have?

Welcome to the real world, she sang to me, condescendingly ...
But take heart, latter day liberals! Another election will be held, and this time, maybe you can do your educated, intellectual, promise-evaluating before you vote.

Maybe next time around, you'll ask for some actual evidence of problem solving, and actions that achieve results, instead of voting with the "Yes We Can" hopeful -- but ultimately empty -- energy of untested young Americans, who have no idea yet of the years of hard work, sacrifice and flexibility necessary to achieve lasting success in the real world, where everyday you face actual ... obstacles. (and no, I don't mean the "but they didn't peel my shrimp for me!!" princess-type obstacles.)

Voting the non-controversial "present" just to keep your record clean, and putting the country in the hands of a junior senator, rather than a more experienced woman who had been playing in contemporary political circles for the past decades, with a fresh memory of having her faced rubbed in the mud during the previous health care defeat... tell me now she wasn't more ready than he?

Last year he (Gore Vidal) famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the Democratic nomination process for president. Now, he reveals, he regrets his change of heart.

Very rarely is the protected American liberal class asked to pay at all for their theoretical contributions to social and economic change. But perhaps, change is indeed in the air,

You want (hope)?
Well (hope) costs and right here's where you start paying... in sweat!!!

and some will know sacrifice when the day comes that the last shall be first, and the formerly first ... have to admit that they're fickle consumers, not wanting to wait another 3 years to return yet another product that didn't live up to the packaging and promises.

You'd think some of them might learn a trick or two about evaluating promises, after all these years...