President
Obama announced that he will deliver a farewell address on January 10 in the
Windy City
Where too
many young men gun down other young men without remorse, mercy or pity
With 762
killings in 2016, parts of Chicago became unsafe to be outside morning, noon or
night
Almost another
4000 wounded but who cheated death’s final bloody bight
For almost
every year while were fighting the jihadists, Afghanistan was a safer place to
be
As gang
thugs left their homes to practice their killing sprees
More
homicides than in New York and L.A. combined
A gruesome
statistic as the fabric of society seems to before the caskets unwind
Mostly young
blacks shot by other young blacks over turf wars
The streets
awash in dead bodies and police tape, shell casings and the stains of gore
Rarely does a
killing provoke the outrage and the televised condemnation
BLM marching
in the streets or the burning and looting in this divided nation
So, our soon
to depart president of failed “Hope and Change” will address us in the manor of
our first president
With his
legacy about to be torn asunder and ripped to shreds be forewarned he will
extol his “accomplishments”
Obama has
chosen McCormick Place to give his farewell address
A better venue
for the residents might be a high murder rate area where the killings the
police cannot suppress
Such that
for a few hours with all the Secret Service in full protect the president mode
These poor
terrified residents for one day a sense of without getting shot they could come
out of their fortified abodes
Reagan to
his credit in his farewell address confessed to the American public he had one
major regret
That he had on
his watch seen an increase from $700 billion to $2 trillion in the amount of
our national debt
Obama leaves
office having doubled the national debt to $19 trillion and hundreds of billions
in change
So much now
mired in debt with infrastructure and military need and business hobbled by
taxes and regulations and a president who kept kicking the budget deficits downrange
© January 3, 2017 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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