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Our friends down in Tampa at the Republican Convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America — but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan. And that’s because all they have is the same prescriptions they’ve had for the last thirty years: ‘Have a surplus? Try a tax cut! Deficit too high? Have another! Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning!’

—PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA (via inothernews)

Over and over, we’ve been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are the only way. That since government ‘can’t do everything, it should do almost nothing.’

If you can’t afford health insurance, hope that you don’t get sick.

If a company releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, that’s the price of progress.

If you can’t afford to start a business or go to college, take my opponent’s advice and, well, borrow money from your parents.

—PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA (via inothernews)

So I know no one cares, guess this is just to keep track of some thoughts.

Freshman camp started. I’ve gotten a ton of ego boosts lately, so that’s helped my confidence a ton. There’s only one thing that makes my self esteem plummet if it ever does. I do it to myself - filling in the blanks, wondering things that are none of my business, reacting with others. I barely have problems of my own now, it’s all this empathizing.

What and where I want to be is pretty normal. I tell people to have regular standards, and I take my own advice.. But based on what I know, that one thing I want is so improbable, and I’m not even taken seriously. Can’t even get my hopes up.