I do not know if this is real, but it reflects the way I feel.
"I'm 63 and I'm Tired"
by Robert A. Hall
I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked hard since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.
I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.
I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela ....
I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.
I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.
I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.
I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I #@*# sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.
I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.
I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.
I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois , where the " Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet.
I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.
I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.
Note: Robert Hall is an actor on CSI (the coroner) and a Marine Vietnam Veteran.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
WTF is HE (the Emperor) Thinking?
Understand, the debt and the budget is not a Demican or Republicrat problem, it is an American problem!
This what the Messiah told CNN ".."Full recovery will not happen immediately," Obama said at a news conference in Chicago. "And to make the investments we need, we'll have to scour our federal budget, line by line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices as well, something I will be discussing further tomorrow.".
What cuts? He has increased the deficit by 3.5 TRILLION dollars over and above where it was when he took office! He gave the Congress a budget that not even his liberal co-conspirators could not stomach because it alone added 1.5 TRILLION dollars to the deficit in ONE YEAR!
Now he threatens to withhold Social Security checks if he does not get new taxes. He is a spoiled child that needs to be put in a "time out" after he has his ass spanked.
If any checks are withheld, do it this way and in this order:
1. The President
2. The Congress
3. The Cabinet
4. All Federal agencies except the Armed Forces, Border Patrol and ICE.
All of his economic team has resigned except one and he has said that he will be leaving. Christina Roemer, former head of the Idiot's Economic Council, stated " ... "Our baseline specification suggests that an exogenous tax increase of one percent of GDP lowers real GDP by roughly three percent."
In English this means that for every one percent of tax increase productivity drops three percent. A drop in productivity really means fewer jobs, more unemployment, less investment and more layoffs.
Mrs. Roemer went on to say "..I also find "no support for the hypothesis that tax cuts restrain government spending; indeed ... tax cuts may increase spending." Want to know why? Because when taxes go down, employment goes up. More people working means more tax revenue so the the government can spend more. This is not rocket science. Notice that I did not say the government spends it wisely, only that it has the bucks to spend!
Today, his partner in crime, Ben Bernanke, has hinted that he will crank up the presses to print more money.
The stock market went up (it loves cheap money), gold went up, oil went up and other commodities went up.
This means every time you buy gas or go to the grocery store, YOU are going to pay for this increase via higher prices.
Obummer is dangerous beyond belief.
Remember, this is a man that has never managed a lemonade stand!
This what the Messiah told CNN ".."Full recovery will not happen immediately," Obama said at a news conference in Chicago. "And to make the investments we need, we'll have to scour our federal budget, line by line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices as well, something I will be discussing further tomorrow.".
What cuts? He has increased the deficit by 3.5 TRILLION dollars over and above where it was when he took office! He gave the Congress a budget that not even his liberal co-conspirators could not stomach because it alone added 1.5 TRILLION dollars to the deficit in ONE YEAR!
Now he threatens to withhold Social Security checks if he does not get new taxes. He is a spoiled child that needs to be put in a "time out" after he has his ass spanked.
If any checks are withheld, do it this way and in this order:
1. The President
2. The Congress
3. The Cabinet
4. All Federal agencies except the Armed Forces, Border Patrol and ICE.
All of his economic team has resigned except one and he has said that he will be leaving. Christina Roemer, former head of the Idiot's Economic Council, stated " ... "Our baseline specification suggests that an exogenous tax increase of one percent of GDP lowers real GDP by roughly three percent."
In English this means that for every one percent of tax increase productivity drops three percent. A drop in productivity really means fewer jobs, more unemployment, less investment and more layoffs.
Mrs. Roemer went on to say "..I also find "no support for the hypothesis that tax cuts restrain government spending; indeed ... tax cuts may increase spending." Want to know why? Because when taxes go down, employment goes up. More people working means more tax revenue so the the government can spend more. This is not rocket science. Notice that I did not say the government spends it wisely, only that it has the bucks to spend!
Today, his partner in crime, Ben Bernanke, has hinted that he will crank up the presses to print more money.
The stock market went up (it loves cheap money), gold went up, oil went up and other commodities went up.
This means every time you buy gas or go to the grocery store, YOU are going to pay for this increase via higher prices.
Obummer is dangerous beyond belief.
Remember, this is a man that has never managed a lemonade stand!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Dear Mr. President - It's the JOBS stupid!
Dear BO,
I understand that you have two problems, everything you say and everything you do! The Economy - by
every measurable standard is in the crapper. Every dollar you have taken out of the economy has come
from someone's pocket. That someone is the taxpayer. Let me explain free market capitalism to you.
If I, and a few million taxpayers, bought a few things from company X, guess what would happen? Company X would need to expand.
This means involving bankers (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), lawyers (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), title people (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), real estate people (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), architects (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space). Now the preliminaries are taken care of, Build the building.
You will need: A dirt contractor (bulldozers, scrapers, surveyors all using heavy equipment) equipment operators, the manufacturer that built the equipment (that hire workers and staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy plant space), plumbers (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), steel erectors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), brick layers (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), electricians (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), mechanical contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), glass contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), trucking companies (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), paving contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), floor contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), and the sign contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space).
Company X would now hire managers and employees. Company X would have to buy advertising from a paper or TV station or an ad agency all of which (you guessed it!) hires workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space.
Company X would also have to buy its' inventory from many manufacturers, all of whom (you guessed it again!) hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, and rent or buy office space. Hopefully there are a few left in the USA that your tax and trade policies have not driven to China.
Think of all of the genius and effort that went in to these enterprises by ordinary people with extraordinary goals.
I, and a few million other taxpayers would buy a few new things - if we had a job or had any money left after you finish taking it away with taxes, fees and government giveaways.
Economics 101: All working people pay taxes. The more people that are working he more revenue the government gets. All non- working people consume tax revenue. Every dollar you take out of working man's pocket to give to someone who does not work means the working folks buy less and less from Company X. The more money you take away from Company X means less expansion, fewer employees, fewer benefits and less inventory.
While in theory, taking from the rich and giving to the poor (your social justice and wealth redistribution) sounds good to the dumb and poverty stricken, the simple fact is that this theory does not work and has never worked. Look around! The USSR, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Romania, Croatia, Georgia,
and others have all undertaken the socialist experiment you advocate and all have failed, are failing or will fail.
The reason for this failure lies in human nature. All people are not equally smart, nor do they equally work hard, nor do they equally consume, and so forth. Until they do, socialism will fail. This is human nature.
I submit that that only God can change human nature and in spite of the high opinion you have have of yourself and the low opinion you have of all others, you are not God.
Simply put, BO, get the government out of the way, stick your green agenda up your ass, call off your regulatory goons, quit spending money like a drunken sailor (at least the sailor quits when he runs out of money) and let the private citizen take care of the economy. He, at least knows what he is doing!
You, sir, have never managed a Taco Bell.
I understand that you have two problems, everything you say and everything you do! The Economy - by
every measurable standard is in the crapper. Every dollar you have taken out of the economy has come
from someone's pocket. That someone is the taxpayer. Let me explain free market capitalism to you.
If I, and a few million taxpayers, bought a few things from company X, guess what would happen? Company X would need to expand.
This means involving bankers (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), lawyers (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), title people (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), real estate people (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), architects (who hire staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space). Now the preliminaries are taken care of, Build the building.
You will need: A dirt contractor (bulldozers, scrapers, surveyors all using heavy equipment) equipment operators, the manufacturer that built the equipment (that hire workers and staff, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy plant space), plumbers (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), steel erectors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), brick layers (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), electricians (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), mechanical contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), glass contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), trucking companies (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), paving contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), floor contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space), and the sign contractors (who hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space).
Company X would now hire managers and employees. Company X would have to buy advertising from a paper or TV station or an ad agency all of which (you guessed it!) hires workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, rent or buy office space.
Company X would also have to buy its' inventory from many manufacturers, all of whom (you guessed it again!) hire workers, buy supplies and equipment, advertise, and rent or buy office space. Hopefully there are a few left in the USA that your tax and trade policies have not driven to China.
Think of all of the genius and effort that went in to these enterprises by ordinary people with extraordinary goals.
I, and a few million other taxpayers would buy a few new things - if we had a job or had any money left after you finish taking it away with taxes, fees and government giveaways.
It's the Jobs, stupid!
Economics 101: All working people pay taxes. The more people that are working he more revenue the government gets. All non- working people consume tax revenue. Every dollar you take out of working man's pocket to give to someone who does not work means the working folks buy less and less from Company X. The more money you take away from Company X means less expansion, fewer employees, fewer benefits and less inventory.
While in theory, taking from the rich and giving to the poor (your social justice and wealth redistribution) sounds good to the dumb and poverty stricken, the simple fact is that this theory does not work and has never worked. Look around! The USSR, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Romania, Croatia, Georgia,
and others have all undertaken the socialist experiment you advocate and all have failed, are failing or will fail.
The reason for this failure lies in human nature. All people are not equally smart, nor do they equally work hard, nor do they equally consume, and so forth. Until they do, socialism will fail. This is human nature.
I submit that that only God can change human nature and in spite of the high opinion you have have of yourself and the low opinion you have of all others, you are not God.
Simply put, BO, get the government out of the way, stick your green agenda up your ass, call off your regulatory goons, quit spending money like a drunken sailor (at least the sailor quits when he runs out of money) and let the private citizen take care of the economy. He, at least knows what he is doing!
You, sir, have never managed a Taco Bell.
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