Sunday, October 31, 2004
Time to Decide: Part Two
On the other end of the left, we have the Democrats who have, for the past few decades, tried to socialize our country. With a big heart and a sincere desire to raise the standards of living for all Americans, presidents like JFK and LBJ laid the foundations of a true socialistic welfare state. But instead of helping, they interfered with the natural order of work and earn and gain the rewards for one’s labor. They interfered with a person’s feeling of self-worth. They created a generation of people that believed what the government told them--that they were incapable: they could not work or learn or even feed themselves. And in this Socialist State, work or not, everyone gets fed–as long as you keep those self-proclaimed saviors in power. The Blacks were especially vulnerable to this ideology having just survived the "Jim Crow" laws. They turned from the Eisenhower republicans (Eisenhower was the first president to put black people in positions of power) to the democrats who offered lip service to equality and free lunch to anyone who claimed to need it. And since so many Americans were told they were not good enough to drink from the same water fountain, they certainly were not good enough to provide their own lunch.
Unlike the Commies, the Socialists want everyone in the community to partake of everything, equally, earned or not earned. Everyone eats. Everyone has health care. Everyone lives in little apartments (they don’t need big apartments because pregnancies are terminated). Everyone goes to public schools. Everyone owns everything. And for those few people who would rather work anyway–well–look at England. 32% of a Brit’s paycheck goes to income tax, and that does not begin to include property taxes, sales taxes, and everything-else taxes just to support socialized medicine and socialized welfare. Do we really want to break the backs of a few workers to provide mediocre benefits for all? I had a British friend that had to wait 18 months to have her appendix out. I, an American, waited 18 hours to have mine removed. The problem with socialism is that it doesn’t work very well! Instead of all people having a higher standard of living, most people have a much lower standard of living, except, of course, for the leaders and enforcers who live in the castles high above the rest of us.
England is my mother (she gave birth to my nation) and Russia is my father (he gave birth to my grandparents). There comes a time when all the mother lands and fatherlands must be forgot.
WE are Americans now. We are the entrepreneurs and settlers and we fought for our independence – so let us be independent. We don’t need to follow the old country ideas of government. We have done just fine discovering our own identity. Let us all be men. Let us work. Let us support our families and ourselves. Let us nurture a country where working for a living is considered the norm, not where a few unfortunate workers slave to provide for the many.
Let us each with our own guile use whatever skills and talents we were blessed with to earn our way, whether it be academic, economic, scientific, religious, manufacturing or farming, or even if we want to collect cans on the side of the highways and live off the land. And, let us choose for ourselves how much we want to give and who we want to help. We are a generous moral people. Look at how we love to give.
No, I will not vote for a Democratic candidate for President of the United States this year. I will not vote for Kerry. I don’t want my country to keep bending in that direction. I really really don’t want a socialist state in my future.
On the other end of the left, we have the Democrats who have, for the past few decades, tried to socialize our country. With a big heart and a sincere desire to raise the standards of living for all Americans, presidents like JFK and LBJ laid the foundations of a true socialistic welfare state. But instead of helping, they interfered with the natural order of work and earn and gain the rewards for one’s labor. They interfered with a person’s feeling of self-worth. They created a generation of people that believed what the government told them--that they were incapable: they could not work or learn or even feed themselves. And in this Socialist State, work or not, everyone gets fed–as long as you keep those self-proclaimed saviors in power. The Blacks were especially vulnerable to this ideology having just survived the "Jim Crow" laws. They turned from the Eisenhower republicans (Eisenhower was the first president to put black people in positions of power) to the democrats who offered lip service to equality and free lunch to anyone who claimed to need it. And since so many Americans were told they were not good enough to drink from the same water fountain, they certainly were not good enough to provide their own lunch.
Unlike the Commies, the Socialists want everyone in the community to partake of everything, equally, earned or not earned. Everyone eats. Everyone has health care. Everyone lives in little apartments (they don’t need big apartments because pregnancies are terminated). Everyone goes to public schools. Everyone owns everything. And for those few people who would rather work anyway–well–look at England. 32% of a Brit’s paycheck goes to income tax, and that does not begin to include property taxes, sales taxes, and everything-else taxes just to support socialized medicine and socialized welfare. Do we really want to break the backs of a few workers to provide mediocre benefits for all? I had a British friend that had to wait 18 months to have her appendix out. I, an American, waited 18 hours to have mine removed. The problem with socialism is that it doesn’t work very well! Instead of all people having a higher standard of living, most people have a much lower standard of living, except, of course, for the leaders and enforcers who live in the castles high above the rest of us.
England is my mother (she gave birth to my nation) and Russia is my father (he gave birth to my grandparents). There comes a time when all the mother lands and fatherlands must be forgot.
WE are Americans now. We are the entrepreneurs and settlers and we fought for our independence – so let us be independent. We don’t need to follow the old country ideas of government. We have done just fine discovering our own identity. Let us all be men. Let us work. Let us support our families and ourselves. Let us nurture a country where working for a living is considered the norm, not where a few unfortunate workers slave to provide for the many.
Let us each with our own guile use whatever skills and talents we were blessed with to earn our way, whether it be academic, economic, scientific, religious, manufacturing or farming, or even if we want to collect cans on the side of the highways and live off the land. And, let us choose for ourselves how much we want to give and who we want to help. We are a generous moral people. Look at how we love to give.
No, I will not vote for a Democratic candidate for President of the United States this year. I will not vote for Kerry. I don’t want my country to keep bending in that direction. I really really don’t want a socialist state in my future.
