Political Divide

This post is more or less a rebuttal to all my left leaning friends that choose to be on the side of the Obama administration. I've been called names and accused of falsifying facts. I've been charged with being "what's wrong with America" and a disciple of Fox News. I must be doing something right. If my words bring about a reprisal from an individual or a group, then they are thinking about my words.

The greatest foe of a totalitarian state is free speech. The only way to arrive at that totalitarian state is free speech. The very tool that they employ to reach their objective, will be the tool they will readily strip from us. "If you want to know who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire

It is increasingly taboo to criticize Obama and his choices.

As a self professed Libertarian, I care not what my fellow man does with his time as long as it does not encroach on my liberties. Are we as a nation to believe our morals will not evolve? Individual rights should be left to the individual. We need to return to a state where personal responsibility is heralded. I make no apologies for who I am and how I got where I am in life.

When we see the actions of people who profess to be 'liberals' or 'left leaning' or outright progressives, socialists and communist, those actions take on almost a carnival atmosphere. Chaining themselves to courthouse stairs, trees or gas pumps, parading around naked to protest the fur trade, destroying public and private property and picketing/blocking access to business and public services to 'drive home' their way of thought. Removing any sign of God from our schools and public buildings. Filing suit against schools that celebrate any secular holiday. Bullying. From the very people that profess to champion the bullied (in their view). These are the people that think they are smarter then the whole. These are the self professed leaders. These are the people that will sell our future to prove they are right. Even if they are not.

Loss of liberty is an insidious process. We adapt. It's how we carry on with our day to day life. It's how we see that $4 a gallon gas is now normal. That gradual climb in our grocery bill slips under our noses. How we don't really miss that $100 less in our paychecks, or that we pay more for our other goods and services. We won't see it coming if we don't take an active stance now. One day we will all wake up to a completely different America.

That's my two cents, spend 'em or put 'em in the dish for the next person.      

Bring on the Debates!

Election coverage and preparation is in full swing. Of course if you've been watching any news program it's been ongoing for the last four years. This is the final stretch of what will prove to be one of the most important election cycles in our country's history. The election that defines or redefines us as a nation. Do we as a nation want to be a nation of producers or dependents?


The debates are coming pretty quick. The Obama camp is already conceding defeat before uttering a response to any formal question. Their reasoning is that "lucky to be able to devote three consecutive hours to debate preparation." (DNC spokesperson Woodhouse). Wait a minute...he's the President..can't he make his own time? He definitely prints his own money..oh..and makes time for over 100- 5+ hours of golf over the last 4 years, which allowing for an hour there and an hour back figures out to 700+hours or @ 40/week, 17.5 weeks, of just golf! Oh yeah can't forget that he blows off his security briefings on a regular basis, currently about two thirds of them..but he can make time to see the ladies on The View during the same time that he's supposed to be meeting with Israel's Netanyahu. Ok..maybe he doesn't print his own money..I took liberties with that one.

The point is, if he's unprepared it's no one's fault but his own. There is no teleprompter at the debates. He's on his own and he should be prepared, he's had four years to formulate answers to any political question. He's the President...he has access to ALL information. If he falls on his face...then the only person that should be charged with holding the man up is the man he looks at in the mirror everyday. No blaming anyone here this time. If Romney tears him up then he deserves to go.

We need to stick to basics and facts..the people I talk to about Obama's administration have no facts just opinion and conjecture. When I bring up a fact they twist it and turn it to shine a positive light on this administration. Or they go on a tirade about something that has nothing to do with the subject. It's been said that TEA Party members are crazy folks that believe in conspiracy and wear tinfoil hats. I charge the left with going a bit crazy! Current conversations lead in some odd directions. When the conversation places Obama in a negative light, then I'm a racist or a birther. When policy is the topic then I'm charged with wanting to kill off the weak and starve off the poor. When it's brought up in my circle of employed peers that we/they are possibly in the top 25% of wage earners in the USA, they immediately and vehemently deny it! Even in the face of facts! (Split point is $67,280, adjusting for fringe benefits this is very attainable even for a single earner clinical healthcare worker) Next time someone says "We are the 99%!" and exclaims it loudly, tell them your the 25% and your financing this fiasco.



We are the producers. We are the financiers of the current and the future. WE are currently spending that future. We have created an economic atmosphere where food producing farmers can't survive without subsidy. We have decided that international companies can't survive without a bailout. We have bought into the idea that the very economy we call our own needs "quantitative easing" to remain stable. (Or at least kick the can down the road for the next administration to address) We have been blinded by the division that the left is creating. We have created the class warfare. We elected officials that are creating a divide between the producers and the dependents.

When the dependents outnumber the producers then all is lost. If anyone believes that the 'have-nots' that are getting handouts are going to vote for an administration that reduces government costs they have their heads in the sand.

We will be the undoing of our own way of life.

That's my two cent's spend 'em or put 'em in the dish for the next person.