While I did not write the
following, I certainly agree with it. There is one part I removed because I completely disagreed with it. You can
read it yourself on the guy's blog.
Bel.
While I did not write the following, I certainly agree with it.
There is one part I removed because I completely disagreed with it. You can read it yourself on the guy's blog.
Bel.
"I'm Tired" by Robert A. Hall
I'll be 63 soon. 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 around" 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 or stupid 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 leftwing 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 leftwing 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 religious freedom and women's
rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of
Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela .. Won't multiculturalism be
beautiful?
I believe "a man should be judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin."
I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of President 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 US 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 in an all-knowing government.
I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's
fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful. That
thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the
public to control weight and stress, that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded
that Kerry release his, that slammed Palin with two years as governor for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted
Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.
Wonder why people are dropping
their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry
drove me to his camp in 2004.
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 madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate inAmerica , 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 damn 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 then 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
bi-partisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bi-partisanship.
I live in Illinois , where the "
Illinois Combine" of Democrats and Republicans has worked together harmoniously to loot the public for years.
And I
notice that the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet are bi-partisan as well.
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 damn tired. But I'm also
glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to get to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for
my granddaughter.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts
state senate. He blogs at
www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com
< http://www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com/ >
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