Original Posting Date 2008-02-10
The following post isn’t intended as a “political statement” against any one party, its more about the apathy of America.
Dr. Paul isn’t going to stand a chance of winning a nomination and he says won’t run a third time. Our democratic nominees are abysmal, Obama who epitomizes socialism, “healthcare for everyone”, and guess what, you the taxpayer are going to pay for it. Hillary Rob’em Clinton, who I guess with some very creative investments pulled in over 250 million for her services.
Senator “Songbird” McCain, who plays on his war hero status. Sure, breaking military code and selling the US out to the Vietnamese for three years, does not a hero make. By the way..Songbird was the nickname given to him by the Viet Con, and lets not forget above all else he was part of the “Keating Five”.
For those of you who don’t remember the collapse of the Lincoln Savings & Loan in 1989, five senators, Cranston, Glenn, Reigle, DeConcini and McCain, all benefited from a collective 1.3 million dollars in campaign funds, and asked that Chief Executive Gray of the House Banking Committee ease off looking into Lincoln Savings & Loan.
McCain is the only Senator left who still serves in the Senate. Not exactly presidential material, and if you hate the way the country is running now, it will be more of the same with McCain.
Mike Huckabee our Southern Baptist, rock and roll contender, has an interesting theory that you can’t separate church and state. Scary thought coming off the heels of that other cracker Donald Rumsfeld. Its fire and brimstone coming our way if this man of absolutes gets into office. Google his ass sometime and see how unbending his religious beliefsare. Our only hope was Dr. Ron Paul, who god love em, was just too intelligent for main stream America.
I actually read a comment on another site that stated, “We elect people to be smarter than us — and they don’t always make the best long term decisions for our country.”
Fortunately another person tried to correct that by stating, “We elect people to REPRESENT us, not be smarter than us.”
The argument believe it or not, was about the government regulating oil prices and capping it at $100.00 a barrel. Not exactly Rhodes Scholars, just Joe Everyday who posts comments online who don’t understand how the economy works.
Take a look to the Futures Market on Wall St, they’re the ones who control the daily highs and lows, and make money hand over fist, not just the oil companies who actually do the work to get the oil, refine it and sell it.
My problem with this country anymore is that everything is taken at face value and no discretionary logic is applied. We pick Presidential candidates as if we were betting on the Superbowl. Our choices are two crooks, a man with no plan but big ideas and a holy roller. Anyone of these candidates who end up taking the White House are going to throw us into the worst economic crises ever, unless we can eliminate the democratic edge in the House and Senate.
The example below has been floating around for the last couple of years online, however watching how the Primaries are boiling down, you have to stop and think about what is worse for this nation.
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, he noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question.
He asked: ’Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
The young man said that it was no joke.
“You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax cuts, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time. (aka-“Welfare”- commonly called “Entitlements”, to be politically correct.)
One should always remember two truths:
1) There is no such thing as a free lunch
2) and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
If you see that all of this wonderful government ’help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this.
But God help you when the gate slams shut.
i was naked when i wrote this 