I've always been an optimist. Ask anyone who knows me--I have always believed that the only thing between me and anything is my own abilities and motivation. Now I've been told that people born of affluence are already far ahead (unfairly), and I'm at a disadvantage. Poppycock, I'd reply.
If anyone can become a millionaire (and thousands do every year, many who have started with naught), I can too. I'm only limited by myself.
Until the masses elected Obama, gave the keys to the economy to Pelosi, Reid, and Frank, and decided it was a good idea to saddle the US with many trillions of dollars of debt.
Ask anyone in Argentina who lived there in the 1930s how much better it was after Evita & husband took power. Ask Russians how much better after everything was nationalized. Ask economists how great it was that Roosevelt extended the Depression with his socialist programs, planned by his Brain Trust who actually visited and loved Stalin.
We know that big government is the problem, and bigger government and more government spending makes the problem worse. This is something we know.
With the debt we're now under and the lies spread by socialists in D.C., I have a hard time fathoming a bottom to the stock market, an end to high taxes, and an end to entitlements.
Today Obama made a speech and used the word "crisis" something like 20 times. I just saw it on TV. Socialists aren't even trying to hide the fact that they're manipulating people anymore--it's right out in the open. His plan calls for exactly this:
1) Take money from responsible people
2) Give it to irresponsible people
Atlas Shrugged seems more like a how-to guide for producers now, rather than a cautionary tale of what could happen with unbridled socialism in a previously capitalistic society, and I can't for the life of me see any Republicans who are able to take a stand, point out the obvious, and take back this country.
The optimist inside me says we are on the brink of collapse; the realist in me says the Democrats have hacked up a huge loogie and spat it out upon our founding fathers, productive tax-payers, and every single person who lost his life in defense of our Republic.
My heart wants to believe we can pull out of it, we can cancel every stupid government program and end the nonsense.
My brain believes we're already free-falling, unaware of it. My brain says that nobody's going to buy our debt. My brain says the math just isn't there--that soon the problems our government created in the first place will give them an excuse to nationalize the banks, our means of production, take assets from the wealthy to distribute to the "lesser fortunate," and penalize profits (they're already demonized), completely destroying a company's capacity to plan for future downturns and expansions.
Can someone please tell me that my heart still has reason to believe we can fire every single idiot in D.C. and take back our Republic?
2 comments:
I think the only thing we can really do is look to the 10th amendment.
Then we must demand that our state legislatures do the same and tell the Federal government where it can go.
That is probably our last chance.
Is there any way to get term limits on these congressional hacks? This may solve some of the problems.
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