A very good friend sent me the following link to a New York Slimes article and I’d like to share my response with you. It might have been nice if the writer of the piece could have found someone to offer comment aside from a past-her-prime consultant type and a guy on a bar stool spouting sour grapes because he made some poor choices. I’m so tired of reading and hearing the downing of America that I hope I haven’t ranted to the point of piercing my friend’s fairly thick skin and he’s still talking to me!
He said: “Pretty good summary of the discontent out there that’s keeping either party from having a front runner … so far.”
I said: “Interesting article but typical NY Times gloom and doom gibberish. It fits the template of the Left perfectly and is the kind of thing that has finally caused the general feeling of malaise the Democrats have been promoting since the days of the hanging chad. Now they want to ride in on their white charger and save the day. The trouble is, their mighty steed is donkey [also known as an ass]!
It’s like Joe Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” The fabrications that put us in this position range all the way from the country is in the toilet to the great global warming hoax. And, of course, everything wrong in the world is America’s fault. Geez, we’re rotten people!
The problems are really simple; the solutions are not. Above all, except for national defense, it’s not the government’s job to solve them.
1. No American that I know wants to live in a socialist or collectivist state. That, plus a general erosion of our liberty, is what the top 3 Democrat candidates are all about and there’s not a nickel’s worth of difference among them.
2. The Republicans are presenting a slate of candidates that may be decent Vice-Presidents but don’t have the qualities necessary to hold the top job, any more than Billary or Barack do. We need strong Conservative leadership and [except for Fred Thompson who dropped out] are looking at nothing but more Liberals like McCain and Huckabee. They might as well be on the Democrat ticket. No one really knows who to vote for because none of the people on either side of the aisle should even be running!
3. There’s so much mud being thrown around and so much vacillation on positions that, except for surface issues, there’s no way to tell what anybody actually believes [if any of them believe anything they're saying in the first place].
4. No one is addressing China’s economic attack on this country and it is costing us.
5. They’re still not closing the boarders and this is HUGE with most people…especially from the standpoint of security.
6. The price of oil and foreign dependence is of great concern. The funny thing is, most of the people who are complaining about it are the same ones preventing us from drilling domestically for our own supplies. ANWR alone has enough oil to satisfy the entire country’s needs for the next 30 years. The need for petroleum products will never go away but it can be diminished by use of alternative energy sources. While these are being developed we need to drill on our own soil and develop more refining capacity. The answer does not lie in windmills, solar panels or smaller, goofy little cars that will cost more lives than they will save gas.
7. There’s still talk of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the Iraq battle and no one is addressing the totality of the Global War On Terror. Americans don’t like to lose but they do get tired of inaction…especially when a bunch of sand people halfway around the world are saying “We want you dead” and have already proven it a couple of thousand times.
8. The Congress is so busy with its assault on the first and second amendments, taking meaningless votes, and running phony investigations that the real business of government has not been getting done for a couple of years [speaking of inaction]. Those who weren’t participating in the bloodbath were A.W.O.C. (Absent while out campaigning).
9. I’m not sure what this Powell woman is talking about in the article but there has been practically no inflation and most people have never had it better in the history of the world! Everything runs in cycles, including housing; it’ll be back. Meanwhile, a lot of people who couldn’t afford to buy a house before now have a market of opportunity! Unfortunately, some people who made bad decisions, like buying in at rates they couldn’t afford later, are paying the price. If the government keeps their hands out of it, and doesn’t delay the inevitable correction, housing will come back much faster. The people in trouble represent a very small percentage of home buyers. As for job security, do you ever remember having any? I don’t.
10. People have been frightened into believing there’s something wrong with the environment. There is. A bunch of hucksters and snake oil salesmen are getting rich by spinning a yarn more elaborate than Jack and the Beanstalk. It’s a good thing guys like Al Gore weren’t around in the REALLY early days or they would have extinguished the sun and the whole planet would never have evolved!
11. We don’t have any problem with health care. EVERYONE in America gets health care…even Pablo Sanchez and his entire family who crossed the border illegally and is sucking our tax dollars dry. We have a problem with health insurance and the answer is not socialized medicine. Most people who want health insurance can get it; it’s just awfully expensive and that has to be corrected [but not by the same Washington crowd that can't run Medicare, Social Security or the Post Office]. I don’t want to stand in line for a bypass, pull my own teeth with a vise-grip or apply to some government bureaucracy to see if I can even get the treatment I need. I don’t want to see the finest health care system in the world destroyed. I, also, don’t want to be told I have to have this insurance “or else”. Sorry Barry and Mitt (Whatever happened to names like Ike, Harry and Frank?).
Most people’s biggest problem is that they’ve had it so good for so long that they either don’t know or don’t remember what a bad economy is. Want to see things spin out of control? Want to see things get expensive? Want to see a country really in the toilet? Elect the Clintons or Obama. They’ve got a firm grip on the flusher! Meanwhile, everyone who keeps hearing that people are hurting is looking out the window to see if it’s their neighbor…because, in most cases, it’s not them. And if anyone who does have a problem is sitting around waiting for the government to solve it, they’ve got a mighty long wait.
People are confused because they are being told one thing and seeing another. The only “walking wounded” we have are the politicians who keep creating ‘problems’ so they can have talking points; now they have to solve these ‘problems’ right along with the real ones. America is okay. To stay that way, we need a leader who respects this nation, the Constitution…and himself. Right now, I don’t see one.”
R.S.F.
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