2010 OH WHAT A YEAR...

2010 oh what a year...

2010 oh what a year

Lots of turmoil, unemployment and fear

For many this rollercoaster would never end

Wondering how their families would be left to fend

Our legislators seemed never to sit still

With lots of lying & cheating & draining our till

The spending piled up faster & faster

With health care & stimulus & god knows whatever

Everyday there seemed to be some sort of fight

With right vs. left & left vs. right

And in the middle of this tug of war there was

The American people full of anxiety & disgust

Disgust for the gov’t that once they had trusted

They sat helpless wondering if we’d all be busted

Loosing their homes & retirements and even their jobs

They waited for help from the Washington snobs

And then from the roots that make this country great

A new party emerged that would alter our fate

From the suburbs, cities & towns the TEA Party bus was rolling around

Concerned citizens for our fiscal future

They rallied & marched demanding a gov’t purer

Bring back sanity and less control

Let the people govern as once was told

So on a faithful day in November

The people spoke with a vote to be remembered

Take back the house and most of the senate too

They made Obama, Nancy & Harry very blue

A new breed of law-makers will soon take the hill

That brings new hope for the peoples will

So out of this hole I hope we can climb

A slow go I know it will take time

But with reduced spending and some tax cuts in place

American industry can step up the pace

Back to work the ranks need to be

So Americans can take care of their families

Off of the gov’t programs for their every need

So there will be less of them we need to feed

Contribute to society is an absolute must

If not the country we love will turn to dust…

May God Bless the United States of America!

LIBERALISM- THE PROMOTION OF A PEASANT SOCIETY!

Under the guise of really caring for the unfortunate in our society through entitlement programs the Liberals in reality have created the foundations of a “peasant society”. This likens to the days of the king and the serfs whereby the serfs were so dependent on the king for everything that they truly lost their drive to self-govern & seek individual success. This of course was exactly what the ruling class wanted since it afforded them the level of lifestyle they sought and perpetuated their ability to maintain power.

Now fast forward to today and compare the modern day rulers; (Obama, Pelosi & Reid), with their predecessors. You have programs in place that are designed to punish the entrepreneurial spirit, demonize those who have gained success and in theory limit the earning potential of many through the demand for higher taxes and a sea of “red-tape”. The results are that many businesses are becoming paralyzed by the uncertainty and are not reinvesting their profits to expand or create needed jobs since in most cases profits would be seen as “undo” rewards and confiscated through the “It’s not fair” doctrine.

So what is the mindset? It is one in which no new jobs are being created. Businesses are taking a wait and see approach and there is a fear of being viewed as “too successful” since you would either be penalized by higher taxes or demonized as a villain because you might have a little more than anyone else! The rule that is in play here is one that has been around for quite some time whereby the underlying goal is to make “everyone rich by making a few poor”; Or in other words “redistribution”.

Well that never works. History shows us that by taking that approach everyone becomes “poor”. The so-called rich lose their wealth and the poor, well they stay poor! Nobody wins except the ruling class. Just ask those people in Cuba who still drive their 1965 Buick's if this is working out for them. In theory it looks like the ruling class wants to help the less fortunate, or at least that’s what they say anyway, but the reality is that by taking this approach they inflict more harm upon them by condemning them to a life of unemployment, poverty & co dependence! You see it’s the “demonic” rich that are the ones who provide the majority of the jobs, except for the federal gov’t. whose ranks have been bloated by over 400k jobs since 2007. But that’s a story for another day.

So getting back to the “job creators”, these are made up of small to mid-sized businesses who through their own hard work and entrepreneurial successes have accumulated levels of wealth that have become the backbone of our society. This group is also one of the largest contributors of tax revenue to the federal gov’t. I believe that it is the top 10% of wage earners that produce 40% of the tax base in this country. The bottom portions of the population or 60% of the workers pay about 20% of the taxes and a staggering 40% of the US population pays nothing! And it is this 40% that garners about 80% of the gov’t entitlements and still wants more!

Now I’m no mathematical wizard but if you put a pencil to this it looks like the wealthy are paying their fair share and then some and also creating jobs in the process so that the lower 60% can work! But if the Obama administration has it their way the wealthy would lose their ability to create these jobs and most likely become unemployed themselves thus creating a “swell” at the bottom where perhaps 50-60% of the people do not contribute anything to tax revenue. So tell me again how this would be a good thing for the gov’t?

Look throughout this country’s existence it has always been the small business owners who have created products, invented things and driven the nation’s economy. So what if they have accumulated wealth and live accordingly. You can’t tell me that the “elitists” in Washington are living any differently. These people “are” the people they purport to hate! So if business owners are able to give back to others by putting them to work and keep the economic wheels-of-progress turning then so be it that we provide them a tax break. You see for the average American having a “PAYCHECK” is far better than a “TAX-BREAK”!

The way I see it is that throughout history there have always been classes in society. Nobody ever said it had to be fair. There is disparity in everything from sports to relationships. “One man’s cottage is another man’s castle”. If American families can continue to provide for themselves then we all win. So let’s stop looking at what everybody else has and stop whining about fairness and start concentrating on what you can do to improve your own situation by earning it!

Nobody said it would be easy- Life is tough- wear a cup! Sometimes another guy’s “piece of the pie” is bigger, deal with it and be thankful that you even got a piece.

Hopefully with the results of the mid-term elections we will be able to right this ship because God knows it’s been taking on water. Going into 2011 my hope is that we bring back a little “sanity” to how we govern by having some adults back at the “grown-up” table. For the last 22 months our future has been in the hands of “day-dreamers” & adolescents at the “kiddies table” who were trying every trick in the book to not eat their vegetables!