“NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT...”
November 14, 2011
The leaves are changing color, the weather is getting colder, and the clocks have been adjusted. With the exact precision of a Swiss made watch, our nation is everyday sinking deeper into a debilitating quicksand of debt. This is an immense danger to our economy, and thus our well being, and standard of living. In a way, our huge and fast growing national debt is similar to high blood pressure. We can't consciously feel the effects, but eventually it can explode and leave us severely disabled. The sad story is that our inept politicians just fiddle around, like Nero, with Rome burning down around them.
In less than two weeks, the super committee is supposed to have a solution. The present talk is to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits. Mind you these are government mandated plans, that we as working people must, by law, pay into. And the government has the nerve to call these entitlements! Well pardon me for assuming that I was entitled to get my money back as promised! A better idea is to cut government hand outs, to which some people contribute nothing. For starters, how about eliminated section eight housing and food stamps? As a customer told me, "A hand up, not a hand out!" Can someone please explain to me why my tax dollars should be used to pay the living expenses of someone else? Instead of sending my tax money to Washington, I could save the postage and rent some family an apartment and pay for their food and medical expenses. Totally ridiculous!
This past Halloween, one the neighborhood kids made a real neat homemade costume. While the other kids sat around and did nothing, he was trick or treating for more then five hours and accumulated a full bag of candy for his efforts. So I went over to him and took half of his candy, and gave it to those kids that did not make a costume, or bother to go trick or treating. When he asked why I took half of his candy and distributed to the children that did nothing to deserve it, I told him that is was a lesson as to how our government works! We take from the productive people and give to people who are not.
In this world there area people of various levels of intelligence, education, motivation, etc. Some are exceptionally bright and some stupider then a loaf of bread, with most people somewhere in between. If a person goes to school and then afterwords, works hard, the government punishes them by taxing them and giving their money to people who don't work hard. And if you don't work or study, perhaps drop out of school, or are not very smart or responsible, why should the taxpayer be responsible?
Now get a load of this! A person can come to America from a foreign country, and if over the age of sixty five can receive a monthly payment from the government, equal to the minimum benefit of a social security recipient who worked their whole life, and contributed to the fund. In addition these freeloaders, by law, are eligible for food stamps, rent assistance, and of course Medicare benefits, and who knows what else! And they contributed a dime! It should be no secret as to why the system is going broke!
Frankly our once dynamic and wonderful country is not going in the right direction.
But then again, nobody asked me..
~ Malcolm
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