Society ??
I saw a clip from the Phil Donahue show with Ayn Rand. Phil asked Mrs. Rand if she thought we all had a responsibility to society I was shocked with the rebuttal, Mrs. Rand responded with some thing of a short toned question, WHAT IS SOCIATY? Man what an answer, what a question! Is society you and I? Is society where you live, is it
Man he’s rich, he’s doesn’t have to worry about money!
I’ve heard that statement so many times. That statement makes me sick! Most of the people who say such things have much more opportunity to succeed then they actually know. Problem is they try to live like the wealthy, rather then try to live so they will be wealthy. I’m considered poor. A lot of that has to do with not driving a newer car or having much as for nice clothes. I know that makes me look a little slob-bish. I have even had people tell me that I look like a hippy. Meaning that I look like a slob. This doesn’t bother me because my cloths are clean, I’m clean and my car runs well (for a 1986). The thing that people don’t know is, I have given away (in cash) some thing in the neighborhood of two to three thousand dollars of my hard earned money. This in the year the past year alone, Most of the people who received this cash make more then I do. They also complain about not having money. And they complain about the filthy rich! then they show me some stuped thin they baught that will sit in a garage, closet,or be thrown away. so tell me why are you not rich? Is it that your just not responsible with your money? Pitiful
There seems to be a bad trend arising. It started with the bail-outs of our financial systems, then it grew when our government poured billions into the auto industries. Now it seems to be coming home. It’s the result of how we look at other peoples wealth, I’d even go as far as to say it’s based on envy.
What exactly is my point? It’s our prying into what the corporate executives receive as compensation. When A.I.G. was found to be paying hundreds of millions in bonuses to their executives, people started screaming bloody murder. The bonus contracts were not known to the general populous but, they were known to the treasury department. These are the same people who put the deal together in the first place. Next G.M. and Chrysler were going to congress with hands out reached, telling there tale of troubled times. No sooner did they get there to testify and people started screaming about there use of corporate jets. Then when they got close to getting the money that congress had approved, people once again started hollering about the money that the executives make every year, not to mention the bonus’ they receive. Now, closer to home, people started moaning and complaining about the rate the local power company charges for there service. Followed by what seems to be an uproar about what the executives make in this industry. What next? Are we going to make a big ruckus as to how much the people who run the oil companies make? Then what? Are we going to watch for the food industries executives? Perhaps we will hound the insurance industries (as a supposed way to save money), or even the cable companies.
I think these are the luxuries we’ve taken from just that luxury, and have started calling necessities. So now they’re necessities, we complain that the people who provide them are greedy. We show no appreciation for the long hours that the executives must put in. When most of us do nothing more then work forty hours a week, and complain about how we will find time, when there are still one hundred and twenty eight hours left in the week. No the average executive works seventy to one hundred hours a week. Often they spend large amounts of time far away from their families.
The thing that scares me about this is, how we the people seem to be asking for socialism! We are demanding that the people who work the hardest pay more then their share of tax, and demanding that our leaders provide us with more luxuries (that we’ll call necessities). Tell me that is not socialism! Even worse tell me it’s not our own making.
Why you and I can’t be the President of the
So tell me, like so many others have, why not Sara Palin? Try to tell me that you agree with all the talking heads, the folks who have only known politics as there living who say that someone from a mediocre up-bringing with a less then stellar education and an over all regular life, can’t be the next leader of the free world
You would think this is about Mrs. Palin. Not really it’s about what we lost in the political world, the people, like, of the people, by the people. for the people. The way it was meant to be all along.
O-My GOD!!!
I heard the funniest thing just this evening. I was listening to the BBC nightly news. The anchor brought up cash for clunkers. So like most people who think that it was a bad idea from the start, I applied my full attention to what he was saying. Wait for it!.........Now that our government has allocated two billion dollars for our clunkers, the demand has dropped off to about the same amount as before the program was enacted! Tell me that’s not a knee slapper! The after thought is just as funny. The people who were going to buy a car in the next couple of months, have now ran to the car dealers to take advantage of the government hand outs. This is too funny!
So now that the (what was) growing car market has shot it’s wad, who’s going to buy cars? Excuse me while I whip away a tear (I’m just laughing so freaking hard). O.k. stick with me, the government put how many billions into G.M. and Chrysler? Set up a system to get people to flock to the car dealers. The people who would have bought a car in the next month or two (possibly three and four months) made there purchases. This is the kicker! Who’s going to buy cars in the months heading toward the holiday sales season? NOBODY! Ha! Ha! Ha! That’s going to hurt for sure. Freaking! Dumb Asses. If no body buys cars in a incressing fashion, then the industry will slow down. How in the hell are they going to pay us back? They have not made enough money off the three hundred thousand cars sold (I’m rounding the numbers because no one has any exact numbers).
These are the same people who want to try and fix our insurance industry? Sure just like they did the car industry! Or social security, the veteran’s administration, the post office, Medicare and Medicaid and so on and so on! How stupid do we have to be to vote the same dumb asses into office over and over again?
I am so glad that I don’t live in a democracy. Yup I think that democracy is a very bad idea. The principles of a democracy are the same as that of a lynch-mob. Yup one guy says I didn’t do it and thirty say he did, well the guy doesn’t have much of a chance does he? Mob rule that’s how democracy works!
I am glad that I live in a representative republic! Yup, the
So when the politicians (be they republican or democrat) try to push things down our throat. We must step up like people did during the times of Dr Martin Luther King (peacefully and with an unbreakable will). Showing the general consensus, or more so the unity of the citizens of the states, and forcing our representative republic into action. It’s our job as American citizens.
Today I overheard a friend of mine on the phone talking about cash for clunkers. My friend isn’t a politically active person. As a matter of fact I can’t say she ever brings politics up as a topic for discussion. She’s more the busy homemaker. She however made a really good point. I like my clunker! The person she was talking to was trying to tell her. She needed to trade her car in (obviously some one who drank the liberal kool-aid). My friend surprised me when she told her friend that she liked her clunker, not for the fact of the statement but more so her follow-up. She immediately went on to the point that incurring a payment was ridiculous. She would not only have to make a payment that was out of her budget but, she would also have to increase her insurance. From what I’m not sure but the insurance on a new car has to be full coverage. That’s got to be a big increase over what she pays for her early two-thousand Chevy blazer. She also made the point that she would more then likely have trouble finding parts when she does have to make repairs
I sat there thinking that this girl of twenty two years of age will not be trapped by the false premise of this so called cash for clunkers. She understands the problems with the program, why can’t a politician?
I have an idea for a stimulus plan for our nation. Tax all fast food restaurants. I’d say a rate increase of forty percent would be a good start. Next tax all soft drink manufactures (not in the case of real fruit drinks) at the same levels. Don’t forget to tax any prefabricated foods. I’d say increase tax on cigarettes but they’ve already raised my smoking cost by four times at least. Yup 4x what I paid last year (I’m actually o.k. with that). Also put the same level of taxation on video games.
Now this may sound absolutely ridiculous. Truth be told, it is a little bit nutty but I’ll explain my self. If you increase the cost to the fast food companies, soda, micro-wave foods and video games, you lessen the patronage. You’d say this is a bad thing I’m sure. But the effect would reach much further then just the number of employees that will be lost in the reductions to these industries. The first of the benefits would be that people would have to cook there own food. This would have such far reaching benefits. For-most would be the health factor (yup! we would lose weight). Next would be the benefit to the farming industry, and then would come the industries that manufacture cook-ware. Soon would be the growth to any industries that have to do with sports and fitness, from the manufactures of beach wares to the batting cages. And don’t for get the clothing industries (this would include the entire spectrum, manufacturing, delivery, sales) because, all the people who have now lost weight will need new clothes to go play or just show off there trim and fit body. A less obvious benefit will be the effect of the family dinner. Truly stimulating! Truly!
In conversation with a person whom I don’t know (never even got his name), the politics of personal responsibility came up. I should note this was a conversation held at our local court house (he and I were both waiting on someone to finish there appearance before the judge). We both had the same starting point, the reason we were waiting on these people was a lack of personal responsibility on there part. I couldn’t help but bring up the current political situation. The reason for our economic down turn was, you guessed it, a lack of personal responsibility. Then our conversation turned to the cap and trade (or as I like to call it, our economic death Nell). The gentle man I was speaking with told me how it was going to increase our utility bill, I told him about the provision that says we must retro fit a home that we are going to sell to bring it up to today’s energy standards.
We both had to agree that this was part of the new political power we granted the leaders in Congress as well as the White House. This is the CHANGE we have to look forward to. The CHANGE that was voted in by the people who were not even responsible enough to do any thing more then listen to the thirty second sound bites. The CHANGE asked for by people who are (in a good percentage) not willing to even be responsible enough to feed there children in the mornings, rather just letting the schools ( who are already spending money feeding kids lunch) take care of there parenting responsibilities. The CHANGE being brought down upon us I fear will be more irresponsibility.
As this gentleman took his leave he made one last comment, we rode out the other CHANGES, well ride this one out to.
I can’t help but think that same animosity is what will make this CHANGE even worse.
