Here’s the REAL DEAL. I am more libertarian than right wing as I scored 81 on this test:
http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi
I do not care what Fred and Fritz choose to do behind closed doors nor do I care if someone chooses to flush a fetus down the sink. Both are choices they have to live with and if there is a God and I believe there is one, they will be judged it’s not for me to care. It is beyond stupid to vote for anyone based on social issues when the country has much more pressing issues that have a greater effect on our daily lives and our children and grandchildren’s future.
What I do care about and care about with great passion is the wrong direction this country is going in and has been going in for a number of years. What a joke it is that a country of 350+ million puts up for the Presidency the worst choices possible and both parties are guilty of this.
It’s a fact that if you taxed 100% of everyone’s wages and 100% of corporate profits you would not balance the long term deficit of the country and no one seems to care. The biggest bubble we have is the bubble we and the government have created. It’s not a question if the bubble will burst but when. When the US dollar no longer is the Reserve Currency its party over and Check Mate!
I am old enough to remember the 1950’s very well. It was a time when the father was the provider and mom was the homemaker and a good one was priceless. There was always someone home when little Johnnie or Jane came home from school. Dinner was a family event where everyone sat at the dinner table together and Sunday was a day of worship and then a trip to the grandparents for a family dinner. Saturday was chores and cut the lawn early and then a trip to the park for a picnic and maybe fishing with dad, maybe a drive-in movie if we were good.
I don’t ever recall being bored as a kid as there was always something to do, imagine that with no TV or video games or computers. Kids today don’t know how to entertain themselves, tell them to read a book you got to be kidding me.
Back then every wife was a man’s right arm and supporter and raising a family was a family team effort and grandparent’s sage advice was always welcomed. When anyone fell upon hard times or illness neighbors, family and church came to their rescue and helped, not the government.
No trouble or goofing off in school as a trip to the principal’s office often ended meeting up with Mr. Paddle, teachers and our elders were given respect or else. When kids were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up boys always said policeman, fireman or soldier, little girls answered with nurse or teacher. Public Education today in most all areas is an abject failure with high dropout rates and no end in sight to the monies being spent and asking for more with little in real results shown.
Then things changed, Dr. Spock on child rearing and then luxuries became necessities. First the automatic washing machine and dryer replacing the old wringer washer and clothes line to dry the clothes. Then the TV to replace the radio that we sat in front of and listened to for entertainment or read a book. Then you just had to have a color TV and then a big screen. Then came the computer and electronic games and don’t forget the microwave oven.
In the 60’s and 70’s came off road vehicles, motorcycles and RV’s all luxuries but you could finance them and get instant gratification now. But you had to pay for that easy credit and moms went to work to pay for the luxuries. Yes luxuries became necessities and let’s not forget about Air Jordan and sport jersey’s and jackets, Gucci and other stuff.
Oh and don’t forget the drugs, free love, bra burning and Viet Nam protests and the beginning of a culture of low expectations.
We have become soft, selfish, greedy and lazy today. No one can fail, everyone gets a participation trophy, and everyone today feels they are owed something just for being on this earth.
Failing and disappointment builds character and success rewards hard work. Failure is a bad word today and we don’t want to disappoint anyone. Hard work is not a virtue but an EBT card and 0bama phone is a prize to seek out.
How can anyone today have any trust in the Government today with Fast & Furious, IRS scandal, Benghazi and the NSA.
Did we forget about the Japanese internment camps like Manzanar and all of the Native American tribes forced off their lands and onto reservations in Oklahoma in the 1800’s, yes our government and its leaders of the time did that. I am of Native American heritage and will never ever let happen to me what happened to my ancestors.
Yesterdays Haight Ashbury and Berkley hippies are today’s political leaders with Rainbow and Unicorn dreams and socialist leanings.
It’s not personal as I don’t know you personally but I know your leanings and I strongly don’t agree with them as I am sure you gathered and you don’t agree with mine.
I have become jaded and tired of the references to anyone that disagrees with the left as being racist, mouth breathing, redneck, capitalist pig, Uncle Tom, sexist, Bible and bitter gun clingers and the list goes on and on.
Alinski tactics at its finest from the extreme left and this sleeping Bear has awakened from hibernation and is angry and hungry.
I grieve for where this once great country has been and fear for its future.
Originally Posted by DEVOREFLYER
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