I have been annoying a lot of people lately. I’ve been called ignorant, racist, and a hate monger. I’ve been told that I’m resistant to change and a particularly mean spirited apparatchik told me to “enjoy my new surroundings come Jan 20th”.
My crime, of course, is not so much in my supporting John McCain, but in not supporting Barack Obama. It seems I’m unreasonable for wanting a good explanation for Obama’s association with a terrorist-turned-professor, an America-hating pastor, and a former mouth-piece of Yasser Arafat, among others. If I can’t get caught up in all the excitement, I must be a bigot!
I’m not a racist, and I’m not a hate monger. I just want my country left intact. I’d also like left-wingers to be careful in the way they throw around these terms. If any of these smart mouths ever actually encountered a real racist or hate monger, I assure you that they’d be too busy filling their pants to call him any names. A real racist is a truly nasty and evil piece of work, usually found in bunches.
I’m not at all resistant to change, but the use of the word bothers me when it’s not accompanied by specifics. Nobody really knows what either candidate’s tax plan is going to look like until Congress has had a chance to swine it up, after all. One thing is clear: raising taxes on the “rich” (however that is defined dollar-wise) means taxing the segment of society that makes the most investment and provides most of the jobs in the private sector. All taxing them is going to do is reduce investment and reduce the number of jobs available. We, as a nation, already had this discussion in 1980. Reaganomics, AKA trickle-down economics, AKA voodoo economics works. Ask anybody that remembers the double-digit inflation of the Carter administration and how it dropped off virtually overnight once Reagan took the helm. I wish Mr. McCain would make this point once in a while.
As far as the “new surroundings” comment goes, all I can say is: enjoy it while it lasts! Should Mr. Obama get elected, he’d better be careful not to let Pelosi & Reid get too carried away with their left wing antics. We’re in for a wild ride if this Obama-Pelosi-Reid government begins unrestrained liberal lunacy. The controversy over the “Fairness Doctrine” alone will likely cause a lot of turbulence, but the big trouble will come from the runaway inflation and soaring unemployment caused by their grand scale tax-and-spend policies.
Once the American people realize what they’ve done, and whom they’ve elected, they will begin to take corrective action. The recoil in 2012 is bound to be shattering. Mr. Obama and his team are well advised to heed the words of Abraham Lincoln:
My crime, of course, is not so much in my supporting John McCain, but in not supporting Barack Obama. It seems I’m unreasonable for wanting a good explanation for Obama’s association with a terrorist-turned-professor, an America-hating pastor, and a former mouth-piece of Yasser Arafat, among others. If I can’t get caught up in all the excitement, I must be a bigot!
I’m not a racist, and I’m not a hate monger. I just want my country left intact. I’d also like left-wingers to be careful in the way they throw around these terms. If any of these smart mouths ever actually encountered a real racist or hate monger, I assure you that they’d be too busy filling their pants to call him any names. A real racist is a truly nasty and evil piece of work, usually found in bunches.
I’m not at all resistant to change, but the use of the word bothers me when it’s not accompanied by specifics. Nobody really knows what either candidate’s tax plan is going to look like until Congress has had a chance to swine it up, after all. One thing is clear: raising taxes on the “rich” (however that is defined dollar-wise) means taxing the segment of society that makes the most investment and provides most of the jobs in the private sector. All taxing them is going to do is reduce investment and reduce the number of jobs available. We, as a nation, already had this discussion in 1980. Reaganomics, AKA trickle-down economics, AKA voodoo economics works. Ask anybody that remembers the double-digit inflation of the Carter administration and how it dropped off virtually overnight once Reagan took the helm. I wish Mr. McCain would make this point once in a while.
As far as the “new surroundings” comment goes, all I can say is: enjoy it while it lasts! Should Mr. Obama get elected, he’d better be careful not to let Pelosi & Reid get too carried away with their left wing antics. We’re in for a wild ride if this Obama-Pelosi-Reid government begins unrestrained liberal lunacy. The controversy over the “Fairness Doctrine” alone will likely cause a lot of turbulence, but the big trouble will come from the runaway inflation and soaring unemployment caused by their grand scale tax-and-spend policies.
Once the American people realize what they’ve done, and whom they’ve elected, they will begin to take corrective action. The recoil in 2012 is bound to be shattering. Mr. Obama and his team are well advised to heed the words of Abraham Lincoln:
“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
Don’t forget to vote.
