Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Government is the problem
As much as I hate to give this man the time of day, ugh, just can't stand him, Michael Moore's new movie comes out and says it. Capitalism is evil. That is Michael Moore's stance. I mean wow, he has such a history of seeing the good in this country, doesn't he?
His new movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" contends that capitalism benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty. "You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy." Democracy? I thought we had a Democracy. Capitalism is not a form of government so it can't be replaced with a form of government. Apples and oranges. Or can it? If he's talking Socialism, that would be all-encompassing, wouldn't it?
What is it we are really fighting here, when we stand up against Obama and his government run healthcare, when we bring to light and object to Communist advisers in the White House? What are we saying when we say we want smaller government and want the government out of our
personal lives?
We are objecting to a Socialist society right here in the U.S.A.
Because you know what? It's been creeping in for years and years and years. I don't know where it started but watching the Fox special on text books with Tucker Carlson the other day, made me realize that our children have been indoctrinated in something other than the society we have now, for years! In order not to offend anyone, to make things fair our kids' text books have been sanitized to the point where the only evil people in the world, apparently, is us! The U.S. is portrayed as being the aggressor in wars, the charity of our country is not highlighted, and other nations and peoples are given a pass on anything bad they have ever done in history because we don't want to hurt anybodies feelings. In some books they aren't even saying what country most of the September 11th terrorists came from! Can you say Saudi Arabia? Can you say Islamic extremists? Because our children's text books can't!
What does that kind of teaching do? It teaches our kids that our country needs to be changed. It teaches them that the way we do things now is wrong and there is no "social justice". Poor people are kept down by the capitalists with all the money and this needs to be changed!
All the political correctness has allowed immigrants to move here and not assimilate. What happened to people wanting to become Americans?? Now they move here and demand rights so Americans tie themselves in knots to accommodate their different cultures. And we are losing our own.
We haven't spoken up because when we did we have been told that we are intolerant, racist, and discriminatory. We have been shouted down while they have removed God from our city seals and taken down our holiday displays and shaped the very words we are allowed to say!
One year the company I work for displayed a "pride" flag next to the U.S. flag in honor of "pride" month and in the spirit of diversity. I complained, other people complained, and it hasn't been done again. I don't have a flag for being heterosexual and I don't want a flag representing some one's sexual orientation next to my American flag! This has reached the point of being ridiculous!
And now, we have a president who is very nearly a Socialist and our government is being run by not only Democrats - but extremely liberal Democrats. They are willingly placing our country on the road to Socialism.
We cannot be silent any longer. In a way I thank God for this healthcare issue. It has made people look at Obama, the government, and what is happening with our country as a whole. There is no shame in being a conservative. There is no shame in wanting to stand by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and our religion. Did you know that Socialists consider religion to be "superstition?" So when we become sufficiently enlightened like they are, we won't need to rely on a "superstition" like religion and God.
I cannot stress it enough. We need to wake up and pay attention. We need to write letters, send emails, go to tea parties and town hall meetings and we need to continue to make our voices heard! And most importantly we need to speak up with our votes!
His new movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" contends that capitalism benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty. "You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy." Democracy? I thought we had a Democracy. Capitalism is not a form of government so it can't be replaced with a form of government. Apples and oranges. Or can it? If he's talking Socialism, that would be all-encompassing, wouldn't it?
What is it we are really fighting here, when we stand up against Obama and his government run healthcare, when we bring to light and object to Communist advisers in the White House? What are we saying when we say we want smaller government and want the government out of our
personal lives?We are objecting to a Socialist society right here in the U.S.A.
Because you know what? It's been creeping in for years and years and years. I don't know where it started but watching the Fox special on text books with Tucker Carlson the other day, made me realize that our children have been indoctrinated in something other than the society we have now, for years! In order not to offend anyone, to make things fair our kids' text books have been sanitized to the point where the only evil people in the world, apparently, is us! The U.S. is portrayed as being the aggressor in wars, the charity of our country is not highlighted, and other nations and peoples are given a pass on anything bad they have ever done in history because we don't want to hurt anybodies feelings. In some books they aren't even saying what country most of the September 11th terrorists came from! Can you say Saudi Arabia? Can you say Islamic extremists? Because our children's text books can't!
What does that kind of teaching do? It teaches our kids that our country needs to be changed. It teaches them that the way we do things now is wrong and there is no "social justice". Poor people are kept down by the capitalists with all the money and this needs to be changed!
All the political correctness has allowed immigrants to move here and not assimilate. What happened to people wanting to become Americans?? Now they move here and demand rights so Americans tie themselves in knots to accommodate their different cultures. And we are losing our own.
We haven't spoken up because when we did we have been told that we are intolerant, racist, and discriminatory. We have been shouted down while they have removed God from our city seals and taken down our holiday displays and shaped the very words we are allowed to say!One year the company I work for displayed a "pride" flag next to the U.S. flag in honor of "pride" month and in the spirit of diversity. I complained, other people complained, and it hasn't been done again. I don't have a flag for being heterosexual and I don't want a flag representing some one's sexual orientation next to my American flag! This has reached the point of being ridiculous!
And now, we have a president who is very nearly a Socialist and our government is being run by not only Democrats - but extremely liberal Democrats. They are willingly placing our country on the road to Socialism.
We cannot be silent any longer. In a way I thank God for this healthcare issue. It has made people look at Obama, the government, and what is happening with our country as a whole. There is no shame in being a conservative. There is no shame in wanting to stand by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and our religion. Did you know that Socialists consider religion to be "superstition?" So when we become sufficiently enlightened like they are, we won't need to rely on a "superstition" like religion and God.
I cannot stress it enough. We need to wake up and pay attention. We need to write letters, send emails, go to tea parties and town hall meetings and we need to continue to make our voices heard! And most importantly we need to speak up with our votes!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Little bit of this, little bit of that
I have not been able to get my thoughts together today. But man, those Kennedy's know how to throw a funeral mass, don't they? Again, Teddy wasn't my favorite guy but omg the stories people told were hysterical. And it sounds like those Kennedy's know how to party. They also know how to remain "on message". I have no idea how many times healthcare and Teddy fighting for it was brought up and by how many speakers, but campaigning for the bill was alive and well at Ted Kennedy's funeral. Even the priest mentioned it at the gravesite! But enough about that.
Other thoughts running through my head - picturing our military or CIA or whoever - "torturing" those poor terrorists who will blow up their own children if it helps blow up some infidels too, or whip out a huge knife and slice an American's head off in front of a video camera, not because he did anything to them but because he was there - and he was Jewish. And here we are, blowing smoke in their faces, oh the horror! Scaring them with unloaded guns and power drills! Wooooo - how awful we are! Even water boarding - hell - we're not pulling their fingernails out, or drilling holes in the teeth or hanging them upside down and whacking the sides of their knees! No, mostly we used psychological torture, playing rock music very loudly, 24/7. We didn't turn the lights out. We handed them a wire and told them it was live and they would be shocked if they moved. BIG DEAL! Not much worse than what my older brother would have done to me when we were kids. We weren't even physically hurting or injuring them, we made them uncomfortable sometimes, UNCOMFORTABLE. I cannot believe it is even being considered wrong much less criminal. It's sickening how this administration is pulling the teeth of every strength we have.
I also need to know - if Democrats believe in helping people, helping everyone, why would anybody work for anything? If it's all free, why would anybody get up at the crack of dawn every day to do something to earn a paycheck? But - how do Democrats think they are going to pay for all of it? Ah-h-h ... those doggone people who DO work, or who might have the audacity to have gotten themselves rich, THEY can pay for it! Democrats can take the money for those programs from the people who have more - and give it to those who have less. Yeah! What a wonderful idea!
Except for the fact it's an absurd idea on the very face of it.
Going to a town hall meeting was a great experience, except for the fact that I was getting so angry with the conversations I was overhearing. The Move-on.org guy talking to the other Move-on.org guy about tables, and he thought they would have tables set up outside, have to get it together! Here, you want this sign - to anyone standing near them. Or the woman a few people away from me holding a sign one of the Move-on.org guys gave her that said "83% of the American people want the public option!" Their numbers were a bit off. The lady was saying to a young guy by her, "Well people who earn more than $250,000.00 a year have enough for themselves, why shouldn't they pay a bit more?
The idea that people are slowly stepping toward socialism which takes away freedom instead of giving it - is frightening. It's like there is a whole community of Stepford people out there who are just in lock-step with the hopey-changy crap, and they are too idealistic to see that the things they are fighting for will not work and will hurt the hard working men and women of America.
It's sad because conservatives are seen as selfish "look out for number one" when it couldn't be further from the truth. This is an incredibly giving and charitable nation; it was conservative president George W. Bush who gave more millions to Africa than any other nation in the world. We share, we help, and we give. But do not tell us if we make a bit more than the guy down the street that I am going to have my taxes raised so I can help him. Don't TAKE from me. Do not take away my incentive to work hard to take care of myself and mine. Because then I will become like the guy down the street and someone else with more money will have their taxes raised even higher, to take care of me. And after a while there will be no more people with more money to tax. And we will all be looking to the government for our next meal, but the government will be broke.
Feel like I'm walking around just shaking my head more than half the time these days. Just crazy.
Other thoughts running through my head - picturing our military or CIA or whoever - "torturing" those poor terrorists who will blow up their own children if it helps blow up some infidels too, or whip out a huge knife and slice an American's head off in front of a video camera, not because he did anything to them but because he was there - and he was Jewish. And here we are, blowing smoke in their faces, oh the horror! Scaring them with unloaded guns and power drills! Wooooo - how awful we are! Even water boarding - hell - we're not pulling their fingernails out, or drilling holes in the teeth or hanging them upside down and whacking the sides of their knees! No, mostly we used psychological torture, playing rock music very loudly, 24/7. We didn't turn the lights out. We handed them a wire and told them it was live and they would be shocked if they moved. BIG DEAL! Not much worse than what my older brother would have done to me when we were kids. We weren't even physically hurting or injuring them, we made them uncomfortable sometimes, UNCOMFORTABLE. I cannot believe it is even being considered wrong much less criminal. It's sickening how this administration is pulling the teeth of every strength we have.
I also need to know - if Democrats believe in helping people, helping everyone, why would anybody work for anything? If it's all free, why would anybody get up at the crack of dawn every day to do something to earn a paycheck? But - how do Democrats think they are going to pay for all of it? Ah-h-h ... those doggone people who DO work, or who might have the audacity to have gotten themselves rich, THEY can pay for it! Democrats can take the money for those programs from the people who have more - and give it to those who have less. Yeah! What a wonderful idea!
Except for the fact it's an absurd idea on the very face of it.
Going to a town hall meeting was a great experience, except for the fact that I was getting so angry with the conversations I was overhearing. The Move-on.org guy talking to the other Move-on.org guy about tables, and he thought they would have tables set up outside, have to get it together! Here, you want this sign - to anyone standing near them. Or the woman a few people away from me holding a sign one of the Move-on.org guys gave her that said "83% of the American people want the public option!" Their numbers were a bit off. The lady was saying to a young guy by her, "Well people who earn more than $250,000.00 a year have enough for themselves, why shouldn't they pay a bit more?
The idea that people are slowly stepping toward socialism which takes away freedom instead of giving it - is frightening. It's like there is a whole community of Stepford people out there who are just in lock-step with the hopey-changy crap, and they are too idealistic to see that the things they are fighting for will not work and will hurt the hard working men and women of America.
It's sad because conservatives are seen as selfish "look out for number one" when it couldn't be further from the truth. This is an incredibly giving and charitable nation; it was conservative president George W. Bush who gave more millions to Africa than any other nation in the world. We share, we help, and we give. But do not tell us if we make a bit more than the guy down the street that I am going to have my taxes raised so I can help him. Don't TAKE from me. Do not take away my incentive to work hard to take care of myself and mine. Because then I will become like the guy down the street and someone else with more money will have their taxes raised even higher, to take care of me. And after a while there will be no more people with more money to tax. And we will all be looking to the government for our next meal, but the government will be broke.
Feel like I'm walking around just shaking my head more than half the time these days. Just crazy.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
It's not so hard to understand
I grew up in the late 60's, 70's, and came of age in the 80's. I didn't think about taxes or healthcare or corporate takeovers or bailouts. I was as liberal as any teen can be, even felt sad about not having a cause to be passionate about like when we were still in Vietnam. I wanted to be a hippie. And then I grew up.
I think about why this country was founded, people were fleeing to a new place where they could have freedom of their own making. When England became too over-bearing - we broke away. Americans are tough people who fight for their own and take care of themselves. At least we used to be.
Now, the simple fact that Barack Obama was elected on a platform of hope and change and a don't worry I'll take care of everything attitude amazes me. Since when did Americans sit back and expect a handout? And since when did our government want to grow so large to the point that it will control some of the most important and intimate aspects of our lives? And why are so many people willing to give away that power?
These are the same people who cried foul when they thought George Bush was going to bug their phones under the patriot act. Apparently they want to protect their phone conversations more than their health and personal decisions.
Americans take care of themselves. We are a hard working people and we earn what we get. If we are disabled or something of the sort - that's different. But I don't want to pay for the gang member who chooses that way to make a living and gets himself shot. With the public plan - I would be paying for that. I don't want to. I also don't want the government to own car companies or run banks ... the very definition of socialism is what we are headed toward. It's frightening.
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