Cruelty, Greed and Incivility Rule the World

It's been a while since I have posted anything to this blog. Not that it matters as few read it anyway. I've had a hard time staying involved with anything that gets posted to the web or gets said on the TV. It's all so incredibly vitriolic. I've seen video recently of a transgendered person getting beat at a McDonald's while people stood there and watched. She went into seizures following the attack and the camera kept rolling. Today I watched a disturbing video of a man being shot and people just standing there as his life drained away without offering so much as a hand in comfort.

People are unbelievably cruel these days.

Muslims continue their persecution of Christians the world over. Nigerian Christians are the latest to feel the wrath of Islamic extremists. Political Islamists locked up pollsters and set the building on fire in retribution for the election of a Christian President. It's absolutely insane.

The cavemen in the Middle East continue to remove human heads for sport. On yet another video, I watched an atrocious beheading in Syria during their uprising. These people have no respect for humanity. Christians and Jews at least have morals. I don't know what Muslims stand for except destruction and death.

Here in the U.S. it is incredibly sad to watch this nation circle the drain. Socially, politically and economically this nation crumbling. We have a government that is bent on destroying the dollar. We owe more than we can ever pay yet the lumpen are fine with it as long as they get THEIR socialized healthcare and retirement funds. Regulations are strangling business. We cannot drill in the most obvious of locations for oil exploration. But we sure like it when Brazil and Saudi Arabia take our money in payment for their own oil. It is nuts.

Everything on the store shelves except effing iPads and 3D TVs are going up yet the government says inflation is in check. They are liars and simply trying to keep the banks afloat. Wall Street has effectively raped this country. And to what end? For a few years of prosperity before the whole thing collapses. For a few extra points on the DOW? It's sad.

I am proud to be a member of what Bill Maher calls "sad", "fat" and "useful idiots". That would be the Tea Party. It's a little tiresome to be constantly insulted by Maher and people of his ilk. You are not entitled to your view point because leftists do not agree with it, you see. I feel sorry for him. His hate must burn inside. His outlet is to stand in his bullypit and attack that which he doesn't agree with and obviously has no idea what it's about. He must be concerned about the Tea Party as he rails on the movement seemingly every week. That is a good thing. As long as he, and his ilk, are yapping about us then we are doing something right.

I'm tired of all the hateful rhetoric.

I'm tired of the left media. I'm tired of them constantly giving cover to the statists.

I can no longer read any comments on any blog. People are so full of hate and incivility on both sides. Few make a reasoned and educated point of view. It's easier just to insult one another.

When I was growing up people did not behave this way. I think it has to do with an empire in decline and a people who no longer have God in their life. There is just so much disregard for people, a lack of respect for ideas and thoughts and incivility toward differing points of view.

I'm unsure of the future. I've been in a homeschool bubble for many years and have seen children at our learning center that are devoted to God, their parents and personal morals. These kids inspire in ways that those in government schools never have and probably never will. My hope for this country lies with them as they go out and live their lives with a solid foundation.

Unfortunately it is those kids that have been dumped into the government system that I worry about. Our schools and education system suck. I see many of these kids supporting statism, Marxism and communism without knowing what exactly that means. They think they are being anarchists, and raging against the machine MAN!, when in fact they are nothing but useful idiots to statists that want control and power over the people. The government schools are too politically correct to actually teach useful economics, history and sociology.

Let the Damn Government Shut Down - Nobody Will Miss It

I do not care if the government shuts down. Despite the dire warnings from the leftists nothing is going to happen. Sure you might not be able to visit your favorite government tourist attraction but mostly life will go on. The sun will come up. The coffee will brew. Your kids will still want to play. It will be amazing to (re)-discover how useless the government really is to your life. The statists will be sad but screw 'em, I look forward to a shutdown.

It wasn't that long ago when the government created their own shut down of their own. Thousands of jobs were lost, a few businesses went bankrupt and the economy was decimated in the Gulf states when the greenies of the administration decided no more Gulf drilling.

People have begged the government to open up the drilling permits but they continue to stonewall drilling in the Gulf. They are happy to spend money to drill in Brazil but let's not drill here in the States. It's a helluva shut down. A lot more costly than a bunch of bureaucrats shuffling papers across the desks.(Understand that more oil is not exactly the solution lower fuel costs. We can at least partially blame The Bernake for destroying the dollar. If we had a stronger dollar, oil would not be as costly.)

Anyway, tonight the government may shut down. I don't care if it does or doesn't. What we need are leaders that are ready to lead fiscally. Obama thinks that a shutdown will be good for Democrats. He is assuming a lot. People are a lot more aware of the bullshit going on than they were. The children in Congress can play politics but the people are ready for some damn spending cuts. The Dems had all last year to create a budget and they decided it was best to do nothing because of the elections. Now here we are.

Planned Parenthood is one of the issues the Democrats are using to scare folks. The Democraps want federal funding for baby killing. The Republicans prefer if people want to kill their unborn babies then they should do it on their own dime. It's a woman's decision in my opinion. But I'll be damned if I want to pay for another woman's decision to destroy her baby. But mostly Democrats do not want to cut spending.

The Republicans are trying to hold firm with their pitiful spending cuts. As pathetic as they are they have to hold firm. No debt ceiling increase. Stop the damn spending. Austerity for all!

American Takers Have Overwhelmed the Makers

Looks like the judicial activists are going to destroy any attempts at sane government worker reform in Wisconsin. The takers are overwhelming the producers in the state which is sad because Wis., along with Indiana, are the only two states currently with more manufacturing jobs than government bureaucrats. Change is going to be almost impossible. The government unions do not want to give up their power and the liberals want producers to pay up. Governor Walker gave it a nice shot but the liberals are just not going to give up their socialist tendencies and desire to destroy the capitalist economy.

The Wall Street Journal had a great article from Stephen Moore titled: "We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers". Indeed.

If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government.

It gets worse. More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined. We have moved decisively from a nation of makers to a nation of takers. Nearly half of the $2.2 trillion cost of state and local governments is the $1 trillion-a-year tab for pay and benefits of state and local employees. Is it any wonder that so many states and cities cannot pay their bills?

It is so sad to live during the decline of this country. It really must have been something to watch the country grow, create entrepreneurs, enjoy freedoms and have immigrants the world over risk life and finances for a chance at living in America. It is maddening how eager the citizens were to give up their liberty in return for state run security. The government has grown so big that it does not even need to follow the Constitution.

I can tell you that for the first time ever I do not feel safe living in this country. Not because of crime or anything of the sort, but from government. From the IRS to local police, I never know if I am going to be treated fairly. There are so many rules and regulations that it's hard to know if you are doing the right thing or not. We are now slaves to our government. We are an embarrassment to our Founding Fathers.