Re: I’m tired of hearing about the bad job market…
by bodegahwy » Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:00 am
“I have been reading about his plans and goals and none of them are going to help us… Every country that has followed this path has seen its citizens lose their freedoms via Socialism, Marxism or some other form of totalitarianism. We are as close to this point as we have ever been in history”
Reading what? The BS version produced by his opponents? Hmmmm “totalitarianism” Like Canada? All of Western Europe?
Here is another take on 2nd term plans:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10692-ob … r-medicaid
No doubt there is plenty to disagree with but perhaps avoiding partisan hyperbole would be a good idea. Have to agree with you about the schools though. They have let standards slip terribly.
International Franchisers convention in DC. The headline was that
Obamacare will cut profits in half. Medicare has already been cut by about 750 billion in order to help pay for Obamacare. On January 1st we are going to be hit with a long list of new taxes.
As for Europe, France is in deep trouble. One of the solutions from their new Socialist president is to impose a 75% tax on the wealthy. Now there are reports that the wealthy are making plans to leave. Maybe they will have to redefine who the wealthy are and extend the 75% tax to the not so wealthy?
Spain is cooked. Greece is already dead. Italy is in the same boat as Spain. Germany appears to remain fairly strong but under great pressure to bail out the Euro (again). A twelve year member of the English parliament gave a speech here in the US a few months ago. He said, in effect, that England is beyond help now. Financially they are in deep trouble. Their educational system is ineffective/dumbed down. Their health care is dismal and getting worse with long waits for even critical care. He said there is little hope for us while saying that the United States is on the same path but the U.S. still has time to turn it around.
There was an article in the English version of the Russian newspaper, Pravda, and the headline was that Capitalism was dead in the United States and it died without a whimper. It said the people (the article said “sheep”) willingly accepted its death.
Most of us want the same things. We want to work hard and take care of our families while enjoying the freedoms that were originally endowed by our founders. There are very visible signs that this becoming more difficult in recent times. There is something very sick about so many people today thinking that they are entitled to so many free benefits whether those benefits are coming from food stamps or other forms of welfare. One person’s supposed entitlement requires one of us to pay for it. There are people who need and deserve help but today it would seem that the majority of welfare recipients are capable of first helping themselves. I recently had to take my daughter to the emergency health care facility (actually three times in 45 days) in the middle of the night. I was shocked to see that the waiting area (huge) was filled with people on the floors (some sleeping) as well as every other space available. Most of these people were not paying from what I could see but it was the first thing I was asked about when I entered.
We taxpayers are paying for all of this and at a time when our economy is in the tank. I hear some of the younger guys in the gym talking about their “fun money”, which I learned was unemployment checks, and how they are enjoying it until it runs out and they have to look for a job. We are paying for this and it is becoming so easy for people to tap into it. None of this is good for business or for the country. People are learning that it is not necessary to work, that it is not necessary to do all that one can before looking for government welfare. It is a sickness that is beginning to affect all of us. This is not the ethic that made this country the best in the world. This is the ethic that is destroying some other countries around the world.
