Rage? Dude, I just got a brand new mercury outboard today. I'm happier than a pig wallowing is ****!
That's good for you and the economy.
I just know we can't depend on the GOP for any assistance as their voting base, by all appearances, prefers things to be business as usual and let the little man eat ****. I can't look towards the democrats for any solutions as they are so crooked they have to screw their shoes on each morning.
Why has it come to the point where assistance is needed from any political party? Didn't friends and neighbors help each other out at one time? And now, what makes the situation worse, is that big corporations are being bailed out by the feds and the feds claim that they are helping the "little man". And people believe it! Too many undeserving people not only want this "assistance" but are getting it. It's become a can't fail society, which means that eventually everyone will fail together.
At one time corporations failed, as they should have, and people moved on to the more successful companies which took their place. Now, under crony capitalism, the feds will not only bail out these corporations they will give millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars, more assistance, to support untried companies, companies inextricably linked to political parties. And enough people buy into this craziness, to this lofty pie-in-the-sky rhetoric which precedes these billions being wasted, to keep them in power. And you wonder why you can never get ahead?
We can see that now in the "green industry" with many millions of dollars being siphoned off to political friends, but a majority of people seem to support this or they wouldn't be voting them in. These thieves who want to "save the planet" cannot even balance a budget, or even care to, and yet people still fall for it.
I probably wouldn't care as much if I hit the lottery or inherited a lot of old money. Money makes money. That's okay. But that should mean for everybody. While my money was being siphoned, the rich just got richer. Now I have less money to make money with. I worked very hard for that money too. Whatever made that possible, I want changed.
Government just got too big. Politicians convinced people that they could manage their lives for them, and now they do. But it's a service you're paying for, financially as well as psychologically. And Americans who want to change the system, who want less government, will be called "right wing extremists" or that the don't care about "the people". They will turn on each other, as we can see unfolding in front of us. This has all happened before.
It i said that people deserve the government they get. That may not always be true but in what was once a free democracy that would seem to be the case.
I just wish we could turn back the clock to the time when a man could go to work for 30 years, feed his family, retire next to a good fishin' hole. But there are forces at work that are making that American dream harder and harder to achieve.
It's big government, You work for them now and at the end of the day you'll have nothing to show for it. They're spending it twice as fast as they can take it in. Do you really believe they can help you?
The difference is that people in the western democracies are working ever longer to pay their taxes. At one time working one month per year was sufficient, and a man could support a wife and family, now you need to work several months to give the government what they want. And they will always want more in order to promise more services, more 'rights', so they can get elected and the bureaucrats and the unions can have job security, a benefit unavailable to "the little man".
The government is giving you services you often neither want or can afford but you're pretty much stuck with them and will pay for them anyway. If you can't pay them they'll just borrow the money from somewhere else and your children will pay them. They don't care.
And a lot of those folks can be seen wearing flag lapel pins manipulating the dumbed down masses with issues like homosexuals, birth control and anything else that will divert our attention away from their special interest cronies who have their hands in my pockets.
Or by a saying rude words on the airwaves . It's a circus.
I am not a radical. I am not a raging lunatic. I am not illogical. I just want what's mine to stay mine. And I will vote for a republican or a democrat that I think is looking out for my interests.
Then you might want a closer look at Paul Ryan's budget proposals. He'll take a lot of heat for sure but at least someone is trying to do something.
You seem to be doing all right looking after your own interests and that of your family but that is despite the government, not because of it. The government is far too involved in special interests to be effective anymore. While you want the government to look after your interests ultimately we know that politicians, especially those who are further away in Washington, will only look after their own. You'll get a little of the pork thrown your way occasionally but thats about it.