I’m just sitting here playing with the girls and thinking of a conversation that I had earlier in the day with a friend. The quote from my friend was “as long as it doesn’t affect me, I’m fine with it.” This was in regards to the increased taxes we’ll be faced with in the future from the new “STIMULUS” plan. The person that I was speaking with has a daughter as well. I can’t help but think, this isn’t going to affect just us, it will be our daughters that will feel the affect of this stimulus package down the road. At some point someone is going to have to pay for this. Unfortunately, this mentality is the reason that we are in the situation we are.
Yes, it will be increased taxes on future generations that will pay for this bill. My girls are very young, but I hope that in their future they are so successful that they will enter the tax brackets where this increase will be felt (you can’t raise it on low income families ‘cause then the democrats would never be reelected.) Apparently my friend is satisfied with where he is at and doesn’t hope for his daughter to succeed to the point where she will enter the higher tax brackets. I’m not saying that money is everything by any means, I’m just hoping for my girls to have to drive to succeed in life, and many times, that is met with an increase in pay. I don’t want them to be punished for their success by the voters of 2008.
I did what I could to avoid this situation, this so called “stimulus” and this new era of socialism. I voted for the less than conservative republican…but I tried. The campaign slogan of “Hope and Change” was apparently too convincing for the majority of the American people. The new era of “responsibility” that President Obama is claiming is starting with bailing out failing businesses, relying on government handouts, and allowing more and more aspects of our lives to be controlled by Big Brother.
Watching the town hall meeting in Florida with Obama says it all. I need more from my Unemployment check, I need more benefits from my fast food job, I need a new car, kitchen, and bath. What has been asked of why these people are in their situation? His first response was talk to my administration and we’ll see what we can do.
Why are those of us who have paid and worked their way through life punished? Those of us who have paid their way through college with an incredible amount of student loan debt. Those of us who continue to pay their mortgage even though money is tight. Those of us who have become successful not because of the government, but because of our desire to succeed. We will now bear the burden of paying for those who have decided to take the easy way out and rely on the government to save them.
I just want to apologize to my daughters for the lack of common sense and hard work of the Obama voters in 2008. Daddy and Mommy did what they could to prevent what will become of this nation. And sorry, you will be raised to be responsible for yourself, no relying on anyone else to help you out!
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You know for me it's not as much about this incredible debt that has grown by 3 trillion dollars in the last 3 months, but about the end of capitalism as we know it. Today marks the first day that our great country has taken a huge step toward socialism or central planning. It kills me to know that my son will never know a society that depends on freedom and self reliance. It breaks my heart for all the men and women who lost their lives fighting for freedom and now it's all for nothing. It makes me crazy that we elected someone that doesn't even believe in capitalism but yet we don't care because "we're too busy". By the time we wake up and realize everything we've worked for is gone, it will be too late. It was the late great Ronald Reagan that said " the government that can give you everything can also take it away". It's time to wake up people and stop thinking that Obama is going to show up and hand you a car or a house, if you want one of those go out and work for it and if you can't afford one, then don't buy it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invite guys. I'm afraid I can't bash Obama yet. I voted for Bush twice but had been disappointed by his fiscal policy. To me McCain wasn't any better than Obama. He would act tough at one time and then try to get the media and Dems to like him. I really doubt that this stimulus plan would have been much different if he were Pres. The media overblows things all the time. Things are never as bad or as good as they say. Only time will tell what happens. It is kind of amazing to me that when a strong Pres gets in the conservatives and evagelicals say that God puts the right guy in at the right time. If that's so then maybe Obama is the right guy for this time or is God's power so how limited by liberals? Something to think about.
ReplyDeleteHey O glad to hear from you. While agreeing that many say God installs the right man for the right time you need to remember that doesn't mean it will be good for us. In the Old Testament the Jews were under the rule of many Kings. First they would get a good one and prosper but eventually fall away from God. He would then bring the next king who would treat them terribly and the people would finally cry out to God and ask for Him to save them. Perhaps God uses times of strife to get His people to seek Him out, repent and ask for help. So a bad leader can be used by God just as a good one can. God really doesn't care if we are rich or poor, He cares about our salvation and sometimes we can only find that when we are in great need.
ReplyDeleteI have a hard time accepting the Give Obama a chance point of view. He is taking this country on a path it has never been down before...Socialism. The changes that he is looking to make will be irreversible once put in place.
ReplyDeleteSocialism is wonderful in theory, no more poverty, everyone on the same playing field. Redistributing wealth from the rich down to the poor to try and bring the poor up. The problem is, this ends up bringing the rich down. The saying, give a man a fish, he will eat for a day, teach him to fish, he will eat for a lifetime is very important to the discussion. In our current capitalist system, those who work hardest gain the most. Removing the incentive to work hard by redistributing what they have gained does nothing more than bring the top down. The system cannot support itself when the top has no incentive to keep producing.
Take a look around and see where socialism has worked? The Soviet Union? Cuba?
Just a little scared of what's coming...