It’s a true lie.<\/p>\n
February 7, 2015<\/p>\n
Of course I got asked if I watched President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union speech a while back. My reply? Of course I didn’t watch President Obama’s State of the Union address!! Why would I willingly subject myself to\u00a0his delusions??? Nope. He can have his opinions and views. I don’t have to be right and he doesn’t have to be wrong. AND, we can both be wrong and right together in the same Country. Welcome to America!<\/p>\n
I will preface today’s thoughts\u00a0with a few admissions. First, I am not an economist. Second, I cannot speak for anyone except myself. Third, my globalizing, stereotyping and generalizing should be seen as me expressing my\u00a0vision for America\u00a0by surmising guidance.<\/p>\n
You really don’t have to convince too many people that breathing is good. Those things that are necessary will usually remain unremarkable due to their commonality and universal acceptance. Where we get into trouble is with ideology. I do not like taxes, but I benefit from services provided due to the collection of taxes. What are necessary services? Yeah, there’s the rub.<\/p>\n
I also try not to be so global in my thoughts as to think ridiculous things like, ” Republican good, Democrat bad”. No, there are clowns, idiots, very selfish and even evil\u00a0people in every conceivable group. It is due to being born a sinner.<\/p>\n
Lost a few folks there when I brought in God. I won’t spend a lot of time on it, but I am often frustrated when people tell me how I act and what I believe when they don’t know me. I HATE religion. Re-read that last line. People have done a wonderful job at messing up God. God had\/has it right and we keep trying our darndest to fix it!!! Best way I can put it, sorry if I offended your delicate nature.<\/p>\n
By separating into permanent entrenchments of “us vs. them” over ideological outliers or details; we sink the ship. I am afraid that is\u00a0how debate in our Country has evolved. It seems that anymore, the logic of “coexisting” has morphed into “if you do not believe and act as I do, then I banish you and must ensure your destruction so that I may survive.”<\/p>\n
Here is a little generalizing and globalizing. I really get concerned when people give me “facts” based on “data”. If oxygen is good and necessary, you wouldn’t need to convince me of anything. But, we are talking about agendas, opinion, moral corruption, character flaws, etc. One quick example was a State (shall remain nameless, but I promise this is a real accounting of the “facts”) citing a dramatic increase in the graduation percentage of its students. The State had been lagging behind for a few years and folks started pressing the powers that be to do something about it. Wa-la! the graduating percentage increased!! Woot woot! the problem was solved! But, not so fast… Well, come to find out, they simply excluded a significant number of people by categorizing them a different way. So, not all statistics are “real” and not all data is good. First moral of the first story of the day?? Statistics, studies, data, facts, evidence and truth are ALL creations of PEOPLE. If they were as absolute and factual as many would want you to believe, then we wouldn’t have a debate. Oxygen is good and necessary for life. Test it. Go ahead…<\/p>\n
If you are still reading, thanks!<\/p>\n
So, I go back to a bigger picture. What things are like oxygen? What do we need? The word there is “need”, not “want”. Start thinking about our Country now and the needs and wants of the people. The United States Constitution did a good job at providing a good framework for success. Over the course of a few hundred years we have gotten lost in our efforts to “fix” the Constitution. Now, we are mired deeply in an inexorable quagmire of rules, laws, regulations, government and taxes. We have SO MUCH of our economy dependent on things that are contrived. People have jobs only to shuffle paper in order to satisfy a rule or regulation. Companies produce systems to mange the information for the person shuffling the papers and services to shred the papers. Some companies are solely in existence due to government contracts. Scary if you really think about it.<\/p>\n
So then a guy like me comes along and proposes a reduction in the size and scope of the FEDGOV. Hmmmm…. The spindarellas begin to work their voodoo and spread messages like, “conservatives want to put hard working people out of work and on the street”. Yup, there are going to be A WHOLE DARNED BUNCH of FEDGOV employees, and support personnel and businesses affected. But, what they do isn’t, “real”. They don’t grow crops. They don’t weld ships. They don’t cure the sick. Heck, I doubt very seriously that anyone really has any idea who does exactly what and for how much.<\/p>\n
All of this comes down to refining the scope and practice of the FEDGOV. In a perfect world, where the FEDGOV was knocking it out of the park every day with things like keeping our borders safe, protecting us from enemies and overseeing interstate commerce; I wouldn’t have too much of a problem with them tiptoeing into helping with research for cancer or something. But, they don’t have a handle on what they are supposed to be doing and the only answer they come up with is more debt.<\/p>\n
Today, we are experiencing learned helplessness. There was a time when if you spoke out against something, people would listen. Then everybody spoke out about everything and what is the result? No one listens. There was a time when when people took a stand, people noticed. Now we support riots over comments by race baiting “civil rights” opportunists who are hand in hand with the head of the DOJ. The result? Well, nothing makes sense and those in charge are criminally benefiting. Again, people stop trying. We have made the same type of mistakes over the years in our choices for leaders. Now, they are fairly well cemented into the fabric of our Country. America is no longer of, by or for the people.<\/p>\n
I will admit that there isn’t a lot of “meat” in today’s post. I am just commenting again on the train that is coming at us. I too don’t really feel as if I can really make a difference. I talk and it seems that no one cares or they just don’t listen. I really don’t have a need to be important. I just want to stop what I see as a costly, painful, lengthy and nightmarish revolution in this Country.<\/p>\n
— R. A. Grier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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