GOVERNMENT MISCONCEPTIONS

As an American Citizen and someone who worked for more than 40 years, I am absolutely completely totally disgusted with the Government and their belief that we should be taking care of all of these unfortunate people who do not have a job, do not want a job and sit around on their butts all day, every day, day in and day out, letting someone else take care of them and expecting someone other than themselves to pay their rent, their utilities, pay for their car, their gas, their food, their cell phones and all of the luxuries they think they want, but they can not pay for without our money and the Government just enjoys the hell out of spreading our earnings around to these people. Obama called it “spreading the wealth”. If we did away with the welfare system except for sick born to American parents and raised in America, that might go a long way to eliminating some of the illegal immigrant problems also, and look at how many more people would have to work and pay taxes to support America. Well, to be quite honest with you, I am tired of paying for luxuries for someone on welfare when I can not afford those same luxuries for myself. If welfare recipients want luxuries, they should get an education, then a job and pay for their own luxuries and necessities. You know that “Luxuries are the things that make necessities impossible to afford.” I read that little tidbit in Reader’s Digest many years ago. Unfortunately I do not know who wrote it, but it is definitely appropriate as I think we make it entirely too easy for people to milk the system. Welfare people get the equivalent of food stamps, but they are too damn lazy to fix their kids breakfast and pack them a lunch for school – no, these poor starving little tykes get free breakfast and lunch at school and in some cases supper too. There is no excuse for the American people having to dish out food stamps or the equivalent credit card type currency and then pay again for their children to eat free at school two and three times a day. I believe in giving someone a hand up, but this multi-generational welfare crap should stop immediately if not sooner. If you want to be a bleeding heart liberal, do it out of your own personal purse – not mine! I happen to be a common sense conservative and think people should work and earn what they get. They will have more appreciation for what they accumulate if they work for it.

The next problem I see is that the Government categorizes people who have worked and paid into the Social Security System (not necessarily because we wanted to, but because we were required to do so by the Government) like welfare recipients or worse. Not only that, but they take the money that we paid into Social Security and Medicare and give it to people who have never worked because they claim some kind of infirmity (proven or not) and gosh these poor people need the money we paid in more than we do. I’m really getting tired of being treated like a second class citizen because I am a Social Security recipient who worked and paid for years and years and years. The paying in for years and years was okay, but they do not believe that I should be allowed to draw it out – No, my money should go to some low-life that never worked a day in their miserable life. I am also tired of the Government taking the overage in Social Security payments and putting that overage into the General Fund to make their balance sheet look a little better.

Now speaking of the schools – the kids in America have the best educational tools that money can buy paid for by the benevolence of the taxpayers, and yet our kids graduate from high school not being able to read, write, add, subtract, multiply or divide without the use of a calculator. Go to any store where young people are working, pay for your purchases, and if the computer doesn’t tell them what change to give back, they do not know what change they should give you. They do not have the ability to reason out a simple thing like making change. They can not speak a clear concise sentence – instead they start out “’Yo, dude” and it declines from there. The more we spend and the easier we make it, the less they learn, but the government thinks we should drop billions more into this system which isn’t working. The young kids in the third world countries would like to have the opportunities to learn using the resources that our youngsters have, and they probably wouldn’t squander it like our kids do. I say we should make it a little more difficult for these arrogant give me give me kids to obtain this education. And while we are on the subject of education – I think it is totally ridiculous for the teachers to not be able to control the kids in their classroom. There is no discipline in the homes, the schools or any where else at this point in time. No, I have never been a school teacher and the school system and the kids were probably real lucky that I chose another type of employment. I would not have put up with a bunch of unruly undisciplined brats in a classroom. I grew up during a time when discipline was dispensed swiftly and efficiently and still believe it was a much more efficient way of learning. My parents were good, kind, loving parents, but they did not allow any arguments from me. If they told me to do something, I had better say “yes sir or yes ma’am” and hop to it, and if we went to a store and I wanted something – if they said “no”, they meant “no”. I had better not throw a yelling, screaming fit in the store or the seat of my pants would have been warmed immediately and I would have eaten my meals standing up for a while. Did it hurt me? No – it taught me respect which is more than I can say for a lot of the young people I have met lately and especially the ones who tell someone to F___ off! If I would have told anyone that – I would still be eating my meals standing up.