The nine most terrifying words…

Answer me something: who are the bigger idiots, the people that run our country, or the people that vote for those that run our country?

You may think that I’m being sarcastic, and I am (to a point), yet as of election time back in November of ’08 the two houses of Congress held an approval rating hovering around 11%. That is, only 11 people out of 100 thought that congress was doing a good job. But with House and Senate reelection rates at 94% and 83% respectively, the blame for the low approval rating is clearly the result of somebody ELSE’S representatives, not MINE.

P.T. Barnum would be SO proud. These scheisters have managed to fool MOST of the people ALL of the time.

And they continue to do it, too. Despite all of the evidence that they don’t think that you have a brain cell in your skull. From Harry Reid’s ‘Unwashed Masses’ comment, to the current ‘Climate-gate’, the message is clear for those who choose to see it. In fact, with an attempt to dismiss ‘Climate-gate’ I heard an elected official claim that the average citizen doesn’t understand scientific debate (I don’t remember who, and I couldn’t find it online, so take that as you will).

I tell you this now, and I will stand by this as truth; many of your elected officials will burn this country to the ground (and happily, too), if they are guaranteed to stay in power. Too many of them don’t give a hairy rat’s butt what you think, in point of fact, many of them don’t think you have the capacity to think for yourselves anyway.

Open your eyes.

In late 2008 the majority of Americans voted a grossly inexperienced, massively unqualified junior Senator from Chicago into the most powerful office in the world, using nothing more than charisma and pretty ‘say nothing’ speeches. Within 28 days he effectively DOUBLED the national debt. A debt, I might add, that took over 230 years to accrue.

This President has appointed at least SIX tax cheats to his cabinet (actually, I think he appointed more than that, but only six made the final cut), not the least of which snagged a position as the Secretary of the Treasury (Tim Geithner).

He has appointed, outside of congressional approval, at LEAST 31 czars that are answerable ONLY to him. Many of whom hold strong anti-American, socialist and/or dangerous pacifistic ideals. At least one of which was a SELF-PROCLAIMED COMMUNIST (Van Jones)!

The change that everyone voted for has definitely come, hasn’t it. Too bad it wasn’t the change that we needed.

So now my last question for you: Why is it that “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” are the nine most terrifying words in the English language?

Because we’ve seen what happens when the government steps in to “help”. We saw it in the U.S.S.R., we saw it in Cuba, we saw it in Venezuela. Hell, for those that are old enough to remember (and there are damn few these days), we saw it here in the U.S. during the Great Depression of the 1930′s. And guess what, it’s happening again.

Every time that a government steps in to ‘help’ costs go up, wages go down, unemployment skyrockets, and standards of living plummet.

In the late 1950′s there was a charismatic young man running for political office. Among his political battle-cry’s was a free, universal health care. And the people loved him for it. They cheered him in the streets whenever he came around. They still do, though now the cheer him out of fear, rather than reverence. By all accounts, Cuba was a wonderful place to be in before the Castro regime took power.

But I do have to give Castro credit…. they DO have a free health care system.

If you don’t think that what happened in Cuba could happen here, wake up and look around you. Your elected officials are screwing you over, and you LET them. One thing that many of the people seem to have forgotten, and what most politicians choose to ignore, is that THEY WORK FOR US! WE DO NOT WORK FOR THEM!

–JK