Unacceptable!!

I was born more then 60 years ago, in a time when a man could do pretty much anything if he set his mind to it. I was raised by hard working, middle class Americans that believed strongly in God, country, and family. We were as middle class as we could be, in a time when doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs had not yet been reduced to being a part of the middle class. These days, that bracket has been so modified that it’s become very difficult to be sure where it starts and ends.

Though we didn’t call ourselves Conservatives then, you can be sure that is exactly what we were. We believed in God, and moral behavior, that a man should work for what he gets in life, and that he keeps the great majority of what he works for. You managed what money you made, and did not depend on anyone else to support your family. No one expected the government to ‘bale them out’ if they fell on hard times, and the government most certainly did not pay for your rent, car, food, or anything else for that matter.

While I was financially unable to attend collage right out of high school, I made out just fine until I was able to further my education, on my own. Even with this ‘handicap’ I cannot remember being without a job for more then a few very short periods of time when laid off during some fabricated recession. The reason for this was simple. Foolish as it may sound to some, I actually went out and searched for a job, rather then sitting on my hands and letting the government support me.

Now please understand this is not bragging on my part. It is simply to demonstrate the difference in attitude, and personal responsibility, between now and the time I was raised. Back then, if I spilled the milk, I accepted the responsibility and I cleaned it up. I didn’t blame someone else and make them clean up the mess.

Then, a family raised the children. Now, of course, we are told it ‘takes a village’ to raise a child, and I have some serious problems with a large number of the kids that have been raised by these ‘villages’. Instead of working for what they need, they expect to have it given to them. Instead of taking responsibility for their own actions, it is always someone else’s fault. I’m somewhat surprised they do not expect to be spoon fed at meal time. Worst of all, many of them are now in congress, and they wish to perpetuate their species. Unacceptable!!

Having said this, most of you may be saying, “No question about what political party he’s part of.”, and you could not be more wrong. There is a great question there, and the answer is still open. I was once a Kennedy Democrat, which of course is now a centrist Republican. So then, Conservative, yes; Republican, not exactly; Democrat, not hardly; Liberal not on your life. So what could be the reason that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties? Well, for one thing, if you take out the Liberals on the left, and the extreme Conservatives on the right, you can hardly tell where one party leaves off and the other begins, just for starters.  Unacceptable!!

During the Clinton years, it was pretty much business as usual for the moderately Liberal Democratic party. While I was never a big fan, I’ll give Clinton credit for at least trying to keep things under control. At least where his politics was concerned. Then George W. Bush came to the office. I am, in most ways, a big fan of W’s, but at the same time, his open wallet policies were nearly a disaster for the Republican party. Those same policies still haunt the Republicans to this day. The fact that both houses in congress also shared that mindset did not help a thing. Then came a president that could, did, and still does, spend like no president before him. Barack Hussein Obama has spent more money in the first year of his presidency that ALL other US presidents COMBINED!! This does not include the money he blames GWB for spending. Unacceptable!!

That being the short story, we find ourselves ‘ruled’ by a group of Congressional Dukes and Duchesses that have the idea they know more then the people they work for. Us!! They make choices we do not want, then snub us and call us names when we complain. Unacceptable!!

Our President has chosen to place 30+ people in terribly powerful offices, that he calls Czars, that have completely bypassed the congressional inspection and approval, and these people also make major decisions about our lives while being accountable to no one but the President. Making this worse, calling the morals and character of the vast majority of these ‘Czars’ questionable, would be like calling Lake Michigan a big pond. Unacceptable!!

If you wondered why I feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties there it is. From the monumental number of Tea Parties, marches on Washington, and just plain angry people I see each day, I’m guessing I’m not alone in this opinion. So, what will it take then to restore our faith in the American political system?

1. Lets start with the Czars. It would certainly be very helpful if the President would put our Constitutional checks and balances back in place, and fire the lot of them. Every job these ‘individuals’ are doing now should be under the oversight of the congress. Not that I trust them a great deal more, but there are a few good ones left there. So, fire the Czars and let the Senate confirm those people that would be given this much power.

2. The so called ‘Stimulus’ bills need to be withdrawn and the freewheeling spending in Washington needs to stop at once. Now Queen Nancy and Prince Harry want to increase the borrowing limit another $1,200,000,000,000.00 (that’s what $1.2 TRILLION dollars looks like). We can’t afford these peoples spending habits people. The redistribution of our wealth whether in this way, the Cap and Trade bill, the massive Health Care bill, or the 900 ‘pork projects’ they want to attach just one of these, simply must stop now.

3. Loose ACORN altogether! Enough said.

4. Illegal Immigration has got to be halted, and reversed. If a so called ‘shelter’ city, or state, will not enforce the immigration laws then the do not need the federal funds they covet so. Round them up, send them back, and let them go through the proper immigration channels. While their gone, lock down the borders as well. You said you would, now do it.

5. Stop and reverse the growing government control in our lives. Government has no business in my business. Mind your own, I’ll do the same and we will get along just swimmingly. While your at it, how about adding the transparency and accountability that Obama promised in nearly every other sentence during his campaign. If you are not doing something wrong, Mr. President, why are you so intent on hiding everything you do?

A whole lot of people trusted you Mr. President. They even trusted all you Congressmen and Senators to do what you said you would when you took your oath of office. Why have you disappointed us so very badly? Is the temptation of power so strong that you would turn your backs on the people that elected you, not to mention your country? Are you so devoid of character that breaking your country has no effect on your conscience? If so, you can count on one thing as a fact. You will soon be replaced. 2010 is at hand folks. Look behind you. We The People are coming, and we have learned our lesson. We will not be taken advantage of again. Not by you, nor by those that follow you. Your fifteen minutes of fame is up. Fire Congress, the rookies can do no worse!