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Praying Mantis
What it is with this obsession that democrats have with my money I’ll never be able to completely figure out, but I’ll be damned if I am going to simply roll over and let them strip out my wallet. Every single day another democrat comes along to blame “The Republicans” for all the ills of the country and attempt to explain how just a few more taxes will cure all the problems and make everything from poverty to cancer disappear. These idiots actually believe the bullshit they peddle and it pisses me off to see so many uninformed adult retards repeat their mantra as if it were The Word of God. Every single thing about this administration stinks of corruption and collusive secrecy. What was supposed to be a new era of open government looks more and more like the height of the Soviet Union and the East German Stasi. Today I read about US Park Service thugs handing tickets out to WWII Veterans who simply wanted to walk across what is usually an open concrete plaza, and of retiree tourists at a federal parks location being treated like criminals. What I see is rule by thuggery and oppression of the people; nothing more and nothing less. Obama has shown his true colors to the world and he is now proven to be a bully and a liar, capable of nothing except the destruction of our republic. He has shown us that he is without any feeling whatsoever for the People of The United States, and that he wants nothing more than to rule by diktat. House and Senate Democrats have been making ridiculous and slanderous statements about Republicans, calling them terrorists and murderers. Since when is this proper decorum? I am sick and tired of the whole shit show. I am also sick and tired of these Democrats rubbing our noses in their shit piles.
A fellow in my office is a die hard socialist and he’s been driving me up a fucking wall with his constant blithering about how Obama would be the greatest president in the history of the known universe if only Republicans would get out of the way and allow for the mass execution of anyone with more than 250,000 dollars, because no one “needs” to have more than that. He absolutely believes that a 99% tax rate on every dollar earned over 250K is the answer to all of our problems and that people like Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Mitt Romney, et. Al., should be jailed for social injustice and their money seized to be given to the poor. He defends Obamacare to the death. His position is that the only reason premiums are going up so much is that people are refusing to sign up for it, and that if everyone would just give in and buy a policy that prices would drop to nearly nothing. He has no concept whatsoever of the ramifications that come with adding 50 million people to the insurance rolls, then requiring taxpayers to subsidize about 80% of their premiums. He refuses to acknowledge that pulling such an enormous quantity of money off of the consumer table [so to speak], will be a retailers worst nightmare. The destruction that Obamacare will bring down upon this country has yet to unfold, but when it does, expect the unexpected. How many business owners can afford to participate in this nightmare? How many companies currently hanging on by their fingernails will simply close up shop as a result of Obamacare? I’ll tell you this, when I have to take 8.5% of my net salary and spend it on something that I do not want, and then have to pay both mine and my daughters 1,500 dollar deductible and our share costs before insurance even kicks in, I will be doing a hell of a lot less discretionary spending. In fact, I will probably have to eliminate nearly all of my discretionary spending and cut back on some of my necessities if I want to continue to save for retirement.
Why has there been no discussion about this? Where is the media on this coming disaster? How many small businesses cease to exist because folks simply have no money left to spend? Even those with cheap-o bronze plans that are heavily subsidized will have to cough up co-pays and deductibles, along with whatever monthly fee share they still have to pay for insurance, leaving them with that much less to ‘consume’. Joe Six-Pack will no longer be able to afford Wednesday night bowling and beers with the Boyz, and Suzy Q. Public will have to figure out how to do without her monthly visit to the hairdresser and nail salon. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I see a disaster in the making and it isn’t going to be pretty. Some will say “But the money is being spent in to the economy and look how many jobs are going to be created”. My response to that is to say, “Look at Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs”. Those programs are rife with fraud, waste and misallocation of resources. I work nearly exclusively in and on federal government ands military installations so I see it every single day. It is clear that some will profit quite heavily, but the majority of Americans will be screwed. Of course the Congress, the people who are responsible for approving this abomination, have exempted themselves and their good liberal union buddies from the pain so no worries!
The political theater surrounding the debt ceiling/budget/Obamacare debacles is only getting more stupid as the days pass. I actually hope they crater the fucker so we can start over, and at the same time, have a reason to go out to collect some heads on a stick. I can think of a few hundred we can start out with.
This whole attitude of “punish the people” is going to wake some people up that have been blissfully ignorant of the real Obama and drunk on hopium. Parks employees were told to “make this as painful as possible”. Experimental cancer therapies that were showing promise have been cancelled, yet there is still money to give half a billion to PBS and cash for 20 assistants to the first lady. There is money to pay EXTRA guards to make sure no one crosses government barricades at monuments on an open mall, but none for disabled veterans. I sure am glad Big Bird is “critical” for the People of The United States, because God forbid Sesame Street were to go black and kids were forced to do the unthinkable and fucking play outside instead of rot in front of the television. This arrogant jackass actually believes this presidency is beneath him, at least this is how he appears to me. He is a petulant little whiner who thinks everyone should blindly agree with him on every subject and just let him rule as he sees fit. The constitution means nothing to him, nor does the Bill of Rights, which he has subverted in every way possible to further his own agenda.
We are no longer a nation of free men. We have devolved in to a nation of men who are entitled to free stuff, yet we are not free to opt out of receiving them, nor are we permitted to opt out of paying for free shit to others who despite producing nothing, are all eligible to receive the same raft of “free” stuff. We can’t seem to figure out that these hucksters and hustlers we call congressmen are the problem not the solution. Still, we vote the incumbents back in, forgive them their lies and forgive them their strings of broken promises because this time it will be different. This time they will not bend to the will of “K Street” over the will of their constituents. This time, they will do the right thing and end all of these pointless and unwinable wars. This time they will withdraw our imperial forces from the over 800 bases around the world where we are neither needed nor wanted. This time they will vote to remove the federal government from our children’s lives and permit folks to decide where and how they wish to educate their children. This time they will collectively act to protect my right to keep and bear arms over the objections of a few mindless liberal idiots who think we can create a utopia here if we just take away everybody’s guns. This time they will actually require enforcement of our immigration policies and immediately begin deportation of tens of millions of illegal aliens, many of whom are criminals. These people continue to be elected not because they have done or will do the right thing. They are reelected because they promise more and more free shit. The low/no information voters vote for them because often times, they are the recipients of all the free shit in the first place.
Perhaps it is time to return to the idea of only permitting the productive elements in our society to vote. Perhaps those on perpetual welfare and food stamps have no business voting since they tend to vote not on principle, but selfishness, greed and sloth. There are far too many people who as a matter of course pay zero federal tax, yet these same people are the ones complaining the loudest that they deserve more “entitlements”.
America sets a standard for poverty that in some countries is viewed as great wealth. Our poor have television sets [often multiple], cellular phones [again, often multiples], cable television and high speed internet, automobiles [often multiple], air conditioning, nice clothing and shoes, free education [including free breakfast and lunch for their out-of-wedlock kids], subsidized rents, food stamps, WIC benefits, child care assistance, free medical care [while it’s not the greatest, it is still free], free prescriptions, free eye glasses and dental care, and so many other things that it is impossible to list them all without screaming out loud. Our view of things ion our society has become warped. The productive among us who manage to produce more than we need and effectively save for our futures are now viewed by many as the enemy and the cause of our social ills. We are seen as “privileged”. We are seen as greedy when we decry the strip mining of our paychecks to benefit people who do not want to lift themselves up from the “poverty” within which they dwell. We are called terrorists when we fight those who would disarm us, even though lawful gun owners are the demographic least likely to engage in any kind of violent crime. Because we hold to our Christian beliefs and teach our children the same, we are called extremists and worse. Because we do not grovel at the feet of liberals and their fanatical vision of a society peppered with LGBT’s, dominated entirely by women, blacks and other “minorities”, I am a selfish, privileged white male who does not appreciate the gift of this “privilege” therefore it should be taken away from me. Apparently, I have spent my entire life holding these people back from success, so a huge portion of all government spending has been carved out for them and I am now excluded from participating in it.
Quite honestly I am sick to fucking death of the lot of them. I’m sick of the lies, secrecy, hate-mongering and outright viciousness of this administration and fear that the damage they have done to our republic may be permanent. I listen to the likes of Harry Reid, Maxine Waters, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and wonder how someone can become so completely warped and out of touch with reality, and how they can harbor such a deep and incredible hate for people like us? What must have happened to these people in their lives that they believe that a two class society really is the best way and that if they destroy the middle class we will all be better off for it. Make no mistake about it folks, these ultra liberals believe just that, and they are working overtime to try and make sure it happens. One look at liberal enclaves like Illinois, Washington D.C. and California for the vision of what these people want America to look like.
I’m seriously in need of a vacation, and I don’t mean a week. I need something like six weeks away from this insanity and I need it now. I really don’t want to und up in some clock tower taking out random fuckers because I probably won’t like the food they serve on death row, but if I don’t get away soon I may just walk away from it all. This government shutdown has seriously screwed up my entire business and it’s become a huge pain in my ass. Out of sheer spite, we were told that at 11:a.m. Monday morning, everyone had to be off of Kennedy Space Center, Patrick Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. We were told this in an e-mail that no one read because it came on Saturday, after everyone was already home enjoying their weekend. We were never told that we wouldn’t be able to demobilize equipment and materials, and we were never given notice that anything would stop besides production that required government inspection. Now, at least at the last count, we have three quarters of a million dollars worth of owned equipment and about $12,000 dollars a month worth of rented man-lifts and related equipment trapped out there with no possibility of recovering either the equipment or the cost of rentals and lost production. Now, even if I wanted to dip in to some commercial work to replace the lost revenue from the .Gov work, I cannot.
Sometimes I feel like I just can’t catch a fucking break.
Thanks Obama!
Sorry about the rant.
A fellow in my office is a die hard socialist and he’s been driving me up a fucking wall with his constant blithering about how Obama would be the greatest president in the history of the known universe if only Republicans would get out of the way and allow for the mass execution of anyone with more than 250,000 dollars, because no one “needs” to have more than that. He absolutely believes that a 99% tax rate on every dollar earned over 250K is the answer to all of our problems and that people like Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Mitt Romney, et. Al., should be jailed for social injustice and their money seized to be given to the poor. He defends Obamacare to the death. His position is that the only reason premiums are going up so much is that people are refusing to sign up for it, and that if everyone would just give in and buy a policy that prices would drop to nearly nothing. He has no concept whatsoever of the ramifications that come with adding 50 million people to the insurance rolls, then requiring taxpayers to subsidize about 80% of their premiums. He refuses to acknowledge that pulling such an enormous quantity of money off of the consumer table [so to speak], will be a retailers worst nightmare. The destruction that Obamacare will bring down upon this country has yet to unfold, but when it does, expect the unexpected. How many business owners can afford to participate in this nightmare? How many companies currently hanging on by their fingernails will simply close up shop as a result of Obamacare? I’ll tell you this, when I have to take 8.5% of my net salary and spend it on something that I do not want, and then have to pay both mine and my daughters 1,500 dollar deductible and our share costs before insurance even kicks in, I will be doing a hell of a lot less discretionary spending. In fact, I will probably have to eliminate nearly all of my discretionary spending and cut back on some of my necessities if I want to continue to save for retirement.
Why has there been no discussion about this? Where is the media on this coming disaster? How many small businesses cease to exist because folks simply have no money left to spend? Even those with cheap-o bronze plans that are heavily subsidized will have to cough up co-pays and deductibles, along with whatever monthly fee share they still have to pay for insurance, leaving them with that much less to ‘consume’. Joe Six-Pack will no longer be able to afford Wednesday night bowling and beers with the Boyz, and Suzy Q. Public will have to figure out how to do without her monthly visit to the hairdresser and nail salon. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I see a disaster in the making and it isn’t going to be pretty. Some will say “But the money is being spent in to the economy and look how many jobs are going to be created”. My response to that is to say, “Look at Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs”. Those programs are rife with fraud, waste and misallocation of resources. I work nearly exclusively in and on federal government ands military installations so I see it every single day. It is clear that some will profit quite heavily, but the majority of Americans will be screwed. Of course the Congress, the people who are responsible for approving this abomination, have exempted themselves and their good liberal union buddies from the pain so no worries!
The political theater surrounding the debt ceiling/budget/Obamacare debacles is only getting more stupid as the days pass. I actually hope they crater the fucker so we can start over, and at the same time, have a reason to go out to collect some heads on a stick. I can think of a few hundred we can start out with.
This whole attitude of “punish the people” is going to wake some people up that have been blissfully ignorant of the real Obama and drunk on hopium. Parks employees were told to “make this as painful as possible”. Experimental cancer therapies that were showing promise have been cancelled, yet there is still money to give half a billion to PBS and cash for 20 assistants to the first lady. There is money to pay EXTRA guards to make sure no one crosses government barricades at monuments on an open mall, but none for disabled veterans. I sure am glad Big Bird is “critical” for the People of The United States, because God forbid Sesame Street were to go black and kids were forced to do the unthinkable and fucking play outside instead of rot in front of the television. This arrogant jackass actually believes this presidency is beneath him, at least this is how he appears to me. He is a petulant little whiner who thinks everyone should blindly agree with him on every subject and just let him rule as he sees fit. The constitution means nothing to him, nor does the Bill of Rights, which he has subverted in every way possible to further his own agenda.
We are no longer a nation of free men. We have devolved in to a nation of men who are entitled to free stuff, yet we are not free to opt out of receiving them, nor are we permitted to opt out of paying for free shit to others who despite producing nothing, are all eligible to receive the same raft of “free” stuff. We can’t seem to figure out that these hucksters and hustlers we call congressmen are the problem not the solution. Still, we vote the incumbents back in, forgive them their lies and forgive them their strings of broken promises because this time it will be different. This time they will not bend to the will of “K Street” over the will of their constituents. This time, they will do the right thing and end all of these pointless and unwinable wars. This time they will withdraw our imperial forces from the over 800 bases around the world where we are neither needed nor wanted. This time they will vote to remove the federal government from our children’s lives and permit folks to decide where and how they wish to educate their children. This time they will collectively act to protect my right to keep and bear arms over the objections of a few mindless liberal idiots who think we can create a utopia here if we just take away everybody’s guns. This time they will actually require enforcement of our immigration policies and immediately begin deportation of tens of millions of illegal aliens, many of whom are criminals. These people continue to be elected not because they have done or will do the right thing. They are reelected because they promise more and more free shit. The low/no information voters vote for them because often times, they are the recipients of all the free shit in the first place.
Perhaps it is time to return to the idea of only permitting the productive elements in our society to vote. Perhaps those on perpetual welfare and food stamps have no business voting since they tend to vote not on principle, but selfishness, greed and sloth. There are far too many people who as a matter of course pay zero federal tax, yet these same people are the ones complaining the loudest that they deserve more “entitlements”.
America sets a standard for poverty that in some countries is viewed as great wealth. Our poor have television sets [often multiple], cellular phones [again, often multiples], cable television and high speed internet, automobiles [often multiple], air conditioning, nice clothing and shoes, free education [including free breakfast and lunch for their out-of-wedlock kids], subsidized rents, food stamps, WIC benefits, child care assistance, free medical care [while it’s not the greatest, it is still free], free prescriptions, free eye glasses and dental care, and so many other things that it is impossible to list them all without screaming out loud. Our view of things ion our society has become warped. The productive among us who manage to produce more than we need and effectively save for our futures are now viewed by many as the enemy and the cause of our social ills. We are seen as “privileged”. We are seen as greedy when we decry the strip mining of our paychecks to benefit people who do not want to lift themselves up from the “poverty” within which they dwell. We are called terrorists when we fight those who would disarm us, even though lawful gun owners are the demographic least likely to engage in any kind of violent crime. Because we hold to our Christian beliefs and teach our children the same, we are called extremists and worse. Because we do not grovel at the feet of liberals and their fanatical vision of a society peppered with LGBT’s, dominated entirely by women, blacks and other “minorities”, I am a selfish, privileged white male who does not appreciate the gift of this “privilege” therefore it should be taken away from me. Apparently, I have spent my entire life holding these people back from success, so a huge portion of all government spending has been carved out for them and I am now excluded from participating in it.
Quite honestly I am sick to fucking death of the lot of them. I’m sick of the lies, secrecy, hate-mongering and outright viciousness of this administration and fear that the damage they have done to our republic may be permanent. I listen to the likes of Harry Reid, Maxine Waters, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and wonder how someone can become so completely warped and out of touch with reality, and how they can harbor such a deep and incredible hate for people like us? What must have happened to these people in their lives that they believe that a two class society really is the best way and that if they destroy the middle class we will all be better off for it. Make no mistake about it folks, these ultra liberals believe just that, and they are working overtime to try and make sure it happens. One look at liberal enclaves like Illinois, Washington D.C. and California for the vision of what these people want America to look like.
I’m seriously in need of a vacation, and I don’t mean a week. I need something like six weeks away from this insanity and I need it now. I really don’t want to und up in some clock tower taking out random fuckers because I probably won’t like the food they serve on death row, but if I don’t get away soon I may just walk away from it all. This government shutdown has seriously screwed up my entire business and it’s become a huge pain in my ass. Out of sheer spite, we were told that at 11:a.m. Monday morning, everyone had to be off of Kennedy Space Center, Patrick Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. We were told this in an e-mail that no one read because it came on Saturday, after everyone was already home enjoying their weekend. We were never told that we wouldn’t be able to demobilize equipment and materials, and we were never given notice that anything would stop besides production that required government inspection. Now, at least at the last count, we have three quarters of a million dollars worth of owned equipment and about $12,000 dollars a month worth of rented man-lifts and related equipment trapped out there with no possibility of recovering either the equipment or the cost of rentals and lost production. Now, even if I wanted to dip in to some commercial work to replace the lost revenue from the .Gov work, I cannot.
Sometimes I feel like I just can’t catch a fucking break.
Thanks Obama!
Sorry about the rant.
