Why you ain't my problem!

Fair WARNING... I'm going to do a little ranting and raving here. Because like Howard Beale in the movie Network... I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

What's wrong with all the socialist spending going on.

First, I am a CAPITALIST and proud of it. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, everything I have I earned by the sweat of my brow, and brain...crafted by my own two hands. A free-market economy provides the greatest freedom and opportunity to the greatest number of people than any other political system out there. We have no locked castes, no royalty...sure some people get a little jump on others, but only through the hard work of their parents. Some don't.... I didn't. I received no inheritance, no free education... I started from blue-collar working class roots, in the same jobs that today many of you consider "not good enough" for Americans. I started with a menial job and worked my way up from there.

Second, I am a LIBERTARIAN and proud of that too. Honestly, provided you don't get your goods from anybody else dishonestly, I don't think anybody ought to be telling you what you can or can not do. Want to be gay? Fine by me. Want to do drugs? I got no problem with that. But understand something plain and simple... as a libertarian I believe in personal responsibility. YOU and only you are responsible for your own actions, you are accountable only to yourself. You got a problem with your current lot in life? Don't blame your parents, your neighbors, or the man keeping you down... take a long hard look in the mirror.

What does this have to do with the stimulus bill? A whole hell of a lot. Because these two basic principles of American freedom seem to have fallen by the wayside. YOU are entitled to NOTHING, other than the OPPORTUNITY, to make of your life what you will.

Let's get something straight right off the bat... something my father (who was born in 1900 and lived through the great depression...and no, I'm not that old, he was) taught me: TANSTAAFL! Never heard of it? It means "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Another concept that seems to have fallen by the wayside. You get what you earn, plain and simple.

Why am I opposed to illegal immigration? Well I hear people say today that illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans don't want. DON'T WANT? What kind of BS is that? I started out working 12-13 hours a day doing menial labor for a landscaping company, yup... I cut grass. A profession teeming with illegal immigrants today. Don't tell me it's a job Americans don't want...cause that's where I started... and I leveraged myself up from there.

America was and is the Land of Opportunity. Don't tell me it isn't, because I know better. I grew up in a neighborhood that was full of Greek immigrants (legal immigrants) who started off with nothing, working for someone else. They scratched together their pennies, scrimped and saved, and moved onto the next step: A hot-dog cart. Anyone from Philly will know what I mean. They got up at five in the morning dragged their cart into the city and worked until six. Scrimped and saved and moved onto the next step, a pizza place, hoagie shop, or restaurant. They worked ungodly hours, scrimped and saved, and pushed their kids through college.

Years later, on a business trip I met an older gentlemen in a hotel bar. My associates and I hung out with him for a few hours until he got up and left. When my friends and I went to leave the bartender told us not to worry about it, the older gentlemen had picked up our tab. I spent a lot of time in that hotel on business and got to know the old man. He was an immigrant, he had come to this country from Turkey many, many years before, penniless and not speaking a word of English. When I met him, he spoke flawless English and owned a multi-million dollar ocean-front hotel. Tell him America isn't the Land of Opportunity. He taught me a very valuable lesson about America... anything is possible, and there are an awful lot of people out there just like him.

Infrastructure? Amen... spend all you want. General Motors? Chrysler? Screw-Off! I work hard for my money...you want some of it? You better damn well earn it through a quality product at a decent price. If you can't produce, if you can't effectively manage your own company, employees, product, and market...you don't deserve any of my money, you deserve to fail. GM employs 266,000 people, Chrysler 58,000: The employees of that company make on average $5 an hour more than the employees of American Toyota or Nissan. Well bubbas! That's $64 Million a week in wages, $259 Million a month, or 3 Billion a year. Don't come sniffin around my wallet cause your company sucks... want a job? take a pay cut. You want to eat? Go cut somebodies friggin lawn... I did.

I stopped buying your shitty product years ago... had you produced quality at a decent price, I would still be buying and you would not be in the dire straights you are now. From the assembly line worker who didn't care about fastening my door panel correctly (by the way, it rattled like a SOB)... to the senior executive flying to the Bahamas on the corporate jet.... Tough Shit. You know what? I probably would have even paid a little more for a quality product and quality service. I certainly paid more for my Land Rover than I would have for a Ford Explorer... but you know what the difference is? When I went to the Land Rover dealership to buy, for service... they got on their knees and kissed by bloody ass! Yup, they gave me croissants, coffee, a loaner, I got my oil changed, they washed and detailed my car, so when I got it back it was all sparkly and shiny.... IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE YOU BONEHEADS! Compare that to getting bent over the desk by the service manager at any American dealership and where would you go and buy your car? GM goes under, Chrysler goes under, 324,000 people out of work? Well last thing I heard there were 12 million illegal immigrants in this country... DEPORT THEM, there are plenty of jobs out there... and keep your whining prima dona trap shut about them being not good enough for you.

Family Planning? Contraceptives? I got family planning for you... don't want kids? don't have sex. Want to have sex? Buy your own frigging contraceptives...or PAY FOR THE KIDS! It ain't my responsibility for you to get your jollies off, nor is it my responsibility to pay for your little rug-rats! I got my own rug-rats, that I pay for by the way...because they are my responsibility... I don't ask you to pay for mine, don't expect the reverse. I already pay for their education... you want me to pay for their diapers too?

To the woman who just had octuplets on top of 6 other kids, you ought to be slapped. Single, unemployed, on assistance with six kids, you don't need fertility treatments, you need a psychiatrist. You want 14 kids, that's fine... my Grandmother had 13 (that lived, she actually had 17)... but you know what? The government didn't pay for them! Did you pay for the fertility treatments out of your own pocket? Did you pay for the team of 46 doctors and nurses and four delivery rooms? I seriously doubt it since you were on food stamps. You are the classical example of irresponsible behavior... and guess what? If your movie of the week deal falls through... who's paying for the kids? We are!

Contemplate this too.... if you weren't single with six kids and living at home with your grandmother, she might not be $24K in arrears and facing foreclosure. Not on Welfare? You receive SSI and Food stamps.... what do you think welfare is? No income? Who paid for your $100,000 in fertility treatments? You managed to save a lot of money working double-shifts? What living in your grandmothers house for free while she goes in arrears and faces foreclosure? Aren't you a doll. Who is going to pay the 2.1 Million dollars the government estimates that it costs to raise 14 kids to 17? Oh yeah... Student Loans... let me know how that works out for you after announcing it on national TV.

Well... that's enough ranting and raving for one night... we'll have to cover other topics in society and the stimulus bill later.

Cheers!

~Finntann~