Freedom Isn't Free (How Stupid Are We?)

Right now millions of Americans are standing around the water cooler, talking at the gym, grabbing a fast bite to eat or a coffee and talking with someone else about how bad the economy is, how stupid and worthless congress is, how greed perverts people at the top of many corporations and whether or not either of the two Presidential nominees has the ability to take on the economy, health care, American energy independence or this nations defense in January.

Well folks, it’s time that we... that is you, me, I, us, take a stand and realize that WE are the government. We send our tax dollars to Washington as well as the legislators, the lobbyists, the bankers, the lawyers, the corporations, etc. You see every time we gripe or complain and ask someone to do something for, to or about a cause, we are asking for the government to do something about it. That action has some validity to it of course but it also brings many problems with it.

Take the concept of government run, nationalized health care for instance. In England they pay HUGE taxes plus 9% from every paycheck to have government run health care and their system is NOT solvent. Nor is their life expectancy any higher, the same goes for Cuba, Russia, and a ton of other countries. It is NOT making a profit. It cannot, does not and never will be able to sustain itself. "Government run and government provided nationalized health care" will run on our money, yours and mine.

Why in the world would we want it to? Why are WE asking the government to take care of much of anything with our tax dollars other than anything that relates back to our overall national transportation, food, drug, personal safety and national defense? Seriously... why should I pay for someone else's health care that could pay for it themselves and has not hit on hard times due to disability, job loss, etc? To me that is what tax dollars are there to help with is a physical or financial emergency and I am NOT talking about emergency surgery. I am talking about disaster relief as it can have an impact on everyone’s safety.

For those who have never thought of it in simple terms lay me spell it out for you... anything from the government is NOT FREE!

Someone... that means, you, me, your relatives, your friends, you neighbors, and yes even people you don't like have to pony up and pay for whatever the government spends... and oh my how they spend. They spend even when they don't have money, then they either want us to pay more in higher taxes and fees, or they simply get China, Japan or Saudi Arabia to prop up the money they start printing in mass.

They have spent us dry, there is nothing more to give, our representatives on both sides of the aisle (minus a few exceptions) have continued to deficit spend day after day after day and we are letting them, what in the hell are WE thinking?

Would anyone of us give between 30%, 40%, or 50% of our paycheck to our kids if they came to us and told us they were going to spend it on something useless like crack or so they could buy an illegal handgun so they could go enjoy a game of russian roulette with Johnnie and Suzy down the street?

In light of what is going on in the financial markets, which are "overseen" by Congress, in light of the mess Social Security, Veterans Hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid are in, and in light of how wasteful our government is in regards to spending our money, why in the hell are we asking the government to provide national health care? More than that... why should WE even dream of asking them do it with OUR money?

Have we all become THAT weak minded to trust an over-bloated government full of inefficient, ineffective, liars, cheats and thieves to "fix" health care, when it is their overzealous regulatory standards and the allowance of ridiculous lawsuits which got us to this point in the first place?

Look folks, "Freedom Isn't Free" I know that, and we all have to a part to play in the betterment of society and each of has to contribute financially in some way, but why are WE so willing to run out in front of a bus and get run over like a bunch of blind lemmings just because some idiot from Washington stands up in front of a teleprompter and says "the government is not doing enough for you, I will do this or that for you, vote for me and I will give you this or that!"

The government does not "gives us" anything that we don't already pay for... why in the world are we not demanding to keep more of our own money and tell the government officials who are not doing a good job to go home and find a new line of work?

We can buy affordable health care already and we could buy more of it and be better insured if the government stepped out of it and allowed the private sector and the market to dictate the need, bigger and more government just leads to more waste.

The government is in the red, they don't do anything to make a profit and reduce our taxes; we are all being ripped off each day by a bunch of billionaires and millionaires in DC.

What are our options? Write our legislators? Withhold withholding? Storm the capitol?

The first gets us very little. People are too scared of the government to do the others. So what can we do that will stop the corruption now, before they do irrevocable damage?

Pretty damn stupid ... and they would be right.

They do think we're stupid and to an extant they are right. What they are counting on though, is fear. We are, as a whole, too afraid to do anything about them. They have bought their votes to keep them in office.

I want them out. All of them. Let's start over. But. Who will carry the pitchforks and buckets of tar and feathers with me?

Not enough. I am tired of these people and their complete lack of understanding of what they were elected to do. It was not to spend money it was to govern. That concept has long since atrophied. Their sole purpose on life is to spend money to buy enough votes to stay in power.

GAAAACK! I am sick to death of politicians.

This pretty much sums it up, any suggestions on how do we go about fixing it??

“That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

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