Do Not Blame Barack

American Thinker ^ | October 04, 2009 | Selwyn Duke

[CitizenUSA]

I’m not young or rich, but I’d give up social security. Even at this late date, I’d rather have my future contributions to invest as I see fit, to own them completely and be able to give them to my children as inheritance.

However, the author is right. We’ve been on this road a long, long time. Americans sacrificed their freedom for security a long time ago, and soon, I suspect, we’ll have neither.

[mlizzy]

"... my husband always tells me to avoid three topics of conversation - politics, religion, and sports ..."

What else is there? :)

And your efforts are helping both mother and child; imagine the joy on the face of Christ.

[bogusname]

That was an excellent article. Thanks for posting it.

[dfwgator]

" I think he's got beautiful legs!"

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed. Thanks for the ping!

[Logophile]

I would gladly give up Social Security AND Medicare. Just return the money stolen from my paychecks over the last 40 years. Do that and we’re square.

That would be nice, but the money is long gone. At this point, I would be happy if the government were simply to stop stealing any more from my paychecks.

[latina4dubya]

At this point, I would be happy if the government were simply to stop stealing any more from my paychecks.

yes... i too would be willing to cut my losses...

[notdownwidems]

We also have to ask how serious most Americans really are about respecting the Constitution. Here's a little test for them: Are you willing to give up your Social Security in the name of constitutional adherence?

Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes! Simply allow me to stop subsidizing other's retirement NOW, and you can keep the thousands and thousands of dollars I have already contributed but will probably never see. Allow me to plan for my own retirement, with a low-level security blanket in place for the truly needy and unfortunate in our society, and not those who would simply gorge from the public trough, and I will happily go on my way...but alas, I fear too many Americans have already been converted to the 'government as benefactor' meme

[PigRigger]

"Yet, to be blunt, Obama doesn't alarm me as much as the average American...."

President Obama is a symptom....the electorate is the root cause...

That this man was elected the leader of the free-world is something the scares the living you know what out of me....

[Logophile]

"Givning up" Social Security isn't a choice. There is no money. "Giving up" Medicare won't be a choice either.

You are right. We hear people talk about "saving" Social Security or Medicare, but there is nothing to save. The money has been spent. The trust funds are no more real than the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus.

I have been posting for months that it reallyh doesn't matter if they "pass" a bill for Health Care they can't pay for it. We are at the point where we have no choice but to go back to the Constitution.

Alas, there is another choice: Turn to a Strong Man who promises to make everything right. I hope that Americans value their freedom too much to go down that road.

[BIGLOOK]

What we’ve known all along......ping

[BIGLOOK]

Your post on the eight we lost yesterday was bitingly true....

Ping to article.

[y6162]

“I believe, practically speaking, he is an evil man”

When the story comes out how the left conspired to crash the financial markets to get the Kenyan elected, the American people won’t think he’s so great.

[Zman516]

I hope you're right, but the sycophantic state-run media will make sure that story remains buried. For them it is always "Bush's fault!"

[neverdem]

Soulless zombies, LOL! They're quite animated for being soulless zombies.

The scary part of all this is that we are immersed in a war of survival against mindless, fundamentalist Islam while a political party which represents nearly half the electorate is dysfunctional.

It would be nice if the GOP could do more than leave things to Divine Providence and praise the Lord. The GOP needs to do more than just wait for the independents and moderates to become disenchanted with the left.

[nathanbedford]

The description, "soulless zombies" you understand was written some time ago and was intended not to describe a want of ambition or animation on the part of the left but to describe a moral condition.

I agree with your analysis of the Republicans of their responsibilities to the country to stop the democrats ruining the country. I have some hope that they are at last finding their soul. It might be that they just have nothing more to lose.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link!

[katykelly]

for later

[Mind-numbed Robot]

And as true as “white on rice” :)

He called a spade a spade.

:-)

[MNJohnnie]

Because they represent the leading edge of a psychic nihilism in which facts and values are deadweights be abandoned on the trail toward today's new thing.

Do you see the corresponding response in the Right commentators and pundits that I see?

I think the current fascination with Libertarianism manifesting itself in some Talk Radio and Right of center bloggers is response to this. Trapped in a similar physic cage, they have fixed on a political nihilism.

The philopshy manifested by these hosts and bloggers seems to be "the only good government is no Government"