Posted on 03/27/2010 11:55:57 AM PDT by dvan
So where can we go?
My husband and I are only in our late 40’s and are tired too for the very same reasons. We’re also tired of thugs and the leaches of society being bused around and paid to attend rallies to steal more of our money!!!! Grrrrr!!!!
We like to spend a little on our daughter and grandchildren but have less and less to spend on them. It is a crying shame that we can’t spend our own money as we choose because our government confiscates our hard earned dollars and gives it to bums. Not only do the bums suck everything away from our own families they take away from the elderly and infirm. Pathetic!
God Bless you Carley.... I admire your spirit.
I am 28 years old and I FEEL tired. I have served 4 tours in Iraq and I'm a Purple Heart recipient.
While I receive my money from many others on here, I try to ensure they get their money worth; an honest day's pay, for an honest day's work. I'm not rich, and I often feel embarassed by some of the incentives to be in the military; knowing that many who provide the capital for these "benefits" cannot enjoy their luxuries.
Some say that it is well deserved based on the sacrafice, and that may be true, but no one has forced us to sign the line.
What is tiring is those that expect more and more and more without providing anything in return. What is tiring is watching friends and brothers all losing their lives and being maimed while being derided at home as Mr. Hall pointed out. Being smeared in the press and from the floors of Kongress by the likes of John Murtha and John F'N Kerry.
It is sickening watching these sacrafices in the name of freedom in some third world country while the entitlement class strips freedoms from the American citizens. It is tiring to watch those that have never known the meaning of sacrafice take their freedoms for granted; at least those in Iraq (countrary to what you see on TV) relish their freedom, understand the sacrafices of both Iraqis and Americans.... and even with less opportunities, modern advances, and infrastructure have LESS voter fraud than the US.
It is tiring watching family members cling to jobs; watching their pay get cut, on top of cuts to their hours. Not to mention watching their 401ks lose 50% of its vlue and face the threat of gov't takeover of their 401k.
It is tiring watching the pols turn America into the Europe our Forefathers left, and our relatives fought to prevent (Hitler, Mussolini etc).
It is tiring watching the pols use the military for social experimentation.
I have had the oportunity to travel the world. I have seen socialism in action. It isn't pretty. Dirty streets, entire cities crammed into apartment buildings with communal kitchens and phone lines, run down hospitals, rolling blackouts, non-potable drinking water, roads that deteriorate to nothing within miles of the capital cities, total dependancy on the government. Yet, this is what is touted as the model for the US.
Travel to any country outside of the US and UK. The locals will fixate on some piece of infrastrucure...say a subway system, or airport.... you will hear the words "it is very modern." Doesn't matter the country, you will hear this. Why? Because nothing else measures up to the advances of the US, so in order to feel on par they point out one or two items as a matter of pride. And usually, it is still of lesser quality or of a smaller scale than what you'd fnd in the US. Yet, they are our models...? Someone once said that war is just God's way of teaching Americans geography; perhaps liberalism is just God's way of teaching Americans about the terrors of socialim and the blessings of our heritage.
While you are many moons my senior, like you Carley, I have just began to fight I just hope that I will still have that same drive at that age.... I gotta live that long first.
Age catches up to you, even if you keep in shape.
Its its a personal choice. I like southeast asia myself. Others I know like south americas.
It depends on your lever of risk tolerance, health and independence.
Your statement is so true about “this has been going on for quite a while now in government.” I clearly recall a statement made at the time, was it Texas Gov. Connolly (the guy in the car with Prez. Kennedy when he was assassinated)got shot?) The statement way back then...early 60’s, was, “If the American people knew what went on in Congress, there would be another revolution.”
Last month I decided to retire in three months instead of three years. I have been walking on air since then. I am looking forward to living life on my terms. Praise the Lord.
“I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.”
I’d like to hear the author’s story on that one.
(I’m 62 now and I voted for Bush in 2000; my brain was still functioning correctly.)
The thanks are all to you for serving our country.
No giving up. We’re all here to hold you in our prayers and more if you need it.
Thanks again.
Must have managed your money poorly.
I stopped reading when he indicated he voted for algore.
But as far as who those entitlement programs hurting minorities the most, I'd say the hurt is spread around pretty evenly.
Ditto that. My wife and I are 58 and we are absolutely fed up and sick of all the crap the author listed in his fine essay. And yet it gets worse and worse every day and, even when Republicans control both houses and the Presidency, it still gets worse. And it is going to really spiral into the toilet the next five years unless we get conservatives elected that begin pushing back on all of this.
Too bad he voted for Gore in 2000. He probably also voted for Obama.
Our spiritual and political enemies want nothing more than to tire us out and demoralize us.
I'm not going to give them that satisfaction.
Amen.
Of course it is...Ya got all these people sticking out their chests, saying how their going to "fight" and bla bla bla....They haven't realized they've been losing the war for decades? They didn't notice they had their asses handed to them by an ever-expanding, all controlling corrupt government, years ago?
They stood gawking at their bloated government as it turned their sovereign legitimate borders into a chaotic lawless violent invasion, and then forced the tax paying suckers to pay for it, as the middle class standard of living nosed dived?
The pissed off tax payers now stand around their emergency rooms, behind 125 Mexicans and their anchor babies, all babbling in Spanish, waiting to see if their tired elder, who just lost his job, was going to survive his stress induced heart attack...
They they failed to notice thousands of American companies moving overseas to low wage Communist China while their neighbors were left jobless and twisting in the wind, as they looked for bargains at Wal-Mart...
They didn't notice the wall street insiders attending private parties, as they stood around drinking, laughing, winking and nodding, admiring at maps of Red China...
Profits regardless of consequences.....
Everyone failed to notice their kids were graduating after 12 years of public government schools, stupid with no skills other than texting and eating.
They failed to notice government at all levels was infiltrated by controlling "Homeowner association" types, that only wanted to control their businesses, private lives and their every move.
They just didn't notice the private sector workers, now on their knees, with millions of government employee bureaucrats clinging to their backs, refusing to let go...
see my sn
ditto to 63, tired and P_____ Offed...
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