Posted on 03/27/2010 11:55:57 AM PDT by dvan
I'm 63 and Im Tired" by Robert A. Hall
I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.
I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.
I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela .
I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.
I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.
I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.
I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.
I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.
I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.
I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois , where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet.
I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.
I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.
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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