Posted on 03/23/2009 10:02:23 AM PDT by dvan
Guess you heard that 68% of "the youth vote" went to Obama. My granddaughter called this morning to tell me she was one of them. I replied with this e-mail:
The election of Obama comes down to this. Your grandmother and I, your mother and other productive wage-earning taxpayers will have their taxes increased and that means less income. Less income means we will have to cut back on basic purchases, gifts and handouts.
That includes firing the Hispanic lady who cleans our house twice a month. She just lost her job. We can't afford her anymore.
What is the economic effect of Obama's election on you personally? Over the years, your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in food, housing, cash, clothing, gifts, etc., etc.
By your vote, you have chosen another family over ours for help. So in the future, if you need assistance with your rent, money for gas, tires for your car, someone to bring you lunch, etc....call 202-456-1111. That's the telephone number for the Office of the President of the United States .
I'm sure Mr.Obama will be happy to send a check from his personal or business accounts or leave cash in an envelope taped to his front door.
It's like this. Those who vote for the president should consider what the impact of an election will be on the nation as a whole and not just be concerned with what they can get for themselves (welfare, etc.). What Obama voters don't seem to realize is that the government's money comes from taxes collected from taxpaying families. Raising taxes on productive people means they will have less money to spend on their families.
Congratulations on your choice. For future reference, you might attempt to add up all you've received from us, your mom, Mike's parents and others and compare it to what you expect to get over the next four years from Mr. Obama.
To congratulate Mr. Obama and to make sure you're on the list for handouts, write to:
The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington , DC 20500
Love you, but call the number listed above when you need help.
Granddad
I voted for Reagan!
You're not thinking far enough ahead. After the government gets through with the health care system, you'd thank the Good Lord Above if you had a vet or two in the family. I've got two and it's one of the few positive I've got left.
My teacher’s tried to brainwash me also. However, my parents taught me enough about patriotism and thinking for myself that the lunatics never were able to get a foothold in my brain.
Those are best saved for PMs, no? Remember adm0dz see all...
Let’s add the USA Olypic hockey team in ‘80. I still remember those college kids running the Red Army players through the glass every time the pinkos even thought about going near the puck and the crowd chanting USA USA USA USA.
Thank you for reminding me about that glorious moment.
Al Michaels immortal call still send a tingle down my leg!!!
“My daughter just turned 18 and registered as a Democrat.”
There is a cure for this idiocy. Tell her that she is henceforth working her way through college.
“I voted for the cool black guy so I could be part of history.”
... and that attitude by the way comes from being brainwashed by PC academics whose version of history consists of the feminist and civil rights movements as the most important thing in US history. Nothing like ignorance to turn citizens into sheep.
“Wow-I was just about to chime in when I read your post. Well said. I was 14 in ‘79 and was already more of a man then Carter. Then came Reagan. Never looked back. Once.
Let’s add the USA Olypic hockey team in ‘80. I still remember those college kids running the Red Army players through the glass every time the pinkos even thought about going near the puck and the crowd chanting USA USA USA USA. “
Dittos on this.
A lot of us in the 30s to 50 ‘get it’ because we lived through the contrast between liberal incompetence and conservative leadership in our formative years.
the older fogey hippies are living in the 60s while the younger gen are living through the age of celebrity.
“Not me. I can’t ever remember a day when I thought like a liberal.”
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Amen. As far back as elementary school, ~30 years ago I knew I was conservative. I was 8 years old when Carter ran against Ford. I was so against Carter then. He wasn’t the worst president we have had but he is the worst ex-president.
Granted I don’t know all the Clinton has done. If I knew I’d probably think that Clinton was the worst. During Reagan as a 12-20 year old I was in heaven. I knew Reagan was not perfect. I didn’t expect it but compared to the last 20 years, Reagan was incredible.
I have never thought a Liberal thought in my life. I stand for Freedom, God, Family, Heritage. I will vote for freedom even if it is against what might otherwise benefit me.
So far 0bama is the worst president since...crap I don’t know when.
“When you were young, would you have voted for someone as old as your own grandfather? I don’t think so.”
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Guan-freekin-teed when I was 18 I would have NEVER voted for the current TOTUS. McCain stinks still but Palin was a dream.
“Let’s add the USA Olypic hockey team in ‘80. I still remember those college kids running the Red Army players through the glass every time the pinkos even thought about going near the puck and the crowd chanting USA USA USA USA.”
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I was running around the house as a 12 year old cheering and so nervous I couldn’t sit still.
How about the Reagan announced that the hostages were coming home. I get chills typing this 30 years later. Not the chills that that dork (whatever his name is) from CNN gets with 0bama.
Most of the youth vote boils down to this:
“I voted for the cool black guy so I could be part of history.”
Ah, the perversion of the God-given drive to be significant.
I wonder if they might be willing to be a part of history again in 2012 by voting for the cool lady from Alaska?
“I’m a firm believer that family is the most important thing in the world. I couldn’t trust a man who politics above family.”
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Family is so important but not to the extend I would not do everything I could to keep my children from hurting others. Liberalism hurts others. You don’t abandon family because of politics but you don’t have to accept it.
Truth and Freedom are the most important.
I teach my children that right now. Hopefully it will stick.
May my posterity forget I ever existed if I don’t fight for freedom.
Being a jerk isn't going to win hearts and minds. My oldest daughter was even more liberal than her mother when she was college aged. The cure was a family of her own. Had I been a complete dick about political disagreements, knowing her personality, she would have stubbornly clung to those liberal beliefs.
“The cure was a family of her own. “
It’s the same cure that I proposed: RESPONSIBILITY.
It’s something we are teaching our children early on, so they dont fall for liberalism’s snares.
You said it!
Since our IRA took a thumping and the future of our finances is not promising, we wiil have to tell our family that gifts will not be so lavish now.
No. No more gifts to them. "Your gift is knowing that Obama gave our resources to people who really needed it. No inheritance, either. Obama is giving it to someone whose great-great-great grandma was a slave."
Better yet, if he really wanted to help her, he'd give her basic lessons in American history and government, with an emphasis on the basic principles of liberty embodied in the Declaration and Constitution, principles about which O and his lefty friends don't give a darn.
“Obama is giving it to someone whose great-great-great grandma was a slave.”
Some how, I don’t worry about what happened to people’s ancestors. LOL My great greats probably lived in a cabin with snow coming in the cracks, covered up with flea infested furs, and eating roots for survival. Monticello would have looked good to them.
Alas, I don't think we are going to pull out of this tailspin.
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