Part I

3-25-09
Republicans, Democrats, Constitution, Media, celebrities, Organized Religion, the Founding Fathers, Socialism, Democracy…All bull shit!
Today’s biggest topic of discussion is the new health bill that the president just signed into law. Some say it is a big step towards socialism others say it’s about time the government take care of its people. Well let me ask each of you this, why does the government owe you a damn thing?
What did you do to “earn” anything from the government? Are you a tax paying, law abiding citizen that votes each time you are asked to? Do you volunteer at the local orphanage or homeless shelter? So you do all of that and you think that obligates the government to give you a hand out? Too many people think they are owed some kind of living. I burnt my lip on hot coffee so the business owes me. I have carpal tunnel in my hands because I decided to work on computers for a living, so my company owes me. What happened to the pay checks you have been getting for the work you did? What happened to the health benefits you got because of the job you did there? What happened to FREE WILL??? I find it totally convenient that we (Yes even me) sit around and watch TV every night, we see that someone has committed a crime and is sentenced to many years in prison and we say, “Well they got what they deserved. They choose to do that, no one forced them!” but we turn around and tell our employers, “Although I choose to participate in this job for most of my life, you owe me!” I will say it again…YOU CHOOSE TO DO IT, NO ONE FORCED YOU!
If you are speeding in your car and get a ticket, why not sue the car manufacturer for making a car that can drive over the speed limit? You spend $40 to watch a movie in a theater that you find to be horrible and a complete waste of time; why not sue the movie production company for producing a substandard movie that wasted 2hrs of your life? I bought a blanket that I thought would look good with my living room furniture. It was soft and it was thick. I remember thinking to myself that I couldn’t wait to get home and snuggle up on my couch with this warm blanket and watch TV. When I got home, the power had shut off because of the blizzard, my couch had a spring that came through the cushion into my butt and this blanket I bought wasn’t half as comfortable as I thought it would be. Maybe I should have sued the electric, furniture and blanket companies for all that I experienced that day!
Stupid right? Then why is it that when things go wrong or we develop an illness, we automatically try to place blame? I’ll tell you why, it’s because none of us have any sense of responsibility.
We have turned this world into a place where no one is responsible for their own actions or decisions. This makes everyone feel better about themselves. Kind of like how we got rid of “Failing” Grades and the “Losing” teams. Heaven forbid we allow ourselves to see ourselves in any other kind of light than “Perfect” or “Victimized”. When I was in school, I was a failure from 6th grade on. All I had on my mind was girls. But I didn’t kill myself or others. I never committed a crime or violated someone else’s right to live, prosper and exist on this earth. In fact, I think I turned out pretty good. But we want our children to grow up feeling like they are “Good” and “Decent” people. We “Time out” instead of “Punish” our children. Well I want all of you parents out there to hear these words… The REAL world doesn’t do “Time Out” for your adult children when they are being bad. The REAL world punishes them.” I tried to explain to some friends that it is very important that parents learn how to “Punish” their children while they are at home. Some of them said to me that “Time Out” is their “way of taking the child out of the “Bad situation”, thus giving the child a moment of pause to reflect upon what they just experienced.” My father told me once that I was found under a rock, but I am quite certain that he is wrong and I did actually experience a childhood in a normal, middle class family in suburbia America; and I can tell you that when my parents put me in “Time out” (Most of you would remember that as “Go to your room and think about what you did!”), all I could ever think about was; what can I say to get out of this prison faster? What will I do when I get out? Are my friends still outside? No child sits in “Time out” or “Their room” and say’s to themselves, “Oh man! My parents are so disappointed in me! This is breaking my heart! I can’t believe I hurt them so.” If you think that happens, especially now that they all have cell phones that turn into IPODS with digital TV and Internet, then you have really missed the boat.
We are, and have been, facilitating a society filled with adults and children that feel entitled. We want what we want when we want it. And if we don’t get it, then we act out. But at no time do we accept any responsibility for any of it. We point the finger at everyone and everything else and accept nothing.
Funny how we are not responsible for anything, but we demand everything. I wonder how many of you think you could get paid for a job, or even hold one down if you applied the same ideals at your place of employment.
Then there are those that want to place blame on the government. Government has gotten too big, they are to partisan and they have lost touch with their citizens. How many times have we heard?
” A little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” – Thomas Jefferson
Or how about…
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas Jefferson
We are under the impression that because these quotes exist that we are somehow safe from government. We believe the tyrant to be the government. The government is the reason why our society has become so entitled. “It takes a village…” is always the example used when discussing how the government is interfering in our livelihood. And the Republicans are doing nothing but using our military to further line their pockets with more and more money. At the same time we sit and complain that the two parties are so busy voting on party lines to get anything accomplished. The Senate, Congress…the entire government is too busy fighting each other over their affiliations to do any work for the country. I guess in that way they are no different than the Blood’s and Crip’s.