| The Democrats want to extend unemployment | | | | the oil - getting lubrication before anyone else. |
| benefits once again and know they must do this | | | | Money for the unemployed has to come from |
| prior to election time - to buy those votes, and | | | | somewhere; Taxes. So, you want to enlist the |
| cater to their union supporters. But is that really | | | | government to take money from me to give to |
| what America should be doing? Consider if you will | | | | someone else, at the expense of my family. |
| the old; "Give a Man a Fish - Teach a Man to Fish" | | | | What gives you the right to hire the government |
| quotation and common sense principle if you will. | | | | by proxy to steal my money and then re-assign |
| Not long ago, I was having a conversation with an | | | | it? Hmm? |
| individual who was promoting the extension of the | | | | Have you ever read Milton and Marian Friedman's |
| 99-week unemployed, and when I explained I | | | | "Free to Choose," did you forget this is the United |
| disagreed completely with him, he stated | | | | States of America? This is not Greece, France, |
| something to the effect that he felt he'd hit a | | | | Germany, or any other god-forsaken socialist |
| nerve and lost my respect. Maybe he had and | | | | nation, this is the USA, we are the greatest nation |
| maybe he never had it, for folks who want to | | | | in the history of mankind. We should not be |
| continue unemployment indefinitely are not | | | | stealing from our citizens to give away their |
| generally on my speed-dial. So, I explained; | | | | money; not to buy votes for the masses, not to |
| Okay, but realize that respect is something that | | | | appease the angry mob, the same one you are |
| must be earned, and you can't lose something | | | | inciting. What gives you the right to tell |
| you never had. And one cannot expect respect | | | | government to steal my money, the money I |
| for something they are going to do in the future, | | | | had to work for. |
| only for past actions, endeavors, or | | | | It's time for people to go find a job, any job, |
| achievements. Rallying persnickety mobs of | | | | even if it means becoming under-employed and |
| humans in protests, activism, or marches is not | | | | not continue to tap into the financial reserves of a |
| about gaining respect, rather it's about protesting | | | | nation, or a state, which doesn't have the money |
| and threatening the leadership to get your way, | | | | in their coffers anyway. Please consider all that. |
| by attempting to be the squeaky wheel to get | | | | |