Did YOU think it was gonna get this bad???

I tend to think catastrophically (“oh, this’ll be a DISASTER!!”), and KNOW that, so I try to calm myself down when a disaster-in-the-making seems headed in my direction. Over 99% of the time, the TIDAL WAVE  I was bracing for turned out to be a  boat wake that got my sneakers wet and inconvenienced my cat. So, the Obama phenomenon has been a whole new experience for me, emotionally. Let me explain.

I am always prepared to be disgusted at Democratic candidates in general. The Democrats, as a rule (1% of them excepted) tend to want to throw taxes, regulations and new government agencies at problems. When that fails, they pile on MORE tax money and regulations, and a BIGGER agency, or bring in another, already-created agency to “assist”, with predictable, resulting inefficiencies. Government agencies as a whole are inefficient,slow,corrupt,FOREVER,glacierlike in their speed to reacting to new realities,and burn money like it’s just paper (which it pretty much IS, nowadays). Democrats have yet to see that. They STILL have absolute faith in the ability of a big-enough, monied-enough government to solve EVERY problem, meet EVERY need,and the fact that  the United States government has so far miserably failed to bring about paradise on earth means that the taxes aren’t high enough, the government isn’t big enough, what’s worse, the EUROPEANS are therefore jealous of us, and so the government MUST get bigger and more intrusive into its citizens’ lives, and MUST squeeze MORE taxes out of those with some income who are not in a protected group. And they talk and behave as if “change” and “progress”, in and of themselves, are absolute goods, as if  to “keep on keepin’ on” is totally UNACCEPTABLE, whether it is right and works, or not. As if “going back to what works” is UNPARDONABLY TERRIBLE.

I saw that Obama was black, and was ALMOST willing to vote for him just for that. (I myself am white,female, and an Army veteran.) I am a lifelong conservative, though, and a patriot, with a particular soft spot for the military (having been in it). From that point of view, I felt that skin color was secondary to “the content of [a man's] character” in electing him for any public office,ESPECIALLY the presidency, where he will be the chief executive of the most powerful nation on earth. I didn’t like what I saw of Obama’s character. He’s good-looking,only in his 40s,has a nice smile, a charming personality,an impressive speaking voice,a slim wife who dresses well and has a HUGE smile…and that was about the end of the positives. I NEVER heard him talk publicly about what SPECIFIC policies he planned to put in place as the president. His speeches were well put-together, but devoid of any real information or sharing of himself, his goals, where he planned to lead us. He used the words “hope” and “change” a lot, without describing at all what change he MEANT, or what he hoped FOR. I saw him avoid saluting the flag, I heard some of the stupid things he said, like blaming ALL our fiscal problems on President BUSH alone,and I turned against voting for him, especially when I found out how pro-abortion he is and has been,not wanting his daughters to be “punished” by a baby. I found out further about all the funny business in Chicago, and saw how several of his friends and financial backers are or have been in prison, about Reverend Wright, and other things. I also saw how the media were practically SLOBBERING over him, “tingles up my leg” and all,and were AWOL in their responsibilities to actually INVESTIGATE this man that wanted to be President, and stayed silent while Hillary Clinton was practically hounded from her own Presidential campaign. What’re they trying to PULL? I thought, very uneasily. It further disgusted me that the press allowed hinm to turn them into his own PR staff, obviously setting himself up for photo and video ops that they fawningly turned out for. His lack of openness about himself and his plans and goals as president, they totally ignored.

 The GOP, as if trying to help him win, managed to put up the worst GOP candidate in history, with their “open primaries”. The “moderates” and “undecideds” voted for McPain in the primaries, giving us the worst candidate possible, then voted for OBAMA on election day.

The Wall Street “collapse” looked a little too conveniently timed to me,especially given that “Wall Street” had given Obama several TIMES as much money as they had McCain. It seemed obvious to me that they were gonna get him into the White House so that their “investment” would PAY OFF. History has shown that when a financial downturn occurs a few weeks or months before the election, the voting public ALWAYS blames it on the sitting President and his Party,and vote for the OTHER Party’s candidates. Wall Street KNEW that, so they engineered a “collapse” to ensure an Obama victory. I was a little comforted when Charles Krauthammer said the same thing on TV.

I read some uncomfortable info about Obama BEFORE the election,both on the Internet and in books, and watched Fox News, the only news outlet on TV that WAS checking into Obama’s politics and background, and a sick dread of what I knew was coming gripped me. Obama’s politics and background made him an obviously VERY poor choice for president. I would hear, again and again, that he said something REALLY stupid, childish or evil, and would not believe it, then someone would email a YouTube link about it, and I could see and hear Obama saying it,IN CONTEXT. Even so, they kept calling him a “rock star”, and crowds ACTED like he was one. Oprah openly campaigned for him, and said on her show after he was elected how happy she was. She called him “The One” after the Messiah-type guy in “The Matrix”, and millions of people who had forgotten that “The Matrix” was only a fictional MOVIE  picked up on her enthusiasm, and bought Obama as enthusiastically as they ever had “Oprah’s Club” books. THAT was scary, that a popular and powerful, billionaire Hollywood celebrity and businesswoman could virtually pick the President she wanted by encouraging millions of mindless fans to follow her and vote for him. I braced myself for the disaster that would be Election Day,2008.

I was disgusted almost as much by McCain. He had been all for open borders, and it had taken an ENORMOUS public outcry to defeat the idea in Congress, and he was angry about it still, and I was pretty sure that he’d open the borders as president. He voted AGAINST the marriage amendment, and he wasn’t the strongest pro-lifer ever, either. He seemed pretty erratic in his politics, too, His “maverick” status, so admired by the media, disgusted me. In my experience, the maverick is the person who will not commit to a side, or to a group of like-minded people, but wants to be a maverick because  he only wants to be for HIMSELF. Like  a HIPPIE, always “expressing myself”. His “straight talk” too often was ill-conceived, off-the-cuff remarks that he later had to apologize for. Also, he was known for being bad-tempered and for calling names and swearing at people who disagreed with him. He behaved as if he thought that NOBODY who disagreed with him could POSSIBLY have good ideas OR good motives, they were all either idiots, lying, or corrupt. His only real firm stands were pro-McCain and pro-illegal immigrants.He”crossed the aisle to get things done” so much that they had a SEAT saved for him, and tried to use that as a selling point to get himself elected president.Not the kind of man I wanted in the White House. “Getting things done” in Washington is NOT a Constitutional requirement, or even a virtue,in fact, the less they DO do, the better off  The People are, as a rule.

So, there I was, almost literally worried SICK when Obama won. What would the “unknown devil” DO? And it has been an emotional HORROR  for me, ever since. I awake,and check the news, and DAILY, he says or does something ELSE that is spectacularly ill-informed, misinformed, stupid,evil,or Communistic. Or a BUNCH of things. I am worried about the rubber-stamp Congress, the flouting of my Constitutional rights, about my tax burden, about funding my retirement, about LIVING  that long (if I can survive socialized medicine),about life for my grandchildren with the “public service” bill that’s been proposed and includes “service” for CHILDREN, and the huge public debt THEY will have to “service”. I am worried about us conservative bloggers being “scrubbed” and our posts being rejected,about the parade of NON-Christianity in the federal government and what it might mean to Christian churches in this country,about the simultaneous TRIPLING of the federal debt, expansion of “work-free” welfare and shrinkage of the military, of Obama’s demonstrated ineptitude in conducting foreign policy and ignorance/denial of the existence of IslamoNazism, the list is LOTS longer, and grows almost DAILY.

I am disgusted at how he STILL won’t be open. Where’s the “TRANSPARENCY”??? He never explains ANYTHING, or answers any questions off the cuff. He stutters and stammers and can’t even put together a sensible sentence WITHOUT a TelePrompter. A FIVE YEAR OLD would have handled the visit from PM Brown better than Obama did. The press has also been strangely non-critical about his announcement that he would 0nly allow the WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER to take photos in the White House,and that only those photos that were passed by Obama himself would be allowed to be published.

Who IS his handler?? MICHAEL MOORE?????

Did YOU think it would get this bad?? I must say, it is MASSIVELY  WORSE than I ever really thought POSSIBLE.

A universal truth

Nature hates duplication!!! There are endless proofs of this.  Several come to mind;1) When a broken bone is set in a splint or cast to get it to heal, it DOES heal, usually, but when the cast or splint comes off, it is seen that the limb thus supported has lost significant muscle mass and strength, because the cast was supporting the limb in position and the muscles, no longer needed in that role,and not being exercised, either, began to disappear. 2) When we begin habitually nagging at ANYONE, we find that we must do it more and more,because, as we act as a “crank”, the person’s “self-starter” erodes and disappears.

A wise application of this would be that we should generally avoid doing things for people-friends,our children, coworkers, family, relatives, the poor, ANYONE, that they could do for themselves. People who are in the helping professions learn this, and the rest of us need to learn it, too. The more we do for other people unneccessarily, the more helpless they become. That is why the welfare system is so bad.Otherwise able-bodied, mentally normal people who find that they can get enough food, adequate shelter, and pocket money from the government, in return for just filling out the proper forms and submitting proof of poverty,will eventually lose their drive to earn those things on their own, it’s simply “nature hates duplication” in human form. If the government is doing the worrying about physically supporting Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones can worry about other things. It becomes, eventually, that horror known as “learned helplessness”, where people become convinced that they can’t take care of themselves, and need the government to support them, or they will quite literally lose their home, starve and die. This is the aim of socialism, it seems, in America and elsewhere.Just convince  American employees that they are incapable of planning adequately for retirement and so the government will “give” them Social Security, and they will not even try to save anything towards retirement (“I am entitled to Social Security, after all”). Then, later, when anyone whispers that the SS program cannot survive in its current form for too much longer, hear the screams of the retired and nearly retired, terrified that they will starve and die if the program is scrapped, or even altered in any way. They will feel compelled by their fear to vote for whatever politician or administration will protect them from the heartless people who want to change things and kill them. Politicians are aware of this, and the Democrat ones tend to be the ones who keep peddling the “you vote for me, and I’ll take care of you, poor thing” pablum. Selling fear and helplessness, and being reelected for it

Social Security,Medicare, socialism and the welfare system have also weakened families wherever they have been tried. Remember, nature hates duplication! For much of human history, families,all over the world, in countless cultures, while imperfect, have tended toward caring for their own elderly family members,and to their sick ones. In America, for many years, people who could afford to (there were many, even in the middle class) had houses built with room for the extended family to live together, with several generations under one roof, children being raised around old people, all generations benefitting. Single family houses boomed after WWII, though, and”old folks homes” proliferated, and it became first possible (the government chipped in), then socially acceptable, to shuffle off the grandparents to the local warehouse for the no-longer-young-and-able and abandon them to “expert professional care”. With their Social Security checks, they didn’t need the kids’ money, and eventually retirement villages sprang up, where children aren’t even allowed, except as visitors, and grandparents can “live independently”, supported by government  benefits, paid for by strangers, instead of by their children. So it is here. In France, the old, supported by government largesse, are so thoroughly abandoned by their families that thousands of old French died in a heat wave there several years ago. The heat wave hit during the national month of vacation, and the adult childen couldn’t be bothered to interrupt their family vacation long enough to check their old parents and be sure they were OK. The government was supposed to do that, too, presumably.

The way to strength is to AVOID this duplication, and help people understand that they CAN support themselves, now and later, they don’t NEED government programs, that the government can only give away the money it gets from EVERYONE ELSE,  and that the more we do OURSELVES, the happier and richer we make ourselves.

This is NOT to say that we should NEVER help others, but we do need the wisdom to help them ONLY with the things they CANNOT do or get for themselves, and leave them the dignity of providing for THEMSELVES whatever they can.