Am I Alice? Is this Wonderland?

Just when I feel as if the view of our world, our nation cannot possibly get any more skewed, I open up the paper and read an report with comments from Democratic Senator Keith Ellison of Minnesota.  Mr. Ellison claims that Americans should embrace working less, and that in working less hours we will have more time with our families, the ability to eat dinner at our dining room tables and the ability to cook at home and not worry about grabbing take out in our rush home in the evenings.

I had to sit and ponder, have I slipped through a rabbit hole? A worm hole?  Does he believe this nonsense he is spouting? Does the public believe this crap being shoved down our throat?  If so your children and my children will look back and ponder at the madness that we are allowing ourselves to be duped by.

Less hours at work will mean very little to the family who sits down to a barren empty dinner table.  Retiring when working and living paycheck to paycheck is but a fleeting vision for many American households.  Increasing your public welfare programs, the largest which is the Ponzi scheme of Obamacare, and the increasing tax burdens being place on Americans backs leads me to agree with Mr. Ellison on one thing. That yes Americans will have less working hours and more hours to sit and wonder how it all went so wrong, thoughts of what we once had, and what we now need, food for our families, a good paying job that brings self worth and pride, creature comforts, home ownership, you know all the little things that are being stripped from Americans on a daily basis, the lists go on and on. Oh the hours we will have free to dwell on those things. 

The criminals and fools who will continue to bleat out this propaganda should be ashamed. The remainder of the elected officials who sit quietly while pretending to faintly bleat out small protests and continue to feed off the conservative voting base, you will also be held responsible.  Prepare to join all the happy folk who love not working more hours who love sitting back and thinking of what was.  I see your future and it looks UNEMPLOYED.

 

Explanations…. Reasons

So why change careers or pursue a career as a political consultant or advisor??  I feel most people want to make a difference in the world, no matter who or where we are….  I have always tired to have a positive impact on those around me, but I went and saw the movie Lone Survivor opening night, (which by the way was excellent)… however when leaving the theater I could only think of two things.

One, what wonderful, heroic, inspirational men whom gave their lives, the ultimate sacrifice for their nation, their brothers, their families.

And then two…. a righteous indignation and anger welled up as I thought of those very men, their surviving families and the emotional, spiritual and financial struggles that they must have gone and may currently be going thru… Meanwhile the pompous out of touch politicians who sit on their asses in Washington, as well as their home states, just CUT, CUT Survivor benefits, retiree benefits.

So comparison for you to sit back and think about this

A US senator earns $174,000 per year to do what you ask:  negotiate and broker deals that will get them re-elected so that they can then turn around and earn a pension once they retire from the Senate, ( which usually being able to run for senator means you have a nice back up job where you earn a nice salary or maybe have been born to a family of privilege that has helped pay the way to your elected status)  Now there are exceptions to a few elected officials who have gotten to where they are by hard ethical moral work. But I would just note, they are being wined, dined, dressed, primped and propped before us to create a career out of making decisions for you the tax payer.

In comparison a Navy Seal salary varies based on time, bonuses and other issues, however most will never see $174,000 a year and even if they did, those salaries and benefits are threatened all the time by the smug self satisfied politician who most likely would be unable to jog even a mile with these heroes.  See they don’t have desk jobs, they have to stay in peak physical, mental condition are constantly training, being sent away from their families, risking their lives to save ours.

So you ask why I feel the need to clean out the White House, to elect people who don’t look at politics as a career choice, but as a duty to the American people, where they can go and make decisions that are best for their constituents and for the nation, not whats best for their party rivalry… the big college game of Republican vs Democrat that keeps the people pitted against each other while the very people who encourage this, work behind closed doors as one, united in the destruction of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The overbearing, overreaching creeping laws passed each year slowly erode all of the very things our nation were founded on.

I change career focus not for me, but for my nation, my fellow citizens and for the very foundation of what this great Nation was founded on.  We risk all if we continue to let these blowhards decide how we are to live.  There is no future in large government, take a look at Detroit, California any city where government has grown to gargantuan size and see where that has gotten them.  Crime, poverty, bankruptcy…. the list goes on and on so why should we let them continue on their socialist communist pathway?  Its time the patriots re-claim the common sense that has somewhere lost its way.