Same Old Thing..... Don't Fall For It

It's unfortunate that the so-called "Conservatives" (including Tea Baggers, Republicans, and whatever else) some of which that met in Washington this past week and others who have gone around the country for the entire past year (by the way, where were they two years ago, three years ago, five years ago, etc. We needed them then if they are actually sincere about being fiscally responsible.)These people are embracing the same old thing. The same old faces are always there: Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and we certainly will not ever forget, Ms. Ann Coulter. There's a whole host of other traditional Republican characters as well. These folks are very much part of the reason we are in the mess we're in right now. They have no interest whatsoever in the everyday working and/or small business operating responsible American. I heard Glenn Beck say something Saturday when he was speaking to the effect of " a struggling person must pull himself up by his own boot straps". What Mr. Beck does not consider is that fifteen years ago when he says he pulled himself up by his boot straps, boot straps were available to pull on. Thanks to the thought process of most of the people in the room with him where he was speaking there are no boot straps available at this juncture. The idea that welfare and entitlements are bad when it comes to the person across the tracks in the shadows of high-rise buildings or down the road in the fragile trailer parks, but somehow is good for America when it is administered or distributed incognito often times covertly in the form of bailouts to institutions or organizations that grow wealthier at taxpayers expense, but do nothing to lend or invest back into the everyday American is "OK" is a travesty. The people in the room with him will tell you any day that massive military spending for an enemy that no longer exist in the form of the Cold War era is needed. When in fact, much of it is high-tech welfare. They will also tell you that cronyism and allowing entities such as insurance companies, drug companies, medical equipment suppliers, etc. to run rampant in pricing here in our nation is allowance of the "free market system" to manifest itself. When in fact, that is okay if the playing field is allowed to be level from the beginning, but everyone knows by now that most of these cronies have reached their present status via government subsidies, exemption from anti-trust laws, and the list goes on. Once again.... high-tech welfare. These are big ticket items that some of the same old faces/families have rode into enormous wealth at our expense for decades. These people have no interest in allowing an environment where people can go to work everyday and make their own way or I should say " pull themselves up by their own boot straps", but all they really want is to continue keeping us occupied with division, confusion, separatism and classism while they continue to loot and steal by carrying out high-tech welfare.

The efforts you have seen the past year including this weekend are diversion tactics manipulating some of those same people mentioned above in those stressful shadows of the high-rises and falling trailers across this great land. These manipulative tactics are designed to make everyday Americans think they are a part of us and we are a part of them.... all the same. Not so!!! If we fall for it, the high-tech welfare recipients will continue to raid the treasury through no bid contracts; fake think tanks that receive huge grants; privatized agencies that cost the country huge amounts of money to perform services that use to be done by government itself for a fraction of the cost; and comical earmarks that only allow politicians from both sides of the aisle to keep their jobs as front men for all of these raiders and high-tech welfare cases. These people make pensions disappear; investments vanish; and jobs fade completely out of the land.

Please don't fall for it. It's the same old thing wearing different costumes. Let's somehow pull together and find a voice or means of avoiding the same old thing. The lobby power is strong, but persistent unity is stronger.

Stay tuned and let's talk some more.

Mad love for America and all Americans.

Sincerely,

Thinking About You