Too Intrusive?

Ask yourself, do you really trust the government, especially when it comes to money? I always hear people complaining about how corrupt politicians are, but why then do we elect these same politicians back into office time and time again? Why do we allow government to take our money through taxes for a cause we could care less about? People have such disdain and resentment for politicians (and even wealthy public figures like Rupert Murdoch), but a large percentage of Americans refuse to vote, maintaining an apathetic state of mind. According to the United States Election Project, 37% of 218,054,301 eligible voters turned out for 2010 US election day. That’s ridiculous. Fortunately, with the help of the Tea Party, Republican candidates ,upholding a campaign based on fiscal responsibility, were voted into office. These candidates include now Governors Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mark Rubio of Florida.

According to a September 2010 Gallup Poll, Americans trust their local and state governments far more more than than the federal government, with 70% saying they have trust and confidence in their local government and only 49% saying they have trust and confidence in the federal executive branch headed by the President. Although this is a good thing considering how awful of a job the current Presidential Administration is handling the nation’s most serious problems (Immigration, Unemployment, Debt), Presidents come and go. If they do a sucky job, it’s often in the spotlight so we know to vote them out of office as soon as we get the chance. However when it comes to Senators, Representatives, Governors, City Council members, the general public is oblivious to corruption and unethical decision-making.

There are still many people who believe the government is supposed to help us through life’s many struggles. Yvette Chappell, 47 of California said the government is not “doing enough for the right people, for the poor.” If it was government’s responsibility to nurture the people, education, housing, employment, health care, and social security would be entitlements. Government does not exist to provide for us, it exists to protect our rights. We are “endowed by our Creator (or nature if you’re Bill Maher) certain inalienable rights” that are reinforced in our Constitution. The Government is most successful in the areas of law and national security. A Washington Post-Kaiser-Harvard poll result shows the public rating the U.S. Military a B+ grade and the Federal Court System a C, the two highest grades given in the poll. This shows that if the Government focused on preventing North Korea and Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and making just decisions in the Supreme Court, our society would run much smoother. Socializing every service offered in America is just going to make half of the country dependent on government and the other half very angry that they are being milked like a cow for tax money.

Socialism is defined on Dictionary.com as a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. In a socialist state, income is redistributed. In lames terms, money is taken away from those with high incomes and given to those with low incomes. If this isn’t highway robbery, I don’t know what is.

Our current President is a good example of a socialist, despite the amount of people who would strongly disagree with me. Not only does he advocate income redistribution as he was filmed saying,"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.", but he honestly thinks government is the answer to unemployment and health care reform (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ). With the economy in a “recession” and health care in dire need of reform, I do not criticize the President for giving a ****. But his approach is unproductive. The economy will be restored through supporting business growth. Health care is one of those services that is merely more efficient through privatization, which will demand a larger quantity of insurance companies. When three large corporations have control over any industry, they start to function as bureaucracies and/or fall to corruption due to not having to be held accountable for incompetence. This chokes the market as much as massive federal spending does. The heart of the economy is the small business sector. The Small Business Administration says that small businesses make up more than 99.7% of all employers.

There are many services that are simply more effective under the private sector, yet the Government spends an extreme amount of tax-payer money on education, third-most after Defense Spending and Social Security. We’re taught that money is what makes a school successful or not., That’s not true. Even if every classroom has the decent amount of textbooks and desks, it isn’t going to make a difference if teachers fail miserably because their only goal is to cover the state standards. They are only going to held accountable after that student passed the class without learning anything significant to his/her education. The theme here is personal responsibility. Dependency on government just turns the country into a Welfare State. Bureaucracy is the problem, not the answer.






http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2010/06/10/zogby-poll-most-self-described-democrats-andor-liberals-flunk-basic-economics-badly/

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-10-11-1Abiggovernment11_CV_N.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/fedrole.html

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/17/cnn-poll-only-one-third-favor-tax-cut-extension-for-wealthy/

All Flags Welcomed... Except Our Own?

America is a land of immigrants. Every fool knows that. Whether your ancestors came here from Alaska, forced by the slave trade, or driven by persecution, everyone is an immigrant. By emigrating to this nation, many have declared America their new home. Nearly every ethnic group in this country has faced discrimination upon arrival. Jews, Germans, Blacks, Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Irish; the list goes on. Everyone who has rights guaranteed by the Constitution fought for it. But our flag was never burned in the process.

It's no doubt that Mexican immigration is no different than former waves of immigration into the United States. However, now it's different. When you look back at the immigrants of the past, you see people trying to mix into the melting pot. But now, peoples such as Mexicans and Filipinos, don't try to become Americanized. They stick to their own cultures and wave their own flags. I'm all for having pride in WHERE YOU COME FROM, but it's become so normal to wave foreign flags that whenever an American wants to wave an AMERICAN flag, it's seen as an anomaly.

There are people who seriously think this is the worst country on the planet. They are known as retards. One of these retards is Michael Moore, who constantly makes excuses for terrorists instead of condemning them. I'd like to see him hug bin Laden when the guy has an RPG pointed at him. It's true that America has funded dictators and defiled civilizations. It's true that we've stood on the forefront of Imperialism. But ask yourself, do we as Americans fight for our leaders OR do we fight for ideals? The Nazis fought for their fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces would all die under a mushroom cloud for their leader Fidel Castro. But Americans don't fight for our President, General, or Commandant. We fight because we need to in order to survive. Our flag represents the never-ending fight to maintain this Republic. That is the ideal.

I love different cultures; most of my friends are Latino/Hispanic. But I will never lose my stance on patriotism. If you want to be prideful of where you come from, go ahead and celebrate that. But we shouldn't ACCOMMODATE immigrants by dismounting our own flag.