Posted by
Chuck Hakes on Sunday, April 05, 2009 8:48:34 AM
We try to fix being broke by spending.
We plan to spend more in the future although we lack the money to deal with the present.
We deplore the personal borrowing that got us this economic mess while the government takes us all into huge debt.
We try to stimulate the economy by buying things that we don't need right now. People defer such purchases, but not our government.
We try to fathom a democratic administration that is like a 5-year-old in a candy store and wants some of everything right now or will throw a tantrum.
We tolerate a government that operates behind closed doors when we were promised transparency.
We countenance a government where our representatives do not do each other the courtesy, and us the proper service, of hearing each others' views, and recognizing the importance in a democratic republic of doing so. What do they get paid for if not for debating on our behalf?
We try to increase American stature in the world by giving away power.
We let non-citizen minorities who shouldn't be here dictate how we should live because some think they "deserve" the rights of citizens.
We make it possible for non-citizen minorities to vote for our leaders while at the same time establishing their own national and ethnic closed societies and not speaking the language of our sovereign nation.
We accommodate minorities by speaking their language when they should learn to speak ours.
We clamor for rights but do not recognize that there are commensurate responsibilities.
We give more power to minorities than to the majority, unless the minority is 60 million American citizens who wanted a different president and the preservation of free enterprise.
We think that having money is institutionalized and that people who got it wrongly or by stupidity should be kept wealthy.
We think failure should be rewarded.
We think that people who make money by creating value and jobs for society should be taxed heavily so they can contribute more to society and pay for the keep of those who create no value.
We consider denying 2nd Amendment rights to law-abiding American citizens because Mexicans who shouldn't cross our borders shoot each other.
We think another gun law will make us safe.
We think guns pull their own triggers.
We seek to protect the rights of animals and trees but kill human babies. Next we'll be protecting the rights of yogurt.
We sanctify unholy unions between same sex people by calling them marriages. It is less unholy for a guy to marry his motorcycle.
We consider changing our lives, at great expense, because people who can't say with certainty that it will rain tomorrow tell us the planet will be hotter in the next hundred years.
We are served by media that insist on publishing military and national security plans in the interest of the "public's right to know" but only inform us of what goes on in Washington if it can be spun to glorify liberals.
We think we can make America more secure by giving our armed forces fewer tools.
We look at propaganda produced by people in the surreal la-la land called Hollywood and think it gives us good guidance on what to think,and believe, and reflects our mainstream American cultural values.
We think foreign terrorists should have the rights and protections granted to American citizens by our Constitution.
We think that being an entertainer somehow makes a person better informed and elevates them to a high level of political expertise, and proclaims the high value of their opinions when our neighbors' opinions are no less valuable.
We no longer want to lead. We want to be led.
We think all risk-taking should result in a guaranteed reward.
We think we can make friends of people whose avowed mission is to destroy us by talking nicely to them. Even worse, we give them rights.
We are concerned that murderers may be uncomfortable.
We think people will work even though they will get paid if they don't.
We think we can get people to practice responsible birth control by making it socially acceptable not to. And then we pay for the results.
We take the wealth of society that is given of free will to charitable causes and allow the government to take charge of who gets it.
We believe lies and half-truths and blind ourselfs to what is happening to us because we are more comfortable doing so than facing the fact that we are being led to socialism, and will probably not ever return.
We like the cuddly polar bears. To a polar bear we're lunch so let them take care of themselves. If God wants polar bears around, they'll be around.
We ignore, or at most lament, the strategies of the present administration to change the rules of the game to perpetuate and grow its power.
We question the existence of God because accepting it is also an admission that we are not the supreme intelligence of the Universe.
We condone deceit by electing a deceitful man leader of the free world.
We listen to elected representatives of the people tell us what we will do when they should listen to what we tell them to do.
We forsake our principles and beliefs at a time when we need them the most. Notre Dame's plans to honor our abortionist-president, Obama, with a doctorate required Notre Dame to oppose Catholic doctrine. This is an abomination.
And all of this is insane.