Remmember, remember the 5th of November.....

The real deal. As mentioned this week's post have been leading up to today. Even though the 5th of Nov is typically a British holiday, thought I would borrow it for a bit as it fits in to feelings I've been having a for a while now.

Like in the movie V for Vendetta, I thought I would take some time out to have a little chat. You see I've been having the feelings for sometime now that something is very wrong with this country. Unlike the character, I'm only going to express these feelings with words, hoping some of my comments will sparking debate and conversation. The only violence I propose is that allowed under the Constitution the exercise of franchise or the vote (read my Starship Troopers review and redux posts to understand why I put it this way)

I look at the news and the headlines at things like the SCHIP debate and just get frustrated and begin to wonder: When did this country change from a society of people who constructed great things like the Hover Dam and send man to the moon turn into whinny, greedy, want every thing handed to them, sea gulls screaming the question "Mine? Mine?" from animated Disney movie Finding Nemo.

It seams like today's society would rather sit around and wonder why the government isn't giving them MORE handouts, then take some personal responsibility for their own lives and do something about their situation,. It isn't just people from Generation X and later either, it's the Baby Boomers too. The really scary thing is there are people in power who want to make the American public even more dependent, not less on Government handouts. The thing that really bakes my noodle is that these same leaders are Baby Boomers. The people who should have some clue what an honest day's work is because they the greatest generation of our time to look up to and serve as examples. You know who I'm talking about the people who won World War II and put a man on the moon. WHERE DID WE GO WRONG?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Prime example of the difference between now and then: Just two generations ago Americans, signed up in droves and liberated Europe. Those that couldn't sign up worked to enable those that did. In fact the call to duty and sense of national pride was so strong people actually killed them selves if they weren't accepted into the Military. These same people and their parents practically built this country out of almost nothing after the great depression and wouldn't think of sitting around waiting for the government to help them out.

Who's to blame for this I ask? Truthfully most of this country need only look in a mirror. Where do people think the money for these social hand out programs comes from? I'll tell you where from the backs and pocket books of hard working people trying nothing more than to improve things and be successful. Congress, more importantly the Liberal side of congress have some how got it into their minds that Marxism in this country can succeed, even though it has or is failing every where else to include the Soviet Union. The reason it failed is because by heavily taxing those people who are the most successful, you will suck the life right out of them and teach others to do just enough to get by rather then trying to do and be better. Congress in general and the Liberals in specific are trying to slowly turn American society into one big cliche from Office Space!!!! Capitalism defeated Marxism for a reason! Partly because Capitalism rewards those that work hard and punishes those that don't. (more on punishment later)

The other reason Capitalism won over Marxism is the simplest of truths: man is a selfish and self serving creature and contrary to what Liberals would like us to believe IS NOT born with some innate Moral instinct. But rather we acquire morals over time through education, training, and experience. Capitalism takes this into account because unlike Marxism, it punishes not rewards those who do not work to the best of their ability.

As mentioned above Liberals would like us to believe man is born with some sort of innate Moral instinct. No where is this more apparent than in the way they think convicted criminals should be treated. They would like us to believe the Constitution says something completely different then it actually does. Amendment VIII says the following: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
While I wasn't there when it was written but plenty of people where, including the founding father themselves, and enough of these people wrote about what they were thinking for us to know. What they intended by the cruel and unusual punishment provision was as a way to prevent excessively cruel things like branding the letter A on someone for the relatively minor act of committing adultery. Truth be told punishment should be cruel and unusual. By this I mean punishment should fit the crime and not excessive, but at the same time punishment should be harsh i.e cruel because it is punishment. It should be unusual in that it deters crime to the point that it is rarely needed i.e. unusual.

Tomorrow is election day and all next year we, the American people will be bombarded with ads and messages to vote a certain way and for a certain person. Unlike these ads all I ask is that you take the time to get to know the items and people running for office and that you will be voting on, then ask your self the following questions and make up your own mind. (Don't be a lemming/zombie think for your self!!)

1. What is this person or item really going to do? In the case of a person: what have they done in the past. It is true that a leopard does not change its spots, like that leopard so too of people, it takes a very dramatic event to truly change someone, so 9 times out of 10 how someone behaved in the past is likely how they will continue to behave. In the case of an item/bill, don't just take what someone else tells you what it is about as fact, actually look it up. It's like my grandfather and parents used to tell me when I asked them what some word meant. They would tell me to go look it up. This is what I am asking of you.

2. In the case of a person also ask your self and find out if what the person is telling you actually what they believe in, or are they just saying what they think you want to hear and actually believe something else. I would seriously question their motives if after searching you can't determine what they believe in. This screams of them either not knowing themselves OR needing to hide the truth and the truth should never need to be hidden.

3. In the case of an item someone is proposing or actually on the ballot ask yourself how is this item going to be funded and at the expense of what? You don't get something from nothing, the money has to come from some where, SO either something else has to be cut back or they are going to have to make YOU pay more taxes.


Now this is the most important thing: After asking yourself these thing if you still support the person and item then be sure to show up on election day and vote!!!! Even if you only support one issue and don't like any of the candidates. You don't have to vote on every item, simply leave those sections where you can't decide or don't support anyone blank. But above all VOTE!
If you believe like I believe it is one of the only true ways to affect change in this country. Heck even if you think I'm out of my mind VOTE anyway! And after election day hold the person elected ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!!!!!

Thats all for now, venting done, I now return you to the regular wolf den channel. (until the kettle boils over again that is)

Ish