Mourning in
America*
As some of you
celebrate the anniversary of
American independence on Monday,
I’ll be grieving over her demise. On
this birthday, the United States of
America are each and all withering
away…poisoned from within…and
patriots like me can only stand by
and watch our Nation as her death
throes overtake her.
One need not
spend too much time reading or
watching the news to see that the
noble experiment which is government
by and for the people is clinging to
life by a thread. From our city
governments to our “representatives”
in Washington, D.C., we the people
have elected a gang of thugs who
haven’t the first clue about our
history, our constitution or even
the concept of democracy. They have
turned what was a wildly successful
representative republic into a
socialist state and – as some of us
know - socialism simply doesn’t
work.
I heard the
pundits yesterday chatting about
“entitlements.” These particular
talking heads were discussing Social
Security and Medicare. They spoke of
changes which MUST come to these
programs for the elderly if our
country is ever to escape
insolvency. Huh? What about the
other entitlements…you know, the
ones enjoyed by hale and hearty
youngsters. I’m talking about
Federally funded housing. I’m
talking about welfare. I’m talking
about food stamps.
Maybe living
in Aberdeen, Mississippi has made me
a little sensitive about these
programs.
To know that
probably half the people living in
HUD housing in Aberdeen could not
qualify to do so if somebody –
anybody – would actually audit the
applications or enforce the rules,
makes my blood boil. Having worked
for HUD and also having managed
housing units subsidized by that
agency, I KNOW the laws are being
broken but nobody gives a rip.
Grandma may need and deserve the
roof which HUD provides, but her
children (leeches all) and their
children who also live there do not.
For Pete’s sake, get a job and get
off Granny’s back!
Each of
Granny’s parasites is “entitled” to
a welfare check. I’m not sure why.
Perhaps because we big-hearted
Americans cannot abide the thought
of children in need. Therefore, we
clothe them all and treat their
little boo-boo’s leaving Mom’s
welfare check freed up for the
payment on her new Escalade.
We have
created several generations of
people who do not have to work in
order to provide little essentials
like a roof over their heads, so it
follows that when they carry their
bag of borrowed receipts to the nice
folks as the food stamp office,
their outlay greatly overshadows
their income. They instantly
qualify for maximum benefits. (In
the interest of full disclosure, I
was on food stamps just three short
years ago when I was undergoing
chemotherapy and my barber husband
had both of his arms in casts…I
needed the help and I got it. When
our situation improved, I cut up my
card and went forward whole and
happy.) (That, by the way, is how
it’s supposed to work.)
I stand behind
these folks in line at the grocery
store and, like most shoppers, I
frequently find myself surveying
what other people eat. I have
concluded that the people who pay
for their food items with the yellow
card seem to survive on steak,
potato chips and Little Debbie snack
cakes. So..not only are we robbing
these human beings of the pride and
determination to take care of
themselves, we are also promoting
their malnutrition and other health
problems. (Reader friends, I am
absolutely certain that not all
beneficiaries of Federal
entitlements abuse them, but please
bear with me. I’m trying to make a
point here.)
I hear federal
dollars being sucked down Aberdeen’s
sinkhole to the tune of many
hundreds of thousands of dollars
every year and it enrages me. To
know that it happens is every town
and city across the Nation sickens
me beyond belief. And your president
wants to punish my aged mother by
cutting her already inadequate
income a little more???? (Obama, by
the way, solves the problem of old
folks by enacting a law which
rations health care. A woman of 76
years will probably NOT qualify for
treatments which will improve and
extend her life. Kill ‘em all off,
Barack. Who needs old folks? They
don’t pay taxes anymore anyway.)
In his most
recent ballyhoo, the current
resident of the White House scolded
Republicans for not getting on board
his “tax the rich to feed the
worthless” train. He frames the
debate in such a way that nobody is
supposed to notice that government
is winning the “Nanny War.” Every
day more and more Americans find
themselves jobless and left with no
alternative to becoming burdens upon
society. This joblessness is, of
course, another result of Obama’s
failed economic policy. Or…is it a
successful one? If the object of the
game is to make EVERYBODY dependent
upon government for EVERYTHING,
maybe it’s working?
And so it
goes. This nation of proud
entrepreneurs sees in its future a
tax structure which punishes
productivity, retards the growth of
small businesses and smothers the
very spirit which inspired our
independence in the first place.
We are doomed.
Founding
father Benjamin Franklin is said to
have opined, “When
the people find that they can vote
themselves money, that will herald
the end of the republic.”
Even if stalwart patriots
who have owned and managed
businesses (folks like Chris Brown
and Ed Mattox, for example) come
forward and stand for election, I’m
not sure there are non-parasites
enough to elect them.
I fear we have
passed the tipping point and have
commenced the downward slide. Rest
in peace, America. I will miss
freedom. A lot.
Viki Eggers
Mason
July 1, 2011
*With sincere
apologies to President Reagan |