My, how times have changed.
Back when the U.S. was a colony of the British Empire, Puritans said "Gimme some land to live on, where I can practice religion as I see fit!" Then it became "Gimme some protection from the savages!" Then it became "Gimme representation with my taxation!" Finally, it became "Gimme Liberty or gimme death!"
It pretty much stayed that way for a long time.
Up to the 1930s, I reckon, when some socialists started pandering to people fallen on hard times. Uncle Sam switched from being a defender of life and liberty to a (New) Dealer. Handing out freebies, like drug dealers giving out free samples to get you hooked.
And hooked is what our population has become.
"Gimme Welfare!" They have cried for years and years. Did the Founding Fathers have welfare? If their crops didn't come in, were their neighbors forced to help them by means of increased taxes, and Colonial cheese? Or did neighbors help each other out because it was the right thing to do?
Ironically, it was an adulterous democrat that pointed out the unAmerican gimminess of the population: John F. Kennedy. "Ask not what your country can do for you…" Sadly, most devilcrats today seem to have completely missed the point of that statement.
"Gimme free healthcare!" the leftards keep chanting. Okay, we'll give you the same healthcare the Founding Fathers had. I'm sure Benjamin Franklin didn't have to pay for those spectacles he wore- insurance covered them, right?
What's next for the gimmes? Free TVs? Free car insurance? How much room is there for Nazi Pelosi and Chairman Maobama to pencil more "rights" into the Constitution? You know, like the "right" to have insurance. Or the "right" to have an abortion- funded with tax dollars.
Eventually, will there be nothing but citizens sitting at home on their government couches, watching government flatscreen tvs tuned to Oprah? Who will work to be taxed, to pay for these things? Whatever group is chosen to be the slave laborers of the Gimme nation, will probably not be too happy about it. "Gimme freedom, or gimme death!" they will surely shout.
The Founding Fathers weren't given much. They had to make their own country. By working hard, rather than hardly working. They wrote very clearly that all men had a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Insurance doesn't cover any of those.
The Left and Prez Zero keep telling you, you have a right to this and that and anything else that will keep you happy. They know all too well the bulk of the populous are just as the Japanese described us back in the 1980s- fat and lazy. Gimme, gimme, gimme?
Gimme a break.
Great post. But I think it’s more complicated than that. I think there are hard working lefties. It’s just that the cause and effect part of their brains has been permanently damaged, by way of liberal indoctrination. Also, a good portion of those libbys are just like the bulk of neoconservatives in that they are hooked on the Kool-Aid. It’s not about commonsense or rational thought; it’s about us vs. them. If Bush Jr. were making the same exact decisions that Obama is making today, Lefties would still find something to bitch about. Why? Well, because a moonbat isn’t the one making those decisions. Even when Bushy was muscling Congress for the three quarters of a trillion dollar bailout for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, liberal nutroots were decrying the expansion of an already bloated government and about how Bush was helping the rich. But when Ol Wacky Baracky signed it into law and went further…WAAAAAAAY further, the liberwock response was…”Hey, it’s all good.” and “Can you feel the love, tonight.” What a bunch of mamby pamby, sycophantic, tripe vending, trouser jockeys.
I can’t wait to see how the Left and Maobama counter the massive surge of unemployment when the healthscare passes… all those people employed by the insurance industry will be out of a job. From call center customer service reps, to printers that make all that junk mail the insurance companies send out.
The insurance industry is a HUGE player in our economy. Taking them out of the picture, replaced by the People’s Workforce, ought to be pretty interesting.
Promises always made for the “class of people” who generally vote Dems. Any wonder there is no game to stop illegal immigration ? Any wonder there is no game to stop welfare in its tracks and provide a job, even if any job, for every eligible citizen? Well, we got back to #1 and the eligibility issue.
Regardless, better to prepare for what’s coming than to argue over what “they” are going to do anyway.
Any wise man knows the DC people are not “really” concerned about what any of you lesser peoples need/want…outside of that vote you will cast.