Why can’t we just be honest…
I have lost any presumptions that I once may have had that GW Bush was
an angel… quite the opposite, I am very disappointed in his last four years for
sure and I am very skeptical about some of his motives in the first four, but
for entirely different reasons than liberals condemn him. Economically the US did very well even excluding
the sub-prime or ultra-low interest times that were strewn throughout his
presidency.
Oh sure you can, and liberals do, attribute the sub-prime
mortgage crash to him, which is unfortunate.
They also say the tax rate reductions were for the upper echelon as some
sort of payoff or boost to rich people… whatever. They also say “the eight failed years” of his
presidency, when they weren't all a failure… especially compared to our current
leader. Of course, even the lack of
performance of our current leader is blamed on Mr. Bush, and that is where I am
distraught with today’s up and coming young people. I believe they check their brains at the door
and belly up to the main stream trough and lap up the swill of liberal lies
deferring blame from every unsavory thing and hanging it on the Republican’s
necks.
The Republican’s are doing a pretty good job of hanging
themselves right now, so the libs could probably sit it out for a while and
watch them implode, with little or no effort.
I believe young thinking minds must differentiate between the
Republicans and Conservatism, or we will all be sunk. The Republicans, or most of them anyway, aren’t
doing a very good job of defending conservative values and free market
capitalism today. They are too busy, it
seems, trying to meld with the liberals, who want only to have them on a
stick. It makes no sense to me, as they
are only proving who among them has the stones to stay the course, and who
should go.
Following the pop-culture,
and mainstream media should be a no brainer to the average thinking person, but
I can only believe that the liberal invasion of our public institutions of
higher, and intermediate learning have begun to produce fruit. The evidence is shown in watching nearly
anything in the news represented by the younger generation. (For the record, not ALL of the younger generation,
as there is still young people that have been properly inoculated by loving
parents that won’t allow the pollution of their progeny’s minds by the liberal
onslaught)
A case in point: As
our economy stagnates into its fifth, or sixth year, with high unemployment
(much higher than the MSM reports) and the Federal Reserve printing money like
there’s no tomorrow (but there will be), there are tell tail signs of distress
in the masses. One such display is the
current flurry of protests of big chain employers, like McDonalds, Wal-Mart, etc.
not paying high enough wages and the all too willing Federal government setting
minimum wages. The protesting youth are
completely missing the point and will never ever reach an average lifestyle
such as my generation has had in the past by following the tripe they are being
fed. The market ALWAYS dictates the
minimum wage… always. Nobody can legislate
private sector wealth; it doesn’t work that way, it can’t. The employers aren’t screwing the workers any
more now than they did at any other time, they offer the lowest wage that their
business can pay and still keep afloat.
The way we increase our wages is one of two ways: Either get a higher paying job, i.e. get
training, our get more experience, or seniority at the job you have to get a
higher wage, or, if there are more job opportunities the employer in question will
pay a higher rate to attract workers.
The idea that this wage business, is an emotional idea and
that compassion is somehow involved is the absolute wrong way to look at the
free market and is very disingenuous of the liberal media to skew it in their “reporting”. Especially when they themselves are engaging
in the very free market capitalism they so markedly disdain. (Weird?) Back to the wage thing: The people protesting need to look a little
deeper for the root of their lack of making ends meet with their current
wage.
There is high unemployment = It’s an employer’s market, sorry,
that’s just the way it is. If we want
more money, we need more jobs to make them to compete for our help.
The Fed is printing the buying power of our money away. They don’t have to raise our taxes, they just
print so much money that ours is worthless, this equals inflation. Things don’t go up in price as much as our
money doesn't buy as much as it did before.
(This is keeping the stock market flush too; watch what happens when the
Fed threatens interest rate increase or no more QE)
A business is a venture by an average person taking on the
risk of losing the money and work they have put into building a business. It’s their business, and they can run it as
they see fit. If we don’t like the wages
they pay, we shouldn't continue to work for them. If there aren't any other jobs out there to
make them compete for our labor it’s not the employer’s fault, so we must look
elsewhere for the root of the problem.
This is where the MSM has bamboozled the youth of today
along with liberal indoctrination, and no stand up conservatives explaining how
things really work: As I said before,
the real problem with low wages is that they don’t buy what we want, and they
don’t get any higher when there’s no competition. Why? I’ll
tell you. Our government is too busy
trying to do things far, far out of their job description. Their job is to protect us and keep the
infrastructure up, nothing more.
Everything else should be done at a state level. If it we kept our money here at home, we
wouldn't need the Feds for much of anything.
The private sector is much more capable at doing nearly everything the
Feds do now and the free market does them exponentially better, mostly because
in a business setting there is accountability, government has none. They try to manipulate the markets by
regulating, and prohibiting activities and sometimes on an experimental basis
and blame capitalism when it fails. We
haven’t seen true free market capitalism for a long time and I will submit that
all we have seen is crony-capitalism from our leaders. In a true free market the market will choose
the winners and cull the losers, and the consumer always wins. But sadly nobody teaches that today. We are stuck trying to make a business pay
higher wages than the market will allow in a down time and further upset the
apple cart by making prices go higher as the business will pass the cost on to
the consumers in an endless downward spiral, unless we address the real problem
and change leadership to real leaders, not a bunch of liberals trying to
institute socialism in the one country it has never ever been allowed. They are trying in institute a system that
has a very obvious history of failure every time it is tried. So why can’t we open our eyes?
Oh and for you that point to some obscure little country
that claims to be socialist and say its working there… Socialism is only surviving in those countries
as a benefit of the capitalism that is there too, mark my words. In any place it’s been tried to be fully
instituted it has been a disaster.
The United States future rests in the young people of
today. If they don’t use their God given
understanding and reason to get past the drab deceit of liberalism, they will
be ensuring their generation and the ones to follow for a long time will not be
able to see the prosperity that generations of the past were able to have
simply by falling prey to the Communists of today and their warped ideology. I will say I admired the “Occupy” movement
and their zeal until they aptly demonstrated they weren't going to draw the correlation
between the big business they hated and the relationship the same big business enjoyed
with our government, thus making them co-conspirators.
But alas, there is
always hope…
