Why are the rest of us sane people allowing lies to stand?
I’ll give you an example or two.
Big Sis Says Patdowns to Become the Norm
Why have we allowed security to be tightened on every single person when we all know damn well that followers of Islam have a much higher percentage of folks willing to engage in terrorism? Setting underwear on fire, explosives in body cavities, toner cartridge bombs, flying planes into buildings, car bombs, homicide bombers, beheadings, torture (and please don’t even try to equate waterboarding with burning, sledgehammers, and woodchippers, that’s another lie I won’t be a part of)
Illegal Immigrants Aliens
- Why call them immigrants? Immigrants come here legally. Aliens do not.
- Why do we not say “With the legal avenues to get a green card, why sneak in?” The answer being that there are not enough green cards given out isn’t a valid excuse. It IS WHAT IT IS.
- Why have we allowed voting, licenses, rentals, medical, etc. for people who are breaking the law?
- Why do we tolerate the statements “We’ve been here for years and been good citizens, kids in school, pay our bills” when the real question is “Why are you here illegally?” I don’t much care about your life here because you’re here illegally.
- Why do we allow people to make the argument that “These are jobs that wouldn’t get done”? That’s bullsh*t. That’s totally ignoring the fact that they’re still here illegally.
Know why we live in such a peaceful society?
Because our moral code generally doesn’t allow for violent lawlessness. We don’t require bribes at every single level of our government as “that’s just the way we do things” such that it costs people twice as much just to go get groceries or travel in certain areas. We don’t generally do whatever notion takes our fancy because our religion says we can.
Pick whatever exception to that you’d like, but it’s just another shared lie when people try to draw moral equivalence to genital mutilation, shootings/beheadings/dismemberments, honor killings, retribution, and generally we frown on targeting innocents, women, and children.
Don’t bother to tell me that we bomb families in Afghanistan – that happens because Taliban forces hide behind the skirts of women and little children like cowards. I defy you to find me one country that puts as much emphasis on making sure there isn’t collateral damage.
Health care.
Tell me all the reasons why we should have universal health care, tell me sob story after story.
The lie is that we owe it to others. NO we DON’T. You can’t fix everyone’s problems like politicians (and a lot of people think). If we could do that then we would have the resources to make this a perfect world and I assure you, we do not. Not close, and it would never be equal – some would pay lots and others would pay nothing.
In the final analysis two questions must be answered: (1) Is there anything at all in the Constitution that says one citizen must be taxed to pay for another citizen’s health care? (there are many many things that could be substituted in for “health care”, and (2) Assume that the answer to #1 was “yes”, is there any way you can pay for it and Social Security – itself unconstitutional – and Medicare/Medicaid?
The third question is a bit harder, colder, but still a valid one. What moral imperative do *I* have to care for *you*? Seriously. Walk into a restaurant and say “I don’t have a nice car and can’t hardly afford a bad one either, so I want you all to take $20 out of your wallets and put the money in the bag I have here.” You wouldn’t get very far. So why is it ok to tax people to pay for other people’s Cash for Clunkers, or First Time Buyer’s Credit, or TARP/bailout money… the list gets quite long. If you go back to the restaurant example, how many people would say “I don’t know you, go screw yourself?”
They would be completely within their rights to do so. But apparently not if the Federal Gov’t decides to make that transaction on your “behalf”.
Lie #4: Progressive taxation is anything but unfair.
Where’d the idea come from that success should be penalized? Who came up with the idea that rich=evil? Ten percent across the board is almost never heard. Think about why that is. Pressures come from both top and bottom to stop that kind of thinking but it’s really the only one that makes a lick of sense.
Illegal Aliens may also be defined as Foreign Invaders. In time of WAR, which is what we are, it is the duty of patriotic citizens to capture or kill them.
My idea on how to handle illegals?
Put them on a cruise ship and boat them down to the southern-most shithole in Mexico and unload them.
When they come back, do it again.
If you make something hard enough it reduces the numbers quickly. People always take the easiest choices (for them – and here we can have a huge philosophical debate on what constitutes an easy choice, it’s not always physical).
What we’re doing now is giving people “do-overs”.
Lie #1- the liberals want the rest of us killed off, and the muslim threat can be covered with PCness in order to get that done.
Lie #2- the left needs the illegal aliens for the purpose of moving the country leftward. They don’t give a shit about jobs or compassion. The illegals are just numbers.
Lie #3- healthcare is the trojan horse that will grant the gov’t power over everyone.
Lie #4- the progressive tax is one of the tenets of Marxism. That’s why the left uses it. To punish the producers. The reason you never hear of an across-the-board tax is that the left would then lose a valuable commodity in the lower class. They would no longer have the power to divide and cause class warfare.
Universal health care will be the best national ID ever seen in this history of the world. It’ll have your DNA, blood type, body stats, bio profile, records, habits, lifestyle – everything.
And you will NEVER escape scrutiny and your privacy will never grow back.
If the taxation issue was just the left you would hear about it more. But it’s universally shunned.
We know a 10% tax is a great idea because it works so well in churches as a tithe.
Ok, well that is a shitty example because only a few actually do tithe a 10% (I’m not suggesting that it is what people should/must do, I’m saying this is what the church seems to “strongly recommend”).
So how can this be? Why would people not willingly want to give 10% to their God? Seems odd, don’t you think?
People absolutely chafe under the idea of a 10% tax. Because it takes away even their self-illusion and replaces it with the unvarnished duty of self-control.
But if you give people a progressive tax that is so convoluted that everyone spends the entire time trying to figure out (1) how much one owes and, (2) how can one find loopholes, AND make it so no two people will pay the same taxes. It keeps people off-balance, and that is POWER. It’s like car-buying, haggling over raises, home-buying…
So even though you pay MORE than 10% you can usually fool yourself into believing you pay less than what “the man” wants to stick it to you for, or you believe you pay less than most of your peers, or you actually do through loopholes made for the rich, or if you really do get screwed… “Well, this was just a bad year.”
A politician or anyone who wants power will never go for 10%.
Bingo! Well said
Oh, and my rant was basically just agreeing with everything you said, only totally convoluted and hard to read. Like every female.
BTW, I noticed in your links “Sugg Harbor”. It’s actually spelled “Snugg Harbor”
I’ll add the “n” in tomorrow. Proof-readers are a good thing.
I feel absolutely awful right now. Geez.
Remember, always, that “thoughts are things” and that the power of naming something is the power of control over it. Social Security would never have come into being had it been named “Lame-ass Budget-Busting Bureaucrat-Controlled Pseudo Retirement Ponzi Scheme.”
I heard one commentator (I can’t remember which) say that the term “politically correct” is itself politically correct. We say politically correct when we really mean “shared lie that nobody wants to confront the stupidity of because we’re afraid of being thought poorly of.”
Wicca-P – very good point about “politically correct”.
I would only tweak one word. Substitute “reality” instead of “stupidity”. We’ve done it in so many areas – hearing impaired, differently-abled, illegal immigrants, substance abuser, physically handicapped, people of color, and the substitution of “-person” instead of the usage “-man” in what are actually gender-nonspecific expressions (chairman, ombudsman, point-man).
The idea that we could have any discussion about anything that invests all of our mental efforts to just the discussion is absurd if we must also pick and choose ever word and every expression so as to avoid the possibility of someone becoming offended. The perfect example is the political arena – politicians are well known for saying a lot yet saying absolutely nothing because they water down the language that they use to the point of uselessness.
Remember the politician a while back that used the word “niggardly” and people who had no idea what the definition of the word really was? They were ready to crucify him. The crowd that typically wishes to adhere to PC forms of expression are generally already pissed off about their favorite cause and are looking for a way to jump all over who they see as an opponent.
Check out this link: http://www.videojug.com/article/how-to-be-politically-correct
#7 in that list. “Be sensitive to the inferences people may read into the words you choose.” #8 gets even more ridiculous.
We’ve got people walking around that are so thin-skinned and expect so much sensitivity, understanding, and compassion that they feel that there is no burden on themselves to understand that not everyone is a bigot, out to get them, or means offense. This isn’t about being understanding and having it go both ways, this is about power over others.
My grandparents never used the n-word (and I use that hyphenated expression because I don’t care for it myself) but they did say “negro”. I’m not particularly fond of that word, either, but I understood that they meant absolutely nothing by it. It was a product of their times. I use the world “black” and refuse to use the expression “african-american” because frankly, hyphenated-american expressions bug the everloving shit out of me. Remember “afro-american”? If someone wants to make an issue out of their skin color or whatnot, I’m going to use the term “black”, or “asian”, or whatever is appropriate – I refuse to move along with the shifting-sands standards that come with being sensitive to the words-du-jour that different groups feel comfortable with in this particular decade… or the next one… or the one after that.
Being graded on my speech based on someone else’s choices of words or expressions to be offended by at any particular point in time… that’s not a game I’m going to play. I’ve got better things to do with my time.