Liberals and the Blind

In case you had not figured it out I tend to align myself closer with Conservatives then Liberals. I have nothing against Liberals except for what they stand for. Maybe not everything, but many of the things I hold near and dear. Little things like Freedom, honor, self support, personal responsibility.

It is frustrating and maddening to see these things slowly eroded by these Liberals. I don't mean all Liberals. Most are just like me, hardworking, concerned about the future for themselves, their families. No it is the Liberals like Dianne Feinsteinn and Nancy Pelosi who are supporting and authoring new laws that tear down the fabric of the people they are sworn to serve. They forget they work for us. At least that is how it is supposed to be. But in reality they work for themselves. They whore themselves out to the cause that will keep them in power. They sit in their fancy offices, with their staff and are proud of themselves for what they are doing. They actually may believe in some of what they say. Not much of it, but a bit.

How can they believe the crap they support? All they want is to keep people in need of the Government, keep the people in debt and keep them thinking that the root of all their problems are anything except their own actions. They want to blame the "rich" for not paying enough taxes so that they don't have to. They blame the businesses for keeping the masses down by high prices for the things they "need". Ok the game systems, the big screen TV's, fancy cars, jewelry, fancy clothes are all needs.

An example that I experienced was while working in the ER a few years ago. I was triaging when a young man came in. He was black but this has nothing to do with race, he just happened to be black. I don't remember what his medical issue was but I clearly remember that he was talking on an expensive cell phone, he was wearing expensive Nike shoes, he had several large and heavy gold necklaces and rings on. So, what is wrong with this? Nothing, except the fact that the state of california was paying for his insurance. He told me he did not have a job, that he was getting money from the state (not sure in what way) and he had not had to work for over a year. He also proudly said he did some work under the table so that he did not have to pay taxes on it and it did not stop the money coming in from the state. personnally this really pissed me off. I was there, working my ass off in the middle of the night and have this ass proudly proclaiming that he was living off the government dime, and I was the one providing the dimes.

Now I don't mind when someone hits hard times and needs some assistance but this is totally different. It was about this same time that I came across something that made me proud to be an American. I stopped at a Burger King Restaurant on a trip to the Bay Area to have a sandwich. I walked up to a young man working the counter and I was immediately struck with the fact that this man was blind. Not just vision impaired but fully blind. I watched him take an order for the person in front of me and he was able to enter the order on register. The price total came up on the screen that had a readout pointing towards the customer. The employee asked the customer what the total was. The customer read the total off and then handed the cashier a bill. The cashier asked how much he gave him. The man said he gave him $10.00 and the cashier made change and gave it to the customer.

I was amazed at many different levels. First they put a blind man out front for all to see (instead of hiding him in the back somewhere like often happens). Then they trusted the customers honesty in reading the total and telling the cashier how much money he handed him. And then they actually expected the cashier to know how to make change. That was amazing on its own. What my long winded point was driving at was that there was an able bodied young man sitting on his ass getting paid by the taxpayers so he could have his gold, nikes and cell phone while a blind man was out making a living. I know that I would have much preferred to subsidize the restaurant with my tax dollars so they could pay the man a wage he could live on then letting this lazy ass laugh at us poor working fools.

Ok so I may have gotten away from the original subject, but it all relates. Liberals don't want people to succeed. Success breeds conservatives. Lets face it, if you work hard for your money you want to keep your money and don't want those who choose not to work to get your money. Without those that rely on the government the jobs for the liberal politicians goes out the door. Worse then that is a person who needs some extra help, and they are out, making their own way, and believe it or not paying for those losers sitting on their ass.