American Fear

The latest Rasmussen poll shows for the first time since polling began; we as Americans believe our children will have worse life than us. This is a stunning reversal of the traditional American view of the future. Rasmussen states the reason behind this is that something is askew. One obvious source of the current pessimism is the economy. The other is more disturbing. Americans believe that Washington has ceased being responsive to them. Washington is not listening and is going about implementing an agenda that Americans don’t want. Included in this are radical adjustments to our cultural mores, bailouts, and yes…health care reform.

This is ironic given that Obama got elected on a platform of “hope”. Instead, Americans are feeling hopelessness in ways Americans have never felt it before. Rasmussen says it is something intangible. Rasmussen is wrong. It is very tangible. What Americans are witnessing is the executive and legislative branches of the government running amok, serving ideological goals and fringe interest groups rather than the American people as a whole. Americans are frightened, and they should be.

1) Hollywood Morals: Elite academic social workers might not know why a group of black gang thugs would beat up and kill a black honor student. But those of us living in the heartland do. Turn on your television to any MTV awards show, and then come and talk to me. Violence is EVERYWHERE. And in the process of shoving that crap down America’s throats 24/7, the ACLU and its Hollywood cronies have removed religion in any public discourse and replaced it with secular humanism. Anything goes. Feel good. Live for the moment…unless you happen to be a black honor student walking home from school in Chicago.

2) Special Interests: The left wing leaders in the House and Senate and the Supreme Leader in the White House have totally ignored large segments of society in their ideological driven efforts for the government to take over our health care system. Seniors know they are going to get the short end of the lollipop, and just wait until the 20 somethings realize the government mandate to purchase health care or go to jail to be monitored by the IRS. Obama has jumped into bed with the worst of the health care lobbies, including big Pharma, and select health insurance companies which will benefit directly from the cuts to Medicare and Medicare Advantage. The AARP, which is an insurance company first and senior advocacy group second, stands to make billions.

3) Government selected winners and losers: Ask the workers of Saturn about how winners and losers are chosen in this country. Ask the employees of closed auto dealerships the same question. Ask the GM workers in Ontario and Dayton, Ohio, about who wins and who loses. Ask the white collar employees at Delphi who gets punished and who gets rewarded. Ask the unemployed factory worker vs. the selected union elite as in the Service Workers Unions or in the Public Employee Unions. Then talk to the chronically unemployed worker in East Liverpool.

4) Climate Change: Isn’t it funny how the same people who advocate income redistribution are the same people who are harping on this now debunked theory of climate change. The same scientists who said we are going to burn up by next summer are now saying we are in for global cooling…which is what they were saying 20 years ago; also accepted as dogma. No, it has nothing to do with global warming, and everything to do with shifting the means of production to other parts of the world and lowering the standard of living here in the United States. Yes, the US, consumes 21% of the world’s energy. Bad United States!!!. But it also produces 27% of the world’s GDP. How do you spread the GDP figure around to other countries? Force us to use less energy!!! HELLO!!!!

5) Foreign Policy: GET ONE!

Unrest is brewing in the country. It is an unrest the likes of which I have never seen before. The middle class and working folks of this great nation are at the breaking point. If the current administration truly wants to foster “hope”, then it needs to listen to the people the administration is supposed to serve. Serve is the operative word.