An Old American Citizen On A Rant Tells It Like It Is!

Well, Newt Gingrich’s little waltz with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Mr. Cain’s inability to keep his pants zipped up – a couple of our “honorable” presidential candidates y’know – has finally flipped my lid and set my loud mouth in serious motion! Hey, you conglomeration of Washington idiots – I’m through putting up with your lawlessness, thievery, dishonesty and do-nothing ways. I don’t have to put up with you tellin’ me how it’s gonna be or your ignorance. How’s that for a voter’s opinion? I’m an oldie but still alive-ie and still voting (until you manage to kill me off by lack of funds, poor health care and whatever other ignoramus stuff you think up and pass into law). You live in another world – not mine – and you have no idea under the heavens what’s going on with real people – particularly senior citizens. You know, really, I don’t care about being given a special designation like “senior citizen” – I just want to be an American and get a fair shake and I want all American citizens to get the same deal. Please notice the word “citizens” in that sentence.

If you’re not going to pay us what we’ve already paid into Social Security – just tell us. If we no longer have Medicare – just tell us and if you intend to get together your little group of “folks” who are going to decide who gets what health care when – tell us that too. I’m so damned tired of listening to your goofy ideas, liberal spin and “well, what the American people need…” I could spit. I, personally, can take care of my own business without your help – but I’d damned sure like to get what I’ve already paid in – out! When I paid for it all you B.S. politicians were just a gleam in your daddy’s eye – and I’m sorry he didn’t go to the local bar, have a few drinks and forget both his eye and the gleam from whence you eventually came. And for the record – if you think you’re going to force me or any other American to buy health insurance from the guys you’ve got lined up waiting on those premiums (including AARP) and from which you already have or will get your kick-back – it ain’t gonna happen today, tomorrow – fact is, I don’t see a future for the idea at all.

Yep, there’ll come a time when I can’t take care of myself – but I have no hope in hell that you’re going to do anything that will alter that situation nor are you required to do so. You are required to make sure I get the funds I paid into government programs with a promise of a return in my old age. For starters, so you’ll really understand, I suggest that all us old AND young folks out here quit paying for YOUR privileges to health care and retirement that are absolutely wonderful -- which the rest of us don’t get and can’t afford. I don’t owe you one damned thing – you don’t do your job – you’re like a leech on this country and for the most part are liars lined up like dominoes on a table. Dominoes on a table are known to take a fall – and when one goes they all fall down – consider it a huge possibility!

As Americans we’re fed up, worn out, and broke. That’s your fault too and no one else’s, Until everyone (like me) who’s on the outside looking in figures that out you’ve still got a free ride. I’d rather vote for a rattle snake than any one of you – you’ve been bought and paid for either before or after you were elected – us dumb asses out here can’t really say for sure when that happened – but it damned sure happened. As an old American I’ve been watchin’ this mess a long time…but, I know a lot of young Americans that have already realized they’lll never get a cent out of a government program they’ve diligently paid into for years and are required to keep paying for. They know when they get to retirement age it ain’t gonna be there – and that’s a given. I understand y’all “borrowed” from the Social Security funds some time back and just never – kinda – paid it back and there’s no hope you ever will. You stole from us and we don’t like thieves even if they have “Senator” or “Congressman” before their name. We like it even less when the thief’s addressed as “President.”

Right here -- I’m gonna get it all out in the open – okay? I live in central Texas and you’ve also got a whole lot of really mad folks living at Fort Hood – the largest military base in this country – and the surrounding area. You let a Muslim crazy (which this government hired, investigated, approved, trained, and paid real well) get up on a table and kill our men in uniform, their families and everybody within the site of his guns – and nothing’s happened to the S.O.B. yet. The folks he killed are still dead and their children orphaned and the folks he maimed are still crippled and handicapped with no definite future.

What’s wrong with this government that they can’t hold a trial (or a court martial) and sentence this killer to death or life in prison for his crime against military humanity? All I hear is he’s now in a wheelchair and his health is bad. Does anyone but me and soldiers and their families at Fort Hood see what’s wrong with this picture? The man came to where our military lived and cut them down like it was open season on American soldiers on their own turf. That idiot became a part of our military so he’d have easy access to kill Americans and he’d had his plan in place for years. I understand he’s under great mental stress and is usually under suicide watch as well. If y’all run out of folks to watch this guy give some of us here in central Texas a call – we’d love to help you out and we’ll personally make the time. I don’t care if the bastard’s in a wheel chair on not. Instead of killing our kids he should have gone home to his own country and carried out his vendetta – we don’t live like that here and I want justice and I want it NOW! It’s already been three years and so far we’re still feeding this guy and treating him like royalty – pardon me?

There comes a time when a thinking person says “enough!” There’s more folks moving into the “thinking” category in this country every day. I love my country and the folks who live in it no matter what age, color, religion or culture they are. I don’t love these idiots who come to this country to kill us, sell drugs, kill our children while they raise their own on our dime and would as soon spit on us and our flag as not. And how about them speaking English? We’re an English speaking country and I want it to stay that way. Let’s get some real people who really represent us in government and clean up this mess, too. If we can’t find any – well, it may be time to say “enough” and do the best we can on our own.

I AM NOT advocating the overthrow of the American government. I AM advocating a “let’s get real or get out plan” for the folks running our government and you can bet your patoot that won’t be viewed as politically correct. I, for one, am so damned tired of “politically correct” I could vomit. To be politically correct you have to lie, steal and go against everything thinking human beings have held dear in this country since it became a country. Trust me, dear hearts, I (quite obviously) ain’t politically correct nor are a bunch of other Americans who have had their noses rubbed in it until they could conceivably drown when it rains if they look up.

With any luck at all I may live another 10 years and that’s probably pushing the envelope but I intend to be real vocal about this mess our country is in and standing up for my own personal rights as an American and everyone else’s every chance I get. I’ve never, in nearly 75 years on this old planet, been fearful of and for my own government and what they’re involved in. I tell you truthfully, dear hearts -- I’m afraid -- very, very afraid. No, I’m not afraid for my own personal safety – but all of us need to think about that because that’s changed, too. Crime is running so rampant that there’s now free home delivery – bad folks come to your door and knock and when you answer they shoot you dead. The assassin that comes to my door better be a quick thinker and an even faster draw ‘cause I intend for him/her/them to leave my property feet first. Seems to me this whole country is boiling mad, discouraged and so close to the edge -- and the powers that be really don’t seem to have a clue – or even a vague idea.

We’ve tried to vote and deal and cope – how’s that working out for you? Government employees get more comfortable, better working conditions and wonderful benefits year after year. How y’all living? Can you pay your bills? How’s your mama ‘n ‘em – getting good health care and living a peaceful old age? Hell no – but those in elected office are living the life of Riley, handing out favors, scooping in pay offs, apologizing for our country to foreign entities and all the while telling us to get used to the way things are going because it’s what’s needed for the survival of this country. I think those S.O.B.’s need an extended trip in the same moccasins most U.S. citizens are tromping around in (and have for way too many years now). Truth is, the soles of our moccasins -- along with our patience -- are getting pretty damned thin.

I suggest that folks in government get the same benefits we get – Social Security and Medicare at retirement age – just as if they worked for the little company down the street. When you quit serving in the government the gravy train ends – if you’ve been there -- say 30 years -- you can draw retirement – on a scale just like the rest of us. But if you haven’t been there to retirement age – Bubba, you need to find a job and re-establish your life ‘cause the American people don’t pay you no more nor do we keep payin’ for your benefits. If you’re dishonest in office and convicted of a crime – in any way – you’re out of a job, no more benefits and we don’t owe you NOTHIN’ ever again – you just screwed the pooch and need to find a job flippin’ burgers or scubbing floors – you know, the jobs you think are just fine for everybody else.

I, for one, don’t want to see any system established in this country that spreads the money around equally so everybody has the same thing. If you work for it – it’s yours. If you don’t work for it – you’re probably gonna get damned hungry. We are a capitalist nation – not socialist. I volunteer at an agency that is next door to the food bank. I see folks drive up every month in $50,000 vehicles and draw food at the food bank. Hell, man, sell that car, get real and buy your own groceries – if you can afford those car payments you can afford to feed your own kids and that’s just fact. If we start at the bottom giving Americans back their pride and self-worth maybe it’ll trickle UP to Washington, D.C.

Do I really think this rant is going to change anything? Of course not – I’m just old not demented -- but there needs to be someone who tells it like it is, bottom line, written down on paper and published and I’m appointing me as I don’t have one hell of a lot to lose or time to lose it in. For those of you who disagree with me – ignore me. For those of you who have been waiting for someone to tell it like it is – it’s told.

If you remember only one thing you read here let it be this statement – “The time has come for the average American citizen to be afraid -- very, very afraid.” I feel it in my heart.