The Bent Page

In light of recent actions taken by the United States Government and words spoken by too many pundits, journalists, and outright fools, may I suggest a reading of the following document, Page 1 shown here the other three available upon request.

In particular, I heard only moments ago, a person speaking with the host of a popular financial show say that people involved with the recent Tea Party protests were akin to her complaining about Nieman Marcus raising the price of her lipstick. You know, some people simply don’t get it and this lady is one of them. She thinks that your money isn’t your money. She thinks that your money should go into a common pot so that it can be spread around according to the whims of a bunch of tyrants not much better than the tin pot dictators of yore or the pseudo-marxist red shirts of today. People of this woman’s ilk hold the rest of us in complete contempt. They like to refer to us a “complainers” unwilling to “do our part.” Well, the last time I checked, millions of people in this country are doing their part, paying taxes, providing goods and services to their fellow Americans, and raising their children appropriately. However, there is a growing class of people who refuse to do this. They’re the sorry complainers of this nation, the ones who think that nothing is fair, that they shouldn’t be held responsible for any of their bad decisions, and that they should be given whatever happens to be the handout du jour. They rely on political largesse and lap it up to the tune of billions if not trillions of dollars.

The last time I read the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence for that matter, I saw nothing about empowering the government to spread the wealth around. Thus, to the good lady mentioned above, let me respectfully ask her to keep her sticky fingers out of my wallet. An American keeps his money by right, not by privilege. Furthermore, the right to redress the government is one of the things mentioned in the Constitution and I happened to visit a few of those Tea Party rallies yesterday. Those people were universally doing just that: letting their government know they are not pleased with the direction they are taking. So if the good lady wants to mock them, go right ahead. Keep it up. Keep denying the reality that the forty percent of the people who still pay taxes in this nation are tired of giving it away to the other sixty percent. This is her idea of democracy: six men and four women are in a room, a vote is held and the resolution passes by six to four that the men can rape the women.

Just remember one thing ma’am. You don’t know how to get the job done, whatever it may be. You don’t know how to create wealth, only how to destroy it. You couldn’t run a lemonade stand on a hot July afternoon on a busy street. Before you hold the earners in contempt, I recommend you get out of that Nieman Marcus store, roll up your sleeves, and do something productive for a change. You’d be surprised the level of anger you feel after working hard, earning a few dollars, and then watching it drain away according to the edicts sent from on high in Washington.

Finally, if the good lady is offended by the previous paragraphs then it only uncovers her internal denial of her own philosophy. After all, it is she who wants to roast the golden goose to have a fine dinner tonight at the loss of all those golden eggs in the future. But boy oh boy, doesn’t that goose taste good? Too bad hers is the one being cooked.

Viva la revolution!