Obama Phone is slavery

Obama Phone Video

The woman in this video is willing to keep herself and her family in bondage for a fancy bauble.

The socialist left has fostered a culture of dependence on the federal government since FDR during the great depression, and every major effort they have made since then has added to that decline. The New Deal, The Great Society, The War on Poverty, etc etc. Every effort has been made to enslave generation after generation to the government. And each generation has become more deeply entrenched in a vicious cycle from which very few escape.

Jobs can be had, however the dependency class is incentivized to eschew work. They remain unemployed no matter what the economy is doing. Getting a minimum wage job costs them many times that in free benefits, so who would choose the former? The welfare programs also reward women who have multiple children out of wedlock. The more children they have the more cash and benefits they get. This has destroyed the family unit in those demographics by creating a situation where people literally cannot afford to get married.

We have people who are in their third and fourth generation of living entirely off of the government. No one minds helping those that truly can't help themselves, or those who have fallen temporarily on hard times, but four generations of people being born, raised, living and then dying as part of the welfare system is not acceptable. It is unadulterated slavery being shackled financially and culturally rather than physically, and for what reason? So that some rich liberals can feel good "that they did something" and so that democrat politicians get their votes. Politicians steal their freedom in exchange for their votes to keep stealing their freedom.

Response to a liberal about the flag and other issues

I was recently in an online conversation with a number of people regarding this picture that I had posted on Facebook. One person's response really surprised and saddened me. He said:

"This flag business is a petty non issue. It's a shame when our respect for the flag evolves into idolatry. As a patriot of he United States I believe that our nation is stronger than the desecration of the flag. It's cloth. We need to concern ourselves with the desecration of the People of the United States including: disenfranchisement of voters, trampolining on the basic rights of women, denial of the full dignity and humanity of LGBTQI individuals, the scape goating of undocumented immigrants, the neglect of poor families in education and justice, etc., so forth, and so on."

In one sense he is right, we should not value a piece of cloth above the rights and lives of people. However on a far deeper and more important level he is so very very wrong and I had to respond thusly:

It is a shame when people feel that disrespect for the symbols and traditions of our country are petty non issues. It amazes me how soon people have forgotten that the flag is not just cloth, it represents something. Millions of people have made horrific sacrifices and hundreds of thousands of true patriots have given their lives to defend the things that flag represents. Because of their sacrifice you can go buy a thousand of those "cloths" and burn them. It wouldn't make you a criminal but it would make you the worst kind of ingrate.

This issue with hussein misusing the flag wouldn't bother me nearly as much if he wasn't on record as thinking the flag was stupid. If he hadn't laughed and agreed when his wife cursed at the flag. If he didn't send form letters with stamped signatures to the families of the soldiers who died under his command. Especially the very Navy Seals that died under his direct order and who gave their lives to one of the main issues he is campaigning on. He wrote a personal message to the family of a rapper that was killed but couldn't be bothered to give the same respect to Navy Seals. The list goes on and on.

Lincoln loved the flag and what it represents and did everything he could to successfully preserve the nation. He paid with his life. Reagan loved the flag and spoke of it many times. He also loved this country and did all he could to protect us from the biggest threat we have ever known and set us squarely on the path that defeated the Soviet Union and ended the threat of imminent annihilation in a Nuclear Holocaust.

I do agree that we should focus on the disenfranchisement of voters. That is why we desperately need voter ID laws. If just one person votes fraudulently then that cancels out my vote and I am disenfranchised. Under the current system there is literally no way to tell how big the problem is.

We also need to get rid of this president and his long tradition of trampling on the rights of women. The right to be treated as an individual, to not be thought of as a single radical left voting bloc that only cares about free birth control and being able to kill their babies anytime from conception until shortly after birth. The right to a stable economy. The right to a rising family income. The right to a good job. The right to an affordable education. The right to choose. To choose how to raise their own families. To choose what to feed their children for lunch. To choose whether their minor daughters are given the morning after pill at school, without their consent or even knowledge. The right to choose their own healthcare. The right to choose the schools their children go to and how those schools are run. They have a right to a nation that is strong enough to protect them from outside threats. They have a right to a president that is willing to choose his job over campaigning, to meet with his jobs council ever while unemployment is out of control, to actually attend his security briefings rather than skip them and let things get missed and directly cause the murder of 4 Americans in Libya. They have the right to the freedom to practice their religion even when the president doesn't agree with their beliefs. Once more the list goes on and on.

And you are right that the full dignity of the LGBTQI (I don't even know what those last two letters mean) should be preserved. Of course to my knowledge there have been no issues with their rights other than the governmental acceptance of homosexual marriage. And since the government IS the people of the United States. And the people of at least 32 of the United States have spoken and said that they don't feel it should be recognized. The right to get married wasn't taken away, they can still get married in any Church willing to perform the ceremony and they can tell anyone they want they are married.

Interesting how the left is trying to change the language. You want to call illegal aliens undocumented immigrants. That is completely false. An immigrant is someone who comes here legally through the proper channels. I have had the good fortune to know many legal immigrants to the United States from all over the world. Just off the top of my head, I have been close with people who came here from Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, India, Nigeria, El Salvador, Honduras, and Scotland. With one exception they have been hard workers that have added a lot to this country. The girl from Nigeria specifically worked a full time job for me in a technical call center. Then worked every night and weekend in the store she and her husband owned and had another business on the side. All of them, even the one shiftless lay about, who is still living off of his hard working and successful parents at 30, love this country and know how great it is to live here. Do a lot of illegal aliens come here and work hard? yep. But does that justify them breaking the law? nope. Does that justify those that also come here and become criminals? a big no.

It is also interesting how some people keep calling for us to ease our immigration policy especially for people from Mexico and central and south America when those countries have much much harsher laws and penalties regarding immigration than we do. Do you have any clue what is going on on the border between Brazil and Paraguay right now? if we tried that people would be losing their minds.

And I also agree with you that we should be helping the poor. The only way to do this is to throw out the unsuccessful person in the white house and his so called policies and get this economy going again. Then we can implement things like school choice, we can get the teachers unions out of the system by releasing control of schools at the national level, and turning it back to the states and more importantly back to the local level. Only local school administrators and teachers and parents can make the best decisions for what will work in their school. No one can come up with a policy that will be good for an inner city Chicago school and a rural Kentucky school at the same time so why does anyone think that it is a good idea to try?

I think that it is important that we do not let the left own the vocabulary that we use when we discuss issues. Conservative principles adress all concerns and improve the lives and freedoms of all citizens.