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Sun Aug-29-10 03:55 PM
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How Tea Partiers Think - "I'm Tired!"

Edited on Sun Aug-29-10 04:42 PM by IndianaJoe

I ran across this "I'm Tired" screed and thought I'd share it. I think it's instructive. I think it synopsizes what bugs the Tea Party types and why they can't bring themselves to accept Obama in office or a Democratic Congress. I threw in my own editorial comments.

I'm Tired - Donald Hall

I�ll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce,` and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I�ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven�t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn�t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there�s no retirement in sight, and I�m tired. Very tired.

(The message: I work damn hard and nobody else does).

I�m tired of being told that I have to �spread the wealth around� to people` who don�t have my work ethic. I�m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.

(The message: People in government are taking my money and giving it away to people who don�t deserve it.)

I�m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to �keep people in their homes.� Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I�m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.

(The message: Why should I help the same people whose stupid mistakes created their problems. Additional message: It was the liberals that created the housing bubble).

I�m tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros, and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela . Won�t multiculturalism be beautiful?

(The message: Multiculturalism is evil. Hollywood is evil. Left wing millionaires hate America. They want to do things that will make America a �third world country.�)

I�m tired of being told that Islam is a �Religion of Peace,� when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family �honor�; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christians and Jews because they aren�t �believers�; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for �adultery�; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur�an and Shari�a law tells them to.

(Message: Islam is an evil religion and all Muslims are evil)

I believe �a man should be judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin.� I�m tired of being told that �race doesn�t matter� in the post-racial world of Obama, when it�s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of US Senators from Illinois.

(Message: The blacks are getting over on honest white people through affirmative action)

I think it�s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.

(Message: We have the wrong black in the White House. Obama doesn�t believe in freedom or individuality. He is arrogant and believes in �government�)

I�m tired of a news media that thinks Bush�s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama�s, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush�s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with two years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn�t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

(Message: The media is �liberal� (except for Fox News) and wrongfully giving Obama a �free pass� The press is biased against Republicans. Fox is the only place where we can get the truth).

I�m tired of being told that out of �tolerance for other cultures� we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue, or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

(Message: Our tolerance of other cultures breeds hate and endangers America).

I�m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global` warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 2% of Al Gore�s, and if you�re greener than Gore, you�re green enough.

(Message: Al Gore is a hypocrite, global warming is a suspect proposition. My family and I don�t contribute to global warming anyway � so why should I care about it?)

I�m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don�t think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I�m tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

(Message: Drug addicts aren�t sick, they�re morally weak, and they should simply pay the consequences for their poor choices. Marijuana is an �entry� drug to more serious drug use. Jailing all drug offenders is therefore logical.)

I�m tired of illegal aliens being called �undocumented workers,� especially the ones who aren�t working, but are living on welfare or crime. What�s next? Calling drug dealers, Undocumented Pharmacists�? And, no, I�m not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it�s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I�m willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn�t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military� Those are the citizens we need.

(Lots of Messages here: Aliens are mostly Catholics. Catholics have traditionally hated Protestants and want to kill them for their religion. Aliens are too often criminals and welfare cheats. Those that aren�t working (but we don't like them working either, because they take our jobs, don't they?) unfairly take welfare and turn to crime. They don�t pull their weight and we have to subsidize them. If they worked (and we should make it as hard for them to find jobs as possible) or joined the army, I'd favor citizenship for them. )

I�m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here�s the deal. I�ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we�ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

(Message: Liberals are unpatriotic. They would never serve in the armed forces or encourage their children to. They are unfairly critical of "collateral damage". That's just part of war. There is no moral equivalence when we torture people and when Al Qaeda does it. When we do it, it�s for the right reasons. When they do it, it isn't. Torture's OK. It just depends on who's doing it and what the rationale for it is).