Entitlement

Dear, Mr. President, Senators, Members of Congress, and the National News Media,

Please stop referring to Social Security and Medicare as "entitlements". The government of the United States of America did not give the people the right or claim to the money in these programs. American workers entrusted this money to the Federal Government for the specific purpose of having the government safeguard that money for their retirement and for medical needs upon reaching a specified age.
This money belongs to the people who invested in the programs. The Federal Government broke the trust with the people by changing the laws to access and spend that money in ways other than intended at the inception of these programs.
The government made it into an entitlement for some by allowing many who did not contribute to the programs to collect from them.
We are forced to contribute to these programs and forced to let the same government which has mismanaged and corrupted them, continue to make financial decisions which will affect our futures.
With an abundance of wasteful expenditures in the federal budget, why do you all insist that these programs must be cut? Consider that Social Security and Medicare are entitlements in as much as we paid into these programs so we are are entitled to be paid back.

Cancerous Government Expansion

As Americans we need to ask ourselves how we allowed a government that did very little very well grow into this monstrosity that does so much so poorly. We need to return our government into what it was intended to be, very small yet very effective. Small, because the people are the real government and effective because it is divided into three separate branches each with limited power and authority in order to prevent corruption and abuse. Over the last one hundred years we have allowed our government to extend beyond the ideals on which it was founded, to reach into all aspects of our lives, and to become a drain on our prosperity.

The deficit is not this country’s biggest problem, what we have allowed our government to do is the biggest problem we face in the USA. If we can reduce the size of the government, the size of the deficit and the cost of operating the government will also be reduced. We need to cut back the size and scope of our government, not by reducing the budgets of various agencies and departments, but by eliminating them. A doctor does not cut away part of a cancerous tumor, he removes it entirely. We need to cut away the intrusive and ineffective tumors that have grown in our government. The government employs many people who produce nothing, but restrict the production of citizens who strive to succeed. The United States was created by and has prospered from the individual freedoms of our people, the same freedoms which are being eliminated by the expansion of government.

self-perpetuating weapon of mass destruction

For centuries scientists have been trying to create a perpetual motion machine; a device that would continue to operate indefinitely. Science will never create such a machine, it is impossible for a mechanical device to be self-perpetuating.

However, I believe that man has created the perpetual motion system….liberal government. Once this form of government is set in motion there is no known way to stop it. It expands into all aspects of life growing ever larger and ever more voracious. Furthermore it is the most devastating weapon of mass destruction ever conceived. This interminable parasite will feed on the wealth of its subjects until the subjugated population is weakened and must rely on the government which then grows more extensive and controlling, requiring more sustenance from fewer sources until it has extinguished all wealth and prosperity.

What happens next? I imagine that it will turn on itself and cannibalize the weaker parts until it has destroyed even itself. If we continue on the course we have allowed our government to take, we may soon find out.

drowning the lifegaurd

Since its inception, the media has done a good job of portraying the TEA Party as radical extremists. I don’t consider myself or any of the TEA Party people that I know as radical, unless the concept of reducing the size of the government and lowering taxes is considered extreme, then, I admit and embrace it.

The latest hysteria from the media is over the TEA Party’s stance on the federal budget. They claim that the TEA party wants to take medicine from the sick and food from the hungry. This is simply not true. While the call for smaller government includes reductions in programs that provide assistance, this does not necessarily mean cutting aid to those in need. By reducing the amount of bureaucracy and administration, costs could be substantially reduced without cutting services.

My thoughts on government aid are best described by the analogy of a lifeguard rescuing a drowning man: The first thing a lifeguard is taught is to not let himself become a drowning victim by being overwhelmed by the person he is attempting to rescue. If a person is struggling and flailing about, you offer your hand but keep it just out of reach, the drowning victim’s lunges become focused and controlled and soon he is actually swimming. If a person is too weak to swim or falters in the attempt, he is given a floatation device or a placed in a rescue hold and guided to shore where he can stand on his own.

The government should help people get back on their feet, but many government assistance programs are designed to let people put their feet up and stop trying. When people find that they are better off financially by remaining on government assistance than if they find work for themselves, they don’t even try to become financially independent*. This is fraud and abuse of the system. The government is not meant to support people indefinitely, only to help them to until they can help themselves. The lifeguard is being drowned!

*Check out this link to support this statement

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/entitlement-america-head-household-making-minimum-wage-has-more-disposable-income-family-mak

EPA

The EPA was once a necessary agency to lead in the fight to reduce environmental pollutants and protect the health of the nation. It is now an unregulated bureaucracy which is over stepping the purpose for which it was created, specifically to write and enforce regulations based on laws passed by Congress. Now it is being used to circumvent Congress to enact laws are politically motivated not environmentally sound.

For the Children....

Can't you see the snake oil salesmen?
If anybody markets any law, regulation or product as "for our children" or "to protect the children" it is enthusiastically embraced and supported. If anyone speaks out against such a product or proposal they must hate children, they want them to suffer.
Get real.
We all want the best for our children, and for children in general. You can't keep them safe by wrapping them in bubble plastic or isolating them from reality. You can't help them become healthy, happy, competent adults by pampering them or giving in to their every desire.
We need to teach them that:
There are winners and losers.
Winning is better.
Losing teaches us to try harder and to improve.
Teach them to be fair and honest, and that not everybody is.
Teach them:
That there are bad and dangerous people and things in the world.
How to avoid what should be avoided.
How to stand up to things that need to be challenged.
Not to follow anyone or anything blindly.
To keep and open mind.
To question things.
How to be self reliant, and to trust their own judgment.
And most importantly, teach them that all things must be earned.

....and lower standards for all.

By lowering the qualifications or abilities required of persons hired to perform a certain job, we are not creating more qualified personnel, rather we are hiring more unqualified people.

By forcing the Dayton Ohio police department to lower the testing standards for recruits, the federal government, specifically the DOJ, is forcing the city to hire unqualified or under qualified people as police officers. While this may fill the rosters, does it make the people of Dayton any more safe? I believe that it may actually create unsafe situations as the police work in high stress dangerous conditions.

I hope the DOE doesn’t lower the testing standards for power plant operators.

The report states that “It's a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam.” Requiring the same testing of all applicants is equality. The decision by DOJ goes against the Supreme Court ruling on the case of New Haven, CT. Firefighters who were denied promotions because there were not enough minorities who passed the exam.

The only discrimination I see in this type of action is by the DOJ, who by forcing a lowering of testing standards is implying that minorities cannot meet the current requirements.

http://abc.daytonsnewssource.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wkef_vid_6103.shtml

Governor Malloy takes the easy way out and calls it “the tough decision”

After the latest Quinnipiac poll showed that 51% of voters disapprove of his budget "plan" Governor Dannel Malloy stated "this is why the past couple of governors refused to make the tough decisions that needed to be made: because tough decisions often aren’t popular ones."
Mr. Malloy, reaching deeper into the tax payers’ pockets is not making a tough decision. You are doing the easiest thing, giving same old big government response.
This budget proposal would increase spending by $900 million over the next two years. Reducing the amount by which you intended to increase spending, IS NOT cutting spending!
Make some substantive cuts to the bloated monstrosity of state government!
If you are interested in making some actual tough decisions and doing some genuine budget reform you might want to look at what Gov. Scott Walker is doing.

Hey Danny, POOR decisions are also often unpopular!