State of Affairs.

[vbroker]

"I'm Tired" by Robert A. Hall, five term Massachusetts State Senator and USMC Vet; written February 2009.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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 Christian 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.

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.

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.

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 three 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.

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.

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 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.

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.

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.

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.

I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois, where the " Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet as well.

I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers, and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.

I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.

[eagle]

me tired too .... :roll:

[PowerPoof]

I'm tired more...

[Teddy]

I'm a little snoozy myself.

[iBatch]

im sick and tired of always being sick and tired..

[DANNO]

..v broker...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[GAV]

Me, I'm re tired :wink:

[beej]

Yawn.

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[LakeGeneve]

I read the first line and fell alseep.....

[koolbreez]

I'm tired of the hypocrits. The beer drinking, highschool graduate Catholics, that seem to think their minority views represent the majority of America.

Granted fundementalist religions aren't accepted because of their violent actions against those that oppose them, but In my view a Catholic pedophile priest is just as guilty, not because they cause physical damage, but because the mental damage they cause is most of the time allot worse, and the church just turns a blind eye, and moves them to a different part of the country. Show me the difference.

I'm tired of beer drinking alcoholics, that contribute untold cost to our health system, from degrading someone that smokes a little weed.

But most of all, I'm tired of those that can't accept the fact that their way of racist good old boy corruption, and collusion is over. Get used to the fact that the majority is tired of your war mongering ways, and are no longer wanted. Your generation put us in the mess we are in, yet you are to stupid to see it. The final cost to clean up your greed is still being determined.

[beej]

koolbreeze..... its better to just yawn.

[iBatch]

nite nite everyone....

[Admin_2]

I'm tired of this heat. Bring the rain!!

[vbroker]

I'm tired of the hypocrits. The beer drinking, highschool graduate Catholics, that seem to think their minority views represent the majority of America.

"High school graduate Catholics?" No college grads or Master/Juris/Doctors in there, huh? Minority views? Clueless......

Granted fundementalist religions aren't accepted because of their violent actions against those that oppose them, but In my view a Catholic pedophile priest is just as guilty, not because they cause physical damage, but because the mental damage they cause is most of the time allot worse, and the church just turns a blind eye, and moves them to a different part of the country. Show me the difference.

Did you also just read the first line and have an aneurysm? So there's no difference between a few very bad animals who called themselves priests and say, a homicide bomber engaging "jihad?" Shall we start with life and death?

I'm tired of beer drinking alcoholics, that contribute untold cost to our health system, from degrading someone that smokes a little weed.

I don't like bad drunks either. A little weed? There are over 1000 "medical marijuana" shops in LA alone. I could care less if someone wants to smoke a little or a lot. So it's the "alcoholics" that are straining U.S. ER's; not the over 20,000,000 uninsured illegals here, hmm? That's interesting.....

But most of all, I'm tired of those that can't accept the fact that their way of racist good old boy corruption, and collusion is over.

"Racist good old boy corruption" would be an accurate description of where Obama and his Chicago community agitator machine operate. But of course the intention is to now describe conservatives as racists. Yeah....the "comeuppance" is coming.

Get used to the fact that the majority is tired of your war mongering ways, and are no longer wanted.

Aww.....poor liberal..........

Your generation put us in the mess we are in, yet you are to stupid to see it. The final cost to clean up your greed is still being determined.

"Go f*ck yourself" seems to be the only language the simpleton liberal seems to understand. Logic doesn't work; it takes half a brain. So be it....

[CiaranM]

Logic doesn't work; it takes half a brain. So be it....

half a brain .... well that's u and ur nazi mates f**ked then ... isn't it !!!

[vbroker]

Logic doesn't work; it takes half a brain. So be it....

half a brain .... well that's u and ur nazi mates f**ked then ... isn't it !!!

I'll be charitable today and help a sad sap: Nazi literally defined is National SOCIALIST. So the Nazis are what you get when liberalism runs amok as it's starting to here, Super Genius. Guess what the first thing Hitler did as he seized power? Nationalized health care! Time for the drink and stumble!!

[CiaranM]

Logic doesn't work; it takes half a brain. So be it....

half a brain .... well that's u and ur nazi mates f**ked then ... isn't it !!!

I'll be charitable today and help a sad sap: Nazi literally defined is National SOCIALIST. So the Nazis are what you get when liberalism runs amok as it's starting to here, Super Genius. Guess what the first thing Hitler did as he seized power? Nationalized health care! Time for the drink and stumble!!

retards like U wouldn't know what Socialism is even if it jumped up and bit u on the ass !!!!! :roll:

[eagle]

Its a horrible state of affairs when a few try to take a word and make it an evil thing to label people and then attack. Like McCarthyism ruining innocent peoples lives in the past now its socialism and progressivism. Nazi represents fascism at its extreme and the interesting thing about the tea baggers Glenn Beck and that type of thinker is they are what they are calling everyone else. Twisted minds of empty vessels too willing to hate when someone tells them what to think. Anyone who thinks the Nazis were a socialist group is too lost for help :shock:

[beej]

Logic doesn't work; it takes half a brain. So be it....

half a brain .... well that's u and ur nazi mates f**ked then ... isn't it !!!

I'll be charitable today and help a sad sap: Nazi literally defined is National SOCIALIST. So the Nazis are what you get when liberalism runs amok as it's starting to here, Super Genius. Guess what the first thing Hitler did as he seized power? Nationalized health care! Time for the drink and stumble!!

Do you have any idea how amazingly good it is to have 100% FREE health care for everyone?

Being able to walk into a hospital and get treated, no matter where you're from, what your background, with no ID, or even an address.

Humane.

[beej]

**** I just fed the troll.

[eagle]

f*ck I just fed the troll.

if the trolls didn't get fed where would we be

[eagle]

Logic doesn't work; it takes half a brain. So be it....

half a brain .... well that's u and ur nazi mates f**ked then ... isn't it !!!

I'll be charitable today and help a sad sap: Nazi literally defined is National SOCIALIST. So the Nazis are what you get when liberalism runs amok as it's starting to here, Super Genius. Guess what the first thing Hitler did as he seized power? Nationalized health care! Time for the drink and stumble!!

Do you have any idea how amazingly good it is to have 100% FREE health care for everyone?

Being able to walk into a hospital and get treated, no matter where you're from, what your background, with no ID, or even an address.

Humane.

If man is as inundated with pestilence as predicted by some they will have no choice other then treat people free. I'm amazed at how many wait for the end with smiles, their ticket ready for the next stop, while the earth goes to ruins.

[iBatch]

What channel is the Woman's Beach Volleyball Tournament on again?

[koolbreez]

It's a pretty typical response from an out of touch, brain washed (brain wasted), Rush Limbah listening conservative to come up with the only logical answer he can think of, because he's never done any research himself, "go f*ck youself".....lololol. you are so out of touch it is hillarious.

I'm also tired of bigots that can't stand the fact that the largest voting win since Regan elected a Black man....lolol. There was no need to recount questionable hanging tabs, like Bush's stolen win, because the winning vote was clearly unquestionable about who the majority of the people wanted in office.

Like I said, tired of the good-old-boy war mongering conservatives that put this country in the shape it's in now. Starting an unjustified war off of disproven intelegence. Deregulating the financial institutions so they could sell worthless insurance protecting their morgage options. A vise president that shot his friend because he had no clue how to safely handle a weapon....lolol, and that has absolutely no clue on how much the use of alcohol cost society, missed work, spousel abuse, drunk driving deaths, insurance cost increases for everyone, long term health care costs way past the cost of a few ER cases.

It's so sad to see such out of touch minorities as yourself.........lolol. All I can do with any conscience is laugh at your ineptitude, because you really have no clue........lololol.

[eagle]

It's a pretty typical response from an out of touch, brain washed (brain wasted), Rush Limbah listening conservative to come up with the only logical answer he can think of, because he's never done any research himself, "go f*ck youself".....lololol. you are so out of touch it is hillarious.

I'm also tired of bigots that can't stand the fact that the largest voting win since Regan elected a Black man....lolol. There was no need to recount questionable hanging tabs, like Bush's stolen win, because the winning vote was clearly unquestionable about who the majority of the people wanted in office.

Like I said, tired of the good-old-boy war mongering conservatives that put this country in the shape it's in now. Starting an unjustified war off of disproven intelegence. Deregulating the financial institutions so they could sell worthless insurance protecting their morgage options. A vise president that shot his friend because he had no clue how to safely handle a weapon....lolol, and that has absolutely no clue on how much the use of alcohol cost society, missed work, spousel abuse, drunk driving deaths, insurance cost increases for everyone, long term health care costs way past the cost of a few ER cases.

It's so sad to see such out of touch minorities as yourself.........lolol. All I can do with any conscience is laugh at your ineptitude, because you really have no clue........lololol.

You have to look at the logic dude. Nazi means socialist so anyone for an enhanced agenda for social reasons ,which would be most everything that has to do with people, would then be a dangerous socialist. Obama is a socialist so they even call him a nazi. A black nazi might seem odd but if you follow the logic. Only takes 2 brain cells to connect the obvious.....