For all the people who asked what I'd like for
Christmas this year:
I'd like my Country back!
I'm sick of watching president Obama (yes I used a
little "P" purposely for President). If he wants my respect, he'll
have to earn it. But he's too busy
making the USA look like a bunch of wimps. When Paris was attacked, he could
have strapped on a set and helped send a message. But he didn't.
He calls it Foreign Policy- I call it posing.
Why go
to all those countries and schmooze? Why go to expensive dinners and balls so
that Michelle can put on another gown and talk about hunger ? It's
preposterous.
Why have all those meetings of "diplomatic importance"?
Pick up the damn phone, say what you need to say, cut out the caterers, the
ballroom dancing, the tuxes and the parties. As far as I’m concerned, we don’t
need to be over there trying to tell them what they’re doing right or wrong
anyway. Let them figure it out. It’s certainly not as if we’ve got our national
debt, homelessness and war issues all resolved.
But according to Obama, Isis is under control. So is
ISIL. Pick a letter... any letter Vanna... call it what you want- it's a
Radical Muslim group who hates us and no matter what you call it, they are not
under control!
Trim our welfare- Keep it simple. If you want to
receive money for food and paid health insurance,
then you should get a job. If you are able to work, then you should. If you are
able to father a few kids, you probably are healthy enough to do other things.
If you are a woman able to endure the pain of labor, you are probably able to
labor in other ways as well.
Why should my taxes pay for your babies? Why
should I have to work so they send you a monthly check when you sit on your
butt, eating welfare cheese, milk, eggs and beef doing drugs and living in free
housing while I can’t afford to buy a bottle of boxed wine to celebrate my kids
graduation from high school? But I have to skimp because I need the money to
pay for college tuition. I skimp so I won't be late on my mortgage payments.
But you get a free smart phone, free housing,
free insurance, and even a nice little credit card to buy your groceries with
that replaces those old welfare food stamps....because we wouldn't want to
stigmatize you in line at the grocery store. This way no one can tell it's a
welfare card because it looks exactly like the high-interest card I have to pay
for to get me by from month to month so I can make peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches while you eat steak!
Sorry if I sound a little pissed, but maybe we all
need to finally voice our concerns.
Many of us work in jobs that require us to take drug
tests to keep our jobs. My brother is in the service. Service members take
random drug tests to make sure our military aren’t under the influence.
If they don’t
pass, guess, what? They lose their job and all the nice government benefits
that go with it. It’s not an
infringement of his rights. It’s a job requirement. If you don’t like the
rules, don’t play the game.
I feel the same way for welfare recipients. You should
have to pass a drug test if you want to continue receiving benefits. Hell, ramp
it up a bit and throw in a pregnancy test too for all those unwed moms looking
for more in their checks each month because they’ve got another mouth to feed.
The rules would be simple. Pee in a cup, you’re clean, pick up a check.
You’re not- oh well- try again next
month!
So sorry, but I don’t feel like paying for your drug
habit or your promiscuity.
Others have
had this idea too; I can’t take credit, but the government hasn't passed it
because they say it’s too expensive to test, or too much of a hardship for people to go to the place to
test.
Some say it’s not constitutional.
To all those people I say "Bull
Shit!"
It wouldn’t
be too expensive because think of all the people we’d weed out who are
currently getting paid to do nothing every month.
If it’s too hard for someone
to go to an office once a month to pick up a check, ask yourself why?
Do you
get out of bed every work day and find a way to get to your place of employment
to get a check?
Is it really too much to ask someone to make it there one time
in 30 days drug-free to get free money? If so, then I rest my case- They don’t
deserve it! And that’s just how I feel about welfare checks. Let me now get on to housing.
When half of
this country is in foreclosure or one month’s mortgage away from it, how can we
keep allowing people who don’t even work to live for free on our tax dollars?
Don’t worry, I’m not suggesting we should kick them to the curb. Homelessness
is enough of a problem in this country- but there should be guidelines as to
who gets to live in “free housing” and who doesn’t.
Ask yourself this- when people have worked 20 plus
years and paid taxes for all that time, and suddenly find themselves out of a
job because the economy is in such a mess that cutbacks have been made,
shouldn't they get a break?
When Mr. Employee
of the year is let go to save overhead, should he be the one thrown out of his
home because he doesn’t now have regular income to make a house payment on the
home he’s owned for 20 years and has made regular payments on and who planned
on owning it free and clear in the next 10?
Or should the crack-head down the street with 3
unmarried girlfriends and their babies living with him and his drug buddies be
the one without a roof over his head? But they won't be kicked out. No, it will
be Mr. Responsible Taxpayer who has his home foreclosed on and sold out from
under him.
If you want to fix homelessness issues, stop providing homes to the
ones who don't deserve it and let the ones who do keep theirs.
Now I realize that not every person living in free
housing or “subsidized housing as it is called” have drug habits or tons of illegitimate
children. Some may just be down on their luck and struggling to get back into
the workplace- and for those of you- Congratulations. I commend you on looking
for employment and trying to get out.
But for the majority who are simply sponging off the
system, I think there should be guidelines met to continue to live in free
housing.
Oh sure, I realize there are “guidelines" now,
a checklist that you check off if you don't make very much income. Which just
makes you want to hide what you do make because if you go over that amount, you
can’t live in free homes. But really, does that system make sense?
Think about it.
Right now, our system is set up so that if you don’t show enough
income, guess what- you qualify to live in our country in a free home with free
food. And if you have kids, even if you yourself are an illegal, we’ll take
care of them too…but only so long as you don’t work too hard or make too much
money- cause if you prove you’re a hard working contributing member of society-
then I’m sorry, but we’ll have to cut you off and figure that you can now
sufficiently care for your own.
Huh? Does
that make sense?
Of course not, but yet that’s what we’re doing in
America.
No wonder everybody wants to come here to the land
of the free. They get everything for free! And Obama keeps opening the doors
wider and wider.
Our country is not supposed to be a socialist
country....at least it wasn't founded that way.
We are supposed to work for what we earn.
I don't work so that the guy
down the street can be lazy and collect welfare and live in free housing, I
work because I have to survive. He's in better health than me.
Why should he
get food and a home when our proud Veterans who lost life and limb protecting
our rights have no homes or benefits because our government keeps saying we
can't afford it?
Why should my parents and grandparents worry about social
security benefits when they paid out of their paychecks week after week to be
able to collect when they could no longer work?
Why do our congressman, senate
reps and ex Presidents get paid after their short term in office, but they say our budget can't afford to pay the people
who worked all their lives putting their hard-earned dollars into the same
system paying their retirement?
They say our government can't afford to pay for
all these people who now need social security, yet they aren't cutting their
government annual salary or benefits.
But though they claim our US Govt. is out
of money, they pave the way to allow more and more immigrants to come into our
country.
Invite them if they come to work. Invite them if
they like Americans.
But
for God's sake, don't go out of your way to roll out the red carpet if they
want to burn our flags, kill our people and chastise my cross.
And don't act
like we don't know who they are. They tell us quite clearly.
Obama may not
care, but I do. If they don't like what the USA stands for (or at least what it
used to represent), then stay the hell out.
But if you still insist on letting some of them in,
then do so with explicit screening.
Make them take the Citizenship test and
pass it to stay here.
If they have a Work Visa, make sure you follow them while
they are in this country, so they leave when the Visa expires, if they don't
become citizens.
If they become a citizen and actually contribute
through taxes, effort and patriotism to our government and nation, I will
proudly and lovingly welcome them to my country.
But don't expect me to welcome them if they don't
plan on working.
I can't afford to send my kids to college, yet our
Country pays for their kids to go to college along with housing, food, and
medical expenses while mine get nothing.
They get scholarships while I get student loan debt.
And mine were born here!
I work. I pay taxes. I contribute. But I'm sick of
doing it all for the common good of people who quite commonly just come over
here and get everything for free!
Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
If you want to have a roof over your head- help
build it. You want the community to pay for your comfort- great-I’m all for it-
join the community and pick up a hammer and help fix up the projects you call
home.
If you want a home, you should
have to do what every other homeowner and renter does- make payments, make
repairs and take care of your property.
If you can’t do it with monetary
payments- you can do it with your time and effort. If you are able to sit and
watch TV, you should be able to volunteer and help teach kids to read or do
homework or pass on some other life skill that doesn't include making pipe
bombs.
If you can't read or write- well take a class.
But please- learn English.
It's America. We speak English. We write English.
We
do not travel to other countries and expect them to speak English in Spain,
Italy or Germany. We expect them to speak their native language of Spanish,
Italian or German.
Comprende?...Kapeesh? ...Verstehen? Understand?
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
I wish we'd take our country back, put God first
again, and impeach Obama.
That my friends is what I want for Christmas this
year.
My favorite Bible verse is Jeremiah 29:11. -"I
know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "Plans to prosper
you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
I pray that those plans are for our country as well
because it looks pretty bleak right now and I hope for a future for us all!
Feel free to share if you think that would be the
best Christmas gift ever!
Sincerely,
Tammy Fitzherbert
