What do I want for Christmas?

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