And now you know...

I just posted a video on my facebook page which finally puts many of the thoughts that have been rattling around my head in focus. It was a video of the tea party protests in Chicago on April 15, where people of many different backgrounds, ideas, religions, races, and political leanings gathered to tender their disgust with what they felt was a betrayal by a man many of them had voted for.

Not Evil, just Wrong. I guess this is how i am trying to sum up my feelings about many of my friends and relatives. These people have big hearts, care about others, want the world to be a better place, ect. My problem with them begins with this Ronald Reagan quote "when the government gives someone a dollar, they had to take it from someone else first". Because of the promises that our current leader makes, these folks believe that if they just give the government more power and money, it will solve their problems and the problems of others. After all, this is a new administration, right?

They are socialists. Some do not know it, but they are nonetheless. They will even argue that they are not, but believe in every socialist idea that moved down from D.C. Government controls on pay, government run health care, controls on prices, control of our thermostats, control of the news we get.

I love these people, i honestly think that most of them just want the things i have previously outlined. But to think that the government can just create jobs (hasnt happened yet), or fix the environment (how many more liberals like John Edwards and Al Gore will we find have a larger carbon footprint than ANY of us?), or tax our nation into prosperity is just wrong.

Socialism as a growth vehicle is a failed enterprise, and leads to lack of initiative, invention, and progress. I point to the Union example. I worked in a union, and no matter how hard i worked, i would never get more pay than the guy who came in and napped most of the day. Why? Because according to the union, "we are all equal". Maybe in the sight of God, but not necessarily in the workforce. And this is not to bash unions, but it is the hallmark of socialism to let everyone settle into mediocrity.