My liberal cousin

Hi Everyone,

Seriously - It's time to stop being so anti-government:
(Sure, now that your guys are in charge. Where was this sentiment when the radical leftists in this country were screaming bloody murder about Bush monitoring phone calls from the U.S. to enemy countries, and vice versa? The left was positively apoplectic thinking the govt. was going to listen in on their phone calls- as if any one cares about liberals waxing eloquently about their insane hatred for Karl Rove, their Palin Derangement Syndrome, or which third party dictator Sean Penn is coddling up to this week. The left can have a conniption about the U.S. govt. holding jihadists in Guantanamo Bay without proper legal representation, which is reserved solely for U.S. citizens, but liberal friends of mine send me a government link lauding the supposed benefits of a government run, socialist, unconstitutional health care system, and then fail to see the blatant irony…unbelievable.)

We are AMERICANS, and please remember that we are the greatest nation in the world.
(Your liberal buddies aren’t going to like that statement. Maybe you didn’t get the memo from the NY Times, but America is an evil, imperialistic, racist, oppressive country. Obama spent the fist half of his first year apologizing to the rest of the world for our audacity, cruelness, and hubris. Remember, it was solely liberals who were asking after 9/11, “Why do they hate us? What did we do?”)

Because our government is here to protect EVERYONE - the rich and the poor.
(The rich? Since when? Go see the new Oliver Stone Wall Street movie and let me know how the rich are portrayed. I love Hollywood’s hypocrisy here. Every movie James Cameron has done has had an evil corporation in it. And how often has ‘big business’ and Wall Street been vilified by the left wing media in this country? …ad nauseum….)

If you are American then you should feel comfortable in the fact that our government is in place TO PROTECT US ALL.
(Then why don’t we protect our borders? Why do we release prisoners from Gitmo only so they can re-enter the battlefield in the war against us? Why did Barack tell our enemies he will never use nukes under any circumstances?)

I'm done with white, middle-class or upper-class civilians complaining about being over-taxed and the government is moving to Socialism.
(I take it you don’t read the liberal rag called Newsweek-“We Are All Socialists Now.”)

Stop it. Our country is rooted in Democracy and always will be.
(Our country is a republic.)

I am EMBARRASED as an American that any TRUE citizen would be so critical of the government to go down this path.
(Where were you between 2000 to 2008?)

All Tea Party members should be embarrased in they way they are acting towards our government.
(What did you think of the war protestors who were blocking shipments intended for our troops? Should they have been mortified? TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already. Why is it a crime to defend your own wallet?)

Seriously, as a Republican - and most of you are - quit being so bitter that you lost the election. My God - you all act and talk like Stalin has just been elected President.
(Like you guys did when Gore lost? Maybe you didn’t see the vitriol coming from the Democrats and left wing nuts after 2000, but that is because you are devoted to a corrupt media which actively conspires to hide such things. “We need to spread the wealth.”-Barack Obama.)

I continue to hear about how Clinton and Carter (30+ years ago!!!) are the cause of all of your woes. Do any of you realize that the Health Care Plan protects all citizens? That health care costs & premiums have gone up 400% while the service we recieve is the same? Why aren't more people complaing about that? My chiropractor just charged my insurance company $440 for a simple visit. OMG!!!! She spent 10 minutes with me, and all she did was crack my back!!! I challange anyone who complains about the new health-care plan to look at the bill that their providor sends to your insurance company. Health care charges are out of control, so don't give me any crap about free-enterprise.
(You can go to another insurance company or another chiropractor, and it is the trial lawyers- the largest contributors to the Democrat party- that make healthcare so expensive vis-à-vis frivolous lawsuits. If you think things are bad now wait until there is a government monopoly on health care. Don’t make perfect the enemy of good. Libs with their good intentions invariably make things worse and worse for everyone. What about tort reform? Where is the left on that?)

The President's job is to do what is in the best interest of every CITIZEN in this country.
(The President’s job is not to be a crusader for justice. His primary responsibility is to protect us from enemies. If Barack wants to be Robin Hood, then he’s in the wrong line of work. If this is a sincere intention on their part, then why do all of the politicians in D.C. exclude themselves from the same rules they implement on we the people?!))

I'm sorry if the upper-class feel as though they are being "shouldered with the burdeon of the poor", but in the past 40 years their taxes have been REDUCED 5 TIMES MORE (as a percentage, which equalizes every argument) more than the poor. The latest increase IS STILL LESS THAN IT WAS BACK IN THE REGAN ERA. At the end of the day, how many CITIZENS are being negaively affected vs. positivelty?
(47% of Americans pay no federal income tax. Again it is not the government’s job to,”Redistribute the wealth.” “I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”-Thomas Jefferson.

I hear the complaint that the poor are "taking advantage of the system", and I say this - how many of us try to find EVERY loophole in the tax system to reduce our tax burdon? All of us. Who has said "I pay too little in taxes"? How many people realize that over 12.6% of Americans - AMERICANS - live under poverty conditions. We should all be ashamed at that stat, instead of saying "it's their fault."
(You can’t legislate prosperity. Besides, the ‘poor’ in this country live better than European royalty did just 200 years ago. Define poverty.)

I understand that some "abuse" the system, but so do the "rich".
(Then reform the tax laws, but do not excuse bad behavior by saying, “The rich do it too.”)

If you're not embarrased with that stat, then you are self-centered.
(It is not self-centered to want to keep what is yours. You act like people are starving in the streets; this isn’t Somalia for Pete’s sake. And what’s with the name calling?)

I could contest that a lot more (and I'm sure it's closer to 100%) of citizens take advantage of every tax loophole that they can find. Can anyone say that they don't look for tax loopholes? So don't be so critical or others that do just because you make more money.
(Again, these people are just trying to prevent the government from taking too much of what is rightfully theirs…at least they earned it in the first place.)

We are the Land of Opportunity, not the Land of Live-or-Die by Your Own Means.
(Name one country in the world that does as much for the ‘poor’ that America does- Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Good Will, WIC, food stamps, worker’s comp, unemployment, The Salvation Army, Church donations, etc. etc. etc. Show me people dying in the streets from starvation.)

Disgraceful... If Tea Party Members say that we are moving towards a Socialist Society, then I say that they are leaning towards a Caste System, since under their ideology there is little opportinity for individuals to move out of the emnomic level tht they were born into.
(Get educated, marry before getting pregnant, stay out of trouble, work hard…no one is stopping them from following those basic, simple principles for success. If they fail after that, then there are systems in place to help. Why did Barack and the Dems not even address fraud until the Repubs brought it up? Shouldn’t that be a common sense concern right off the bat? Name one government utopian plan that cost as little as they said it would.)

I ask this - How AMERICAN are you if you care more about youself than your nation?
(“This war is lost.” Harry Reid. Bush devoted his presidency to protecting us and all the left did in this country was poke fun, besmirch him, and basically spit in his face. The Democrats, meanwhile, played disgusting political games.)

Shame on everyone that says that the government is getting to big, while corporations and banks (BIG BUSINESSES) are really the ones running the economy? Why do you think both Democrats & Republicans (Bush & Obama) voted in support of the bail-out packages of 2008 & 2009?
(Pretty high and mighty here. Read 1984. Big brother is coming in from the left. Do you really think the forefathers wanted the govt to control the health care system, companies like Chrysler & GE, or banks for Christ’s sakes?!)

When our forefathers started this government they never thought about the greed of BIG BUSINESS.
(Yes they did. They also wrote a Constitution that put limits on what the government can do to you. Obama publicly stated that he lamented the fact that the Constitution did not address what “the government can do FOR you.” Now that’s disgraceful. Look at how prejudiced you are against BIG BUSINESS. You’ve been conditioned to think they are the enemy. Why can’t you see that free-thinking Americans may see the government itself that same way? Governments throughout history have inevitably become oppressive. Until now, we guarded well against this based on our founding principles, which have only recently been trampled on by the most liberal administration in our nation’s history).

They never thought that an organization would put themself over a citizen. Why? Because back then - as AMERICANS - we were all equal and we supported each other.
(The election of 1800 was way nastier than the election of 2000. The Federalists and the Republicans hated each other’s f-ing guts back then.)

Now we all - Republicans and Democrats - have to make a STATEMENT to send a message. Unfortunately, it seems as though the Republicans - and especially the Tea Party - have taken their bitterness to a whole new level. Many say Socialism, I say Traitor.
(How come it is okay for you guys to call us traitors, but when we barely elude to it in regards to the unconscionable actions of the left, they cry, “You can’t call us traitors! You can’t call us unpatriotic!” Even Hillary Clinton said it was “patriotic” to dissent as she spewed forth a spittle induced anti-government tirade. The left threw temper tantrums for 8 solid years for frivolous reasons, and now when citizens assemble for serious threats to their liberties we’re just supposed to shut up and be ‘civil’. I swear liberals are the whiniest most hypocritical babies on the planet.)

If you are only happy when one party is in power, then YOU are anti-democracy.
(Uh, hello!!! Again, where the heck were you during the Bush presidency?! George Soros, MoveOn.Org, Media Matters,Cindy Sheehan, Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore, the entertainment industry, Ward Churchill, blah, blah, blah were tireless in their manic, paranoid, & vulgar tantrums for 8 frickin’ years.)

As bad as Democrats thought Bush was, they NEVER stooped to the level of disgrace that Republicans are right now.
(“This war is lost.” Harry Reid. “Bush is a traitor.” Al Gore. “This whole thing [WMDs] was a fraud.” Ted Kennedy. “Young American soldiers don’t need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, women…” John Kerry. John Murtha appeared on "Good Morning America" accusing United States Marines of “killing. . . innocent civilians in cold blood." And I could go on and on and on….)

Anti-government commercials on TV? Anti-government billboards? I am embarrased right now to be an American becasue of the anti-government HATRED that is going on right now.
(Gee, you sound eerily like first lady Michelle Obama. Were you “embarrassed” when Carter got screwed on national TV in regards to the Iranian hostage crisis? How about when Billy Boy pointed his condescending finger right at the American people and LIED about Monica? How about when he was impeached? Were you embarrassed then? How about when he was disbarred for perjury? Did that embarrass you? How about Gore and his Global Warming hoax? Does that embarrass you? How about when John Kerry said America had to pass some freaking “global test” before we could defend ourselves? How about John Edwards and his Clintonesque run arounds? How about Jesse Jackson and his out of wedlock love child?

How about when Obama said the police acted “stupidly” when he didn’t even know the facts? Were you embarrassed then? What about his joke on Letterman at the expense of the Special Olympics? Were you embarrassed when Barack gave Gordon Brown a set of cheesy DVDs that were not formatted to play on British DVD players? What about when he gave the Queen of England an iPod featuring his own speeches? How about his stunning need to bow to other world leaders like the Saudi King? Are you embarrassed that the President of the U.S. cannot properly pronounce “corpse?” What about the time he flew over NY City for a photo op at low altitude and scared the bejesus out of the citizenry there? How about…well, Joe Biden in general? He is a gaffe a minute. Were you in a coma that I didn’t know about at the turn of the millennium? The left was 100% railing against the govt and Bush’s “Nazi” regime.)

Our international power is WEAKENED right now because a minority of Americans are so bitter that they have to resort to twisting reality to sound good to threir "flock".
(Our international power is weakened because Obama treats our allies like shit, and literally bows to our enemies! Please, someone tell this stupid ass to quit bowing! The President of the United States does not bow!)

If you are so anti-health-care-reform then tell me the facts: How will it hurt you? Why will it hurt our Nation? Please prove to me - in non-political terms - the asumtion that our nation is so LAZY that more citizens would rather NOT than work to support their families? Because right now, all I see are a bunch of die-hard party members complaining because their party isn't making the decisions.
(We currently have the best health care system in the world; it is the envy of every nation. The premier of Canada recently went to Miami for heart surgery! Well, kiss it goodbye. Answer me one question…why are illegal immigrants covered under this bill???)

I guarantee this: If G. Bush came up with the same plan, there would be a line-up of Democrats complaiing about it, but at least they wouldn't be coming up with anti-givernment commercials & ads.
(This is your most absurd, naïve, and uninformed statement in this entire diatribe.)

That's just embarrrasing to US as citizens, and the rest of the world is laughing at our disparity.
(You’re so Fing embarrassed all the time and so Fing worried about what the rest of the world thinks of us. I could give a flying fig what France thinks, or what Canada says, or how Mexico sees us. Since when are they the arbiters of what is good or not. Who are they to look down their noses at us? And why does that bother you so much? When a catastrophe hits some third world country, who sends the most $ by leaps and bounds? Who sends their troops and puts their lives at risk to maintain order and keep the peace? These other countries resent us…they’re jealous…screw them. I for one will not apologize for being the best.)

We USED to be a nation that others look up to in regards to running a government. We fight wars because other countries aren't "DEMOCRATIC"" like we are. Then damn it - let's lead the example of how we - as a NATION - can learn to live for the benifit of all of our members of society.
(You’ve got to start reading something besides the New York Times, and start watching something besides CNN. The mainstream liberal media in this country is more than just biased…they are flat out corrupt. They are in league with the Democrats and are brainwashing the citizenry. You owe it to yourself to listen to other points of view for a change. Seriously… “The worst deluded are the self-deluded.” Christian Bovee)