BigDog Speaks

Obamanation has indeed arrived and it is costly. I didn't own any GM stock as an individual, I certainly didn't want to own any as a tax payer. Our government is bailing out everybody EXCEPT the tax payers. It seems to me, something is wrong, very wrong, with this picture. Our government that is SUPPOSED to be FOR THE PEOPLE, is for the government and nothing more. We have lost our voice in a world gone mad and are being dictated to by politicians who grease their palms and usher in their private agendas at OUR expense. We have reached the great divide between the politicians and the poor people.

Slowly, we are losing our grasp on our great country. Between politicians who work for themselves and immigrants who only want the lifestyle, not the responsibility of citizens, we are doomed to this downward spiral and no way out.

Here's some novel ideas, legalize dope and TAX it. Instantly reduce crime and the cost of enforcing those laws AND get great taxes in the process. Legalize prostitution in EVERY state and TAX it. Gee, instant tax money. Put the burden of cost on the folks who utilize the items, just like you are doing to smokers. TAX them! Baseball stadiums should be paid for by those who attend baseball games, not tax payers. Football stadiums should be treated the same way, the burden of cost should rest with the consumers NOT the tax base. The list could go on and on. We have become slaves to taxes and "OUR GOVERNMENT" continues to put spins on our taxes to fund things we shouldn't be taxed for in the first place.

Immigration is a nasty word that continues to cause us all problems. We HAD a president who got it right, we have managed to ignore him.

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907