As I peruse various blogs on this here Internet thingy I can't help but wonder what happened to the rugged individualism that once made America great? The more I read, the more I see folks whining and complaining that our government doesn't do enough to "help" people. Really? It is not now, nor has it ever been the government's job to make any one's life easier. Now I do have to say I do agree with most on the left railing about the government bailing out corporations and giving away money to foreign countries. The amount of money, money we the tax payers are responsible for paying back given away to foreign nations and corporations is criminal at best. However, those on the left miss the real insanity by claiming that our government should be spending that money here. What they SHOULD be saying is that the government SHOULD NOT be spending this money! This is money our government does not have, money our government is borrowing from foreign nations, money our government is "borrowing" from our federal reserve (printing more), money we the tax payers are responsible for paying back. Shouldn't our government be CUTTING spending when they do not have the money available to spend? That is what we the tax payers have to do. When our income goes down and it is going to go down significantly even more than it already has when chairman maobama's tax increases go into effect next January, we HAVE to cut our spending. We cannot just run to our basements and print more money, it's a felony when we do that! We just cannot keep borrowing more money, WE HAVE TO CUT SPENDING!

I am not merely bashing the left here with this rant. The right has been doing the same damn thing when they are in power. One only needs to look at former president bush and his congress for six years to see that they are just as bad as the left when it comes to spending money we do not have as a nation. Running up massive debts is a way of life for the criminals that "lead" us.

Yet, sadly, pathetically, the voters still only see their choices as the right or the left. I cannot understand the willingness of the voting public to continue with the business as usual crowd whom have gotten us into this financial disaster we are in. Some would say, it's not really a disaster we find ourselves in right now. Really? I say look at economic indicators, housing, un-employment, government debt, consumer debt, the number of folks on public assistance, the list goes on and on. All these indicators are showing depression, not recession type numbers. Take un-employment for instance, the government is claiming we have 9.8% of our citizens out of work. If one factors in the real numbers of folks we have out of work whom have quit looking for a job because there just aren't many out there to get, the number, the real number of un-employed folks we have jumps up to closer to where it really is, nearly 20% or more of our citizens are out of work. If one factors in the number of folks that are under employed, meaning taking jobs that do not pay what they were making, the numbers jump exponentially! To put that in perspective, the first full year of the great depression, 1930, the un-employment numbers were 8.9%, rising every year, in 1931 the numbers were 15.9% and climbing until the economy reached a trough in 1933 where un-employment numbers were 24.9%. So our current un-employment numbers are higher now than they were in the first year of the great depression and yet no-one sees a problem?!

Wake up America! Throw the bums up for re-election out on their asses, elect Libertarians! There are very few politicians from either party that are worthy of our vote. Most have been playing the game in the district of criminals as they all always have because WE THE PEOPLE, WE THE TAXPAYERS have allowed this to happen by continuing to vote for these bastards year after year! When will America see that almost every single one of these politicians are part of the problem, not part of the solution?! Are they all corrupt? Certainly not, but the number of those whom are worthy of our vote is infinitesimal at best.

Americans HAVE to understand and believe that our government is not the answer to our problems. Generally our government is the CAUSE of MOST of the troubles that ail our nation! How can anyone truly believe that an entity that causes a problem should be the entity charged with fixing said problem? That is just plainly insane! Look at all the government institutions that are corrupt, bankrupt, and ill managed. Look at amtrack, the post office, the military paying $500 for a stinking toilet seat one could buy at Home Depot for $20, look at the welfare and medicaid/medicare debacle. Both are hemorrhaging money, full of graft and corruption. Look at so called social security, a ponzi scheme of epic proportions that has stolen trillions of dollars from the American public under the guise of providing a retirement plan for folks whom are too stupid to realize that SSI was never set up to be a retirement plan. Look it up! SSI was merely set up as old age insurance, meaning that if one got lucky and outlived the national average age, one got a stipend for outliving most! The point is our federal government simply cannot be left in charge of any parts of our economy for it has proven to have no clue what the hell it is doing!

Again to all the lefties whom think government is the answer: WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU IDIOTS!!!!! Do a bit of research into the "wonderful" things your government has done and continues to do! All I expect from my federal government is to protect our borders (EPIC FAIL there), protect us from invasion by foreign entities, (again EPIC FAIL- see protecting the borders) and provide a trustworthy monetary system (again EPIC FAIL!). That's it, no more, no less. Yet, the politicians think that if they aren't spending all their time in the district of criminals creating fixes for problems that do not exist or problems they themselves created they think they aren't doing their "jobs". I say to every politician, read the CONSTITUTION and see how little job responsibilities you really have! I believe our government needs to go back to part time status, congress should merely convene a few times a year to do the little work actually required by them as laid out in the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA!
Elect small government LIBERTARIANS this fall to send those scumbags in d.c. the message that we are mad as hell and we won't take it anymore!