My Truth About America

http://inlink.gaia.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:47:21 GMT

One of the things I note about aging is that I forget names. However, I still remember the first thing I learned to type in my high school typing class. "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." America was in World War II. I came to the aid of my country.

Now I'm a disabled veteran the taxpayers are helping. I'm exceedingly grateful, knowing, however, that the American people would have done better had government stayed out of private lives, had left the individual independent and self-reliant. The Great Depression ended with World War II. There was absolutely no reason for government to take over our lives.

From my perspective, the truth about America is not pretty. I wasn't rich but the IRS was on my back the whole time I was productive. The IRS put me on the street in the name of tax when I was an entry level worker and couldn't pay my rent after my payroll tax. The authorities in Washington know nothing about my cost of living. Should it be a choice of buying gasoline to get to the job or eating, or the choice of paying rent or going to the doctor? Should I be forced to go to government begging for a handout of my own tax money? The United States is the biggest, most costly fraud the world has ever witnessed.

Lee Harvey Oswald defected to Communist Russia and then came back to murder President John F. Kennedy, all on his own. Only yesterday, an individual from Communist China murdered in cold blood 32 innocent young people, all on his own.

I'm a capitalist. All that means is that I believe in private enterprise. A capitalist is not necessarily a powerful scumbag exploiting the meek and poor. A person who believes in private enterprise, first of all, believes in himself. A communist believes in the state. I'm not saying that a capitalist is always good and communists always bad. A capitalist can be greedy and exploitative. A communist can have little regard for human life. And it isn't confined to communists. Include religious extremists. You might say it can apply to all kinds of authorities who have a grant of power. All I know is that America became a great nation under a capitalistic system. The Soviet Union collapsed under a communist system.

Sadly, America's authorities have divided the nation, roughly between people who depend on the state and the self-reliant who are against big government and high taxes. Most "people of color," the low paid, depend on the state. Most "white males," the high paid, are against big government and high tax. There is a reason for this. People of color and women have been exploited by the powerful, mostly white males. It does not mean capitalists exploit. It means the powerful are prone to exploit.

I believe in restraining the powerful, be they government authorities or capitalists. If America had restrained both government authorities and capitalists America would have remained the envy of the world. Rosy McDonald called former congressman Tom DeLay a crook. Of course they don't think of themselves as crooks. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Powerful crooks in high office have tricked the American people. I say they are all crooks. I'm the one they crooked. Both government authorities and capitalists got to the little guy by means of the current redistribution system. Just because it is big and powerful doesn't make it right. America's powerful capitalists have the money to buy America's moral weaklings holding public office. Take from the rich and give to the poor it is the biggest lie ever told. The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. The rich go where the big money is, and you wonder why your drug cost is so high? The American people are complacently looking in other directions while they are being stripped of every right they have.

And worst of all, The United States of America, on the backs of the taxpayer, is the number one bully in the world. You don't see taxpayers marching. No, the taxpayers listen to political platitudes, like, "yes, taxes are unfair, and we are doing everything we can to make them fairer." Right! Whatever anyone suggests is not the way to do it. The frauds in control of your sweat and your life say do as I say not as I do.

Oh how we love to blame others! Our young are being indoctrinated by intellectual nutcakes. You people who believe anything your are told brought down the World Trade Center. Bin Laden would not have done it had it not been for the fact that America's elected officials have robbed the American people of their most sacred right: the right to the fruits of their own labor. So where are the fruitcakes coming from you hear day in and day out? Those of you who blame President Bush should do what Bin Laden did: point the finger of blame at yourselves. Ask him! He will tell you I'm right America is becoming the Bagdad of the West. The senseless killing of those innocent young American college students is too much. It sends a message.

Those millions of people around the world who hate the American people should realize that the same as the American people, they have been hoodwinked by the powerful. The same as I know it, Bin Laden knows the United States is a juggernaut out of control. If you want to end terrorism, take charge of your life. That's what I did and that's why I'm here before you. If we humans expect to continue as a human race, best we learn who we are and what we are about.

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