Wed, Jan 30th - 12:32PM

Did anyone see Brett Favre and crew shaking in there boots during the last Chicago game. What is that all about. - Rugged? Not!

To cry because the press criticized Tony Romo for his trip with Jessica Simpson to Mexico. Hillary Clinton almost cried because she claims to care. Bill Clinton’s eyes water up whenever he’s in a bind. George Bush calls himself a compassionate conservative. Our politicians redundantly tell us what they are going to give us; health care, mortgage relief, jobs, stimulus checks, and so on and so on and so on. All of this begs the question: Where is the rugged American?

Where is the American who is truly independent? Where is the American who doesn’t look to the government for succor? Where is the American who cherishes his, or her, independence? Where is the American who accepts personal responsibility? My friends, we are still here, but our numbers are diminishing fast and here is the reason:

Government has gotten us addicted to it. It has invaded every aspect of our lives. Ask yourself, what doesn’t government do? It provides welfare if you’re poor. Health care if you can’t afford it. Yes it does. It dishes out subsidies if you’re connected like the agricultural industry, or the auto industry, and soon, the mortgage business. It feeds the children, pays you when you get old, buys your drugs, provides housing, and is even about to go so far as to dish out money for converters to those (non-workers) who can’t afford new HD TV’s in 2009. Government has invaded our lives pursuant to a simple formula. If you produce, it takes, and if you need, it gives. Our government has chosen a path destine for failure.

The more you make the more on a percentage basis they take. Do you need to work to eat? Believe me, if there was a single starving person in this country that individual would be the key note speaker at the Democratic National Convention and if John McCain gets nominated, the Republican National Convention. Is anybody really denied health care? Show me the person that is truly in need of health care? There isn’t a health care crisis; there is a crisis of attitude. The crisis is that Americans don’t think they should have to pay for health care. The people that want health care reform really want a system where they don’t have to pay as much, if anything at all, and want others (the producers) to pay more. The mantra of the current presidential campaign is Two Americas meaning those that have and those that don’t have. The remedy proscribed for Two Americas by our candidates is to take from those who have, those who have worked, created, prospered, and risked and give to those that haven’t. The remedy is to penalize success, work ethic, diligence and to reward the opposite.

And it is happening before our eyes because the rugged American is a dying breed. We need the voice of the rugged Americans to be heard or everything American will die on the vine. We need to scream for lower taxes, meaning more freedom. Folks condemn George Bush for his intrusion on our civil liberties and yet when the government takes in many cases half of our annual productivity, few scream. Slavery has been abolished and yet, similar to a being a slave, huge portions of our work and productivity are confiscated and given to the master, the government. Oh but it’s given to poor people right? Wrong. There were over eleven thousand ear marks, formerly called pork, on the most recent budget bill. We need to insist that our borders get closed. We need to insist that our national language is English, only English. You want to come here, learn the language. Don’t ask for aid when you’ve got a cell phone, cable TV, two cars, and an active social life. We need to be loud. We need to scream for smaller government.

And most importantly, we need to nurture the concept of the rugged American. We need to sell those already addicted to government that it is cooler to be independent of government. We need to sell the idea that true freedom is best accomplished by being independent, off welfare, without subsidy, without dependency. And we need to sell the idea that being on welfare, receiving subsidies, being dependent is un-cool, un-American. And we need to tell our governments, all of them, to get out of the way.

Government doesn’t produce, it doesn’t create, and it doesn’t pay the bills. We, the producers, do. And we need to be rugged Americans and demand that parasitic government leaves us, the hosts, alone. Only then can we save America, a nation built and sustained on the backs of the rugged Americans, a nation that will die if the rugged American disappears.

Any doubts? Ponder this: Can a parasite live without a host? No. Can a host live without a parasite? Yes. We the rugged American die, they die, and that’s my bottom line for today.

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