Re: Yall left Atlanta just in time
When you get right down to it, here's my problem with America today...
People have no sense of self responsibility. They want and expect the government to take care of them and protect them. I'm on the other hand very much an individualist.
I do not want the government managing my life. I'm a big boy, I make my own decisions. I will make my own way, I want to reap the rewards when I'm successful. I will also make mistakes, and I will own up to them and make up for them. I want the government to protect our soil from foreign intrusion, build a few highways and provide a level playing field in the marketplace.
I'm seemingly at the tail end of the last generation to largely feel that way. Not sure where or how we lost it, but America has gotten lazy. Everyone wants the government to fix everything. And now you have more and more class warfare sneaking into America's politics, I largely blame the media for that.
Most people who are not well off consider anyone who is to be "evil rich". Their money should be taken and put to the use of the greater good. That's beyond socialism, that's pure Marxism, and Obama supports it. Where's the incentive to achieve?
I guess I'm a greedy bastard, but I get upset when someone calls me "lucky" or someone who has been broke as a joke since they left high school refers to themselves as "unlucky". Luck has fuck all to do with it. I've worked my ass off. And the broke ones? Lazy as shit in most cases or at best they work, but make dumb ass life decisions such as having 4-5 kids when they cant even afford to support themselves or have no education yet to go get a job and provide a decent life for them.
But along comes the socialists, let's just take more money from those who have done well and use it to provide food, clothes, healthcare and whatever else baby mama and the kids need. I'm not greedy, I'm really not, but explain to me where the fairness is in that?
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