Its sunday afternoon, the Steeler's play in a couple of hours so I have time to kill. I turn off the Cleveland-Cinncinati game, walk out to the front porch and open "No Easy Day" where Mark Owen writes, "I found other men just like me: men who feared failure and were driven to be the best." (page ix, Author's Note)
I look up and a man no more older than me rides by. Not in a car, or on a bike,
I look up and a man no more older than me rides by. Not in a car, or on a bike,
but handling one of those sturdy motorized scooters.
What a contrast.
This contrast underlies the quinttessential question of the time for us Americans.
Is this nation going in the right direction?
My liberal friends would caution me here that I'm on the verge of not caring for the poor. But here goes.
I think I see someone elderly in one of those contraptions, I have a generous heart. I see someone my age in one, who I've seen around for years, who I know was doomed for that fate, I'm less generous.
I'm not alone, and you know what liberals, it doesn't make us bad guys, or gals.
What we absolutely don't want to see now, is two, three, a dozen more of these going up and down our street. Escpecially after taxing us to misery.
We have the right to question what direction this country is going in, and its not being racist or against the poor, or against the elderly.
Who's going to pay for this? Certainly not the guy in the scooter, his ink has been in the red for quite a while. Mine? Black. My whole life.
What preventions are you liberals implenting or have in mind to assure me, the stereotypical American male tax payer, that I'm not going to see more and more of guys my age, living a lifestyle to ensure this fate? On my dime.
Its not being poor, its living a lifestyle.
Living a lifestyle that matures into dendency, that wastes one life and ensures a tax on another life.
What's the plan? We had sixy, seventy years of progressive, liberal govenment and has it lessened the number of dependency?
We, those of us living in the black, would like to know, what's the plan that I can appreciate that will help the poor, not add to the poor?
And that, my friend, isn't anti-christian either.
What a contrast.
This contrast underlies the quinttessential question of the time for us Americans.
Is this nation going in the right direction?
My liberal friends would caution me here that I'm on the verge of not caring for the poor. But here goes.
I think I see someone elderly in one of those contraptions, I have a generous heart. I see someone my age in one, who I've seen around for years, who I know was doomed for that fate, I'm less generous.
I'm not alone, and you know what liberals, it doesn't make us bad guys, or gals.
What we absolutely don't want to see now, is two, three, a dozen more of these going up and down our street. Escpecially after taxing us to misery.
We have the right to question what direction this country is going in, and its not being racist or against the poor, or against the elderly.
Who's going to pay for this? Certainly not the guy in the scooter, his ink has been in the red for quite a while. Mine? Black. My whole life.
What preventions are you liberals implenting or have in mind to assure me, the stereotypical American male tax payer, that I'm not going to see more and more of guys my age, living a lifestyle to ensure this fate? On my dime.
Its not being poor, its living a lifestyle.
Living a lifestyle that matures into dendency, that wastes one life and ensures a tax on another life.
What's the plan? We had sixy, seventy years of progressive, liberal govenment and has it lessened the number of dependency?
We, those of us living in the black, would like to know, what's the plan that I can appreciate that will help the poor, not add to the poor?
And that, my friend, isn't anti-christian either.
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