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"I'm 63 and I'm
Tired"

by Robert A. Hall

I'm 63.  Except for one semester in college when
jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but
job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since
I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks,
and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary,
but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where
I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm
tired. Very tired.

I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the
wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being
told the government will take the money I earned, by force if
necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.

I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes
to "keep people in their homes."  Sure, if they lost their
jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they
bought McMansions at three times the price of
our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the
left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the
Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their
own money.

I'm tired of being told how bad
America  is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore,
George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because
of the opportunities  America  offers. In thirty years, if
they get their way, the United States  will
have the economy of   Zimbabwe  , the freedom of the press of   China  , the crime and violence of  Mexico  , the tolerance for Christian people
of   Iran  ,
and the freedom of speech of  Venezuela  .

I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't
matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in
affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation
standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract
set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless
children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment
of U.S. Senators
from Illinois.

I think it's very cool that we have a black president
and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln  wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the
individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.

I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's
fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's,
at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was
a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for
the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of
Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that
slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced
for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the
best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions
or switching to Fox News?  Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in
2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for
other cultures" we must let   Saudi Arabia   use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in  America , while no American group is allowed to
fund a church, synagogue or religious school in  Saudi Arabia
to teach love and tolerance.

I'm tired of being told I must lower my living
standard to fight global warming,
which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a
two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We
also own a  three-bedroom condo where our
daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5%
of Al
Gore's, and if you're greener than
Gore, you're green enough.

I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a
disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage
they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff
white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't
think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose
to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating
me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but
are living on welfare or crime. What's next?  Calling drug
dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"?  And, no,  I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are
Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted
to kill me for my religion.  I'm willing to fast track for
citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a
criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on
welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military....
Those are the citizens we need....but when they come here for free food,
free drugs, free hospitalizaton, and everything
else, no....I want them back to Mexico .
Obama wants to give them amnesty and my answer to that is.... why don't you move down there and be their
president.....we don't want them.

I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who
would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their
entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our
military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make
split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth
better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war?  You bet. Did the Navy Seals misbehave
when they hit the terrorist for having burned our people on the
bridge?  I hope so.  But do they deserve the disrespect that
they are being shown...hell no they don't!!!

This makes me mad....Do
you know of a Navy Seal or a earlier frogman who
didn't do everything they could for this country.... bet you
don't.   (YES, I HAVE TO INTERJECT ON THIS
ONE.......MY SON WAS A NAVY SEAL)   He loved his country
and there was no better American than he was. How dare they try
those three NavySeals who should instead be
receiving  Medals of Honor!  I'm 65
and these young men...I'm so proud of them.

I'm tired of people telling me
that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner
on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired
of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in
Illinois , where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats
has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax
cheats in Obama's cabinet...and now they want to put 1600 tax police on
us if we don't want their health care?

I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and
politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid
mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only
mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of
entitlement, rich or poor.

Speaking of poor, I'm
tired of hearing people with
air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority
of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were
"poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition
of poor to keep the dollars flowing.

I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for
their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the
government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 70. Because, mostly,
I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just
sorry for my grandchildren.

Robert
A.
Hall is a Marine  Vietnam   veteran who served five
terms in the  Massachusetts   State  Senate.

There is no way this will be widely
publicized, unless each of us sends it on, This is your chance to
make a difference.