El Gringoqueño

Hey, J.M., just got this… Tell me what you think. T.J.

Subject: Gorgeous French properties.
To: f_father2@msn.com
From: bonaparte75@aol.com
Date: 08/01/1802

Take advantage now while the market is undervalued and before cities go up. Need a place to retire? An international shipping port? Want to make sure your family is well taken care of? Want to double the size of your country? At less than 3 cents per acre, you can’t beat these prices.

How can we sell so low?  Simple, we like you.  That and we need funds to fight the British.

Do you have a sense of Manifest Destiny? Fulfill that destiny by taking advantage of this one special offer. We’ve even taken the special care of pacifying the local inhabitants. Don’t worry, they won’t cause you any problems. We promise.

When did the Republican party become the anti-intellectual party, hmmm?

When did we get associated with brain dead policies and never admitting a mistake, skyrocketting deficits, and religious wacko, quasi fascist, morons? When did this all happen, because I didn’t get the memo.

I want to help the poor, but I don’t want to JUST take care of them. Entitled living can lead to even bigger problems down the line as we’ve seen. A deep seated sense of entitlement is the biggest soul draining evil the modern world has ever known… and it sneaks up on ya, get’s in there slowly, and before you know it you start demanding that your gub-ment protect you from, Big Macs, dirty cigarettes, rude comments, and terrorists. Send the poor and lower middle class to shoot the bastards. I deserve this SUV.

Protect ME, dammit. I deserve it!!

When did this happen? When did EVEN the Republican party become such a federalist morass of "Don’t worry ’bout nutin’. We’ll take CARE of them, and we’ll take care of YOU," while we happily shop at Wal-mart and whine that the government isn’t doing ENOUGH to protect me and my children.

We need more power to take care of you. We need need more money to take care of you. We need more wiretapping to take care of you. We need more bombs to take care of you. We need more government, bigger government to take care of you.

What happened to "We the People"? I guess it’s now "We the Government." So instead of shrinking welfare, Bush and crew now have the whole country on it, a sort of "protection welfare." In fact, that’s what I’m going to call it. Protection Welfare. Now we’re all in it, and we think we are entitled to it.

Has anyone stopped to ask if I want those idiots to take care of me? I don’t need them to take care of me. I don’t expect it. I reject it. And I reject it because it makes me lazy, robs me of my volition, steals my thunder.

Do people need a helping hand every once in a while? Sure we do, but we are not entitled to it. We should be thankful for any help we receive and try to repay it in kind, because it is a gift from our fellow citizens.  We don’t deserve anything, except maybe a peaceful eternal rest.