Four Simple Things

"If shit was worth anything, poor people would be born without assholes..."-Eddie Murphy, 48 Hours


We all want the same things (more beer!, more meth!, more crack!, more money!).

No seriously, we all want the same four things.

1. We want to be able to earn a living for ourselves and our families.

2. We want to live in a safe place.

3. We want our children to get the best education possible.

4. We want to some day be able to rest and enjoy what we have earned.

This is what should be uniting us as a people. Instead we get distracted by skin color, or religion, even geographic location. We get distracted by "non-issues" that have more to do with personal religion than politics. We get wound up about silly nonsense that won't really make a difference in five years.

But Bulldog, what are you talking about?

Well here's an example off the top of my head. Abortion. A moral issue, yes. A legal issue (and therefore poltical), no. Got legalized back in the seventies. But I still know people on both sides of the issue that choose candidates based solely on the candidate's stance on abortion.

If you are a Christian, then you know that sin will be judged in the end. Muslim, Jew, same thing. If you think that a politician is going to put an end to abortion, you have been suckered by the system. Unless all of the people in this country who are against abortion actually get together, create a unified lobby, and push all the right buttons and grease all the right palms, abortion will remain legal.

In other words, people have been distracted by a non-issue for thirty some-odd years without ever noticing that nothing has been done.

People are so busy proclaiming their African-American, or Hispanic-American, or whatever-American heritage that they have failed to see that the real discrimination is on an economic level. People are so busy spewing their religion at each other that they haven't quite picked up on the fact that the most immoral group of people on the planet are running our country.

Its all because we are lazy. There can be no liberty or justice without responsibility. There can be no American Dream without responsibility. We are responsible for what our government does (its in the fine print). If you don't believe that, take a look at who pays the bills around here.

It just seems to be common sense to assume that since people like me are going to be held accountable for our government's actions, then we should do what it takes to keep our thumb on them. A little blogging and internet research can go a long way toward educating yourself about the actions of your government.

How many of you went to the link labeled "unconstitutional" at the top? What about the link to the right labeled "You Must Read This!!"? Why not? Because you come here for some entertainment. Sure, some folks like my ideas, but most of you are resigned to the fact that things will stay as they are. You are wrong. They will get worse, and keep getting worse until the whole thing goes into the crapper.

I've seen the crapper, baby. Just look at Beruit, or Baghdad, or Matamoros.

That isn't what we want for our future.