Soap Box

I thought that Nancy Pelosi's "We need to pass the bill so you can see what's in it" was going to be the silliest and most asinine political statement I would ever hear, but the one the administration is making about how people working less hours and spending more time at home will be good for the economy or changing to a less demanding job because they can now afford healthcare without working so much now stands in my number one slot.

And it gets even worse, they claim that now people will be able to leave their more demanding jobs and have time to start their own business, which I guess is a predictable statement from an administration made up of people who have never tried to run their own business; paperbound eggheads who know as much about the business world as a hog knows about an airplane.

If they had ever dirtied their hands they would know that people with their own businesses don't work less hours, but more hours, sweating out a payroll every two weeks and overseeing the whole operation, which, in most cases, requires burning the midnight oil and foregoing plans to spend time with their families, cancelled or postponed vacations, missed birthdays and anniversaries and putting out brush fires at what ever time of day or night they occur.

What prompted the silly remarks was a report from the CBO, Congressional Budget Office, a supposedly non-partisan entity - if such a thing is even possible in the District of Columbia - that said that 2.3 million jobs would be lost in the next decade due to Obamacare.

So now they are trying to sell the premise that the loss of a couple of million jobs will actually be good for the American work force, many of whom they seem to think are putting in way too many hours, for no other reason than paying the exorbitant price for their healthcare plans and now, with the advent of Obamacare, they can afford their health insurance by taking jobs with less hours, or maybe just part time.

I'm not surprised at the administration trying to sell this total erroneous crap, but what I'm really surprised at is the amount of people who will swallow it hook, line and sinker and think it's a wonderful idea to work a lot less hours and depend on "Sugar Daddy" in Washington to take up the slack.

The work ethic in America has already taken a hit from the Obama school of socialistic nannyism being told that their plight is not the seven children they bore out of wedlock, or the fact that they quit school in the ninth grade, or the drugs they do, but the problem is greedy fat cats who don't pay their "fair share" and are robbing them of their financial future.

They deserve to work less hours or no hours and all on the reluctant largesse of said fat cats who will have to step up to the table and fork over a goodly portion of their ill gotten gain so Obama's socialistic concept of the United States of America can go forth.

There is a seriously dangerous mentality developing in this nation, the notion that all gain was come by at the expense of those who were not born in silver spoon neighborhoods, who supposedly were cheated out of their piece of the pie by the affluent classes, people who view a job at a fast food place, not as an entry level job, but a career that should pay double the going rate, the resultant prices going through the roof notwithstanding.

Back in the height of the Cold War days, I read that the world had no idea whether the Soviet nuclear arsenal would actually work or not, that the Russian way was to build something just good enough to work, with no tolerance or leeway to make allowances for glitches. And I thank 
God that Russian nuclear proficiency was never put to the test and pray it never will be.

But the point is the one size fits all, if I work real hard I'm still not going to make any more than the slacker down the line, I had some rough breaks and the world owes me a living attitudes spawned by socialism fosters an attitude of doing just enough to get by.

It took Russia forever to develop a workable ball point pen and if the state of preparedness for the Olympics in Sochi is any indication there's a lot of that work ethic still around.

America is already at a precarious fiscal crossroad, with a mountain of debt the Obama administration seems to think the best way of dealing with is to ignore and keep adding to it.

Even when - if ever - America elects some people with vision and responsibility in Washington it will take decades of sensible fiscal policy to pull out of this nosedive, and to even have a chance to do that America needs full employment and an upwardly mobile workforce, with their hands at the wheel and their eyes on a future of advancement, not because it was given to them but because they did the caliber of work that makes them a valuable employee.

I keep wondering how much longer it's going to take before even the most cynical liberal mind is going to accept the fact that Obama is tearing the social and fiscal fabric of America to shreds.
To encourage less productivity is totally insane and leads the people who accept this premise to a life of mediocrity at best sitting around wondering what happened to the gravy train they were promised but never arrived.

There is no such thing as a free ride, somebody somewhere is picking up the tab.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels​