The Warren Misfile

A friend of mine posted this on his FaceBook page.  Proud of his accomplishment, and apparently devoid of reason, then proceeded to defend this statement.  You would think that one with a bit of reason and common sense could look at this and just laugh a little, remember that Liberals as a whole from base are incapable of producing outside of academics, and just dismiss this woman as someone who has never successfully managed a business.  But no, sadly, this is not the case.  So, I'm going to take this quote, break it down piece by piece, and dispell it one misgiving at a time.

"There is nobody in this country that got rich on their own.  Nobody."  Partially true, and mostly not true.  This statement implies that in order to get rich, you had to have help.  You are incapable of doing it on your own.  The only part of that statement that is remotely close to true is that nobody makes money without the help of people either purchasing their goods or services.  That very narrow part of this statement is in any way remotely true.  Here's the sheer ignorance of that comment.  Nobody was there when your receipts were higher than the take home.  Nobody stopped by Steve Jobs' garage and said "hey Steve, here's your light bill money.  I'm sure this pear or grape or whatever fruit you're naming this place is going to take off but until then, send your bills to me and I'll pay them for you while you're living your dream."  That conversation never took place.  Meanwhile, buying the gas that paid for the roads, Steve Jobs drove Steve Jobs up and down the road pitching this thing long before an Apple II or Lisa ever graced anyone's home.  Oh yeah, and Steve Jobs paid Steve Jobs' taxes all along too.  No one, NO ONE, paid his way.  This type of comment is the kind of comment made by someone who has never done what someone's done to get where they are.  This is the kind of comment made by someone with a very perceptionally deficient view of just how a business get started and becomes successful.

"You built a factory out there -- good for you" Yeah it's all the rage these days.  Let's just go build a factory.  I mean it's not like we're not taking all the risk.  Remember, no body ever got rich on their own.  Right?!  This woman makes it sound like you can just walk into a bank and with nothing more than an idea and a cup of coffee, you get this money, build this factory, and whoop there it is.  You didn't put your name on the dotted line, you didn't risk your entire financial future at all.  Remember, you aren't doing this on your own at all.  You had to have help, the underlying statement here is government had to help you.  You're incapable of doing this on your own.  No risk on your part whatsoever, you just got the money and ran off to build your factory.  Nevermind that if this goes belly up, you're going to be a soup kitchen come Monday morning, you just walked in there and they let you have it.  Not quite the most ignorant part of this quote, but it's certainly in the top five.

"You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for."  This one's in the top three and shows she has no knowledge whatsoever about how interstate commerce works.  Also shows a complete lack of knowledge of how tax structures work.  I move my goods to market on roads that not only I pay for, everyone that works for me pays for, the guy that owns the truck pays for in triplicate depending on how many miles are logged on the trip, through various registrations, licensing fees, inspections, and tags, it's conceivable that the average person that needs a fleet of only ten trucks pays more for the roads they use than 100 private motorists pay for in a year.  The costs are astronomical per rig to put one on the road.  Around 900 dollars a day in fuel alone keeps a truck on the road.  Balance that against your hybrid, or even my Malibu four cylinder which runs me about 36 dollars a week at 3.40 a gallon.  Make no mistake, Elizabeth, each truck on the road pays MORE than its fair share a day to get you the computer you use to write this garbage.

"You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate." Lump this one in with the last paragraph.  My parents have been paying for the last 25 years for education that I will never use.  When I went to a private school, no one told them hey you can hang onto this money.  So, they paid twice for me to go to school the first ten years of my education.    They're not in a boat by themselves.  I've been paying for the last 20 years for education that I will never be able to use.  And if I do actually go to a JC or a CC, I pay them as well.  That's in the top two for comments made out of ignorance.

"You were safe in your factory because of the police forces and fire forces the rest of us paid for.  You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come in and seize everything at your factory..."  This one is tied for number one in the ignorance factor.  Once again, this shows a glaring lack of understanding of the tax system and what it's there for.  I pay a certain amount of property tax.  My property tax goes to fund police, fire, and trash pickup.  Guess what, Elizabeth?  Someone who owns commercial property pays three times as much per square foot than I do.  Why?  Because it might need more of said services, so it costs more.  That's why.  And to all the people who agree with her and think I might be off my rocker?  Call your local mayor and have them explain to you where your taxes go.  They'll be happy to tell you the features and benefits of property tax and why it's going up again next year by one to six percent depending on where you live.  But before you flame me, make that call.  I dare you.

"Now look.  You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea -- God Bless!"  This ties for number one in ignornant comments because you led off with nobody ever got rich on their own.  Now all of a sudden I did something and it worked?  Really?!  You're going to let me take credit for doing it now?  I appreciate that.

"Keep a big hunk of it."  I'd love to keep more of it than 62%, which, after it's all said and done, taxes are paid, expenses are covered the product, holding some back for capital repairs that will be needed to please OSHA, the power to make that factory run, the water so workers have a place to get something to drink and a place to relieve themselves on break, now I get to make payroll.  Gee, thanks for that hunk.  Oh, here comes the best part of it all.  I'm about to create a taxpayer with this thing called payroll.  And those people are going to be assisting me as well in paying it forward as you put it.  At the end of the year, if I show just three percent growth, Wall Street makes me a solid buy.

"But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."  They've been doing that.  What you need to understand is there's something out there that's bigger than you.  Their "hunk" as you put it, possibly in terms you can understand as well as your listeners, readers and worshipers, equals about 700 years of your paycheck.  And that's just one year of their hunk as you put it.

Bottom line is this.  The money is there.  It's up to the government you are so fond of to learn how to use it in a more wise manner.  Everything that you listed there was once private enterprise.  Roads were once private enterprise.  Schools were once local enterprise.  If you want it to be fixed, stop asking for more money and start holding the people who spend the money responsible for the money spent.  You can throw a million dollars per person into education.  If the teacher isn't educating, you're wasting money.  The answer is not to throw more money at it, it's to make the recipients of said money accountable when students can't read.  If someone graduates illiterate, twelve people failed that student and no amount of money is going to fix that.  If a road falls through, 300 people are responsible for that and no amount of money is going to fix that.  If police and fire are inadequate, 24 politicians are responsible for that and no amount of money is going to fix that.

That's the bottom line, Elizabeth.

Occupy this!

I've been watching the Occupy movement for quite some time.  It's disgusting to say the least when I read the amount of sympathy that MSNBC, CNN, Huffington, and various other "news" organizations have for a group of people who want nothing more than something they didn't earn.  Would I like a mansion, a million dollars, and a yacht right this minute?  I sure would.  Have I done anything that will earn something like that?  Not yet.  Do I aspire to fortune?  I think everyone does.  I don't think anyone wakes up in the morning with aspirations of broke on their mind.  I don't think anyone wakes up in the morning with intentions of getting deeper in the hole.  I don't think anyone wants to die broke.  That's a normal thought.  That's a normal day.  So we can agree that no one wants to be broke.

So, what am I doing to rectify the fact that I don't have a million dollars, a mansion and a yacht?  Well, I started a couple of companies, I write, and I work for a living.  These concepts are foreign to this occupy movement.  What are they doing to achieve their dreams?  Sitting in the park complaining someone has something they don't have.  They are marching in the streets demanding "economic justice."  We had another group that did that back in the late 20's in Germany.  That worked out real well then, about as well as it is going to work out this time as well.

So, what is the real root of this Occupy anything but reality movement.  I mean, we've had haves and have nots ever since the dawn of time.  We've had successful people and not successful people for generations.  So what's really different now all of a sudden?  The perception of reality.  Let's take the average 20 something for the past 20 years.  We take this average kid, grow them up in a world where there are no winners and losers, everyone is as smart as everyone, just go on to college and while in college, spend four or five years being told all you need is this paper and the world is yours.  Upon leaving college with debt the size of the average decent house, we arrive in the real world, where people say no.  People say this person is not good enough.

Whereas the generation that preceeded even mine grew up with the occasional dose of reality growing up, the average person now simply doesn't get that the world is not fair.  I knew in the sixth grade when the girl I thought was the girl of my dreams liked the class jerk, that life wasn't fair.  I got out of college and realized that Chapel Hill carried a little more punch to it than Charlotte.  Not much, but enough.  I certainly didn't organize a march for educational justice.  I dealt with it and went on with my life.  I didn't get into the best schools because I really didn't care about the SATs.  I got over it.  I moved on.

I sit in the same room at times with leaders in the community.  I'm not the least bit jealous of them and if I never get into Buena Vista, that's okay too.  I own my house, I own my car, I don't have a payment, and that is just fine with me.  I didn't buy into the Liberal lie.  Bigger is only better with hamburgers.  If you can't afford a million dollar house, don't try it.  I don't care what the government tells you, the mirror don't lie.  Everyone is not equal.  Everyone will not be millionaires.  Everyone will not be CEOs.  Everyone will not live on the best side of town.  Everyone will not have a vacation house.  Everyone needs to be okay with that.  It's life, it's the real world, and it's time these nimrods joined it.

I have a dream.  Everyone has a dream.  I want to be able to retire at 55 and relax for the rest of my life.  That probably won't happen, and I'm fine with that.  My dad finally retired at 74, and my mom finally retired at 71.  Everyone is not going to have everything they want.  Back when the country used to be great, everyone understood that and they were fine with it.  Everyone knew they were a cog in a very big machine and they just dealt with it.  They didn't buy into the Liberal lie that all you have to do is exist and you are entitled to everything the person who worked hard for has as well.

I have an idea.  How about you occupy a job, occupy reality, and occupy some common sense?  The world doesn't owe you anything.  You aren't entitled to everything just because you are here.  And those people who have more than you probably work harder than you do.  I hold a full time job, run my own business, go to school, write, and put that all together, I may wind up with something some day.  I may not wind up with much more than I have now, but the difference between me and you is I tried.  You folks sitting out there on your pathetic rears waiting to have it handed to you is an insult.  It's an insult to everyone who ever sailed to the New World, it's an insult to everyone who's ever come from the wrong family and made it, it's an insult to the guy who worked his whole life for his wife, family, and came home to that one or two bedroom house and felt a genuine sense of pride in his accomplishment.

On December 7, 1941, Japan crippled one of the greatest Naval units the world had ever seen.  The sheer pride one has in their own country borne a generation that refused to take that sitting down.  By mid 1942, we were in the thick of war, and on our way to winning.  We didn't have an Occupy Japan movement in protest of the sinking of our ships.  We didn't have an Occupy The World movement in protest.  We had an Occupy Factories movement and got back into the game.  This generation sitting in Oakland, New York City, Chicago, and various other places in the country would have fallen given these circumstances.  To put it bluntly none of you have the heart to succeed.  If the government gave it to you, you wouldn't have the sense to know what to do with it.

Corporate Greed didn't put you where you are, George Bush didn't put you where you are, rich people didn't put you where you are.  You put you where you are.  Grow up, get over it, get a job.  I don't owe you a living, government doesn't owe you a living, the top one percent don't owe you a living, you owe you a living.  That's the real world, you are welcome to join it any time now.

Why say no to jobs?

I've been asked a few times now why on Earth would we not support a jobs bill when people clearly need jobs?  The answer is simple.  We let this President have almost a trillion dollars three years ago and he and his administration took that money and proceeded to blow it on things that not only didn't create jobs, they didn't even create good research.  So let me make sure I have this correct.  You couldn't do with with eight hundred billion dollars when people were wanting to get people back to work.  What makes you think you are going to do that with half as much after people have learned to make due with what they don't have from a business standpoint?

Nothing this administration has done since it was installed has made sense.  From failed health care before it ever got off the ground, to poor economic decisions, joining additional wars when promising to get us safely out of the one we were in, to even a beer summit.  This administration has shown us that they will fiddle while Rome burns and people who don't let them do what they want can eat cake and suffer.  You've proven you know nothing about funds management.  You've shown that all you can do is mess up and blame everyone but the man in the mirror.

That's why we don't want your jobs bill.  Get those speeches written and grab a few teleprompters.  You're going to need them come 2013.

Hot Button Topic: Death Penalty -vs- Abortion

There is a real debate about this country about the legality of both the death penalty and abortion.  I am going to attempt, in my own rudimentary way, to explain my views on both and come full circle.  There are many comparisons between the two.  Both involve consent.  They involve judgement.  They involve equal participation.  They involve final consequences.  They involve a bit of morose intrigue.  Whether the left chooses to acknowledge it or not, they both involve death.

Abortion.  The mere mention of it ignites fire in any discussion.  There are three distinct voices in this debate.  There is the right, the left, and the passive observer.  The right has a valid point.  Abortion is termination of life.  It is the termination of human life in my opinion, but at even its lowest common denominator it's termination of life period.  The left sees it as a right or a choice rather than a termination of life.  The passive observer probably has no opinion until the situation presents itself.

Let's look at the left first.  Abortion is a right to choose argument.  A woman should have complete control over her body.  It's her body and it's her right.  That's a strawman argument in and of itself.  There was only one immaculate conception that I know of.  Ever since then and before then, it's a mutual excercise.  It was a choice to engage in the practice.  I mean no one has an accident on the highway and then takes their right to terminate a ticket.  You make a choice to drink and drive.  You don't then get to revoke the ticket, the courts, or the time you get.  There is a choice, an overt action, and a consequence.  Therefore, there is a responsibility to act in a manner consistent with nature that doesn't result in a termination of a natural occurence.  This is the same side that will give dog more rights over humans.

The argument to rights becomes null when there's a consenting action there.  It should be noted I'm not lumping crime in there.  Rape, incest, those create a vaccuum of rights plain and simple.  I'm a Christian, but I'm not going to envoke divine providence over a human being.  In crinminal situations, that argument holds water.  A hook-up in a bar is not the same thing and cannot be seen as such.  The argument of rights has to give way to responsibility.  Will being responsible stop the process of unintentional procreation?  Probably not.  Is a child the end of the world?  No, it is not.  And it's time we stopped treating it like it is.

The right says it is murder.  It will be when we grow a backbone to stand up to the court systems and challenge the process with a legitimate argument.  As with religion, the right never has asserted that the nine wise people in Washington revisit anything.  So we're stuck at the moment with public funding for something that should disagree with eighty percent of the country.  As I said before, the act of abortion is termination of a life.  We give more rights to animals than we do to unborn humans.  It's not just the termination of a life, it's a termination of the plan.  The cure for cancer might be in a vaccuum tube right now.  The next Manson might be in one too but I'm willing to gamble.

Now then, how can I be against abortion and for the death penalty?  No, I do not believe we should be killing kids.  Let me get that out there right away.  -Most- kids have a chance with proper guidance.  The death penalty may not be a deterant to crime but it will stop that criminal once and for all.  If someone has done unspeakable things, then that is the remedy.  I can guarantee they won't break out and do it again.  I can guarantee they will no longer pose a threat to society.  The Bible is clear on it too, so all you Rules for Radicals readers can just calm it down a notch or twenty.

How can the left justify a stance that leaves Gacey on the market while killing a kid who has done nothing?  Liberalism in its pure form has parameters that simply say we can work it out.  I don't agree with that at all.  They say the criminal has rights.  We are about the only country left that lets you even be innocent until proven guilty.  Much less rights for anyone.  Ask those three kids who just got out of Egypt.  I say what about the rights of the dead?  Did all Gacey's victims have rights as well?  What about those?  No answer is readily forthcoming.  And there never will be.

This is by no means a complete synopsis.  In the coming weeks, there will be more break downs and analysis of the stances.  Why is this so important?  2012 is closer now than ever.  The next President you pick will have a say over whether we have 20 years of complete Liberalism, or sanity.  Look well to your ballot and vote for the good of America.

Let's keep the main thing, the main thing

Let's not loose site of what's important here.  If we lose in 2012, then we lose completely.  But to be honest there is no Reagan heir apparent to this Carter 2.0 administration that we are living in.  Perry had an unfortunate ranch name.  It got fixed.  Cain all of a sudden molested the entire planet.  Nothing's proven.  We know something happened, but we don't know what and already Libs are pointing their fingers.  Any one of these candidates has been vetted more in any three weeks, than Obama was during his entire candidacy.  Ayers should have been good enough to disqualify him.  If that didn't do it, Wright should have completed the job.  Chris Matthews is just now hearing about this apparently..

So what's the point of all this?  I'm glad you asked.  The problem in this election season isn't the crop of candidates, it isn't the general feeling about the country, no, the problem is the left has a candidate that has to run on his record now as opposed to hope change and a cookie.  Fact is Obama has no record to run on that's a winner.  He has nothing to stand on.  Pieces of health care are being struck down left and right, he's raised the debt another four trillion in less time than any President in US history, we're still at war, and the economy is still in the toilet.

But we don't need to focus on that.  We need to completely vet every gaf every Republican candidate makes in triplicate and ignore the fact that Obama was a losing hand from the start.  He got Bin Laden.  It was bound to happen.  What about Momar?  What about no one claiming responsibility now?  He got the Nobel Peace Prize for showing up.  That's it!!  That's what he's working with.

So then, instead of worrying about ranches, unproven allegations, religion, or history, let's worry about the issues.  Because if GD America, trying to blow up the Pentagon, and other acts of treason weren't worth vetting, neither is this.  Let's keep the main thing, the main thing.

This really could be it

There is coming a time in the not too near future where we will have to make a decision.  The real question is what will you choose?  Will you choose to make this country stronger?  Will you hand the White House back to Obama?  Will you not choose and simply complain later?  It's been several decades since the country has been as engaged as it is now.  More people are out of work now than at any time in the last 70 years.  More people are not progressing more than at any point in this country's history.  And for the first time in the history of this country, we face a challenge from an enemy within.

We have an enemy within the borders of our country.  No, I am not talking about illegals that seem to come in at the rate of a thousand or more a day.  The enemy these days is misinformation.  I hate to tell the 99%ers out there, but a college education doesn't guarantee  you a job.  It guarantees an opportunity to compete for a job.  It doesn't guarantee you money, it allows you to try and earn money.  While you're discussing regulations, and what you need to regulate, consider this.  I went to Western Carolina University to start.  Tuition, room, and board were less than two thousand a semester.  That was in 1990.  Since then, tuition has trippled and so have expenses.  If Obama really wants to address the growing problem with college loans, do you punish the banks for loaning it, or the colleges for charging it?

Unemployment is probably way higher than we know it to be.  Part of that is circumstance but that's really only about 25% of the actual issue.  People have become unwilling to do jobs that are "beneath them" and the jobs that could be had take longer because there's more people to choose from than there was even five years ago.  I saw a sign once that said I quit my job to protest joblessness.  That's about as smart as I burned my house down to protest homelessness.

In other words, the movement would make sense, if it made sense.  You're protesting the banks because your loans are too high when in reality the cost of an education is too high.  You're protesting mortgages when the issue is Clinton and Carter forced banks to loan to you in the first place.  You're protesting joblessness when in reality no one starts at the top.  What you really should be occupying is Pennsylvania Avenue.

Misinformation knows no boundaries.  It used to be that you could disagree and people understood you disagree politically.  But that was back in the Reagan/O'Neil era.  They generally got along well.  The only time they didn't get along was from 8-5, Monday through Friday.  And strangely enough you cold disagree with the President as recently as Bush.  Lately though, misinformation says you can't disagree with Obama because now, strangely enough, it makes you a racist.  Folks, that card has been played until the letters are worn off.  Time for a new excuse.

At the end of the day, what will you choose?  Will you make the choice to continue the status quo and blame all your problems away instead of fix them?  Will you make the choice to change the country's direction?  Or will you make the choice not to make a choice?  That choice is yours and yours alone to make.  I will tell you this, if you choose the latter two, then misinformation wins.  And when misinformation wins, we all lose.