Back to the grind!

     Well we had a very nice vacation up in Pensylvania.  We stayed with my wife's Aunt, went to the zoo, had a few "pick-nicks" with my father-in-law.  Over all it was a great time.  Now we are back to the normal routine.  Back to keeping the house clean, back to work, and back to life.

     While we were in PA a few things happened in the world that put a bit of fear into me.  Fear for my family and our way of life.  Flash mobs in Philadelphia, race beatings out west, and people rioting in London and surrounding areas.  The state of the economy, the useless officials we elected into office, they are doing nothing to combat the state of unrest that we are starting to experience.  It is only going to get worse.  As spending on entitlements become unavailable, or reduced, and when Obama is elected out of office, the idiots that are causing all of this strife, will gather more like minded people and I predict more and more of these attacks.  I think that it is time for the American population to take whatever measures necessary in order to protect themselves, their property, and their families.       
      The current ruler to the United States is only making this worse.  By allowing those goons from the New Black Panther Party to escape justice for their terrorist acts, he has set a precedent.  Now what happens?  Out in the mid-west, there are groups of black males, targeting white families leaving the fair, and badly beating them.  This is a hate crime.  As of this moment I have not heard anything else about how they are going to handle this travesty.  All I can say is that if this scenario were reversed the twin nutters Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would be calling for someones head on a platter.  This is what I want to see now.  I want these radical, extremest, hate group members to be punished to the fullest extent of the law.  Nothing short of their long term confinement in prison will make me satisfied. The same goes for the ones doing the same thing in Philadelphia.  We have got to get a handle on this as soon as possible, before our entire nation goes up in smoke.

Welfare

     In this country the "poor" are not so poor.  All the time I see people in the grocery store using that EBT card to buy junk.  These people have an average grocery budget of more than $500 a month.  Why?  It doesn't cost that much to feed a family of 4 even in this economy.  I work my tail off so that I can provide for my family and keep them off of welfare.  Because of this my wife has $400 a month to get all of the groceries and household items that we will need for the entire month.  Yet the president wants to keep on granting these people more and more benefits.  What is the incentive to work?  If I were to lose my job, the government would take care of me and my family.  They would provide my family medical insurance, money to pay my bills (including cable, Internet and telephone), a cell phone, keep my car in gas, food stamps, and assistance for my rent.  Why do I even work?  I do it because I have self respect.  I feel it is my responsibility to provide for my family not the government's.
     Here is my problem.  The elected officials we have in office right now keep saying that to reduce benefits to welfare recipients is racist and punishes the minorities.  This is not true.  These people need an incentive to work, and to provide for their families.  In essence if it is punishment, it is punishment for the lazy people out there that don't want to provide for their own way of life.  If it is the minorities that are the only ones doing this (and it is not) then it is their own fault.  The government has no business providing them a life where they get "all the nice things".  The government has to "provide for the public defense, and provide for the general welfare. . . "  and this does not include x-boxes, cellphones and cable TV.
     This is just my take on things.  Obviously I am not the only one that thinks this way.  If enough of us banded together then there would be some change.  The real Hope and Change the American people need and want.

It's been awhile....

It's been awhile since I wrote in here.  I know I should keep up with it but I have been very busy lately.  I started back to school and that tends to take up a fair amount of my time.  I am working on getting my BA in Criminal Justice with a Corrections management specialization.  Should help me have a bit more flexibility in my career.  Guess we will have to wait and see.  I have a good bit to go still yet.

Unions

Well I have a few thoughts about unions.  Unions are great if they serve their purpose, but most never remain that way.  Unions were started to protect the rights of workers, but in this day and age the Labor Board is tasked with just that.  So what are the unions doing?  Take WI for example.  The union there is up in arms because the government wants to take away the teacher's collective barganing "rights".  More specifically the teachers are being told that, like other states, that they will have to pay into their retirement, and health insurance.  Is this so bad?  In the private sector the vast majority of workers have to do just that.  If I am wrong please give me some facts so that I can correct myself.  The simple act of paying a small percentage of your wages to support yourself in retirement can save thousands of dollars on a state budget per year.  Here are some simple numbers.

40,000 teachers paying $1, yes I said One dollar, per month towards retirement essentially saves the state $40,000 a month on retirement costs. That is $480,000 per year.  This isn't rocket science.  So now you up those numbers to roghly 6%.  We will just say that the average teachers sallery is $32,994.11 per year, just throwing a number out there.  That is roughly $1,979.70 per year per employee paid into retirement.  Multiply that by the 40,000 state employees. That is a staggering $79,188,000 per year saved by the state government.  That $1979.70 would be pre tax of course and doesn't take into consideration other deductions.  Now can any teacher out there tell me that roughly $2,000 per year will break your bank?