Entitlements,.... My Ass

Someone's perspective sent to me for comment. My comment's in bold.

Entitlements my ass, I paid cash for my Social Security Insurance! Just because they borrowed my money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout! Congressional benefits like free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days: now that's welfare; and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements!
Social Security should not be thought of as an entitlement, but remember there are many types of social security and some people will receive many hundred times more benefits then they ever paid into. We need Social Security reform across the board and that is just going to have to include some sort of increase in the eligibility age.

Someone please tell me what the Hell is wrong with all the people that run this country!

We're broke and can't help our Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.?

In recent months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile, Pakistan...home to bin Laden...literally BILLIONS of DOLLARS!

Our retired seniors living on a fixed incomes receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government gives Hundreds of Billions to Foreign Countries!

You are right about this country going bankrupt and we still send all that foreign aid. Remember what Herman Cain said, words to the effect that we should figure out who are friends are,...figure out who are enemies are, and quit giving money to our enemies,....which in my mind includes the U.N.

They call Social Security and Medicare entitlements even though most of us have been paying for them all our working lives. And now, when its time for us to collect, the Government is running out of money. Why did the Government borrow from our Social Security in the first place? That is a question best given to the Democrats who have dipped into what was supposed to be a protected pot of money and use it for all sorts of programs, aimed at creating and rewarding Democrat voters.

We have many adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without needed medication, mentally ill going without treatment, etc.

Imagine if our Government gave us the same support they give the people who hate us.
Sad, isn't it? Yes it is sad when the U.S. gives Palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars and these are the same low lifes who cheered in the streets of Gaza when the World Trade Towers fell.

Union Mobs attacks Verizon

Paraphrased from Mark Mix's column on the Right to Work Movement. I don't ever see any Politicians standing up much anymore for these Unions,...sure the Democrats funnel money to the Union coffers - no more so than Obama with the Stimulus plan,....but no politicians is willing to stand up in front of a camera and say what the Unions are demanding,.....that workers must belong to a Union, pay Union dues, and stand silent while the Union funnels money to Democrat campaigns.

Oh, by the way, the Obama Stimulus plan isn't really a failed plan like the facts suggest,...I say that it was intended all along to fund the Unions and "stimulate" the political campaigns of Democrat candidates. Anyway, back to the Unions lead by Communist scumbags......

Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union bosses have ordered tens of thousands of Verizon employees to abandon their jobs and report to a union picket The early reports of rampant intimidation and militancy are disturbing but sadly unsurprising. The U.S. has come to know Unions for their deliberate lies; violence and intimidation; and, outrageous demands for gold plated benefits and handouts.

Verizon already reports over 70 acts of sabotage and damage to phone and Internet lines -- exposing customers to the possibility that they will be unable to call for help or reach family during an emergency. Verizon managers are filling in for union workers on strike and being harassed as they cross the picket line each day.

One union militant ordered his young daughter to stand in front a Verizon truck while he verbally berated the independent technicians.

And on Facebook, union strikers compiled a so-called "scab" list -- that disgusting name union thugs use to demean, harass, and even threaten workers who defy union-boss orders and continue working to provide for their families.

Watch the video below,...listen to the Union strikers yelling "Union Power!",....what I hear is "Mob Power!":

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Wins Iowa Straw Poll

Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll on Saturday, as Texas Governor Rick Perry
formerly announced his bid for the Presidency in South Carolina and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a nemesis of Bachmann, bowed out after a fairly strong third place showing....must have ran out of money.

Bachmann, a Congresswomen from Minnesota, narrowly beat Texas Congressman Ron Paul to win the nonbinding mock election, giving her both a fund raising advantage and an emotional victory in Bachmann's birthplace.

Bachmann won with 29 percent of the vote. Paul, was a close second with 28 percent, while Pawlenty had 14 percent.

Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, from Pennsylvania, was fourth, businessman Herman Cain came in fifth, and Rick Perry was sixth. Perry finished with 3.6 percent of the vote even though he was not on the ballot. That was more than Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who was on the ballot but did not participate in the poll. He finished seventh.

With a national straw poll conducted just after the results of Iowa were announced, the results were somewhat different:

Ron Paul 29%

Mitt Romney 20%

Michele Bachmann 18%

Herman Cain 14%

Newt Gingrich 8%

Jon Huntsman 6%

Rick Santorum 3%

Tim Pawlenty 3%

These were surprising to me after the National televised debate where Ron Paul seemingly shot himself in the foot with his un-educated views on the World, particularly the Islamic terrorist threat, and his whiny rant on Iran not being a threat. I know, I know, you watched it too and you said "What?!?!?".