America's unemployed have received government unemployment for an extended period of time, my daughter is one of them. Thank you sir. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Friday, July 15, 2011
Unemployment is a debilitating, embarrassing, terrible condition which has been imposed on millions and millions of Americans. The beginnings of the recession were not of President Obama's making. I believe America is suffering economic distress because of our national policies which have been embraced by both political parties and which are wrong. But before I explain these strategic failures in the Post-Cold War world, I want to thank President Obama for the extension of unemployment benefits to so many, including my daughter.
As a father I can't help but love my daughter deeply. I know of her countless efforts to secure a job, and of the rejections. Having been unemployed in my life I know how those rejections seem to crush an individual's spirit. I know how depressing it is to not be selected for a position. And I know my daughter has felt that rejection many times over the past months. My daughter is a talented graphic artist. Has she made mistakes in the past? Yes. But she a good person with a large heart, and a real ability to hear the customers’ needs and design work to meet those needs ... absolutely! And still no work.
Rush, and others, have said that people should take whatever job they can get. That one should give up on their dream temporarily, to pay bills. And there is some merit to that. But, as in the case of my daughter, she spent four years at a university to earn a degree in a field where she hoped to make a liviing. She won awards for her work in college, and has been a successful professional in her field. So were she to work at McDonalds or be a cashier at Lowe's she would in effect, be surrendering. What President Obama has done has been to provide time to breath life into her dream. She may fail, it may be over, but I thank the President with my whole conservative heart for what he has done.
Rush Limbaugh, a leader of conservative America who I listen to every day, and who is right on so many things, is wrong when he condemns the extension of benefits. I know Rush has not had an easy life, and that he has a good heart, and a good mind. But sometimes, I think he makes the mistake of all conservatives, myself included, and ignores life and reality. Obama's all powerful, beneficent vision of government is wrong because government by its very nature has no heart, or mind that can be applied to daily life. It simply is not agile enough to deal with the realities of human life. Courts and the bureaucracies behind them, have completely failed in terms of their interference in families. They cannot keep up with the changing circumstances, and so the innocent are not only punished, but in the process government has lost the respect of many. Each time the court takes money from the more responsible parent, to give it to the less responsible (mostly because she is a woman), the system proves it does not work, and worse is hurting child and parent. Of course there are good single parent mother's, and bad irresponsible dads. But the present system assume that assumption for all families, and that is wrong.
And so we are given two perfect visions of an imperfect creature, the government. Both left and right have assumed causes for the government which should not be.
While I thank President Obama for his leadership in support of providing benefits, I must absolutely condemn him for policies which are delaying the American economic engine from starting. More taxes, because of national health care, or for other purposes (including wars around the world) are strangling the American consumer. Globalism, open borders and allowing access to the American marketplace by companies in the third world who pay pennies for work which would cost so much more in America, have robbed our jobs, robbed our ability to earn a living. Policies which hamstring development of domestic energy reserves take hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars out of the country! If gas has to cost three dollars a gallon, let those three dollars stay in America, paid to American workers bringing up the oil! Don't send that money overseas.
America needs a new party, because both the major parties have their own faulty image of America in the 21st century. Both parties have created stories based in some truth, but exaggerated beyond reality. We are not the leader of the Free World. Rush, Sean, Glenn, that era is over! We are now a world of two hundred nations scrambling and competing against one another. There is no global threat to the US, in terms of terrorism, which can seriously hurt us. How many terrorist attacks have there been against America in the last ten years? How many? Not threats. Not speeches. The War on Terrorism is the Republican version of global warming... a bit of truth embellished into a terrifying monster ready to devour us. Wrong. Are there Moslem terrorists...absolutely. Let the CIA find them, and deal with them. Case closed.
Manmade Global Warming is also a fallacy destroying American industry. People want to think they are in control. People want to believe that they can fix things. But if you live in Texas, enduring a historic draught, you realize you can’t make rain. Only God can do that. Yes, God. Man doesn’t control the weather, and I pray he never does. When you look at what man can control you see nothing but tragedy and loss.
There may be global warming, as there has been for time immemorial. And it is caused by the forces of nature, the orbit of our planet, and the tilt of the earth, and other forces I am too ignorant of to describe. It is not caused by your car, or your air conditioner.
It is amazing there is any American economy at all given the false parameters created by the exaggeration of the two political parties.
Common sense has to be applied to today. And common sense is not an easy thing to get in a nation filled with universities, colleges, special interests of all types, and a corrupted media which twists reality to fit those who control it, whether from the left of the right.
This new world, the world we helped to create by defeating the Soviet Union is different from the past.
But some things are constant. The Bible, the Constitution, liberty, the forces of capitalism. Our Founding Fathers were brilliant in their conception of the united States; each State to be its own unique and independent community, within the confederation, each state to control its own destiny in terms of domestic policies. The original Constitution gave each state the freedom to determine and cultivate its society. The centralization of our government, beginning with Lincoln’s war, has robbed us of that gift. We need to reclaim it. We need to marginalize the central government.
America has a future. What it will be is not set in concrete. We can fix what is wrong. But the answers are in the past, in history, and in the Bible.
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