Scary Candidates

Some of the most frightening words (not to mention stupid) things spew right out of our presidential candidate's mouths. It's enough to make Chainsaw Massacre look like a Disney film.

Hillary Clinton,  "At the center of my campaign is how we're going to raise wages -- yes, of course, raise the minimum wage, but we have to do so much more, including finding ways so that companies share profits with the workers who helped to make them."

Bernie Sanders, "You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right."

These are dangerous, socialist philosophies of redistribution of wealth. A very strong woman, who has had personal experience with  socialism, Margaret Thatcher said,
      "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of  everyone else's money." 
and she also said,  
      "Trying to cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia  with leeches."

Ronald Reagan said, "Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes—one rich, one poor—both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other?"

Donald Trump, “I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me —and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” 

Really?  Mexico is going to pay to build a wall to keep out the floods of illegal immigrants that they make no effort to prevent from leaving their country now. The only mark I have for those words is Bull!

And all the candidates that believe that controlling and banning the guns from law abiding American citizens haven't paid any heed to history's lessons---
      Adolph Hitler, "In order to conquer a nation, first you disarm it's citizens."
      Vladimir Lenin, "One man with a gun can control one hundred without."

Gun control---weak borders---redistribution of wealth that most Americans don't even have. It's a horror movie in the making for the destruction of the American democracy.
     

Control

 

It doesn't matter what your political preference is, it's important that we all pay attention to what is being said by the folks that are asking to be the new leader of country.  I agree that the constant rhetoric is boring and after a while you just zone out and quit hearing. Some promises are so worn out...I'll do this, trust me I'll fix that, I'll create jobs, I'll fix the economy, I'll fix health care, I'll not be partisan...For the most part, the fixers and bloviaters are just making promises that they cannot keep. In other words, they are liars.

The danger my friends, is in the repetitive words that you begin to not notice.  I think the most threatening word that the politicians use is "control".  When the representatives of our government or those that want that job start talking about control, our liberties are in peril. It's easy to go along, think something sounds good when it is an issue that's important to you. Think beyond what only affects you personally and about the real implications of some of these intrusive restrictions of our rights. Freedoms do not apply to just the specific ones that each of us prefer, it applies to all.   Listen very closely when any of  these candidates expound on what they will control.

Warning!   Gun CONTROL will not solve our problems of crime and terrorism.  The bad guys will get their guns, only the lawful will be weaponless.  Our constitution guaranteed the citizens the right to own guns as personal protection and protection from a government that might  grow too controlling, as history proves has and can happen. Vladimir Lenin, the 19th century communist revolutionary said, "One man with a gun can control one hundred men without." Do you really want the "one" gun to be held by our government?

Warning!  Climate CONTROL is an oxymoron. We humans cannot control nature or climate. We may have some minor influences negative or positive. Diminishing our pollution of the world is a worthy endeavor but making humans the cause of the earth's evolving climate is arrogant and an excuse for certain activists to control our behavior to fit their idea  of what's right. If humans and their evil material lives are so detrimental to the climate, what caused all the climate changes before  humans.  If methane from cows is so toxic (as some nut case declared a few years ago) then can you imagine what mountainous piles of dinosaur poop must've done to the planet?

Warning! Health Care CONTROL. No lengthy explanation needed. We're a capitalist system and the government has no business in regulating and dispensing health care. No socialist health care system in the world is successful for the patients. It really makes no difference what you pay when you die waiting for your turn to be treated.

Warning! Wealth CONTROL.  The redistribution of wealth is a disastrous and stupid philosophy. When a government decides that everyone will have the same, then everyone has a little of nothing. Even if you don't or aren't able to work, even if you're on welfare, would you like it if the government came to you and said, "You receive a considerable amount more benefit than your neighbor, so we're going to take some of yours away and give to him."  Luck and good fortune, hard work and smarts make people prosperous.  Bad luck and misfortune, laziness and stupidity make people poor.  It is the facts of life. No other country in the world has more opportunity for changing your life status than America.  No government has the right to decide who has what.

I haven't been able to erase from my mind the story of the woman from Austria who lived through the holocaust and said, "We stood in the streets and shouted and clapped, welcomed Hitler. He was to be our savior. He didn't have to fire a shot to conquer us. Let this be a warning to Americans."   This is our warning. We are free, our government was never meant to control our lives, it is there to serve and protect.

The Right Place

Sometimes, in spite of ourselves, we land on the right spot. The hubby and I just returned to our hometown area in Texas, for the holidays and a three month visit with friends and family. Luck seemed to be following us.

Earlier, when we left in the Spring for our season in the cool climate of Colorado, we had only set up our new travel trailer once and lived in it for about three weeks. It was stored away for the summer. We had intentions to return to the same campground where we had previously stayed.  I won't go into the the lengthy story of why we changed our mind about that plan. I will say that even though the campground was a very nice place,  the owner was unwelcoming and placed an unreasonably high value on his accommodations. 

We made a decision to try a RV park that we had only made a brief drive through before we left for the summer.  What a fortunate choice that turned out to be.  As you can see, it's a beautiful place.  The deck was already there, in front of our nicely graveled spot and the green grass rolls right down to a shallow bay that branches off a large East Texas lake.  With the wonderful Fall weather we're currently having,  there is no question this is a great place for us to be.  But, the beauty of the place isn't the main reason that it's so special.  The owner of this park and his wife are what's special.

From the moment that we dragged the big trailer to our spot until today, nearly a week later, these folks have been right here offering to help in any way they could to make us comfortable and welcome. From helping us set up the trailer, to finding someone to do a repair, to providing clean, excellently maintained facilities, this person has many times made our life so much simpler.  Just about the time you begin to have doubts if any good people are left  in our world, someone quietly steps up and proves that there are indeed some very exceptional ones. With an upbeat attitude and a smile, this man is generous and truly cares about the residents of his park. As good often attracts good, there is a community here of very nice folks.  Out of approximately seventy "campers", most full time RVers, we haven't met one that isn't nice and very happy to be here.

A while back, I wrote that I just wanted to find one good man to be our president. While the owner of this place will not be our president, he is absolutely such a good man.   For us, this is further confirmation that our downsizing adventure is a positive change in our life.  For our important time at home, we've found the right place.