Income tax and Entitlements.

Taxes and entitlements go hand in hand. Its important to understand that when you hear of government programs , whether it be food stamps , health care or housing , its not "free" money , its the peoples money.The government does not "make" money , it gets its revenue from taxpayers...us. The average American works four months to pay thier tax bill...four months!This puts you in a position to have to make tough decisions. We dont have the luxery of operating our households in a deficit situation...not for long anyway. But the government refuses to make tough decisions , it/we continue to spend money WE DONT HAVE on programs that are outdated , ineffective or redundant only to pass the debt on to our children and grandchildren.After all somebody will HAVE to pay SOMETIME , we cant push these deficits off forever.Right now as we speak , China is buying up our "debt" at an alarming rate. Do we want to explain to our children and grandchildren that China owns the US because we were unwilling to make sacrifice and the tough decisions needed to keep our country solvent?How can we explain to them that we as a people were unwilling exercise responsibility and restraint? Do we want them to work eight to ten months to pay OUR tax bill? We have an oportunity to make the tough choices and pass on a vibrant , growing America but it will require sacrifice.Who knows, maybe we'll find that with a massive overhaul of our entitlement programs that we do have the funds to keep many or most of the benefits in place , as I stated earlier many of these programs are outdated and ineficient , perhaps an overhaul could restructure programs so that they are affordable.These choices have to be made and the time is NOW! Ask yourself are you willing to say NO to more spending ,even if you have to sacrifice some entitlements that a portion of our society have grown dependent on? Are you willing to make the tough choices needed to ensure our children and grandchildren wont be slaves to our government for benefits we received and are already spent before they even joined the work force?

Tough Love for Illegals.

Tough Love is one of the most common paths parents of struggling teens have to travel.
Many cannot understand or grasp the concept of, Tough Love or "not enabling" the child to ruin or run the family unit. Enduring life with a teen that is running the home can result in many uproars, conflicts, arguments, battles, and sometimes psychical and verbal abuse. Tough Love is exactly that: Tough. Loving our children is unconditional, but we don’t have to like what they are doing or how they are destroying their lives.
There will come a time when a parent realizes enough is enough! This is the time that they need the support from outside sources, such as a Tough Love support groups, along with professional intervention. This does not reflect you as a parent, nor does it place blame on the family, it is the child that is making the bad choices and the family is suffering from it.
I pasted th above article from a site I found while researching tough love. Whats my point?
Well... Ive gone "round and round" with the pro-illegal crowd around here and they always ignore little facts like...Laws..and soveriegnty so on and so forth. So I thought Id take MY argument to their "emotional"level.
For my metaphor the above "teen" represents the illegals and , of course the "family" is America... Are you starting to see my point? We do the illegals no favors when we "enable" them to allow Mexico to let them live in poverty. Now is the time to say "enough is enough" as stated above this does not reflect badly on the "family"( as mpvan and ilovemyillegal love to say)It is the bad choices of the "child/teen"that cause the problem.
Come on America!!!!! lets show em' we all really do have hearts and exert a little more tough love on the illegals and maybe just maybe we can save our "family".

Torture.

Come on man I dont want people maimed or...I dont know...tortured! I know that sounds stupid but I dont consider water boarding torture. I know many nations do as well as Mccain. First I dont think Its wise to tell them what we will or wont do. They will only train to become less suceptable to a particular technique. But we have to , in few but important circumstances,be able to extract information from the one's we know...KNOW.The argument from your side and Mccain is often- "We cant do this or they will do it to us". Did you guys miss the BEHEADINGS they will already do it to us and far worse than we as a nation would ever condone.This touches on a larger issue. the left wants to believe that if we negotiate and treat these extremeist with respect they will listen to reason and stop this war on Israel and christianity. Theres a misconception that this hate from the extremist is our fault because we are arrogant and live like infidels. No , thats only part of thier recrutment "talking points"the core of the issue is we let our women have power and dont worship Alla. this is a religious war , STARTED AND PERPETUATED by islamic extremist not a Soveriegn nation. When will you guys start condemning the violent , vicious close minded behavior of the terrorist instead of vindicating them by attacking your own government for petty infractions when we all know the US is far more benevolent than any other nation?

Illegal Immigration

I think two subtle changes in the dialougue on this issue would make a big difference in how we proceed in winning back our southern border.Number one when we have illegals protesting our government we and the media need to make clear over and over again how absurd it is for citizens of another country protest to gain citizenship to the US when they do nothing to reform thier own corrupt government.If Mexico would stop corruption and spread more wealth to its own citizens instead of facilitating northern migration more Mexicans would want to stay in thier own country and mexico would prosper economically.They have two beautiful coast for tousism,oil and obviously a large workforce.So why no jobs?Government corruption possibly stemming from the large drug cartels that dominate many regions.Until mexicans take control of thier own government as we did in the late seventeen hundreds no bigtime investors with look at Mexico seriously also an honest bussiness man doesnt stand a chance against a corrupt police force.Just the same this is a Mexican problem not a US problem.
The second needed change in dialogue is to dispell the myth that we cant deport twelve to twenty-five million illegals-HOGWASH!If ICE and employers get serious about enforcing EXISTING immigration law we would deport many and many would leave on thier own because they would find it harder and harder to stay in one place and stay under the radar.
Many will accuse me of being cruel.The families that get broken up and all that.
I dont care!It was thier choice (yes choice)the try to live here without documents,they know they are breaking the law and they know thier families are at risk.Until the safe haven of the US is no longer tolerable for them they will never go home and fix thier own country.

Wildfires VS Katrina

I ask everyone to take note of the California wildfire crisis.Pay particular attention to differences in Louisiana and Katrina.Now Im sure FEMA has done alot to clean up its act but I seriously doubt these people would resort to crime if things were less organized.Racist? NO! HONEST? YES! MAny of the homes burning in California are ,yes,affluent,Im sure all some people had to do was call the caretaker and have everything handled but hundreds of thousands of poor and middle class people are being evacuated as well.The Goverenator deployed the national gaurd and contacted the feds and citizens went to work finding places for them and their animals to stay.The outpouring of compassion and heroism is amazing.
Why wasnt Katrina more like this?Here was an opportunity for a community to come together and help one another and New Orleans failed horribly.Is this indicative of a community too dependent on government?After all Ive heard no retrospection of how the citizens reacted to the crisis,only people blaming the government and ,oh yes,racism.
I dont make these comments to be devisive,I am not a racist but I hear clammerings of a good,self reliant message emanating from impoverished black neighborhoods and thought I would take the opportunity to address the contrast in how two American communities dealt with crisis.If you dont like this comparison,check out what happened during Katrina in Mississippi,Louisianas next door neighbor.
Discuss.

Is liberism a mental disorder?

Conservative talk show host , Michael Savage , wrote a book called LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER , Ive never read the book but the title got me thinking.
Is liberalism a mental disorder? Well , maybe not a disorder but there is definatley some "flawed" thinking comming from the left these days. From Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to Hillary and MOVEON.org.
Ive set down several challenges to "libs" here and there , on different post and other than a VERY lively debate on homosexuality, have yet to be challenged(adequately) by anyone offering to "prop up" the liberal side.
I believe conservative policies are based in reality and liberal policies are based on emotion.When implementing policy for millions of people what side of your brain do you want to be working? The emotional side or the pratical side.
Im avoiding bringing up any particualr issue , in hope of bringing forth the best "lib" this blog has to offer, to debate conservative/liberal ideas and policy. This is why I blog folks... I believe in conservatism as a savior for our country and relish every chance I get to have an HONEST debate on the issues of the day.I know to a lot of you I may seem like just another Bush lovin,party line republican.....but not true. I am critical of our President and base my arguments solely in facts and research.
So...please... with the presidential election less that a year away...lets debate the policies of our two major parties ( and independents)and see who prevails.It should be entertaining and educational.

I'm probably not much different than you or the people you work with , I've worked in retail/service for many years and recently took the oportunity to stay home with my new son ( 2 years old now),work a little and finally be able to write about some things I've grown increasingly passionate about over the years.My wife is an asst office manager and does well enough to see us through and we've also been smart with our money.My point is we couldnt be anymore "joe-six-pack" as Bill Clinton likes to call the workin man. I prefer " average joe" myself. I tell you these things about myself no there is not any confusion of who I am or what my motives may be in starting this blog.I am not perfect,my wife and I have both been married twice before and are well aware of the issues that arise,everyday,for the average American that have maybe not always made the best choices in life...in short what I want first and foremost is to tell you that a "conservative" is not the "wall street" capitalist,although I support capitalism strongly,also I want you to know Im not a racist as conservatives are often stereotyped.Lastly I want you to know that even though I support tax cuts for ALL americans, I am not a rich man myself...or anything even close to rich. I want to dispell the myths the sixties brought out about conservatism. Now these days , because of our two party system we are forced to articulate conservatism,as it relates to day to day government through the republican party. This is unfortunate because they are as beholden to "special interest as the democrats are but this doesnt mean we cant affect REAL CHANGE for the better.The reason the "parties are beholden to special interest is because " we the people" dont exercise our right and obligation to "self-government" and therefore dont give politicians any reason to be beholden to us.That is where we will start and throught this ,ever so important election year we will reclaim our government and ensure true freedom for generations to come.

Hello from Odessa , Welcome to my Opinion Press. Feel free to comment , especially if you disagree as I love a good challenge. I look forward to sharing ideas and vigorous debate!