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 I'm Tired; By Robert A. Hall, 03-08-09

 I’ll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when

 jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between

 jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since

 I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in

 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or

 eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my

 job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the

 economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired.

 Very tired.

 

 I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the

 wealth around” to people who don’t have my work ethic.

 I’m tired of being told the government will take the money

 I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too

 lazy or stupid to earn it.

 

 I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to

 “keep people in their homes.” Sure, if they lost their

 jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought

 McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off,

 $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the

 leftwing Congresscritters who passed Fannie and Freddie and

 the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help

 them—with their own money.

 

 I’m tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing

 millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood

 entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities

 America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the

 United States will have the religious freedom and women’s

 rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom

 of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the

 tolerance for Gay people of Iran, and the freedom of speech

 of Venezuela. Won’t multiculturalism be beautiful?

 

 I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of

 Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of

 Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for

 their family “honor;” of Muslims rioting over some

 slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews

 because they aren’t “believers;” of Muslims burning

 schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims

 to death for “adultery;” of Muslims mutilating the

 genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because

 the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.

 

 I believe “a man should be judged by the content of his

 character, not by the color of his skin.” I’m tired of

 being told that “race doesn’t matter” in the

 post-racial world of President Obama, when it’s all that

 matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission

 and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the

 most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the

 ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that

 hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of

 US Senators from Illinois. I think it’s very cool that we

 have a black president and that a black child is doing her

 homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation

 proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi

 Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the

 individual and less in an all-knowing government.

 

 I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s

 fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that

 think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful. That

 thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential

 time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public

 to control weight and stress, that picked over every line of

 Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry

 release his, that slammed Palin with two years as governor

 for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with

 three years as senator as potentially the best president

 ever.

 

 Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or

 switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush

 in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in

 2004.

 

 I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for

 other cultures” we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money

 to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate

 in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a

 church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to

 teach love and tolerance.

 

 I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard

 to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate.

 My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool

 together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom

 condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon

 footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re

 greener than Gore, you’re green enough.

 

 I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease,

 and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the

 damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley,

 grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they

 tried to fight it off? I don’t think Gay people choose to

 be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs.

 And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treating me

 like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

 

 I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented

 workers,” especially the ones who aren’t working, but

 are living on welfare or crime. What’s next? Calling drug

 dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”? And, no, I’m not

 against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic and it’s been

 a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my

 religion. I’m willing to fast track for citizenship any

 Hispanic person who can speak English, doesn’t have a

 criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on

 welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our

 military. Those are the citizens we need.

 

 I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would

 never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let

 their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting

 station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit

 at home, never having to make split-second decisions under

 life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people

 then themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do

 our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with

 the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the

 last fifty years—and still are? Not even close. So

 here’s the deal. I’ll let myself be subjected to all the

 humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu

 Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be

 subject to captivity by the Muslims who tortured and

 beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who

 tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in

 Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda

 torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who

 cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the

 girls were Christian. Then we’ll compare notes. British

 and American soldiers are the only troops in history that

 civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding

 from in fear.

 

 I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a

 corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on

 corruption. Read the papers—bums are bi-partisan. And

 I’m tired of people telling me we need bi-partisanship. I

 live in Illinois, where the “Illinois Combine” of

 Democrats and Republicans has worked together harmoniously

 to loot the public for years. And I notice that the tax

 cheats in Obama’s cabinet are bi-partisan as well.

 

 I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and

 politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes,

 stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they

 think their only mistake was getting caught. I’m tired of

 people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

 

 Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with

 air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor.

 The majority of Americans didn’t have that in 1970, but we

 didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have to

 keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars

 flowing.

 

 I’m real tired of people who don’t take responsibility

 for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them

 blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for

 their problems.

 

 Yes, I’m damn tired. But I’m also glad to be 63.

 Because, mostly, I’m not going to get to see the world

 these people are making. I’m just sorry for my

 granddaughter.

 

 Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five

 terms in the Massachusetts state senate. He blogs at:

 www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com

 

 

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