Election reaction

I am angry. I am livid. For most of the day, I have been without words to express my horror. I have been unable to discuss politics today. I have been, alternately, depressed, angry, and tearful.

I am frustrated with the seeming inability of most Americans to understand basic economic principles. Tax the rich? Hmm, sounds great. But who ever received a job from a poor person?

The plain and simple truth: the rich run our country and drive our economy. The rich hand out the jobs in this (formerly) great nation of ours. The poor accept those jobs. When you tax the rich to death, they eliminate jobs to preserve their companies. Who gets hurt? Um, yeah...the poor.

I am disappointed at this sense of entitlement that seems to plague Americans today. Why work for it when you can take it from someone else who has done the work for you? All hands are out for the Great American Handout. Good planning and fiscal responsibilty is punished, while poor planning and irresponsibility are rewarded with government handouts. My husband's niece, who is 18, is about to drop Baby #2 (Baby #1 came at age 16). Two different daddies, no high school diploma, and no job since Baby #1 arrived. But she has her own apartment (paid for by the government), plenty of baby formula (because, being uneducated, breastfeeding is out of the quetsion, naturally), and a government check on a regular basis. Me? I waited until I had my college degree in hand, a house, a job, and maternity insurance before having my first kid. By that point I had been married 5 1/2 years. What did I get from the government? Umm...nothing. Wait, no, I got a tax credit for the kid. Big stinkin' whoop. So where's MY handout? What exactly, then, is my incentive to do well for myself? To better myself, to be responsible? Exactly. Obama's socialist tendencies make no sense. Socialism takes away everyone's incentive to work.

Mark and I have worked very hard to get where we are today. I resent the idea that $120k is suddenly "wealthy" in the eyes of Obama and his cronies (by the way, did you notice that every time a Democrat gets up to speak, that number goes down? It started at $250k and is steadily working its way downward. By next week it'll be $20k...). Nearly everyone I know makes over $100k a year, and I can promise you they're not living high on the hog. Why is that? Because we're already bearing the brunt of this country's tax burden. I can promise that if Obama increases that tax burden, all those poor Americans will get exactly what they want: the rich will be no more. And the jobs will go out the door with them. I can't wait to say "I told you so" as the country collapses around us. Be careful what you wish for.