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This blog will be filled with random opinionated thoughts. You might get offended. I don't care but please don't bitch. Your opinion can be recognized if formulated in an reasonable statement. Otherwise, fuck off (and I mean that in the nicest possible way)
On the radio today, I heard a statement from of all people, a sports commentator. It gave me pause, and made me stop and listen. This man, who is usually full of vitriol, said quite simply "As a black man, in the sports community, I have to wonder when we start taking responsibility for what we have become and stop blaming the world." This statement though isn't just a blanket statement for the black community. It can be used to describe the any class or ethnic person in this country. Every one blames the world for what they have or don't have. It's someone else's fault if they don't get what they want. Politics is just grandstanding. No-one gives a shit about the common good anymore.
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing, it was here first" - Mark Twain
You are not owed anything. Get off your ass and make something of yourself. There are people who've got it worse, who've gotten up from worse, and made more of their faults and insecurities. It's not McDonald's fault you're fat. It's not a rich man's fault you're not rich. It's not a sick child's fault people want to help them and not you. Maturity. Take responsibility for your own actions, inactions and mistakes. If you're poor, I emphasize. I truly do. However, there are more than enough programs in place to help you. It is up to you, to look in the mirror and want to take advantage of them. To climb up, scraping for every little bit, to get there. It sucks, granted but it's been done before and will be done again
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin
From Steve Forbes
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Gun laws. I can see a reasonable expectation for guns. Registering a gun, this way if stolen, can be traced and returned. IE just like a car. However as hard as it is to hear this, these proposal for gun laws have no effect on any past mass killing tragedy. It wouldn't have affected those poor children at Newtown any differently. More political grandstanding trying to gain points in a future re-election or political ambitions, I sincerely doubt it would change any possible future ones either. The people who hope so, sorry, pipe dream.
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria) Thomas Jefferson
On the radio today, I heard a statement from of all people, a sports commentator. It gave me pause, and made me stop and listen. This man, who is usually full of vitriol, said quite simply "As a black man, in the sports community, I have to wonder when we start taking responsibility for what we have become and stop blaming the world." This statement though isn't just a blanket statement for the black community. It can be used to describe the any class or ethnic person in this country. Every one blames the world for what they have or don't have. It's someone else's fault if they don't get what they want. Politics is just grandstanding. No-one gives a shit about the common good anymore.
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing, it was here first" - Mark Twain
You are not owed anything. Get off your ass and make something of yourself. There are people who've got it worse, who've gotten up from worse, and made more of their faults and insecurities. It's not McDonald's fault you're fat. It's not a rich man's fault you're not rich. It's not a sick child's fault people want to help them and not you. Maturity. Take responsibility for your own actions, inactions and mistakes. If you're poor, I emphasize. I truly do. However, there are more than enough programs in place to help you. It is up to you, to look in the mirror and want to take advantage of them. To climb up, scraping for every little bit, to get there. It sucks, granted but it's been done before and will be done again
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin
From Steve Forbes
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Gun laws. I can see a reasonable expectation for guns. Registering a gun, this way if stolen, can be traced and returned. IE just like a car. However as hard as it is to hear this, these proposal for gun laws have no effect on any past mass killing tragedy. It wouldn't have affected those poor children at Newtown any differently. More political grandstanding trying to gain points in a future re-election or political ambitions, I sincerely doubt it would change any possible future ones either. The people who hope so, sorry, pipe dream.
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria) Thomas Jefferson
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