Mrrick's Blog

I have been wondering where Gorbash and Ricky are lately. There have been some posts recently that I though Gorbash would jump on with both feet!  Maybe Ricky is face down in a bar somewhere. Has anyone heard from either of them?

I was raised in the 60's and 70's in a quiet middle class neighborhood in the western suburbs of Chicago. I guess you could say it was your typical Ozzie and Harriet set-up as my dad worked at a corporate job and my mother was a homemaker. I have one brother and one sister. Each child was REQUIRED to take on household chores,lawn mowing,snow shoveling, laundry, dishes, etc. We received no allowance, except for special occasions. If there was something you wanted to buy on your own, say a model airplane or a new ball glove, we had to earn the money for those purchases. My brother and I each mowed lawns, and my sister did babysitting in her older years. All of us had paper routes at one time or another.

Once a year, we would go on a two week vacation to northern Wisconsin where my parents had a cabin on a small lake. Boy how we loved those trips. Everything was basically FREE! We would go fishing with our dad and he would pay for the Snickers bars and root beer. Mom would buy ice cream and pay for go-kart rides! All of this fun, and no work! No school grades to worry about. No papers to deliver. No grass to cut. We were having a blast! We didn't know or care where that money being spent came from.

My point of all this is that I see parallels to these scenarios in the political parties. Conservative Republicans can identify with our family's home life, while Liberal Democrats closely resemble our vacation times. This whole post came to me as I was falling asleep last night and I thought it might be a good comparison. I realize that there should always be a good balance between work and fun, but I also believe that the way our parents brought us up has a lot to do with our survival and comfort today.

I am a child of the 60's and 70's and have seen quite a few things change in our great land since then. I am concerned most about society's current views on what used to be irresponsible behavior but is now widely tolerated. Examples include homomsexuality, wide spread drug use and abuse, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, same sex marriage, and the general acceptance of "if it feels good,do it" mentality.  Criminals nowadays can rape and murder someone but escape punishment because "they didn't mean to do it" and other lame excuses. People don't want to work nor do they need to in some cases because of our welfare system. I was in a convienience store not long ago, and there was a young man with multi colored hair waiting at the checkout ahead of me. Ahead of him was a woman in her 80's. When she went to pay for her quart of milk, she dropped a five dollar bill onto the floor. The young man ahead of me promptly picked up the bill and put it in his pocket. I asked him if he was going to return the money to the lady, to which he replied,"finders keepers,pal".  I offered to take him outside to show him what five dollars of "finders keepers" looks like. He then reluctantly returned the money to the grateful old lady. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG HERE? It seems that we have a problem with core values anymore. Anybody can do anything to anybody and get away with it on the premise of "rights". Parents need to be more involved, each of us has to stand up a say NO MORE! The " silent majority "has been silent too long. It is our obligation to stand up NOW! I know there are bloggers on this site that will argue or pick at what I have written here, and that is your right, but when someone enters your home, steals from you, hurts a loved one, etc., will you be as forgiving and accepting as you are politically? I doubt it.  Is it OK to terminate the life of another human being [abortion] just so as to not inconvieniece the mother? Is it OK to let people across our borders without following the rules? There are laws on our books being broken everyday in the name of enlightenment and blind tolerance.  If someone were to break a law that injured or other wise affected you or your family, you would want that law enforced, would you not? It is time to get back to basics in this country and stand TOGETHER against forces that are trying to tear us apart. From what I am seeing lately, these forces are becoming more and more effective. Thanks for letting me speak my peace. GOD BLESS the U.S.A.!

What a disgrace that Democrats found it necessary to get preventative innoculations before heading to North Carolina to attend a stock car race. This just proves how arrogant and self-centered they really are. Are they really afraid of catching a disease from their fellow citizens, [which could happen at the Capitol], or do they not consider these folks as being equals. You Libs out there, don't try to tell me it's a good idea to take precautions before a trip. This is a trip WITHIN our own borders. I travel 48 states and I don't need innoculations!  If getting sick from being near someone bothers them, then build a fence at the BORDER and stop those people before they come in ILLEGALLY!

   I have a full time job. I am subject to random drug testing as a condition to my employment. I understand and accept this, especially because I don't use drugs. Now, people who work and are subject to these policies generate the tax base of this society, whether it by at the federal or state level.  These tax revenues are used to pay for welfare programs. Shouldn't the people who receive these benefits be subject to the same testing before receive them?    Any thoughts, suggestions?   Am I goofy on this, or will I be accused of being a heartless, right wing, warmonger ,baby killer?