We
had gone grocery shopping and decided to walk over to the newly renovated Wal-Mart,
bustling with shoppers of any nationality possible, most speaking their native
tongues in a cacophony of foreign sounds. The first encounter was the two large
posters on the front door, telling customers the shopping days for SNAP.
We
felt out of place, alien, and dirty, as if this was not our country anymore.
The few black and white people who spoke English were “rara avis.”
A
lady was walking around with her belly hanging out, proudly announcing to the
world that she was very pregnant. Grotesquely fat people with overladen carts
with food were moseying around the isles. I never understood how Americans
claim they are so poor and exploited yet they eat the most, as exemplified by
their girth. Other nations spend a large percentage of their incomes to buy
food, yet we shout that we are poor. Maybe this is an expression of what we now
do in this country, accepting the lowest denominator as the norm – no more
American exceptionalism.
Liberals
told us that things are going to be great now that they rule the new country.
We are going to have expensive “free healthcare,” higher taxes, more spending,
less military, leaving us more vulnerable and less respected in the world, but,
we are going to be just like everyone else, mediocre and dependent on
government.
The
future is not about “bringing people up;” it is about lowering the bar because
the bar was unfairly set too high. We are the American Union, soon to catch up
with the European Union. We are all Europeans now, excited at the prospect of
total socialism. Why should someone who worked hard their entire lives, made
right decisions, and saved, should have more than someone who self-indulged on
drugs all the time, did not show up for work, but kept having babies out of
wedlock? We have to spread the wealth, willingly or by executive fiat.
On
a busy Saturday afternoon, brand new banks of cash registers were empty while
the available ones had long lines of impatient people. Could it be incompetence
or the fact that Wal-Mart is cutting down employees in order to avoid the
expensive compliance with Obamacare?
One
lady, frustrated by the long wait in the fast checkout lane, was shouting to
the ceiling, I presume to the cameras, “It’s idiots like us who have to pay.”
In a disjointed speech, she continued, “Six men own 40 percent of the wealth,
we should all storm and take it. Management, come to the cash register! My time
is valuable too.” She explained to the entire line that she could not shop at
the union-owned grocery stores because prices were too high. She did not need
the bulk of Costco either. Following her logic, she should have been happy with
Wal-Mart – their low prices have allowed many American families to buy their
food and necessities while leaving disposable income for other expenses. It is
not Wal-Mart’s fault that both Republican and Democrat Congressmen
de-industrialized America by approving NAFTA, GATT, WTO, allowing free trade
with China, and resulting in multinational corporations moving their factories
overseas, firing workers, and destroying millions of manufacturing jobs in the
process. The spectacle I was witnessing was a sad expression of the dumbed down
electorate who are changing the face of America for the worst.
The
opportunity cost of standing in this line at Wal-Mart was higher than what I
was shopping for but I was learning a valuable lesson. I am not sure most
people would understand or care what opportunity cost is. We live in one of the
most educated areas in the country yet this is the result of our dumbed down
educational system. Nobody wants to work $12 an hour jobs so they hire
foreigners who do not speak English.
Our
paper currency claims proudly, “In God We Trust.” Is this still the case? Are we
still running the new country on Christian principles or are we now running it
on secularism and statism, the new SS? Are atheism and mother Earth our new gods?
If we held a referendum today and there was no voter fraud, would God and
Christianity win? Are we still a Judeo-Christian nation?
Did
we peak as a nation before 9/11? Did Osama bin Laden succeed in taking us down?
Do we now worship the god of “self,” whatever is best for me and makes me feel
good is my new god?
If
Democrats get enough rope, they will hang themselves with it and I think, we
should let it happen. It will be painful for us and the rest of the world.
Do
the “evil rich” need to be taught a lesson in sharing by the Democrat largesse?
History will tell. To mirror the recent special, “The Men Who Built America,”
our children and grandchildren may watch a special years from now on the
history channel, “2030 – The Men Who Destroyed America” – Woodrow Wilson, FDR,
bankers, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Richard Nixon, Treasury Secretaries, some
recent Presidents, the Supreme Court, and the Federal Reserve may feature
prominently.
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