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Fast Food Politics December 10, 2009

According to Wikipedia, for what that’s worth, McDonald’s serves 47 million people every day, worldwide.

You would be hard pressed to find, at least in this country, and I dare say in most countries, a person who does not know that fast food is bad for you; too much salt, fat, and cholesterol, without enough nutritious ingredients.  It has been said countless times that Americans have a fast food mentality.  We now, also, have fast food politics.

What does this mean?  People know that fast food is bad for them, but two things keep them eating it.  First, the marketing that gets into your mind from radio, television, billboards, and a host of other places, coupled with our inate ability to ignore that which we do not want to acknowledge.  A person gets hungry, and immediately McDonald’s comes to mind, due to the advertising they have observed.  They know that this food, if it can be called food, is bad for them, but they come up with excuses, such as “I am in a hurry”, or “it is just this one time”, even though they use these excuses every day.

The same attitude is prevelent in Politics, on both the side of the politician and on the side of the citizen.  Everyone wants the quickest fix, and will ignore the problem this time, or put off a real solution, that is hard to come by, to a later time.  This attitude, not a lack of government regulation, is the reason for the economic meltdown, and the reason that even if things are better for a year or two, they will bottom out again.

In times past, Americans took their politics seriously, and demanded a government that promoted freedom.  True freedom is a hard road, while the easy way to go is to let someone else make the decisions for you.  For freedom, you will have to climb mountains, descend into valleys, scale obstacles, fall and get up, and carry on through all types of environments.  Or you can take the easy lowland road where the government has cut the pass through the mountains and removed all obstacles.  The toll you pay to use the low road is your integrity, traded for the coins of servitude.

The only chance of stemming the tide of liberalism eroding this country is the mid-term elections that could swing congress to the right.  Thankfully, a lot of Obama voters are now, if a little late, realizing the falacy of the man and his plan.  Healthcare for everyone sounded good, until they found they would have to pay for it.  Reducing pollution sounded good until they found their electric bill would double, and extra taxes would have to be placed on fuels.

Fast food politics is taking us on a road to ruin.  Here are some points you should consider:

• The Green Movement.  There is no evidence, regardless of the hype, of manmade global warming.  In fact, about 2000 years ago, Greenland was green and the Vikings were colonizing it.  Temperatures averaged about 10 degrees F higher than now.  The Green Movement will never tell you this.  They will only say it is the warmest that it has been in the last century and a half.
• Junk Science.  H1N1 is no worse than the normal seasonal flu, and in most cases is not as bad.  The statistics that you read on H1N1 are out of context and skewed.  The number of people reported as going to hospitals for flu, are actually people with flu like symptoms.  Hospitals are assuming flu and treating for flu, regardless of the type of flu, or if it is just a bad cold.  However, this helps the government; remember, the stockpiled millions and millions of does of Tamiflu, to fight Avian Influenza, last year.  If they don’t use it for something, then it becomes a boondoggle.
• Healthcare.  The government cannot pay for healthcare with savings from other healthcare sources.  The entire system is designed to waste money, and our government is yet to bring in a major program at budget.  Liberal groups are already planning how they will get money from healthcare, primarily by beating the bushes and getting people into programs.  These community organizations get money to help people, and showing how many people they get to a doctor will make them look good.  The syste will be bogged down with low paying treatments that will put hospitals and doctors out of business.  This is the worst thought out legislation ever in American politics.  It is 2,000 pages of law that will be forced through without any meaningful discourse, because the Chief Jester demands it.
• Your Rights.  The second amendment is under a constant attack by the left.  They want you defenseless.  The current adminstration is even attacking the first amendment in unprecedented ways.  Even Cheney, who was a spook’s wet dream, never tried to bar new outlets that disagreed with him.
• EPA Regulating CO2.  An abuse of power if there ever was one.  This may be enough to wreck the economy without Cap and Trade or Worldwide agreements.
• World Carbon Agreements.  Let me get this straight.  Small countries that barely can exist, want us to limit our carbon to the extent that it will double or triple the cost of our products, while putting billions of dollars in a fund to give them money to build “green” industries.  If this is not a “redistribution of wealth” scheme, I have never seen one.  The little bastards want to ruin our economy, and build their own economy on our bones.  Here is how we can cut down on carbon.  Grow just enough food to feed Americans.  Don’t grow or ship food to the idiot nations.  We elliminate the carbon from growing and shipping the food, and if they all starve to death, that will just reduce the carbon output more.

All of these situations, along with our high taxes, and other problems, exist because of a fast food mentality about politics.  People want it all, and they want it now.  No discussion, no thought, no effort, just give us what we want.

All I want is to pay off my debt, get my name out of every system I can, and go off the grid, along with close to a million other people who have done the same.

The world is full of politicians and whores (anyone who sells themselves for a government favor or handout), and, as my favorite charachter said “The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.” They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or President Truman. Decent men who believed in a day’s work for a day’s pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn’t realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don’t tell me they didn’t have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody Hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers… and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say.”  Rorschach, in Watchmen, if you are not familiar with the quote.  This is the comic book version, not the movie version, where they made it a little more palitable to liberals.

This is my last post.  I no longer care to worry over this.  Instead, I intend to spend the rest of my life working on things that interest me.  Saving you, is up to you.

People, you created this world, I hope you enjoy it.