The Bundy Ranch Standoff

I must be honest; I have not been following the Bundy Ranch story very closely.  But I have come away with two observations from what little I do know:

1.       It seems the feds are more concerned about what the Bundy family is doing than what’s happening at the border.

2.       It seems that Americans are starting to learn from their President that if you don’t like a law just ignore it.

Obama/Democrat Election Year Checklist

Pander to the following:

ü      Women

ü      Sign useless executive orders and tout bills advertised to ensure women are paid the same a men that actually help only lawyers

ü      Explain that there are other legitimate reasons for women on Obama’s White House staff to get paid less than the men but deny those reasons exist outside the White House

ü      Make sure people are not aware that it has been against the law for employers to discriminate against women since 1963

ü      Claim Republicans are waging a war on women

ü      African Americans

ü      You don’t have to do anything for them (they will vote for you no matter how much your policies hurt them)

ü      Call Republicans racists

ü      Latinos

ü      Introduce an amnesty bill providing illegal aliens, education, healthcare, room and board, and make the Republicans vote against it so you can call them racists

ü      Call Republicans racists

ü      Jews

ü      Do anything short of calling for the direct bombing of Israel and they will vote for you

ü      The Young

ü      Give speeches about your plans for a socialist utopia to college kids and promise them a bunch of free stuff

ü      Indoctrinate them before they enter the real world outside of school

ü      Make sure they don’t know they will have to pay for all the free stuff eventually, and then some

ü      Make a joke about a pickle (apparently they think that is hilarious)

ü      Senior Citizens

ü      Blame Republicans for ending Medicare and Social Security while you continue to take millions of dollars from Medicare and Social Security

ü      Claim Republicans want the old to die in the streets

ü      The Poor

ü      Force a vote to raise the federal minimum wage

ü      Ensure people are not aware that there will be less minimum jobs available and that most states already have minimum wages above the purposed federal minimum wage

ü      Make them resent people  who have more than they do

ü      Say Republicans don’t care about the poor

ü      99% of the Population

ü      Make them resent people  who have more than they do

ü      Promise to confiscate the property of rich Americans to make things fair

ü      Hope they don’t find out just how stupid and helpless you think the typical American is

Mission Accomplished

My Friend

I was talking to a friend who said he voted for Romney but had to hold his nose while doing so because he believed Romney only cared about the rich.

So let’s do a little thought experiment.  Who cares more about their fellow Americans; a) a wealthy person who donates 1.4% of their annual income to charity or b) a wealthy person who donates 16% of their annual income to charity?  (The national average is 3%.)

Now answer this question.  Who cares more about their fellow Americans; a) Joe Biden or b) Mitt Romney?

If you answered b) to the first question but a) to the second, you are probably not alone.

Turns out Biden gave a little over $5000 to charities in 2010 while Romney gave millions.  Biden is notoriously stingy.  Before becoming VP Biden donated an average of $369 a year to charity.  Romney, on the other hand, has given generously to charities throughout his life.  In fact, he donated his entire inheritance from his father to Brigham Young University.

So, who cares more about their fellow Americans?  I think they both care about Americans.  Surprised by my answer?  I think they both care but address the issue differently.  In general, liberals believe it is the federal government’s job to force other Americans to provide for the needy while conservatives believe the constitution severely limits what the federal government can do with regards to benevolent acts and delegates that responsibility to the states or directly to the people (see Constitution or Bust).

Believe it or not, conservations are not the mean, cold-hearted people liberals make us out to be.  Romney is not a greedy rich guy who doesn’t care about anyone but the rich.  We just believe that making charity a federal entitlement is destructive to society.

For thoughts on a related topic see Imagine.