Does This Person Look Disabled to You?

I read with no surprise that the number of people filing for Social Security disability was greater than the number of  people filing for unemployment last month.  I guess when you have been unemployed for 99 weeks and still have no job after almost two years, you have to do something, right?
I see people in my store every day that are on disability. How do I know? They tell me.  They aren't using anything to help them walk.  They don't limp.  They are either able to walk up or drive up to my store with no problem.  One guy-who has been disabled for over two years now- rides his motorcycle to my store.  I usually see them around the first of the month when they are flush.  Near the end of the month I see some of them when they need to sell me something to get to the first of the month.
My Dad was on disability for the last years of his life because of his heart, and there was a time when my seizures weren't controlled and I used disability for about five years.  As soon as I could, I went back to work and contributed to the system.  I believe that disability is fine for someone who truly needs it, but the way it is set up now, it is completely unsustainable.  Too many people look at this as free money and no work required.  Does anyone wonder why we are going broke?
One customer in particular has had three children and guess what?  She is trying to find something wrong with all three of them so that they can get a check also.  What a bunch of little money makers! Why is it that a six year old child needs a check?  Is there some job that they aren't able to do any longer?  When I was six years old, my chores included dusting, making my bed, clearing the table, and rinsing the dishes that were washed.  In what way did I contribute to the family that would require a check?
The thing that makes me the angriest is that while she was in jail for writing bad checks, she still received disability.  Yep-we mailed her a check even though she was cooling her heals in the grey bar motel.  Where is the common sense for that?
What is her disability you ask?  When she was a stripper, the stress of going to work every day caused her to have acute stress.  Maybe she should have learned a trade, or gotten an education.  I would think the stress of my children going hungry and homeless would get those pasties on, if nothing else.
Why would she need a check for her children's disabilities, any way?  Were they bringing in a check that the family depended on? Or is it just another biscuit to dip in our shrinking gravy train?  I bet it's the latter.
Another example that truly grates on me is right around the corner from me.  There is a guy on the corner who has a perpetual yard sale.  This town has something called 'spring clean up' when people set out the things that they want to haul to the dump, for whatever reason.  Quite often, there is nothing wrong with the item, the owner just no longer wants or needs it.  This "disabled" guy drives around for hours a day and loads his truck with the appliances, furniture, yard toys, lawn mowers and other things that people throw away.  So he can drive, lift more than fifty pounds repeatedly, make change, and sit and stand for long periods of time. How is he disabled again?  He looks perfectly able to stand by a door and say "Hi, welcome to Walmart.  Do you need a cart?"
Or what about the woman who won a million dollars in the lottery and continued to draw food stamps?  When she was confronted-she got angry!  She complained that after taxes, she didn't have more than five hundred thousand left!  How in the world was she supposed to furnish the two houses she had purchased if she had to buy her own food, too?  I was glad to see that she was arrested for fraud and has to repay much of the money that she received.But still-
Is there any question why we are broke?  Imagine it this way-if our Republic were a person-that person found out that his or her hours had been cut at work and  won't be making as much money.  Instead of tightening their belt, they just ordered the deluxe cable package for a brand new 78" wide screen television they just bought, and they're hoping that it's hooked up before he or she gets back from an around the world deluxe cruise.
Do you think any of those people are trying to get better so that they can contribute instead of drain the system?  Me neither.
I have no problem helping a person get back on their feet.  While I don't believe all of the receipts that I see online listing lobster, steak and other luxury items bought with food stamps- I do remember that when I worked at Walmart- those carts loaded down with fantastic cuts of beef and ground sirloin (and three cases of soda) were usually food stamp orders. I remember thinking-do me a favor and buy some ground turkey like I do- but of course I couldn't say it out loud.
I have no problem helping someone.  I have paid it forward on more than one occasion, we all have hopefully. It shouldn't be a lifestyle.  Think about it, you can thank me later.

Which Moron Thought this was a Good Idea?

Obama hates American exceptional-ism.  Watch him when he is out there "representing" us.  He cannot bow, scrape, or apologize enough for the way we do things better than others.  He cannot put his dumb hand over his heart when they display our flag.  He could barely stand to put a flag pin on his clothing.  He stands there, hands over crotch displaying his ignorance for all the world to see.(Strangely enough, he has no problem putting his dumb hand over his heart for other countries' flags. What's up with that??
While he was being groomed for the gig, you would have thought that one progressive would have given him a quick run down on U.S. Flag protocol.  He is such an anti- American tool.  It disrespects every man, woman, and child that ever sacrificed for that flag, the very flag that his yeti like wife couldn't understand the fuss over.
So B.O. has done everything in his power to kill the coal industry.  We have more coal than anyone else in the world.  We can burn coal at half the cost of anything else.  When B.O. and his ignorant minions decided to make coal less accessible, he decided that we would all pay twice as much for electricity.
He had some ignorant, misinformed, tree hugging vision of wind and solar power making up the difference. I guess he didn't realize that the private sector would be more than happy to step in if there was any practical way to make wind and solar profitable.  He takes more of an "all the above" approach in public now.  Of course, I haven't read about him urinating a half billion dollars to any of the coal industries-and yet-wasn't there a couple of high priced loans to now bankrupt solar companies?  Does Solyndra ring a bell?
Mine the coal, morons.  Mine the coal, use the coal here.  Not in China, here!  Bring the cost of energy down, and then we can begin to repair the damage that you have done in the last four years.  Build about ten more refineries by getting that useless E.P.A. (thanks Jimmy Carter) out of the way.  We have billions of barrels of oil right here.  Refinery jobs are excellent jobs that pay well for the risks that are taken.  Get out of our way and let us thrive, Obama.
The economy is in the toilet.  The cost of food, fuel, and housing is skyrocketing.  Those people who are lucky enough to have a good job are not certain how secure that job is.  Obama and his idiots are under reporting the unemployment numbers.  The government tells us that there is no inflation when you remove the costs of food and fuel.  Please tell me how you are suppose to manage a life without those two little things.  It would be like telling the family of a comatose patient that other than a heartbeat and brainwaves, the patient is just fine and dandy.
Think before you vote.  As one of my favorite bumper stickers read: "If you voted for Obama to prove you're not a racist, vote against him to prove you're not an idiot."  You'll thank me later.

Illegal Aliens Can't Vote in Our Elections, Mr. Holder

I have been very proud of the state that I grew up in-Florida-for purging their voter rolls of those who are not eligible to vote.  The illegal aliens, the felons, the visitors who are not eligible to vote will have to try and help steal an election some where else.
If they are able to answer the call to jury duty with the knowledge that they are ineligible because they are not citizens-what does Eric Holder see as voter suppression? They know that they aren't able to vote-why doesn't the "highest law enforcement in the land" know this?  Better yet, why isn't he enforcing this law?
So why is Eric Holder suing the state to make them stop?  Surely he understands that removing these names from the lists will ensure the integrity of the voting process.  He has to understand that requiring someone to show a picture I D is only verifying the process, right?
Of course he does, and that's what scares the crap out of them. Do you ever get the feeling that they want a bunch of ineligible voters on the rolls so that they can scam another election?  It kind of makes you wonder. It's a little harder to steal another election when people are watching, isn't it? In this state, there is an ongoing investigation into the forgery of names that even got B.O. on the ballot in the first place.  So if he wasn't eligible to be on this ballot, how many others was he not eligible for?
Texas is being sued to stop the practice of requiring a valid identification to vote.  How does that suppress the vote?  I mean from people who should be able to vote?  It doesn't, and the fact that the current administration wants as many illegal votes cast should tell you volumes about them.
The notion that the elderly would be discriminated against is laughable.  Eligible senior citizens always have their identification with them.  Don't believe me?  Forget to give one a senior discount and watch how quick that i.d. pops out!
Try buying alcohol without ID. For that matter, try to cash a check at Walmart without ID.  Try to get utilities turned on, or even drive a vehicle.  Are all of those activities racist as well?
Wouldn't people sworn to uphold the Constitution want to make sure that it was being upheld?  I guess not if it means their boss won't be elected.  It kind of makes you wonder why they wouldn't prosecute those black panthers for voter intimidation, doesn't it?  If two guys in hoods and robes had stood in front of a voting place with clubs-how quickly do you think Mr. Holder would have been on that?  Oh yeah, that's different.
Very soon, Mr. Obama will be our ex-president-God willing- and he and his wife can go back to what they are good at, that is mooching off the government teat.
I'm not crazy about Mitt Romney-more often than not, I call him mittforbrains.  But the Devil I don't know is better than the one we have in office now.  Register and vote.  You'll thank me later.

What do Bill Clinton and Herpes Have in Common?

Man o man, will he ever go away and stay away?  I have to wonder.  Most Presidents (the good ones, anyway) accept that their time in the public eye is over and they retire gracefully.  Slick Willie seems to be that party guest who just won't stay gone.  I know he craved attention- everything he did was calculated to draw the maximum amount of attention possible.  But I enjoyed 2000 ever so much more knowing that at the very least, he wouldn't be wagging his finger at me every day.  I guess I was wrong.
We all know someone like Bill.  It's either the drama queen/king co worker or that neighbor who knows everything-just ask him.  This is the person who got lucky once- and is now determined that you never, ever, forget it.
The msm has always enjoyed a slow dance in the moonlight with him.  There aren't many Presidents who could commit perjury, obstruction and possibly who knows what else and still have the msm in his back pocket.  He exposed himself to at least one woman and what did the media do?
Why-they made her the object of a smear campaign, of course!  That bulbous headed Carville made so many disparaging remarks about her-and trailer parks- and the Women's movements made not a whisper.  His pastor-Reverend Baby Daddy- was always there in the background offering him advice and photo ops.
His weight loss was covered with bated breath, as was his every sound byte.  He never fails to give his opinion on any given topic, it never stops!
Thank God for the internet-without it, I would never hear about the amazing job that President Bush and his wife Laura do for the troops who have been injured.  The countless hours visiting our brave soldiers in V A hospitals with no publicity, makes me proud to have voted for him. You never hear about it on the news, they aren't prostituting themselves for the attention.  No, they are saying thank you to the brave men and women who have made such huge sacrifices for all of us.
Clinton doesn't seem to get that he is not relevant any more. Thankfully, he cannot ever be president again, and the idea of his wife being in charge of anything other than looking the other way makes me reach for the maalox.
I think she is the Secretary of State much like that homely daughter of theirs works for NBC.  It looks good on paper.  Of course, when she ran for President, her sole qualification was looking the other way while he stepped out on her.  At yet, many idiots were perfectly willing to vote for her last time around.  I believe that a deal was struck to get her to step back, and I think the deal was probably brokered through the DNC.  They were so anxious to have B.O. on the ticket they were perfectly willing to chuck her under the bus to make it happen.  But, she couldn't have been any worse than what we have now.  She just couldn't.  Cross your fingers and hope that Slick willie will just go away, and soon.  You'll thank me later.