I still like to watch the local news. I’m a nosy kind of gal. More and more, though, I dread hearing the national news. Even Fox news. The other night I saw another casual mention about how we’re all becoming more of a one-world government, like this is some kind of a good thing. The network news pushes this as a noble goal, like everything will be all peace and love and Kumbaya when we all hold hands and sing, lay down our arms and pay homage to the brokers of the New-World Order. It scares the freakin’ bejeezus out of me!
I want peace. Love is good. Sharing the wealth is what we should do, and most of the good folks I know do share, willingly. We just like to make sure our donations are willingly given to other good folks that are truly in need. We don’t want some world leaders taxing everything we do (can you say “cap and trade?”) and redistributing what’s ours according to their value system of who deserves what. From what I’ve seen, most political leaders have no values, except for the huge value they place on their own egos.
People with power can become scary. They can get away with things that the average person can’t. Soon it just becomes a way of life for them, another entitlement. Pad their expenses? No problem. All their buddies are doing it. Don’t want to pay taxes? They know the right people to get away with it. How about getting the paramour a high-paying do-nothing job or granting a big government contract to the spouse’s company? Happens all the time.
Even little local leaders take whatever they can get away with. While a lot of us don’t have health care benefits even if we’re lucky enough to have a job right now, and many of us can’t save for our own retirements, some former supervisors in my little township want to stick the rest of us with a $7 million bill for lifetime health care and retirement benefits for a job they held in the past for like a time span of 5 to 10 years at most. Who the hell gets that these days?
Imagine what the leaders of the whole huge one-world deal would scoop up. They’ll be the reason we can’t have nice things. They’ll want them. And what they want, they’ll take. Because they’ll have already taken our guns away. And if we don’t like it, we’ll be shot down with our confiscated guns like the dissenters in the streets of Iran or Tiananmen Square.
