What have we done?

Hi my name is Don and I guess you could call me a redneck. I live in Nevada in a rural area where we live by a code of common sense. No one could survive long in the high desert without using common sense. With that said here are a few common sense items I’d like your opinion on.

A friend of mine reminded me of a novel I read years ago and how fitting it is in today’s environment.  The book was Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in which she created Galt’s Gulch.  In the book it was a fictional place in the United States where the rich just closed their business’s and walked away to get away from overregulation and punishing taxes, in real time it is called Cafayate  (Google it) an upscale place in Argentina.  You would be surprised at the number of middle class and wealthy Americans who are expatriating every day and taking their life savings and families with them.  Others are heading to Uruguay, Panama, Singapore and Norway, this exodus has been brought on by the unrelenting effort of this government to punish success and profit in this country.  The amount of regulation being produced daily is staggering for small business, just in Obama Care itself there are now 20,000 pages of regulation and more coming.  Not one of our elected officials produced these regulations they come from an overzealous office of paid regulators in our government whose job it is to make sure they have job security.  What small to medium business person can keep up with these changes?  I want to personally thank all you Legislators and the Supreme Court who voted for Obama Care without knowing what it would do to our industry.  Just like Pelosi said, why study the bill we have to vote it in to see what’s in it.  Well you did and now we have to live in this nightmare.  As companies reduce their labor force to part time (32 hours) in order to survive this malaise maybe you can lend a hand to help us get by. 

When I grew up in Seattle it was a beautiful place to live and raise children.  We didn’t have a lot of crime and our government was unobtrusive, just there to protect and serve.  Taxes weren’t a subject of concern in fact we had Tax Tokens which were valued at somewhere around a quarter of a cent.  Not all residential streets were paved but people who lived on those streets survived and lived happily.  In the late sixties after building and taxing themselves to death many from California found refuge in the great northwest and set out to cover it with concrete and asphalt just like home, now they have one of the highest sales taxes in the country.  In the beginning if you were to ask one of the transplants why they came to Washington their answer would have been to get away from high taxes, ironic isn’t it?  The beauty of liberalism is that it takes a generation to feel the pain; I wonder what our kids are going to be feeling in a few years?

I try not to be a downer, but if we don’t get a handle on this debt and deficit our kids are going inherit whole different country than we inherited.  We were entrusted with a great America handed over by even greater Americans who fought and died to give freedom a chance, how proud can we be of what we’ve done with that trust?

That’s my opinion, what’s yours?