Life's Choices

Life is simply the choices we make. 

Everyone knows this, at least I am assuming that everyone is intelligent enough to know this fundamental truth. But, despite the obviousness of this truth, so many people want to say that we cannot choose certain things. Also, people say that choosing certain opinions is wrong. I am referring to people of the liberal mindset. In our modern world, you are considered the purest form of evil if you ever express any sort of conservative thought. However, I am not afraid of the opinions others have of me and feel that someone must add some small bit of rationality to this insane world. I will use this post to bring some (not-so)common sense into the political fire. Let me also warn you, I am not afraid to speak my mind; I do not care if I hurt your feelings or offend you. But, I would also like to point out that my opinion is not the opinion that matters; that belongs to the Lord Almighty. Yes, I am a firm Christian and there is no way in hell you can convince me otherwise. My faith is very strong and a large part of how I choose to live my life. With that said, let us begin. 

I started this post with the statement, life is simply the choices we make. I will elaborate. There once was a time when you were born with certain items that you could never rid yourself of: family, sex, race, hair/eye color, etc. That was the facts of yesteryear, it is not the case today. You are not born with anything other than your choices and the consequences of those choices. Despite want Hollywood and the liberal media is forcing down your throats, you choose every aspect of your life. You choose to be successful or to fail, you choose to be poor or wealthy, you choose to be heterosexual or homosexual, and you can even choose to be a man or a woman. So, I say this to combat this plague that our society is experiencing. We blame the fact that we were born this way, rather than accepting the responsibilities of our actions and choices. This is an effort to hide from the consequences of poor choices. When you hide from the consequences, you do not pay the attention needed, to those affected most by your actions. This causes the world to fill up with selfish, freeloaders. Too many people in our society are not working to support themselves, they live off the hard work of others. This is another fundamental flaw in the liberal mindset. Following the teachings of Karl Marx into this socialistic mind set is very dangerous. Through the government welfare system, Americans are learning to live off the work of others; The minority is carrying the burden of carrying the economy. With so many people living off of so few workers, the economy cannot help but struggle. We need to force Americans off their asses and get them working for themselves and their families. This will increase GDP, and help alleviate the unemployment catastrophe we are about to face. Yes, you read me right, we haven't even begun to face a true unemployment disaster. Yet, I must explain, we will not be putting many of the workers that were hurt by the recession back to work, we will be unable to find qualified workers to fill all the opening jobs being vacated by baby-boomers. I know this fact is strange considering we have so many unemployed workers waiting for a position. This is a reality because so many of the workers affected by the 2008 recession were non-college graduates. The American economy has been moving away from manual labor for decades, and now it is more important than ever to realize that intellectual services will be the norm. Both political parties are focusing on bringing back manufacturing (which would destroy our economy) and not on educating the workforce and preparing it for the future. Besides, no company will bring their manufacturing back to the states unless we put unions back in their place. Unions have long outlived their usefulness and should be restricted from causing so much harm to American industries. I know, I sound evil, but it is true. The future of the American economy will depend on companies not having to over pay their workers. Besides, unions protected un-educated factory workers, not highly educated service workers. With the increase in job openings I mentioned earlier and shortage of qualified workers, educated workers will be able to set their own price in a way. But, with such a need for educated workers on the horizon, we have to have a way to educate them. Everyone is complaining about the cost of education in the country, and I agree. However, the cost is more than worth it. Though, there are still some people who need a lower cost education, this is provided in the numerous community colleges through out the nation. As you can see, I have not mentioned a government bailout for college student loan debt; it isn't practical. College students must learn to care for the debt they earned, remember, it's a choice. No, our higher education system is one of, if not the best in the world. With that said, this nation's primary education system is nothing short of a hilarious joke. Our students are not taught anything of real value, they are simply brainwashed into the typical socialist ideals. Students do not learn how to think, how to reason, or how to imagine; this is crippling our nations future work force. But education isn't the only area our nation is failing in. Our government has lost all understanding of basic economics. When the economy goes into a recession, the government must decrease spending, and cut taxes. By cutting taxes, the people have more money in their pockets to put back into the economy. When the government increases spending, they have to increase taxes, sucking more money out of the already fragile economy. Liberals would answer this by saying the rich should pay higher taxes since they have the money to give. This goes back to the free loading issue I brought up before. But, it also shows a discrimination against people who succeed. It also severely limits the growth potential of the economy since it is the wealthy Americans that run and fund the major American businesses. It isn't fair to punish these hard working people for succeeding, we should praise them and push our young people to strive to achieve similar goals. 

So, I have spoken my mind. Though this is just a small part of the thoughts that fly through my head, I felt that someone must say it.