We Are Better Than Trump! (My Last Post Of This Cycle)

Pundits across the board are talking about the "election tightening" and some Democrats are running around with their pants on fire. Despite the Newsweek revelation that positively connects Trump's campaign to Russian hackers trying to influence the election, the talk is going toward "the economy" as the source of whatever strength this unqualified buffoon has in the election. The scary thing is that some 70% of America really believes ONE person, whoever it is, with all the checks and balances to the Executive Branch, can really put a "chicken in every pot". It took FDR FOUR elections and a World War to revive the American economy after the Great Depression and it was not as complex nor corporate controlled then, as it is now.

The real truth, the one those rabid Trump supporters and "disenfranchised" minorities on the other side, choose to ignore, is that the majority of the control over our lives, income and wealth, lies with OUR CHOICES, not a Government policy! Our Nation was founded on the PURSUIT of happiness, not on guaranteed happiness! Most already know that buying a home, at whatever the cost, having credit cards and sharing a new vehicle with the finance company, does not create happiness.

Our Founders, our ancestors, the "Greatest Generation" and our parents all knew that to be happy was to be secure and security starts at home! My Father (and I) built PAID OFF homes and drove vehicles we actually owned. Americans have been tricked into thinking that a "credit score" is the secret to happiness and a new vehicle, most likely a resource vampire of an SUV is what makes you whole!
You, all you wanting to tear up trade deals and "Make America Great (hate, white, able to do as we please without consequences) Again", as well as those wanting free EVERYTHING provided by the Government need to take another very hard look at our forefathers. THEY did with what they had.

They not only lived within their means, they SAVED a portion of their means for a "rainy day". They bought new shoes not because some gender-obscure fashion designer said the old shoes were out of style, they bought new shoes because their toes were out of the old ones! They bought a new vehicle when the old one could not be repaired any longer. They bought a house when they could afford it : CASH or 40-90% down! No money, no shoes... darn the socks.... put cardboard in the shoes..... live with the parents (my parents did until my Dad bought his first house: CASH)....... faded pants, buy a packet of RIT..... $2.00 in your pocket, no meat this week, buy potatoes...... can't pay the rent, light bill (now called the electric bill), insurance and buy food? Sell something and MOVE INTO WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD WITH 70% OF YOUR INCOME AND SAVE 30%! Dave Ramsey has it right when he teaches to cut costs, eliminate all credit and live within your means. "Live like no one else now, so you can live like no one else later" (WHILE SAVING MONEY)!

Being American does not give you the right to have everything some corporation says you need to buy. Being American insures we all start on a level playing field to strive for what is possible within our abilities. If you do not possess the ability to live in a McMansion and drive a BMW, live on the "East SIde" or "Downriver" save until you can and be happy some King doesn't come to your door to "claim his right" to your wife or daughter! Or a military squad does not kick in your door and take what you DO have! Don't whine because you cannot afford the newest thing some advertisement says will make you whole or sexy!


Wake up you ignorant fools!!!! Politicians did NOT put YOUR economy in the condition it is in!!!! YOU DID! YOU APPLIED FOR AND RAN UP THE CREDIT CARDS! YOU LIED AND BOUGHT THE HOUSE YOU COULDN'T AFFORD, YOU "NEEDED" THAT PICKUP WITH THE 4WD YOU WILL NEVER ENGAGE! YOU PLACED YOURSELF WHERE A SMALL CHANGE IN YOUR INCOME OR INFLATION IS CATASTROPHIC!!! YOU, NO ONE ELSE!!!!

You were suckered by corporations and now you are considering being even more stupid and hiring someone with zero political experience as your President. This is someone whose ass you would kick for the things he says about women and more.... remember what you told your high school friends when they said they thought your younger sister was cute! Even the most ignorant and stubborn out there would NEVER ask someone who never spent a day in medical school to remove a brain tumor, why would you consider a politician who never read the Constitution or spent a day in any political office AND filed bankruptcy SIX TIMES to run our economy and control our military & its weaponry?

Consider this: what if despite the very best efforts of professional politicians world-wide, this is the BEST they could accomplish with their skills? What if where we are IS the best possible today? Could YOU do a better job? You have to answer that because you are looking at the possibility of placing someone in control of the world's largest economy who has been bankrupt SIX times. How many times were you bankrupt? Could you do a better job than the pros? You cannot even pay your bills and control your spending! What makes you thing a six-time-bankrupt, politically inept, 70 year old could do better than you, let along the professionals? Do you want to risk that?


"America is in the sewer", you say? I cannot disagree, but our FREEDOM to pursue (win or lose) our happiness remains intact and you have a choice to continue the lifestyle that has you considering brain surgery from a golf course designer, or you can use your brain to change your lifestyle to one you CAN sustain! But make no mistake, whomever becomes our next president is NOT going to change anything if you continue living as you are. You need to change and the bottom line is that you know it!

I have faith in America. Faith in the people that took, in SIX MONTHS, an isolationist country and turned it into a mechanized powerhouse that saved the World in 1945. I have faith that what Richard Nixon called the "silent majority" will come through once again with sanity and maintain the oldest democracy in the world. First, we must learn to control our consumption and live within our means again.


That is MY America! We are out there still, some shouting in anger at their own frustrations at their own shortcomings. But shouting  "Lock her up"and "build the wall", to someone who grew up watching the 1940's newsreels, sounds scarily like "Sieg Heil" did in those newsreels. Worse, "Jew-S-A" invokes images of the Berlin businesses where "Juden" was painted on the storefronts of people of one particular religion that Hitler blamed for Germany's economic woes. We all know how THAT ended!


American citizens who happen to believe in the SAME one god as we all do, just a little differently, are now as frightened as those "Judens" were in the 1930's. Remember, Hitler was a christian. So were the Crusaders who slaughtered more than a million Muslims.

Are we now prepared to go there......... again? With HIM???????