Our Elected Leaders and Other Ramblings

I know I'm back earlier than I threatened, but I heard something today that I just couldn't let go. It appears that we taxpayers have financed a trip for several of our elected officials to go to Cuba and meet with dictator Fidel Castro. That alone is enough to irritate the hell out of me, but the comments they made once returning, well that was enough to almost make my head explode. A congressional representative from California praised the leader and said that Cubans are living better than some in her own district. Well, who's fault is that? I'll tell you, it's the fault of the people living there and this elected official. If a person doesn't like where they are living, do something to get out and live elsewhere. Work more hours, look for a better job, better manage your money so you can afford to get out. I myself have no more than a public education and through hard work and perseverance I have managed to do okay. No, I don't make Bill Gates type money, but I manage what I do make and live pretty well.

As for the elected officials, they should quit promising that the state is going to provide for their constituents and help them to help themselves. Remember that in this country you get out what you put in. After all you have managed to get a pretty decent job, so why can't someone else? But then again your job as a representative of the people should only be temporary not a career.

Let's get back to the trip in the first place. I've said it before and I'll say it again, "What the hell are they thinking?" I want to know who thought this was a good idea. I can hear the conversation now, "Let's go pay a visit to a communist dictator that has a reputation for either putting people in prison that don't agree with him, or just killing them, and has also enslaved an entire country." I doubt it went exactly like that, but what else could be said? And even after the idea was presented, someone had to approve it. Then to come back and say that Castro was engaging because he wanted to know more about Dr. Martin Luther King and asked what he could do to help Mr. Obama succeed. There's a surprise, one socialist supporting another.

I cannot wait for the next election. I hope that the people who bought into the promise of change can now see that it's not only business as usual, but it is out of control. The spending, the foreign trips with the apologies, a cabinet nominee more odious than the next, the cuts in our military budget and now this trip to see the mass murderer Castro. What's next? It's one thing to try to get a country like Iran to ease up on the every Friday afternoon chants of "Death to America" and quite another to court a wacko like the Cuban dictator.

One thing I haven't seen the president do is make any kind of comments on the shootings in Oakland, Ca. and Pittsburgh, Pa. where a total of seven police officers were killed. I would think that he might have something to say about these incidents. Or at least condemn the wackos that paraded through the streets of Oakland celebrating that criminal lowlife as a hero. As far as Oakland goes, after that hideous display the city council should disband the local government and leave those people to fend for themselves.

People should remember that seven good men gave their lives in an effort to protect the people of their respective towns. I know alot of folks like to bad mouth the police, that is until they need one, but generally these are the people that have no idea what it's like to be an officer. I know I've heard every story imaginable about how someone got a ticket that didn't deserve it or how the police didn't do enough to find out who toilet papered their house. But maybe, just maybe people should take the time to think what that officer might have just been through. Maybe he just had to wrestle with some drunk or talk someone out of killing themselves or having to tell a parent that one of their children has died. Then try to think of all the things that the police have to do that most people couldn't. Then tell me I'm a bad guy, I dare you.