I am tired.

I copied this e-mail I got and checked it out on snoopes.com.  This author views reflects the opinoin of alot of americans.  I thought this would be a good start on how I feel about things.

Mark

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/imtired.asp

The guy put a lot of thought in this and captured what many Americans feel. Unfortunately, most of our elected leaders don't get it. Time to vote them all out and start anew.
"I'm 63 and I'm Tired"

by Robert A. Hall
I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce

and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day,

I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still

put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I

make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked

to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and

I'm tired. Very tired.
I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to

people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government

will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people

too lazy to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep

people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm

willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of

our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the

left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community

Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.


I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing

millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who

live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years,

if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe,

the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the

tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of

Venezuela.
I'm tiredof being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace,"

when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their

sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting

over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because

they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims

stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating

the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an

and Shari'a law tells them to.

I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the

post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action

jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities

(harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the

ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities

more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.
I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a

black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the

Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice,

or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less

arrogantly of an all-knowing government.
I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and

inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost,

were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of

presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to

control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military

records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with

two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama

with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder

why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a

clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to

his camp in 2004.
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other

cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and

madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group

is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia

to teach love and tolerance.
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight

global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a

two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also

own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our

carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore,

you're green enough.
I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I

must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a

giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up

their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people

choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And

I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I

tell them I never tried marijuana.

I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers,"

especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime.

What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm

not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few

hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing

to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English,

doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on

welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those

are the citizens we need.

I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never

wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their

entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our

military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make

split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth

better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our

troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that

were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not

even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the

humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo,

and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims,

who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who

tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the

Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found

in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia,

because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and

American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for

help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.
I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on

virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums

are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I

live in Illinois, where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to

loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet.





I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and

politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes

or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was

getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or

poor.

Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with

air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of

Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The

poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the

dollars flowing.


I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their

lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or

discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because,

mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm
just sorry for my granddaughter.



Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms

in the Massachusetts State Senate.