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Old Geezers Stampede

September 18, 2013 09:55

Maybe America is waking up. My father is an “old geezer.” He is retired Air Force, a combat veteran and an old style conservative Democrat. That was before Democrats became socialists. He forwarded me the email below titled Old Geezers.

Old Geezers

They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs. Some of us are “Baby Boomers” getting ready to retire. Others have been retired for some time. We walk a little slower these days and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We have worked hard, raised our children, worshiped our God and grown old together. Yes, we are the ones some refer to as being over the hill, and that is probably true. But before writing us off completely, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration.

In school we studied English, history, math, and science which enabled us to lead America into the technological age. Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand experience. We remember the days of telephone party-lines, 25 cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes. For those of you who don’t know what an icebox is, today they are electric and referred to as refrigerators. A few even remember when cars were started with a crank. Yes, we lived those days.

We are probably considered old fashioned and out-dated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off. We won World War II, fought in Korea and Vietnam . We can quote The Pledge of Allegiance, and know where to place our hand while doing so. We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield. We didn’t fight for the Socialist States of America ; we fought for the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.” We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag. We know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, America , and America the Beautiful by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you have only read in history books and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America .

Yes, we are old and slow these days but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us. We have loved this country, fought for it, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country and nobody is going to take it away from us. We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that is an oath we plan to keep. There are those who want to destroy this land we love but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent.

It was mostly the young people of this nation who elected Obama and the Democratic Congress. You fell for the “Hope and Change” which in reality was nothing but “Hype and Lies.”

You have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face, and have found you don’t like it after all. You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or “Climbing the Social Ladder” to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting. Many of those who fell for the “Great Lie” in 2008 are now having buyer’s remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn’t have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the ‘Kool-Aid.’ Now you’re paying the price and complaining about it. No jobs, lost mortgages, higher taxes, and less freedom.

This is what you voted for and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house.

Well, don’t worry youngsters, the Gray-Haired Brigade is here, and in 2014 we are going to take back our nation. We may drive a little slower than you would like but we get where we’re going, and in 2014 we’re going to the polls by the millions.

This land does not belong to the man in the White House nor to the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It belongs to “We the People” and “We the People” plan to reclaim our land and our freedom. We hope this time you will do a better job of preserving it and passing it along to our grandchildren. So the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, Stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor our country, and thank God for the old geezers of the “Gray-Haired Brigade.”

Footnote: This is spot on. I am another Gray-Haired Geezer signing on. I will circulate this to other Gray-Haired Geezers all over this once great county.

Can you feel the ground shaking??? It’s not an earthquake, it is a STAMPEDE.

I must admit to a sense of hopelessness when Obama was reelected. I wondered how so many could be so stupid. The attack by the socialist leftist progressives has been long and relentless. They are winning in many areas.

Our re-education system is bringing up a generation of young socialists who believe it is the government’s job to provide them a job. Sincere people like my father have been fooled by the propaganda media machine.

Ronald Reagan said “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” Until Obama the “old geezers” didn’t think our freedoms were being stripped away as we are “fundamentally transformed” into a Marxist welfare state.

Reagan also said “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

At least some of us are waking up to what the left is doing to our country through the Democrat Party but don’t let up. We cannot push back the tide that is sweeping over us without a much greater battle for the hearts and minds of the people.

Too many Americans still vote a party because of a generation of propaganda molding their beliefs. Too many Americans are still willing to sell their vote and their freedom for a hand out in the form of a tax credit, healthcare, pension bailout, school loan, farm subsidy or a thousand other imagined benefits from a morally and fiscally bankrupt government as long as it is paid for by ‘someone else’.

The sad truth is that the ‘someone else’ is their own children and grandchildren. The resulting dependency on government is indeed ‘fundamentally transforming’ America. The problem is that what we are being transformed into is a welfare state model that has already been shown to fail in many European countries.

The math just does not work. The truth is government-run, taxpayer-funded, anti-poverty programs do not work. Printing the money creates inflation which is just a sneaky way to steal your money without raising taxes.

In 1966 Alan Greenspan who became Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 through 2006 said this:

“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.”

And borrow they did. And they are still borrowing with no conceivable way to pay it back. When our debtors wake up to that fact they will, at a minimum, demand higher and higher interest rates on the debt. More likely they will stop lending us money. No more rubber checks.

Alan Greenspan said “Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.” Obama said he just wanted “to spread the wealth around”. To have it to spread around, the government must first confiscate it in the form of deficit (borrowed) spending leaving it to future generations to figure out how to pay it back.

The continuing money printing plan known as QEII or ‘quantitative easing’ could devalue our dollar another 20%. That means your dollar will by 20% less at some point in the next two to five years. Are you ready for that?

We have to get to a point where these things are discussed around the kitchen tables of America. It is not enough for the knowing few to continue to listen to Limbaugh, watch Beck or work the politics. We have to educate our friends, neighbors and families. We have to discuss the future of our nation the way we discuss football and what’s for dinner.

Those with a socialist agenda to ‘fundamentally transform’ America have accomplished a great deal. They control the message in the schools, colleges, unions, and in most of the mass media.They have instituted a vast new bureaucracy with almost unlimited powers that reaches into all aspects of our lives with the passage of monstrous bills disguised as health care reform, financial reform, student loan program and consumer protection.

More is coming in ‘green’ energy schemes to raise taxes and control more industries. Unelected bureaucrats are crushing the economy with ever expanding rules and regulations. The most blatant example is the EPA policy of ‘environmental justice’ and its strangling of industries by rapidly promulgating greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act, something it was arguably never designed to do.

We must let America know that like John Paul Jones, although his own vessel was burning and sinking, would not accept the demand for surrender, replying, “I have not yet begun to fight.”