The Saddest Haul
Eight years as a long haul trucker. I've hauled everything from perfume to dirt. I've transported peanut butter, all terrain vehicles, beer, pillows, clothing, engines, tires, appliances, enough toilet paper and paper towels to clean up a major hazamt spill, and even Jeff Gordon's race car. Nothing, however, could quite prepare me for today's last minute assignment. As I write, a major department store on the outskirts of Chicago is closing down. "Just in time for the holidays?" I asked the clerk. With an ironic smile she said, "Yep, nothing like finding out you'll be out of a job by Christmas." My job today is to carry the contents of their store away.
Folks, we have to get these clowns out of the White House. People out here are suffering. Families are hurting. And we have a chief executive who pauses between lavish vacations just long enough to punish and demonize nameless and faceless corporations. Well, I just met real people who suffer the real consequences of class warfare. Of all the loads I've hauled over the last few years, this one is the saddest.
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Jul '10
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Amen, brother.
Mar '11
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I live on the outskirts of Chicago, and yours isn't an isolated load; it happens every day. But our problem isn't just the crowd in the White House, it's leveraged by the idiots in the state legislature and governor's mansion in Springfield. Mitch Daniels said living in a state next to Illinois was like living next door to the Simpsons; he's right on target.
Edited on November 10, 2011 at 8:35pmJul '11
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Ahhh, Chicago, the city that works but just don't ask how. Well Illinois is reaping the whirlwind of their socialist big taxing idiots they have elected. The place you jumped to regarding getting this buffoon out of the white house is appropriate but more critically is the rejection of nearly everything he stands for and the mental illness permeating our society that believes in his failing ideology.
Oct '11
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This feels like an RNC or RSCC (or something along those lines) TV ad in the making to me - a message that must get through to the electorate if we are to have any hope of stopping the bleeding.
Mar '11
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I spent last summer in Chicago's Western Suburbs; Kane County. There are brand new strip malls with never occupied empty store fronts. There is also a moat of urban blithe forming around the city. If one visits Millennium Park - it's beautiful. If one ventures to the western burbs along the Fox River (e.g., St. George, Batavia, Geneva, Warrenville, etc.) one finds wide boulevards, well manicured public areas, and lots of these signs
But in between from about three to seven miles west of Miracle Mile is a swath of abject poverty and abandonment.
I'm no fan of this administration, its policies, its lies, demagoguery, political correctness and opportunism; but this is 'his' chosen city and he ignores those that are among its poorest. It is a frightening place. Drive from the western burbs to Midway Airport and down Hawthorne; you'll see it. Yet the ARRA signs and work are in western suburbs repaving roads that are, relatively speaking, in near perfect shape. But what can one expect from a guy who'll let his aunt live in a Boston housing project while he lives in the White House and vacations on the Vineyard?
Edited on November 10, 2011 at 9:17pmOct '11
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Electing a new president is a good first step. But it's minds that need to be changed and educated. I have three college-aged children; I have had many conversations with that demographic. There are three beliefs that they hold dear:
1) it is the job of the government to ensure economic equality
2) healthcare and a host of other services should be free. They have no concept that someone has to pay
3) wealth is the proverbial pizza; if someone has too many slices, there is less for everyone else
While I will be paying it off for the rest of my life, I thank God everyday I sent my four kids to parochial school through high school. While far from perfect, it was superior to the education of their peers.
Sure, we've all been busy raising our families and working for a living, but while we weren't looking an entire generation received no education in basic economics, or what they did get promoted economic equality.
They were taught and believe Reagan was a bad president. That profit is evil. If they don't understand the problem, how will they recognize a solution?
May '10
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Illiniguy: I live on the outskirts of Chicago, and yours isn't an isolated load; it happens every day. But our problem isn't just the crowd in the White House, it's leveraged by the idiots in the state legislature and governor's mansion in Springfield. Mitch Daniels said living in a state next to Illinois was like living next door to the Simpsons; he's right on target. ยท Nov 10 at 11:32am
Edited on Nov 10 at 11:35 am
Hey, Indiana will be even better off soon, now that Ohio will be as screwed up as Illinois.
Sep '10
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There are still way too many brainwashed drones who will: vote against Ohio's public union reform; camp out in squalor in some "Occupy X" tent city; pull the lever for Obama next year. Enlightenment is slowly leaking out, but too slowly.
Dec '10
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Dave, I can remember back to the Carter Presidency (similar to what we have now). In Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, PA) the sheriff is an elective office. The sheriff was conservative and popular. In the late seventies with the EPA destroying American Industries on the fantasy of Acid Rain (we hadn't got to global warming yet) the inevitable happened. People lost their jobs and then lost their homes. Not homes they had purchased with some speculative mortgage in a real estate bubble but solid family homes created by hard working people. It was the sheriff's job to foreclose on these people. One day he just held a press conference. He said that he didn't wish to do his job anymore. He said that he was resigning.
LET'S KICK THAT JERK OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE ASAP!!!