As we ready ourselves and our families for the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday, it is important to sit back, enjoy a glass of wine, and starting thinking of all of the things for which we should be thankful during the past year.
For my friends on the left, I am sure you are thankful for the great job President Obama is doing with the nation’s economy, the healthcare of our citizens, and with fostering a joyous atmosphere in which all of our citizens just get along.
No doubt you are ecstatic about the millions of government jobs saved or created by Obama’s trillion dollar stimulus efforts - including the tax dollars and borrowed money spent on those shovel-ready union jobs. And I am sure you are thrilled that federal government salaries now exceed average pay of private industry employees – that is for those private industry employees not among the 10% who are currently unemployed as the business community continues to hold tight with its resources until the Obama administration finishes writing the thousands of new regulations which affect them.
And despite the overwhelming numbers of American citizens against ObamaCare, I am sure my lefty friends are still quite content in his federal government takeover of the healthcare industry. Even as you read reports on a daily basis of private companies getting exemptions from ObamaCare regulations or other companies having to raise employee insurance contribution levels, there is no doubt of your joy knowing that the private healthcare market will simply become a public utility in which all aspects are controlled by the government.
As for the great and peaceful relations between the rich and poor, black and white, gay and straight, and Christians and Muslims (let alone the Jews and Muslims) which Obama our Savior was supposed to bring to America, I am sure you lefties smile all day knowing that Barack is a rich straight black Christian who was raised in near poverty as the son of a Muslim. He is certainly our first post-racial President even if most segments of American society have not joined him in his Nobel prize winning efforts for world peace.
For those of us on the political right, we have our own thankfulness for still being able to live in a country secured by the Bush Homeland Security policies most of which Obama has enhanced to increase their effectiveness despite screams from the ACLU, George Soros, and the left wingers in the media and academia. And we are thankful for Obama allowing Bush’s surge in Iraq to succeed before pulling back troop levels when his military brass said it was safe to do so.
We righties also continue to be thankful for being able to benefit from the Bush tax cuts which Obama is trying to rename as his own even as he threatens to eliminate those lower tax rates for small business owners and others who are financially successful. Hopefully we will continue to be thankful this time next year for Obama also maintaining Bush’s low capital gains rates on our investments.
And most importantly for us right wingers, it is very easy to be thankful that the silent majority of American voters are actually waking up to the realities of what is happening to our country. And preparing to vote in all upcoming elections, to start holding our elected officials accountable, and to work together to ensure that our country returns to the basic forms of government which our founders desired. As I write this column, the November mid-term elections have not occurred but I am very hopeful that the predicted anti-Democrat wave will wash away enough big government liberals that common sense will soon return to Washington.
I am sure that your upcoming Thanksgiving Dinner will be a great opportunity to discuss how thankful we all should be to live in a democracy in which each of us can voice our opinions about how our country should be run without fear of arrest or intimidation unlike the daily threats to democracy throughout the world. And hopefully you will end that night by opening up your wallet and spending big on Black Friday so that our economy can start humming again.
