I was born in Chicago during the
reigns of FDR and Mayor Edward J.Daley, both Democrats. I have ambivalent
feelings about FDR. On one hand, he gave be Social Security in 1935, the year I
was born. On the other hand, he was the
instigator of the “Nanny” state, cradle to grave coverage for all! What a complete and utter disaster!
Absent the SS system, I would have had to save on my own for my retirement,
what a novel concept!
Through a combination of hard work,
luck and determination, I was able to break free of the Union (IBEW) mentality
and go on to have a reasonably successful career in the Telecommunications
Industry, beginning as an installer and finishing up as State President for an
Independent telephone company that was swallowed up by GTE, and then Verizon.
Back in my early years growing up in
Chicago, being a Democrat meant that one got one’s garbage picked up, snow
plowed, dead trees removed, etc., all through the kindness of one’s local
Alderman. All this had only one cost: vote
a straight Democratic ticket no matter who was running! Of course they didn’t know how one voted
behind the magic curtain, but usually the Democrats won big, especially in
local elections, even though the country went Republican, witness Eisenhower,
Nixon et al.
I know that Chicago was not the only
city infected with this cancerous affliction.
Look at Detroit, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Boston and New York, just
to hit the highlights of the Nation’s embarrassments.
For a long time after ridding myself
of the Democratic yoke of allegiance, I was a Republican with a marginally less
heavy yoke. However, the recent election
and re-election of Barak Hussein Obama and the pathetically weak Republican
efforts to unseat him and roll back his Progressive Liberal agenda has pushed
me into the Independent Conservative Tea-Party realm where I can feel free to
push the effort to hold the line and de-fund Obama care for example, before it
bankrupts the Country and dilutes the health care system by putting it under
the thumb of what is fast becoming a “do as I please” regime without respect
for the Constitution, while giving lip-service to it.
Our foreign policy is in a shambles
thanks to Obama and Clinton. Benghazi is
a disgrace and an embarrassment, while Putin seem to be dictating the terms of
any scenario in Syria. The Pentagon is
run by a person who appears to have just woken up every time he is seen on TV,
the State Department is now run by an ex-Vietnam war protestor, Kerry, who
along with Jane Fonda, ought to be sharing a cell in a maximum security
facility somewhere in Colorado.
Oh, and how many czars are there
now? Who knows, and "what does it matter now? (Compliments of
Hillary Rodham Clinton).
What a mess! In my opinion,
the Obama administration will go down in our Nation's history as one of, if not
the worst we have ever endured. However, if the Tea Part Conservative
ideology does not prevail in the next few years, I might as well move back to
Chicago and get back in tune with whatever Democratic regime is in office
now! I'm sure the current Alderman will welcome me with open arms and say
"All is forgiven, just remember to vote early and often".
