This one came over the transom from the mil email chain, but I DO agree wholeheartedly with it!
I’m getting old and I’ve worked hard all my life. I have made my reputation, the good and the bad, I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I have worked hard to get where I am in life. I have juggled my job, my family, and made many sacrifices up front to secure a life for my family. It wasn’t always easy and still isn’t, but I did it all while maintaining my integrity and my principles. I made mistakes and tried to learn from them.
I have few friends & have mostly been a loner except family, but have served & worked with good people from every walk of life. I have helped many that I could, mostly family. So, I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. People who have sacrificed nothing and feel entitled to receive everything.
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 themselves. I’m really tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which, no one is allowed to debate.
I’m really tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of all parties talk like their opinions matter to the common man. I’m tired of any of them even pretending they can relate to the life and bank account that I have. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
I’m upset that I’m labeled as a racist because I am proud of my heritage. I never stole any ones land, the government did that… I’m tired of being told I need to accept the latest fad or politically correct stupidity or befriending a group that’s intent on killing me because I won’t convert to their point of view.
I’m really tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. Especially the ones that want me to fund it. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I’m really tired. But, I’m also glad to be in the twilight of my life. Because mostly, I’m not going to have to see the wretched, depressing world these young useless idiots are creating.
And lastly, because even though I shouted from the rooftops, no one listened or seemed to give a crap. You reap what you sow, and so do your children. No one is entitled to anything. You have a choice to work, a choice to stay off drugs, a choice to make something of yourself. I have nothing to do with your choice. That’s all on you. You are entitled to what you earn.
There is no way these thoughts will be widely publicized, and the politically correct police censors will try to shut us up, as usual.
This is even worse for those of us who try to write and publish our work. If we don’t ‘toe the line’ of the sensitivity readers and the thought police, we get one star reviews, people telling others NOT to buy our books, or saying we are (insert latest ist term here)… Anything to shut us down/keep us from making any money.
AMEN to that! There a lot of us old men that feel the same!
And old women too!
Another amen.
“But, I’m also glad to be in the twilight of my life. Because mostly, I’m not going to have to see the wretched, depressing world these young useless idiots are creating.”
My late father expressed a similar sentiment, and I admit there are days when I get it. Wife and I babysit our two year old grandson. He is full of energy, full speed ahead, and sharp as a tack. On those days, I hope this shitshow blows up while I’m still around, so I can take some of the bastards with me. So he won’t have to.
We all need to hang on and not “go gently into that good night” merely because of age and weariness. We need to continue the fight until the very end.
I agree. I worked all my life from the time I was 4 years old until I retired at the end of 2021. My folks were poor and worked their way to lower middle class with us kids, but when each of us graduated HS we were shown the door and had to find a life.
John/SLee- I think lots of us feel the same.
RHT- Understood and agreed!
JG- Similar to what I did, but my dad died when I was 9, so my mother took in work until she was able to get enough together to get a couple of rent houses.
AMEN! Well said!
Rey- Thank you!
This pretty well sums up my feelings. I started working for pay at age 10. I’m now 68. I retired two years ago, but still “work” selling on eBay, not to mention maintaining a house, yard, and garden. I do a lot of my own mechanic work also.
I have a few of my grandkids who feel entitled. Thankfully most of them do not.
Right there, all that needs to be said. This here needs to be broadcast and said again and again.
A thought is if one is told they must pay for it by making cut backs, then one is a ‘stakeholder’. So certainly by all means have they something to say. If denied, take it. Make, by whatever force necessary, your voices heard.
Feral- Agreed!
R= Good point.
Hey Old NFO;
Truth, I am not quite in the sunset of my life, but the late summer is here if you know what I am saying, and I am just tired of being told that I have to “suck it up and deal with it” when I and mine didn’t start the shitshow, but we will have to pay for it due to the feckless spending and poor leadership out of D.C. on the potomac with no repercussion for them, but yet “we” will have to pay for it….I ain’t feeling it and getting really crabby.
Bob- Understood!
The younger generation and the trust fund snots won”t learn util they pee on the electric fence.
Aye
Right on, might repost.
Well said sir!
Never give up, never surrender, never give in to their redefining language, false characterizations, never accept their corruption, never accept their fraud, lies, and immoral behavior. It might seem like we’re losing the fight, but we can’t ever give in.