Kansas is Shrugging

Hey folks! I am really excited to start this new blog site, Kansas Shrugged.  I want to be able to share with more people my views and knowledge on any given subject, but mostly with politics. I have studied economics in high school and in college and am continuing to study Austrian Economics on my own. I co-hosted the Purple People Network radio show on blog talk radio with Jim Guest until it ended.  I gave advice to various local political leaders and have posted notes on my facebook page with over 4600 fans. Now, I think it's time for me to push forward and strike it out on my own. I am still learning many things, but I would consider it a waste of life to quite learning.  Everyone has their learning curve and I hope that people who read my blogs will be patient with mine as I have a very slow learning curve. LOL!

I went to a recent townhall meeting with US Senator Mike Pompeo in El Dorado, Kansas.  There were many topics concerning the nation including the debt crisis, national security, health care, Medicare, Social Security and more; just to name a few.  Mike Pompeo presented himself well but what shocked me most that the main topic of the meeting was not the debt crisis and the nation possibly raising the debt ceiling but that it was Social Security.  I couldn't help but to wonder where people's priorities are.  Elderly person after old folk after disabled got up wondering if they were going to keep getting their checks.  I seriously felt like getting up and sternly tell those old folks to look me in the eye and tell me how it's justified that I should have to keep paying into Social Security for all my working life only to find that when I do retire that I WON'T GET ONE DIME BACK!  NOT ONE CENT!!!  I was fuming.

Apparently what had happened was that Obama and his team of thugs had ran some ads on the air displaying an elderly woman and basically told people that the Republican's "Path to Prosperity" would take their Social Security checks away from them and end Medicare.  Truth is that the Republican's plan does neither, but they keep the social programs in tact. You can look for yourself at the following link; http://budget.house.gov/UploadedFiles/PathToProsperityFY2012.pdf  I will write another article on that.

The point is this; Our state of Kansas and the nation as a whole is dying and for what? Altruism and reckless intransigence.  We've abandoned the values and principles that made this nation great all for the sake of government taking care of the man.  Federal government have time and time again pushed the limits of the US Constitution to extend welfare rather than freedom.  And now, after so many years of this, the working man not only has to support himself and his own family but support others who are not working because there are people who want to make sure they get their Social Security check, or their prescription, or their  kid has top notch education in the public school, or their art commission gets their funding, or their water department gets money... and it goes on.

Our nation is dying folks. We need to make better priorities than that or otherwise, we're going to lose the most valuable asset our nation has.  Our US Constitution and individual rights.

It is my hope that in this blog website, that I will be able to convince the people of Kansas to change the direction of where our state is heading; to go away from the entitlement state to one of individual rights and free capitalism.  These are the things that I cherish and I want to restore them and help to maintain them so that my children and future generations may come to know them and enjoy them. So, that later in life, I can relax, knowing that I have done my best and enjoy a free country.