Here's Charlie Daniels’s open letter To Barack Hussein Obama, with
my response in red….
Mr. Obama,
His official title is President Obama, and he will be called that for the rest of his life!
You recently made a statement to the effect that, ”If you have a
business you didn't build it, you had help," implying that the federal
government helped build our businesses by virtue of paving roads and building
bridges and keeping the nation safe from foreign invasion.
First of all, Mr. Obama, if I'm going to take advice about
business it will not be from somebody who has had absolutely no business
experience like yourself.
That’s just as well since he is not a business consultant and is
probably not offering to help you.
Secondly, Mr. Obama, I vehemently disagree with your premise.
Where was your government when I spent as much as 16 weeks away
from my wife and infant son to get a business started?
Progressive policies would allow for up to 24 weeks of paternity
leave…but if you decide to open a business while your wife is having a
baby…it’s not President Obama’s fault!
Where were you on those cold winter nights when my old bus broke
down in the middle of nowhere and we had to scramble to make the next show,
nobody from the government came along to give us a ride?
Was that a private road or did some local government grade and pave
it for you? Did you use a cell phone from a public network to call AAA for help
or did the local sheriff’s deputy stop and offer to help?
Where was your government when I had to borrow money from a bank
to make my payroll?
The federal government has a number of programs to help small
businesses through tough times, including guaranteeing low interest loans
for individuals that own small businesses, and they would have more if the
Republicans weren’t always cutting them to cut out competition for their
corporate sponsors.
Where was your government while I was digging out of a two million
dollar debt, playing every smoky beer joint I could to keep from losing
everything I owned?
How did you run up that debt and why weren’t you eligible for
bankruptcy protection? And why couldn’t you get a better paying gig? I’d like
to see some real facts, and hear you take some personal responsibility for the
actions that ran up those debts and destroyed your career!
Mr. Obama, I want to make you aware of a fact. It is the federal
government's responsibility to build roads and bridges and keep the nation
safe. That's what the federal government is supposed to do, not create an
entitlement society that is totally unsustainable and pile up debt that we
can't pay.
Well, that’s your opinion. The constitution says it is the job of
the government to “promote the common welfare” which I interpret to include
feeding the poor and healing the sick.
And who do you think paid for those roads and bridges in the first
place, and have been doing it for 200 years before you were even born?
The middle class paid for them with income taxes, not the
corporations who use them to distribute their goods and make a tidy profit
doing so. And certainly not by multi-millionaires who pay their accountants
more to avoid paying taxes than they do their entire staff of immigrant
domestic laborers.
The citizens of this nation do not need to pay more taxes, the
federal government needs to stop spending money it doesn't have and has to
borrow. Because the truth of the matter is that no matter how much taxes
the government collects, things are only going to get worse because you'll only
spend it and demand even more.
The citizens of this nation do need to stop paying taxes to
subsidize the profits of the corporations. We need to raise the corporate tax
rate and lower the personal tax rate—for anyone who earns less than $1,000,000
per year. Then we need to spend that money taking care of the victims of the
corporate war against humanity and invest it in a fair and sustainable economy
for the future.
Mr. Obama you have divided this nation by making the have-nots
believe that anybody who has been successful has done so at their expense, that
anything they've accumulated has been stolen, not earned. That hard work and
risk had nothing to do with their success, because they’ve just been lucky and
should give a big part of what they earn to the government to pass on to those
who don't even try to be successful.
The haves in this country are scapegoating the have-nots, taking
advantage of ignorant, prejudiced whites and religious extremists in our nation
to stay in power for one more generation. The 1% attack all attempts to increase
the standard of living for the majority of Americans as a free lunch and
encourage Americans to undermine their own, and their children’s, future health
and happiness in the name of a God that speaks through the mouths of their
major donors. They are distracting us all from the real problems of today and
undermining any chance we have of planning for a better tomorrow.
Look at what’s going on with the African-Americans who put their
hopes and complete confidence in you and voted overwhelmingly for you. The
unemployment rate is 14% and the unemployment among young African Americans is
something like 40%
Is that what hope and change is all about?
African Americans are well aware that President Obama is not the
cause of their continuing economic struggle, and accusing him of it is just
pandering to the right.
Look at what's happening in your hometown of Chicago where the
murder rate is through the roof.
What is Romney’s plan to help the people of Chicago? Oh yeah, he wants to cut important programs like Housing and Urban Development, so they can be both homeless AND afraid on the streets of Chicago.
Do you think your baseless rhetoric about the unfairness of the
successful in America is going to help soothe the situation?
No, it’s not going to soothe anyone, but neither is anything you
have said in this letter, so stop being a hypocrite.
Have you ever considered reaching out to them, instead of fanning
the flames?
President Obama has tried to work with the Republicans and they
refuse to compromise. This is a simple fact. Deal with it.
Mr. Obama I don't think you like America very much. I think you'd
like to redesign it from the ground up, to turn it into a lazy, unproductive,
secular, socialist society.
President Obama is an example of the fact that it is still possible
for a black man to rise to the top in America with a lot of hard work, but the
sad fact is that many more black men struggle daily to get by, and not because
they are lazy or unproductive. America has always had a secular society that
allows religious groups of different persuasions to get along in the public
square…and the only danger of that ending is coming from the right, not President Obama.
As for your right wing fingerpointing…this is another way to pander to the
right. Socialism is not evil or even a bad idea…and President Obama is no more
a socialist than President Reagan.
Well, that just wont flush in a lot of ways, the most prominent
being that when all the productive people have given up and stopped trying,
when all the investors stop investing, when 80% of the population is living on
government hand outs, your government is going to run out of money and this
nation will sink into chaos.
The actual evidence shows that states with the most comprehensive
and progressive social policies actually produce more farm produce,
manufactured goods and human services than states with limited social policies.
So if you really do manage to secede the red states away from the blue
states…it will be the red states that are starving to death. Sorry, the facts
are clear.
But Mr. Obama, I’m beginning to think that's what you want.
Mr. Daniels, I’m beginning to think you want a race war!
My help cometh from the Lord who made Heaven and Earth - not the
government who made debt and class envy.
Class envy has been around since there have been classes. Read the
bible…especially the parts about the Romans and their slaves. Did “the Lord who
made Heaven and Earth” feel that it was fair to enslave people for their debts,
or put them to death for their beliefs?
What do you think?
Pray for our troops, and for our country.
I think you should stop praying and do something constructive,
before it’s too late—and vote out any politician who perpetuate any of these
lies!
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
Choose peace, not war.
cell phones in the 50s and 60s when he started??? yeah why didnt he think of that?
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