Wants and needs
What do you want? To be successful? To provide for your family? To be accepted? To be loved?
We each have different wants and needs. There is a difference between a want and a need. A want might be described as a thing we desire, but if, we don’t get it, we could get along OK. A need is something that is necessary to perhaps exist. Food, clothing and shelter are needs.
Some in government want power to tell us, what we want. Some use their power to create needs for some, so around we go. Some want to tax those filthy rich people, that create most of the jobs, so they can make us more beholden to the government for free stuff. I have been taught that there is no free stuff. Somebody pays for it. The government doesn’t have plenty of money. Their job is not to give us free stuff.
Say what you want, President Trump is trying his best to straighten out some of the messes that have been created from past administrations, both Democrat and Republican. There are those who spew their hatred for Trump in the media and other outlets. Some want him impeached, others want bodily harm to come to him. Why? Because his policies are improving our economy. America being respected on the world stage and securing our borders are no reasons to hate the man. Unemployment is down, new jobs are up, what’s the problem with that? Think what might be accomplished if more would support Trump. He is working for nothing. He’s wealthy enough to buy off some of those that are his critics if he wanted to. He is trying to fix some of the problems created before he was elected. Did I say he was elected? Take a deep breathe and think about it.
We lock our houses, fence in our yards and lock our cars for what reason? To protect what is ours and what we have worked for. I remember the times when this wasn’t necessary, but times have changed. Securing our border is not a bad thing, it’s the common sense thing.
President Trump is different from the politicians in power, both Democratic and Republican. He is a business man that has made a living in private business and not from the tax payers trough the politicians are feeding from. He has kept his campaign promises or is trying to keep them, with no help from the Dems and very little from his party. Big government is not the answer, Socialism is not the answer. As I have said before working together to “Make America Great Again” is not a bad thing.
One closing thought, “Raise gasoline taxes while the per gallon price is low”? This to go for infrastructure? I thought legalizing liquor, gambling, sports betting and the lottery were going to solve all our money woes. Our schools need money, or infrastructure is falling a part, where has all that money gone? We need more accountability maybe.
God Bless America.
Lee Roy Lollar, Jr.
Columbus
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