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November 23, 2009
"I Didn’t Quit Drinking to Get High On Hope and Change"
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at November 23, 2009 10:25 AM
Charles Winecoff at Big Hollywood writes of addiction, recovery, and Obamunism. (Hat Tip: Leah Kabaker {the most sensible woman on the left coast} via Facebook)
I didn’t get sober to continue living in a dreamworld of perpetual denial and fantasy, the way I did for most of my life. Being a drunk is a lot like being a liberal – and I was both – always hiding from reality, making childish excuses, blaming other people for my shortcomings. But with time, and patience, my Higher Power revealed to me something unexpected: the common-sense sunshine of the conservative spirit.
Interesting analogy; Big Government liberalism as substance abuse. Is our country addicted to massive levels of government welfare spending and social engineering?
The Mayo clinic provides a list of symptoms of addiction. How do these relate to Big government liberalism?
Feeling that you have to use the drug regularly — this can be daily or even several times a day: Combined state and federal welfare spending is $1.5 Billion a day, and rising. Any suggestion that spending be reduced is vigorously resisted.
Failing in your attempts to stop using the drug: Entitlement spending was reduced, briefly, by welfare reforms in the 1990's. Since the Democrats took Congress in 2007, spending on welfare programs has massively expanded.
Making certain that you maintain a supply of the drug: As stated, any attempt to reduce welfare spending is vigorously resisted.
Spending money on the drug even though you can't afford it: The current National Debt is over ten trillion dollars and will more than double under Obama-Pelosi-Reid.
Doing things to obtain the drug that you normally wouldn't do, such as stealing: Like mortgaging the lives of the next two generations in order to expand welfare spending under ObamaCare.
Feeling that you need the drug to deal with your problems: Expecting people to become self-reliant is regarded by advocates of Big Government as "unrealistic" and "uncompassionate."
Driving or doing other risky activities when you're under the influence of the drug
: Like completely neglecting border security and ignoring a rising threat of nuclear terrorism in order to focus on expanding the welfare state? Like ignoring the horrible effects of family decay and welfare dependency while advocating more welfare?
Focusing more and more time and energy on getting and using the drug: Like, shoving aside all other congressional business in order to create a massive, unaffordable health care entitlement.
The USA, and the Democrat party especially, are addicted to big government welfare programs. There are only two options: Get off the smack, or keep doing it until our country dies.
Comments
There are a bunch of great excepts Winecoff's wonderful article. This one is my favorite: "Contrary to popular mythology - liberalism is not responsible for all the good works in the world. Individuals are."
Posted by: ruddie at November 23, 2009 11:40 AM
Oops. Please make that "a bunch of great excerpts."
Posted by: ruddie at November 23, 2009 11:42 AM
When my great grand-parents immigrated here from Mexico, they didn't expect anyone to give two fucks about them. They worked hard, earned their keep, and put my grandfather through school.
My grandfather picked up the plumbing trade and started his own business.
Now the torch is in the hands of two of his sons, while another one became a heart surgeon and the other runs yet another plumbing company.
No one in my family expects or even wants big daddy gov't to take care of them. In fact, talk to any Latino business owner around here and they'll tell you they want welfare cut harder than its already getting cut here in Texas.
Even the illegals down here look down on people on welfare.
Posted by: Andrew Medina at November 23, 2009 12:55 PM
Mr. Medina; I guess they're both in plumbing, eh?
Thats a great story and what makes America great.
Nobody here in Tucson is thrilled with it either.
Who are the percentage that are for this abomination?
Vote em out and repeal anything theyve done when the adults are back in power.
2010/2012/2013
Posted by: czuch at November 23, 2009 3:34 PM
Mr. Winecoff, I salute you!
Posted by: ReggieDunlop at November 23, 2009 3:37 PM
All of WInecoff's articles are worth reading - proving that YES trolls, the COnservative Tent, otherwise known as the leave me the F&*^ alone Tent, Freedom and Liberty Tent is HUGE.
Posted by: pufdaddy at November 23, 2009 3:50 PM
"Andrew Medina at November 23, 2009 12:55 PM"
Good to hear that.
Posted by: KHarn at November 23, 2009 4:08 PM
"No one in my family expects or even wants big daddy gov't to take care of them. In fact, talk to any Latino business owner around here and they'll tell you they want welfare cut harder than its already getting cut here in Texas."
Amen!
Posted by: Jules at November 23, 2009 5:09 PM
"No one in my family expects or even wants big daddy gov't to take care of them. In fact, talk to any Latino business owner around here and they'll tell you they want welfare cut harder than its already getting cut here in Texas."
Amen!
Posted by: Anonymous at November 23, 2009 5:11 PM
Ooops! Sorry for the double post......Hydrocodone in the cough syrup. Makee me woozie.
Bleah! Hack! Hack! Hack!
Posted by: Jules at November 23, 2009 5:15 PM
Debtor. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the overextended taxpayer. Except the programs hadn't been about me trying to prove what a rational person I was. Not by then, anyway. I spent money for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of reason out of my mind, something that could reaffirm my choice to think with my heart, blur the edges of my common sense. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you pushed pork in the thousand-dollar-a-plate dinners of defense lobbyists, or in the back room of the local ACORN chapter, or in public to every entitlement-seeking person who thought the world owed him a favor. You might just be up for re-election, or ideologically pure. Everybody was welcome into the club of Big Government. And if the deficits didn't solve whatever it was that was ailing the country, it could at least help you laugh at real world's ongoing folly and see through all their reason and objections and yearnings to be free.
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at November 23, 2009 5:27 PM
"Get off the smack, or keep doing it until our country dies. "
That's the whole point with these progressive Dems. FDR started the infection. (helped by RINO Teddy R.) Obama is the gangrenous fruition and boy is it putrid.
Mrs. Pomalom and I been able to start teaching our children to avoid the smack, to appreciate this evil for what it is. God willing, they'll be able to understand mindless liberalism for what it is, fight it constantly.
Posted by: pomalom at November 23, 2009 7:21 PM
Wha' I meant was: they (Dems) want our country (as we know it) to die. Took too many addictive substances tonight. @8-P
Posted by: pomalom at November 23, 2009 7:23 PM
Health care reform is like a slow motion train wreck.
------Grateful Dead
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
Casey Jones YOU BETTER, watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Posted by: VikingTX at November 23, 2009 9:37 PM
Dont ever mix ROMULAN ALE with SUARIAN BRANDY in your PRUNE JUICE
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at November 23, 2009 9:47 PM
Come on, liberals and conservatives are both drunks, they just have different excuses and blame different things.
Stop bitching about the world, pay attention to your family and your community - give them support because life is tough and they need it.
Posted by: Brandon at November 23, 2009 10:41 PM
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at November 23, 2009 9:47 PM
Ayuhh, that's wha' did me in. >}-P
Posted by: pomalom at November 24, 2009 4:22 AM
