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I AM 63 and I AM TIRED


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2011 Sep 2, 12:11pm   33,889 views  84 comments

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This is excellent! Please email to everyone you know, especially people who are 63 or older.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: I AM 63 & I AM TIRED

*"I'm 63 and I'm Tired"*
/ by Robert A. Hall/

Robert A. Hall is the actor who plays the coroner on CSI if you
watch that show. He also is a Marine Vietnam War veteran.

*/Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms
in the Massachusetts State Senate./*

This should be required reading for every man, woman and child in
the United States of America .

*I'm 63*. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce
and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting
every day, I've worked hard since I was 18. Despite some health
challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick
in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't
inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given
the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very
tired.

*I'm tired* of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to
bankers who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the
government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and
give it to same people who ruined my retirement by gambling with the
whole economy.

*I'm tired* of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep
people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick,
I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times
the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my
salary, then let the Congress-critters who passed the "Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008" bank bailout help them with their own money.

*I'm tired* of being told how bad social security and Medicare is for America
by billionaires like the Koch brothers who live in luxury because of the
opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the
United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of
China, the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people
of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela ....

*I'm tired* of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when
every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their
sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims
rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and
Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for
girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for
"adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all
in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them
to.

*I'm tired* of being told that "the rich pay most of the taxes" in the
post-fairness world of Wall Street bailouts, when their tax rate is only 15%
on the money they get from Wall Street, while honest working class people pay
28% on money they actually earn. The one honest billionaire, Warren Buffett,
said it best: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich
class, that's making war, and we're winning."

*I think* it's very cool that we have a black president and that a
black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote
the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish George Bush had not left him with
two wars and a ruined economy. Not a good way to start a presidency.

*I'm tired* of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures"
we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and
mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no
American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious
school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

*I'm tired* of being told I must lower my living standard every time the
Federal Reserve lowers interest rates on my CDs, which no one is allowed to
debate. We worked hard to save the money we did, but the interest on that is
not going to support us now. It's supporting bankers who get to borrow our
money for almost free, and lend it out at ten times as much interest.

*I'm tired* of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I
must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do.
Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff
white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I
don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I #@*# sure think
druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool
people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried
marijuana.

*I'm tired* of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," when no one
questions the employers who put them to work in the first place. Don't those
employers have some responsibility here? They sure do know they are employing
illegals, but they never get fined for it. And, no, I'm not against Hispanics.
Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics
wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship
any Hispanic person who doesn't have a criminal record and who is
self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three
years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.

*I'm tired* of billionaires and their paid-for Fox News journalists, who would
never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their
privilege-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, sending our boys to die
for their profits. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make
split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth
better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our
troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that
were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even
close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation
and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics
can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and
beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered
Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the
blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims
who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were
Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the
only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of
hiding from in fear.

*I'm tired* of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and
the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are
bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live
in Arizona , where people applaud when a Democratic congresswoman gets shot,
and then auction off the same kind of gun to raise money for the Republican
party.

*I'm tired* of hearing wealthy bankers and CEOs of both parties talking about
innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they
think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense
of entitlement, especially the rich ones who want to cut social security for
everone else.

*Speaking of the rich, I'm tired of hearing people who were born rich complain
about taxes. We ask so little of them. The majority of wealth in America is
inherited, and not earned. Sorry to break that news to you folks, but you can
look it up and see it's true. Americans used to require that the very rich
give back a reasonable amount in taxes considering all that America has done
for them and how little we ask of them, but the wealth pimps have to keep
changing the definition of rich so that they can keep evading their taxes. They
make us pay their taxes for them.

*I'm real tired* of bankers who don't take responsibility for their actions.
I'm tired of hearing them blame the economy, or credit rating agencies or
whatever for their problems.

*Yes, I'm tired*. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm
not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm
just sorry for my granddaughter.

#politics

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1   terriDeaner   2011 Sep 2, 12:50pm  

Well... where's gowi?

2   Patrick   2011 Sep 2, 1:00pm  

Seems to be a parody of a chain mail going around. Too subtle though.

Who's gowi?

3   Patrick   2011 Sep 2, 1:10pm  

Oh yeah. Should I allow this?

4   terriDeaner   2011 Sep 2, 1:12pm  

Dunno. I'm always interested to see where these guys are going with these bits. Does Shrek mind being parodied?

5   kentm   2011 Sep 2, 3:37pm  


Oh yeah. Should I allow this?

Probably not, though it is worth noting that when getting around copyright laws with images its usually enough to flop/invert the image... I think it should stand, but only because I thought about creating almost exactly the same avatar to provide inverse posts to SG's, but in the end just didn't think I'd have the energy...

However, you've stated that Misc is the place where opinions are allowed to be posted unfiltered. In keeping with that sentiment then this avatar should stand.

But always remember, Shrek is a parody, possibly not even a real person, we can't trust his opinion on this.

6   FortWayne   2011 Sep 3, 1:34am  

I would agree with most of that.

I'm sick too of these government critters bailing out the elites and the deadbeats (to save the money for the elites).

I shouldn't be taxed to pay for some deadbeat to stay in their mcmansion they overpaid for, just like i shouldn't be taxed to bailout deadbeat banks , unions, and investors who gambled and lost.

7   Patrick   2011 Sep 3, 2:34am  

I actually agree with most of it too. A bit too xenophobic but aside from that, right on.

8   Huntington Moneyworth III, Esq   2011 Sep 3, 3:14am  

grekshrinch says

But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm
not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm
just sorry for my granddaughter.

I wish he'd hurry up and die already. Nothing worse than the menial worker who complains about being tired all of the time. Lazy ass only works 50 hours a week. I would never tolerate that type of foolishness from my servants.

9   Bigots suck   2011 Sep 5, 3:42pm  

Sounds like a typical white power christian bible thumping tea party diatribe of the pissed off masses that cant't deal with the fact their skin color won't give them any more privilege

They dump on Muslims, immigrants but that won't help you and the underclass future that lies ahead for you and your trashier future offspring

Hate and blaming others won't restore jobs....or help you compete in a global market place where your skin color is immaterial

Pitiful and sad

10   romeotybalt   2011 Sep 5, 4:13pm  

I agree, and I'm not white.......

11   leo707   2011 Sep 5, 5:35pm  

Bigots suck says

Hate and blaming others won't restore jobs....or help you compete in a global market place where your skin color is immaterial

You are fooling yourself if you think "skin color is immaterial" when competing globally. In every country in the world: skin color, religion, caste, ethnic group, tribe, family name, etc. matter.

Yes, Bigots do suck, but the one thing you can count on is that they are everywhere. The US is far from having a monopoly on that. However, I am sure that the Moneyworths are trying to corner that market.

You must have just skimmed it and missed these parts:
grekshrinch says

it's very cool that we have a black president and that a
black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote
the Emancipation Proclamation....
...And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person who doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.

12   ssri   2011 Sep 5, 5:40pm  

Phil Gramm: Recession Is "Mental," America Is "Nation Of Whiners"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/10/mccain-adviser-americans_n_111857.html

Daley: Americans have become nation of 'whiners'
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/147549-daley-americans-have-become-nation-of-whiners

abc news: Americans need more sleep

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/OnCall/story?id=4361378&page=1

You see Americans don`t need to wake up, they need to sleep more.

13   ArtimusMaxtor   2011 Sep 5, 8:12pm  

I agree with Apocolypse. Looks like a freedom hater. Bitters not the word when your in the drivers seat. So I don't think he is bitter.

I have no problem with control or authority. I don't like people playing mind-games and screwing with my head however. Mr. Geritol is definatly screwing with my head in his little speech there. It's really insulting for anyone to think I believe him for 5 seconds.

After all our black liberal president went to lybia and bombed the crap out of them. I guess God controls the liberal black president. It was truly a biblical event. When God speaks the authoritys respond.

Unless its some social congestion like oh say porn or something like that. Then the freedom gear is switched on and oh we just can't agree and God likes that kind of Goverment. Works for war however because when God is on your side well your enemies are screwed. So the bullshit has some flaws, however I am sure they are working on that.

We live in America and well just like in Rome do as the Romans do or its a rough schedule to be sure.

14   mike2   2011 Sep 5, 8:40pm  

Racist? Don't think so.Who said he was white as you mention? He just points out many facts and the truth about many things.
If you have ever traveled to other countries there is where you will see real Racism and class warfare Big time. The MEXIcans treat their indigenous people horrible. The Indians have a caste system that is inhumane. The African Blacks have tribal warfare and Hate other tribes so much they murder each other continually. The CHinese hate the mountain dwellers. The Japanese hate the Leather workers and have Phillipino SLAVES (servants )The Muslims hate the Hindus, the Hindus hate the Muslims. Yet, all the people mentioned above keep coming to America? They are standing in line to get here. Crossing deserts in 125 heat, anything in their power to live in this country? Why would someone want to come here if it is SO RACIST? SO Evil? SO BAD?

15   ArtimusMaxtor   2011 Sep 5, 9:51pm  

Japanese hate the Phillipino slaves looks like a sex deal to me.
Mexicans don't hate their indigenous. That dosen't even make sense for them to hate themselves.

And well tribal warfare anyone I mean anyone that trys to disuade me we don't invade every couple of years somewhere on the planet. That trys to toss that misnomer and prize on any other country. Is trying too make people look stupid.

By the way Hindus hate Muslims? Question. Is that black Muslims or just plain ole' vanilla muslims.

16   Truthplease   2011 Sep 5, 11:01pm  

This article is a complete fabrication! First of all, Robert A. Hall is a former Marine Vietnam Veteran and former Massachusetts state Senator.

Robert D. Hall is an actor who played on CSI and lost his legs from an 18 wheeler crushing his car.

This first part of the article that states both things for one person now loses all of its credibility. Don't believe everything you read!

17   ArtimusMaxtor   2011 Sep 6, 12:20am  

Good point Truthplease you like what you like. It's a tall order trying to change someone.

18   FortWayne   2011 Sep 6, 12:28am  

Truthplease says

This article is a complete fabrication! First of all, Robert A. Hall is a former Marine Vietnam Veteran and former Massachusetts state Senator.

Robert D. Hall is an actor who played on CSI and lost his legs from an 18 wheeler crushing his car.

This first part of the article that states both things for one person now loses all of its credibility. Don't believe everything you read!

That doesn't change the fact that government is actively trying to assert more control over us.

That's just what Democrats in Congress always do. They like to inflate and keep living standards outside of human reach so that government assistance is required.

Obama keeps on bailing out the banks constantly, and keeps artificially high RE in the process, and they pay for it by increasing our taxes. Because of that an average person in this society has to turn to government for help in housing (which sends tax dollars to the banks), and on top of that we are all much more poor in order to keep the financial mafia wealthy.

Obama is just another financial sector goon who along with Fed has done a great job at screwing us all.

I'm sick of that.

19   Winston   2011 Sep 6, 12:51am  

You had me until you started on the religion garbage. The Koch brothers are both neocons and Christians, so to claim that the use of Christianity to further the goals of the oligarchy through manipulation would result in "the tolerance for Christian people
of Iran" is absurd.

I also disagree with the implied message that drug addiction should continue to be treated as a criminal problem rather than a public health issue. If so, then to be fair, all alcoholics should be treated as felons and imprisoned.

Also, to say that atrocities we have committed in war are OK because others have been worse is just so obviously stupid that it doesn't require more of a comment than, "We claim to be better than that. Lets live up to our self-image for a change."

And the Islamophobia is a bit too much, too.

On everything else in this very likely to be phony or altered email, I agree.

20   Vicente   2011 Sep 6, 1:06am  

I liked his character, he was the coroner:

It's better than the usual Senior Rant: Keep your mitts of my Medicare and Social Security.

21   commonsense   2011 Sep 6, 1:16am  

Jesus Christ, my response to this one is simple:

"Tired? Aren't we all! I am in my late 40s and I too am tired, sick and tired of plenty of people. IMHO go play that violin to the morons, since Nixon left office, who put us in this mess."

23   Dan8267   2011 Sep 6, 1:20am  

The similarities between today and that movie from the 1976 are quite amazing or sad if you think about it.

24   Dan8267   2011 Sep 6, 1:22am  


Oh yeah. Should I allow this?

Am I the only one who thinks that maybe shrekgrinch and grekshrinch are the same person just trying to stir up controversy? Or have I just become too cynical?

25   Dan8267   2011 Sep 6, 1:24am  

Dan8267 says

The similarities between today and that movie from the 1976 are quite amazing or sad if you think about it.

Except for the part about "the Russians". Oh wait, Michele Bachmann...

26   Dan8267   2011 Sep 6, 1:40am  

Bigots suck says

Sounds like a typical white power christian bible thumping tea party diatribe of the pissed off masses that cant't deal with the fact their skin color won't give them any more privilege

So being against too-big-to-fail-bank-bailouts means that a person has to be all of the following?

1. Very religious
2. Christian
3. White
4. Racist
5. A tea party member.

Um, if you got all that from this post, you might be the bigot here. Seeing bigotry where there is none is a form of bigotry.

The impression I got is that the author is liberal and extremely welcoming of diversity based on his comments regarding having a black president. Furthermore, he can't be racist because he does not support Fox news and we all know that all racists watch Fox news regularly.

27   MoneySheep   2011 Sep 6, 1:43am  

The original messages are reflection of the realities of Americas moral, virtual, WallStr Banksters, and race. Having deep seated classical moral, I feel naive, and disadvantaged. Though I really do not see "color" in my day to day living, man, but the truth is race advantage exists in America ....

28   leo707   2011 Sep 6, 2:37am  

Truthplease says

This article is a complete fabrication! First of all, Robert A. Hall is a former Marine Vietnam Veteran and former Massachusetts state Senator.

Robert D. Hall is an actor who played on CSI and lost his legs from an 18 wheeler crushing his car.

This first part of the article that states both things for one person now loses all of its credibility. Don't believe everything you read!

Apparently a common mistake with the article. The article was written by the senator, not the CSI actor.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/imtired.asp

29   Lam   2011 Sep 6, 2:45am  

*I'm tired* of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," ... unlike those benevolent Christians who dropped 2 nukes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, partly to show the Russkies who's boss and partly a medical experiment to find out the effects of real nuclear explosions on real people. Real nice - those good ol' Christian boys. Oh yeah, don't forget the million of so Iraqis killed by the good Christian in the USA - a price worth paying according to Madelien Albright. And the death squads in South America trained so very well at The School of America. And so on and on.

30   freak80   2011 Sep 6, 3:53am  

Lam,

I think those are fair points to make, but...

I don't think Truman invoked Christianity when deciding to use the atomic bomb.

As far as I know, Bush didn't invoke Christianity when deciding to invade Iraq and get rid of Saddam, either.

Technically, the USA is not a Christian nation, at least according to the original intent of the constitution.

31   ArtimusMaxtor   2011 Sep 6, 3:53am  

No people that watch Fox news are not racist. People that watch Fox news love repition. They probably have watched the entire 5 seasons of Gilligans Island four hundered and seventy six times.

In addition people that watch Fox news like very loud volumes on their television sets. They also must like very loud and obnoxious people. Fox news is extremly loud. They shout on there a lot or talk in raised voices. Give me Mr. Rogers announcing the news any day. Then my dog does not think there are people in the house yelling at him. Fox news has the spin factor. However they should change that to it makes your head spin and your eyes roll back into your head.

32   leo707   2011 Sep 6, 4:25am  

wthrfrk80 says

Technically, the USA is not a Christian nation, at least according to the original intent of the constitution.

Technically the USA is not a christian nation, according to the Treaty of Tripoli:

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen...

emphasis mine

33   rooemoore   2011 Sep 6, 4:43am  

He needs to get some sleep

34   just someone2   2011 Sep 6, 5:53am  

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/imtired.asp

Some have confused the item's actual author (Robert A. Hall, former Massachusetts state senator) with Robert David Hall (actor who plays coroner Dr. Al Robbins on the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.) Though the names are similar, they're different people. Compounding the problem, one version of the e-mail displays within it a photograph of the actor, thereby erroneously leading recipients to believe the man pictured is the piece's author.

35   factchecker   2011 Sep 6, 1:28pm  

The post above has been edited substantially to reflect more independence, be less racially biased, and be less clearly from the right. The original is at http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert.html

36   wcalleallegre   2011 Sep 6, 1:41pm  

"I don't think gay people choose to be gay".

I strongly disagree with the statement. It is sin and they choose to sin.

Amazing most people on this post have no clue what Christianity is. The earth and all that is in it belongs to the Lord. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. Praise God!

37   rooemoore   2011 Sep 6, 1:46pm  

wcalleallegre says

Amazing most people on this post have no clue what Christianity is. The earth and all that is in it belongs to the Lord. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. Praise God!

typical christian homosexual

38   FortWayne   2011 Sep 6, 1:47pm  

Mexicans are very racist. That country ha s two classes, white and mixed.ArtimusMaxtor says

Japanese hate the Phillipino slaves looks like a sex deal to me.
Mexicans don't hate their indigenous. That dosen't even make sense for them to hate themselves.


And well tribal warfare anyone I mean anyone that trys to disuade me we don't invade every couple of years somewhere on the planet. That trys to toss that misnomer and prize on any other country. Is trying too make people look stupid.


By the way Hindus hate Muslims? Question. Is that black Muslims or just plain ole' vanilla muslims.

39   leo707   2011 Sep 6, 2:14pm  

factchecker says

The post above has been edited substantially to reflect more independence, be less racially biased, and be less clearly from the right. The original is at http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert.html

Oh, yeah the original has a very different tone.

40   leo707   2011 Sep 6, 2:16pm  

wcalleallegre says

"I don't think gay people choose to be gay".

I strongly disagree with the statement. It is sin and they choose to sin.

Amazing most people on this post have no clue what Christianity is. The earth and all that is in it belongs to the Lord. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. Praise God!

And you choose to cherry pick.

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