An Adult Orphan's Rant

Thanks to Newt Gingrich, I think I will run for office again.  I was thinking about putting all my support towards a Republican but maybe I'll reconsider because if this is the truth of that party, I'll stay put.   

Guess who people like me steal votes from?  My entry into races tends to usher in Democrats (or RHINOS) to office.  Yep, I'm more conservative than most of the Republicans I've met.

Newt Gingrich has no clue.  That idiot just lost his final hope of ever being President of the US.

He lost. 

Do you know why? 

He plays on stereotypes, not facts.  He claims that poor children do not have role models that teach them how to work.   He's not going to get away with it in this economy; so many people were were solidly middle class have lost their jobs.  Any talk about jobless role models is going to touch a nerve with the bulk of our populace.  People want jobs but boneheaded fiscal policies on the part of government have taken away the bulk of our good paying jobs. 


Check out Gingrich's rant for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqFvAyoaEoY

He forgets about the working poor.  He forgets about public schools which have dumbed down our educational process so much that the only thing children really learn is how to wake up in the morning and do busy work through the afternoon. 

And, doesn't he even consider that maybe on some level, the teachers are middle class role models for children in poor schools? 

Drat...a local politician was trying to get me to take a substitute teaching job in a low income school.  I think she's trying to keep me too busy to complain about the latest bait and switch scam; they want to take tax money set aside for public works and put it towards rec centers that most families can't afford.

What the hell is wrong with the water politicos drink?

Now, to set Newt Gingrich and people of his ilk straight.  Let me tell you about my story. 

My mother was disabled. She married a disabled veteran with PTSD. Our household income, growing up, was nearly $450.00 per month.  Our government let my daddy down and he terrorized us because of it.

Due to his bad behavior, my sister and I were orphaned.  I was fourteen and she was eleven.  My step-father ended up playing with a gun and nearly killed my sister a short time later.  He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 

The government never did give a darn about those who fought their wars, did they? 


I held my first paid job at twelve to buy food for my sister and I.  I babysat the children of young couples that I went to church with.

I lied about my age to work at a Hallmark store in a local mall when I was fourteen.  Now, if this is what Gingrich means by making money illegally, I paid my taxes.  I just lied about the year I was born. 

I had to feed my sister.  I worked because I needed to eat. I needed to buy books for middle school (despite the state constitution).  I needed to buy clothes. 

I began my marketing career at sixteen. 


I worked my way through college and only gave up work outside the home when I was married and became responsible for raising children as I wanted to make sure they got good grades.  I started two businesses that allowed me to work and care for the children at the same time.  I also studied from home and scheduled my coursework for the time the kids were in school or church. 

Three of the four children I raised are now in honors programs.  The youngest is seven and hasn't had a chance to get into a gifted program yet.


The eldest earned a full ride scholarship to college, so my time at home working on my graduate degree paid off.  She's got one class to go until graduation.  She's studying to be a civil rights lawyer.  

My husband left a few years ago.  I let him come home due to the state of the economy.  I'm too conservative just to up and leave.  Last month, he signed up for welfare and got his bottom chewed out when the county called me up and told me to give up my business in order to be a part of workfare to give back to the community.   I did volunteer for them one day; they got me down there with the promise of helping me find a good paying job.  We never received a benefit from the government (at least to my knowledge, we haven't received anything).   That day taught me that county social workers are violating federal law and misrepresenting state voter registration laws to people on workfare.   I'm probably the last person they want angry about that. 


Do you think I trust our government? 

No.  Besides, I give back to the community all the time.  I volunteer quite a bit, I just don't log those hours for social workers.  It's none of their darn business.  

I've done the math.  Every hour I volunteer outside of the hours that the kids go to school costs me $10 in childcare expenses.  The welfare people wanted me to work for less than $1 per hour during hours my kids needed transport to and from school.  I can't afford to do that.  I can, however, volunteer at night after seven or during the day when the kids are in school and I do not have clients.    

I won't give up any business that I've worked hard to build to appease a government hell bent on destroying the freedoms of the people that support it.




Ah, but idiots like Gingrich say that people with little money have no work ethic.


Mr. Gingrich, can stuff a stinky sock in it. 

In the 90's, shortly after my short stint as a foster parent for my younger sister, Gingrich was running around glamorizing 'boys town' and other movies which depicted sweatshops for orphans.  I was disgusted at that.  After my father died, my sister was given to an aunt who allowed her to run off to Florida while the aunt illegally collected SSI.  My sister ended up in foster care in Florida and called me to tell me her foster mother was having boys in the home rape her in an attempt to impregnate her so the household could collect more money.  I was furious!  I called the State Attorney Generals office incessantly until they shipped her home. 

After my husband and I married and won custody, there was some interference from a social service department and my sister was shipped off to live with a pimp by a social worker in another county (how they did that with the cooperation of the social service department in this county, I'll never know).   The church was helping me; I didn't get a penny from the government.  After the social worker took her, the government paid the pimp $400 per month and my sister became a prostitute.  In the spirit of tough love, I never bailed her out of jail.  She did drugs and when caught tried to claim those drugs belonged to an elderly relative.  That broke my heart.  This was the kind of nightmare I had worked so hard to prevent. 


There is some level of karmic justice for the county that stole her away from us; she and her children are on welfare now in that county.  All of her arrests have been in that city and county, too.  Over the past twenty-three years, the taxpayers in that area have paid dearly for their government's interference. 

The government doesn't know a damned thing about child-rearing. 
Gingrich is probably is justifying workfare and expressing the same desire some nasty person at our county did; they want kids to drop out of school and work for less than $1 per hour.

My sixteen year old neighbor's family is facing eviction and he's being asked to drop out of school and go to work.   Over the years, I spent hours tutoring him to help him bring his grades up.  I'll throw a fit if the welfare office justifies him quitting school to help his dad pay the rent, get health care, or food stamps. 

I'm trying to help the dad drum up business in any way I can.  He's not good with Internet media.  It would help him but he's not quite open to it.  He quit talking to me when I offered to advertise for him on some of my heavier traffic sites.  I tried.


Gingrich wants sweatshops?  They want to exploit children and the poor. 


Not in my country.  If you like that abusing children and making them indentured servants, Gingrich, you can move your stupid @$$ to China, India, Honduras, Vietnam or any other county that puts up with that sh!t.  Just pray that you don't piss off the authorities in any one of those countries with your open mouth or no one will find you.  If you love the freedom this country gives you; extend that responsibility and privilege to the other citizens here. 

And walk a mile in an orphan's shoes before b!tching.


In fact, I'll give him a pair of my high heel boots.  How about the pair I wore when I shoveled the elderly neighbor's walk today.  Let's see if he's man enough to do what I do any given day.



No.  Gingrich looks too flabby and lazy to do what I do now.  He couldn't have done what I had to do in high school in order to graduate at seventeen, and work a full time job while living on my own.  

Any idiot can give a political speech. I've done my share of that and I never took a dime from special interests.  Gingrich cannot say that!  It takes a real person to motivate and inspire others without taking a dime in biased support. 

I'm tired of politicians running their mouths without consideration for those who pay their way.  Aren't you?

Man....I never wanted to run for office again but maybe....it's time.
Love,

S.