Karma's Kronicles 3

The War Against The War Against Christmas

I'm getting really tired of these Facebook posts and mass distributed e-mails about Obama putting up a "Holiday Tree" instead of a Christmas tree.  The people accusing the President of being a Muslim and putting up a "Holiday Tree" are the same dumbass people who will be quick to associate Obama with the controversial Christian Reverend Jeremiah Wright.  There is no credible organized group out there that can legally take the Christ out of Christmas...so what are you whining about?  I really hate it when people use their freedom of speech to whine. 

To me Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas are simply positive salutations.  To me it means, "I hope you have a great Thanksgiving, an awesome New Year's, and a wonderful whatever-the-hell-you-celebrate-between-them." Merry Christmas is a positive salutation specifically about Christ's birth and Happy Holidays is a positive salutation covering all off the holidays that occur during the season.  Even if you are a die-hard Christian, you shouldn't feel the need to correct some one's Happy Holidays greeting to Merry Christmas.  Happy Holidays isn't necessarily Anti-Christian.  Christmas is not under attack! Christmas will not go extinct! 

Non-Christians who get offended by the Merry Christmas greeting are just as ridiculous as Christians that get offended by the Happy Holidays greeting.  They are both greetings...get over it!!!  All I'm trying to say is Happy Holidays is a lot better than no greeting at all.  The only time you should openly whine about how the Holidays are celebrated is if someone was trying to tell you how to do it in your own home.  By the way...I have never ever heard of anyone referring to a Christmas tree as a "Holiday Tree."  Who comes up with this shit?

When you really think of it, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanuka, and anything else happening the last month of the year all boils down to getting in the spirit of things.  The Holidays are an excuse to be in a great mood for no apparent reason at all.  No matter what you celebrate, you are still going to take time off of work, travel, consume massive amounts of food, and purchase a bunch of shit from retail stores this season.  I'm sure there are a few Jehovah's Witnesses that take advantage of Black Friday sales.  I'm willing to bet money that the average Atheist packs on a few pounds during the holiday season.

No matter what we believe in...this season affects us all.  Let's make it a positive affect.

Entitlement Vs. Opportunity

America is the land of opportunity, not entitlement.  As an American citizen, you are guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  You are not guaranteed hand-outs, a job, and the lifestyle of your choosing.  Here is a loaded task I have for the Occupiers:  Tell me what "it" is that you deserve...why you deserve "it"...and how occupying a public park will help you obtain"it".  And by the way...what the fuck is "it" in the first place? 

Don't punish the tax payers!!!  They are the ones who are paying the cops overtime to make sure you don't act a fool in the park.  How are you punishing the 1% if you are screwing with the taxpayers (a majority of them being in the 99%)?  Don't occupy a park...occupy your finances!  Stop swiping those credit cars and making your self depending on these lending agencies who live off of the interst you pay.  Debt fuels this evil monster.

Do you know what else fuels the evil monster???  Dependence!  Who the hell is proud to accept government assistance???  And I'm not talking about Military Veterans and Young students trying to get their degrees...I'm talking about government assistance for food stamps and unemployment.  Don't get me wrong...I'm all for providing food stamps for needy families and unemployment checks for the people who have hit a rut...but why continue to depend on it?  It should be temporary shouldn't it?  It's there so you wont starve while getting your next job.

I know I'm starting to sound like a conservative talk show host...but I am really starting to think that something is wrong.  Dependence should always be temporary.  Welfare is a lot like training wheels...you should feel better about yourself the sooner you stop using it.  Have we gotten too comfortable riding around on our training wheels?  When economic times get tough, so does job market competition.  You'll have to fight harder for wages that are less desirable than what they used to be. It comes with the territory when fewer jobs are available.

I don't think the "Occupier" movement grasped that message.  I know they are feed up.  I know they are angry.  But they aren't making progress in obtaining their vague goal.  It's almost a lost cause when you think about it.  They remind me of the TEA Party movement...Sore Losers.  What they are doing is kinda like a mountain climber spending more time complaining about the size of the mountain instead of just climbing it.  "Occupy Basecamp" in protest of the few who have made it to the top?

America is the "rags to riches" country.  We have the opportunity to be raised in the ghetto and be a college graduate in the same lifespan.  We have the opportunity to climb corporate ladders.  We have to opportunity to compete for more opportunities!!!  Do not get your opportunities confused with your entitlements.