A SHOO-IN

I READ ABOUT A SITUATION IN WHICH THE CHIPS WERE DOWN AND A MAN WAS RUNNING AND HIDING TO SAVE HIS LIFE, "CIGARETTES WERE THE ONLY LUXURY HE COULD ENJOY." DESPERATE, HE EVEN ROLLED MOSS IN NEWSPAPER AS MAKESHIFT SUBSTITUTES. "THE PROSPECT OF EVEN A DAY OR TWO WITHOUT A CIGARETTE WAS TOO MUCH FOR HIM." TODAY, THE LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE, DEMOCRAT, SOCIALIST, DO-GOODER POLITICIANS TAKE AWAY NOT ONLY SOME PEOPLE'S METAPHORICAL TOBACCO LIFE LINE, BUT ALSO THEIR RIGHT TO GRAB ONTO IT. THIS IS EVIL. OBVIOUSLY, THE HUMAN PROCESS OF NATURAL SELECTION HAS TAKEN A WRONG TURN.

TODAY, DUTY IS OFTEN COMPROMISED. IT NO LONGER IS UNDERSTOOD TO INVOLVE DEMANDS ON ONE'S SELF. HUNDREDS OF FIREFIGHTERS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 AND NINE ON JUNE 18TH, 2007 IN SOUTH CAROLINA, UNDERSTOOD DUTY'S CALL. IN THE WORDS OF A BROTHER OF ONE OF THE THOSE KILLED ON 9-11, THEY HAD AN "IDEA OF WHAT DUTY DEMANDED - NOT NUANCE, AMBIVALENCE, NOT LEGAL TECHNICALITIES."

IN CONTRAST, I HEARD AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ENROLLMENT IN A START-UP CHRISTIAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL WHICH WOULD COST $3500 PER YEAR. THE MEN DISCUSSING THIS VENTURE, REFERRED TO THE DUTY OF PARENTS TO PROVIDE FOR THE BEST EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN, YET THEY BOUGHT INTO THE LIE ABOUT THE STATE OF OUR ECONOMY "BEING THE WAY IT IS." THEY IMPLIED THAT $3500 WOULD BE A DIFFICULTY, A SACRIFICE. OH, IS IT? OUR ECONOMY IS FANTASTIC. IT IS SO FANTASTIC THAT 70% OF AMERICANS DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO THINKING THAT THEY CAN RETIRE COMFORTABLY EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE DONE LITTLE TO PREPARE FOR THEIR FUTURE, FINANCIAL NEEDS. IT IS SO FANTASTIC THAT 50% OF AMERICANS HAVE SAVED LESS THAN $25,000 FOR THEIR RETIREMENT. THE $3500 DIFFICULT DOLLARS COULD BE ACCUMULATED AT THE RATE OF MERELY $10.00 A DAY OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR. HOW HARD IS IT?

AS THE LIBERALS STRIP AND CHIP AWAY AT THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS, AMERICANS COUNTERACT BY ABANDONING THEIR DUTIES TO THEMSELVES BY SAVING, TO THEIR CHILDREN BY COMPROMISING THEIR EDUCATION AND TO THEIR GOD BY ALLOWING BOTH TO HAPPEN. HELLARY CLINTON WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. NEED A CIGARETTE NOW?