The Old Jarhead: I'm Tired

Today one of my colleagues sent me this blog by Marine Vet and Former Mass. State Senator Robert A. Hall. Although it was written back in February, it really captures what's driving support for Scott Brown: those of us who take responsibility for our own lives are tired of being told we also have to take responsibility for those who don't:

"I’ll be 63 soon. 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 around” to people 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 people too lazy or stupid to earn it." (more...)