That Joe Wilson feller was havin' to apologize to Mr. Obama for callin' him a liar. Country fallin' apart, suddenly we're gonna spend all this money China's gonna lend up payin' for health care.

More you think about it, though, why? He's just tellin' the gospel truth, right there.

Looking through the AJC, I see that http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/nj-no-care-for-141664.html we're already providin' dialysis and more for people who're here against the law. If you think that once they have free everything for everyone there's not going to be a stampede for the buffet from here to Tipperary, you're wrong.

And there's two things not right about that.

As the song on the radio says, "in the real world, they're shutting Detroit down." Used to be a man could work and feed a family, get some insurance. Grandma needed dialysis, everyone'd take an extra shift. They're KIN. Plant was havin' problems, everyone pitched in, worked a little harder, took a little less pay, even the boss man. Now, it's just a letter come from some office overseas - y'all are closed, be out by noon. If people aren't first packin' up and leaving for five dollars an hour more hundreds of miles away. None of the nose to the grindstone spirit that built this nation. Health care's part of it. Who needs the union, who needs a good job with insurance? Keep in mind it was quid pro quo. Ya looked after us, we'd show up at work on time and plug away and earn that. Now it's "let's have other people pay for it, for free." Not just the illegals we gotta worry about, but anyone who gets a free ride. Like grasshoppers that don't put any aside for the winter, we're going to become a nation of beggars.

And secondly, now you got people all over. Grandkids in Alpharetta, now. My grandma lived two streets over, rest her departed soul. Go down to the Florida, you got people whose families are God knows where. "I came for the climate" they say, God's waitin' room, livin' and dyin' far from their own.

Now we got our kids goin' to China and God knows where else lookin' for a job, unemployment at 16% and risin', folks floodin' in here from God knows where. Little Mexican fellers eatin' macaroni and cheese here and Susan Whittaker's boy eatin' whatever they're eatin' in the Mexico. Says only way he can afford things is to work over the border - you can live cheap down there, she says.

I know the reputation people have down here, but heck, only problem my daddy would have had with these fellers down at Home Depot is that they were Catholic. He was a good Baptist, didn't hold with their theology, you see. Hard workin' boys, you can see it in their bodies and apparently they do a damn good job and more power to em. Don't speak Spanish but they seem to be talkin' polite, you know? Why can't they build up Mexico? Nothin' against Mexico, but why are they building here, and we're building there? Why can't we build here, and they build there, communities building together? Why aren't they gettin' their own dialysis down there with the fruits of their labor? They ain't lazy. Why can't we make sure we keep the fruits of ours? We're fixin' to BECOME lazy if we don't.

We got to talkin' down at the Caboose. If we can't afford health care, how in tarnation are we goin' to afford it by poolin' our money together, government gets a cut, special interests get a cut, pay for a few hundred illegals here, handouts to a few politicians there? Only man able to feed multitudes with a couple of loaves and fishes also walked on water, and his name wasn't Obama. All of this knockin' everything down is pure, straight up flim-flammery like that stuff they were doin' in New York City with the subprimes. Makin' gold out of lead, just like the Philosopher's Stone, riches for all with no work.

I like to be connected. To my land, to my community, to my kin, to people around me. This whole modern world of interconnecting everything and havin' big grandiose schemes - only ever doomed to fail. Ask the Tower of Babel people. And sure as shootin' they want all the eggs in one basket so that they can steal em all at once. That's all that Joe feller was really tryin' to say.