I actually have died. At least that's what they told me. During my heart surgery. The doctor says I am now in better shape cardio wise than I was 20 years ago. Of course, I have been really minding my manners and getting serious about this health business. Two heart surgeries and a return from death will do that to you. I have no desire to spend any more time on the table. Nine hours the first time and nearly eight the second is by God enough. I got called for jury duty not long ago, and all the staples in my chest actually set off the damn alarms at the courthouse entrance. In 2009 I spent nearly seven weeks in the hospital. Crappy food, hideous coffee and ugly nurses. Screw that.

How do you know that you can't?

Hard times have happened over the last 10 years, but Americans have been rescued from them by the socialist state that has destroyed the future of this country.

95 million working aged Americans (16 years to 54 years of age) have been dropped from the 'US Workforce', just to reduce the unemployment rate, in order to keep the American people from seeing Obama as the failure he really was, as the number of people on 'Welfare & Food Stamps' increased from 17 million Americans when Obama became President in the depths of the Bush recession, to over 50 million today, and all this during an economy that Obama claims was in an economic recovery for the last 7 1/2 years of his 8 years as President.

During Obama's supposed economic recovery, the American people's averaged income declined by 10% and their accumulated wealth decreased by 15%. Also during Obama's supposed economic recovery, Obama averaged $1.3 trillion in deficits for his entire 8 years as President, where no other President before Obama had even come close to a trillion dollar deficit, and from those deficits, $1 trillion went for 'Welfare, Food Stamps, Disability Payments, and Medicaid', all federal government handouts so the American people would not go through the "hard times" that the adage claims makes them "stronger".

Obama is the first President in US history to never have a GDP go above 2%, and he had 8 full years to achieve that, while most President only had 4 years or less, yet achieved it. Obama has more than doubled the national debt in just 8 years, that took all previous Presidents 232 years to acquire, and this tremendous new debt, and the interest payments that it requires, will end up financially destroying the US economy and the US dollar in the not so far off future, that will definately cause the American people to go through some horrendously "hard times", and that will either make them "stronger", or kill them.