What is happening to us, America? What has transpired that is making so many people BELIEVE that Socialism and Fascism and even Communism is much better than this Republic that our military veterans, forefathers and ancestors fought and sacrificed so much for?
What is it that is making so many of us actually want our government to babysit us from the cradle to the grave. Telling us that we are just way too stupid to make decisions for ourselves as to when to see a doctor, which doctor to see, and when we should just give up and die.
Even though I cannot ever begin to fathom the attitude of so many of us that believe that government should guarantee medical health care to each and every one of us, wether we worked for it or not. That so many of us now believe that the government owes us money we never worked for when we refuse to go out and find a way of paying our own way through this life.
Where did all this dependency attitude come from?
Did it begin in our public schools way back in the early seventies when school districts began mandating that children be not failed in order to save their self esteem even though they have not achieved the necessary skills to advance to the next level of instruction?
Or did it begin way back in the early 1930’s when government started giving handouts called welfare to those who could not find a job, no matter if they were looking for work or not?
Did it begin with the passing of the Social Security Act that was originally meant to be an assisting device to help one supplement his/her retirement nestegg, but actually started paying out full benefits to people just one month after it was signed into law thereby making it a deficit spending agency from its very beginning to the almost devastating tragedy that it is today?
What happened to that pioneer spirit that won the west by people actually walking alongside their Ox driven covered wagons across the central plains and through the Rockies to the Pacific shores?
What happened to the country that men like my Father-In-Law volunteered to go forth into harms way to fight off the armies and navies of the Imperialists and Fascists and Nazis? Where are those who have that grim determination to sacrifice whatever it takes to preserve and defend these United States Of America from all enemies foreign and domestic?
Today. This very day. Up in Washington, District of Columbia, there is a very large group of people that is doing their level best to usurp the Constitution of the United States of America. They are doing their level best make all of us believe that we cannot possibly live without their brand of un-American government.
And to listen to the mainstream news media, there is an overwhelming majority of American citizens that are of voting age who are demanding that this is the very kind of government that we actually want and believe in.
What are we doing, America? What in the Sam Hell are we doing?
A couple of years ago my wife and I spent some time at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. We took the self guided audio tour. It took us an entire day driving around to all those places where good men sacrificed their very existence for the kind of freedom that they believed in with all their heart and souls.
Over one half million Americans died on that battlefield. They died for no other reason than their own personal belief in what they perceived as freedom.
Now today, am I supposed to believe that we Americans – the very descendants of those selfless men of Gettysburg – not only are willing, but actually want to give up our freedom for a few dollars a month in government dole?
Am I supposed to accept that the children and grandchildren of those who went forth in harms way to save the world back in WW2, actually want that very brand of Socialism and Fascism to now rule their lives?
I was told today by an old WW2 vet that he wished he would have died in that war than to live to see what is happening in this country today!
All I can ask you is . . . JUST WHAT IN THE SAM HELL ARE WE DOING?!?
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Once upon a time, in the fifties, television combined with advertising subliminally convinced us that if we did not, live "in this kind of house", drive "this kind of car", have furniture "this nice", take neat trips "like this" each year, have bodies "this beautiful", have teeth "this white", well, then we were second class citizens. So along came the credit card and we charged as much as we could to get the "image of success". Then we put our wives to work to keep up the image. Then we were told we could tap into our home equity (because the value would always go nowhere but up). In the meantime we felt honesty, integrity, and fair play, as well as our morals were dispensable. So we started gambling in the stock market and they obliged by letting us bet on "futures". Our children were left to be coddled by a politically correct education system that did not teach civics, history or economics. Then someone felt sorry for the people who didn't work and couldn't balance a checkbook or make a budget. They sold them houses for which they could not pay. Then the housing market fell. Then the Democratic Party discovered the uneducated masses outnumbered the educated and promised the idiots glowing things that caused the voters to go into a trance. And that is how it happened.
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