We have forgotten who we are and where we came from.
Just Some Thoughts
For the past week I haven’t written anything. I have been thinking about what is happening in this country and find myself very down. I decided to try to write my way out of it. I know there are people here on My Space that agrees with me on some or all of these issues but we are few and the enormity of the task has me a little discouraged. I will take these items one at a time.
I must start with the oil spill. I represents so many factors of our country, economics, greed, and the inability to tell the truth. Those of use that have been involved in trying to save our planet have been meeting a stone wall. It started with global warming and many people said that we couldn’t be the cause of global warming. Then the effects began to be seen. The ice caps are melting and the polar bears are dying. We lose more and more species every day in every part of the world. But we continue on our marry way putting out carbon gasses and watching the temperature rise. But suddenly a catastrophe has taken place. British Petroleum’s oil spill is causing the death of many species of fish and coral. The oil has made land fall and is beginning to destroy vegetation and land animals. BP has put a solvent into the water to break up the oil but it is even more toxic then the oil.
Our government stands by and lets these criminals decide our fate and there own. We should be involved and we should have every scientist that we can find working on this problem, but we just wait for something to happen. This will be President Obama’s Katrina. Yes he gives speeches but he does nothing. The same is true of our congress.
Let’s leave this problem for awhile and look at the political divide in this country. To begin with almost no one trusts our government. I don’t trust them and both the right and the left agree. Out of this lack of trust we are spawning very scary groups that want to take power. We have the Tea Bag party, we have more and more militia groups with weapons, and we are only one nut away from domestic terrorists. Now if the terror is caused by an American we don’t call him or her a terrorist but we call him or her a criminal and we expect our courts to handle it. But if they are from somewhere else we call them terrorists and are willing to suspend the constitution. I hope you haven’t forgotten the Patriot Act. It has attacked the Bill of Rights. It is still in force and once again our government is more then happy to let it stay in place.
We have had a financial breakdown of immense proportions and we still haven’t done any thing about the jobless or the homeless. But we can feel good because the people that caused the breakdown are doing just fine. Our government made sure of that. Once again our president has ignored the suffering of too many Americans. The right wing believes it is the fault of the progressives but they forget that it started sometime in the late 1950’s with the invention of credit for the average American. I know that credit has been around for a long time. But by selling everything on credit and then giving everyone a credit card we had changed the dynamics. Everyone in congress voted for T.A.R.P., on both sides of the isle. It was the beginning of the give away of money that we didn’t have; to the people that least deserved it. Then there was the stimulus package. It was pretty much the same thing. Once again we spent money that we didn’t have.
We have been fighting two wars for almost 9 years now and they are further adding to the debt, at a billion dollars a month. There is no end in sight. Our brave young people are dying and we are not accomplishing anything. Innocent people are dying and we are not accomplishing anything. In fact the incidence of terror is going up all around the world. If I remember correctly, when President Obama was running for office he promised to end these wars. It is just not happening. Our lead generals say the best we are doing is holding our own. If that is true why are we doing this? It isn’t solving anything, people are dying and we are spending money at an incredible rate, by the way this is also money that we don’t have.
Then the State of Arizona passed a law that is, at best, racist and over half of the American people are in favor if it. We stand by and don’t work on immigration reform which may have forestalled this law. The federal government complains but doesn’t do anything. Many cities are going to punish the State of Arizona, and Arizona is planning to punish these cities and states too. But this is not the job of the cities. They are doing this because they don’t see the federal government doing anything about immigration. Our federal government just stands by and watches it.
Next the State of Kentucky elected a member of the Tea Party to be its junior Senator. He has already made remarks that are racist in nature. Does anyone remember George Wallace or Lester Maddox. At the same time the State of Texas has changed the history books to reflect political beliefs and not history. They equate Jefferson Davis to Abraham Lincoln. They ignore our seizure of large tracts of land from Mexico. They ignore our treatment of Native Americans. Texas supplies the majority of text books used in our country. This means that generations of American children will get a right wing view of history. We have been lying about history for as long as we have been writing. However this is an attempt to convert the average citizen to a one side in the fight for the hearts and minds of the American People.
If you read your history, while you can, you will see that this, in many respects, is how the Civil War began. Now this may not happen but our government stands idly by and watches. But what is happening is pitting person against person, local government against state government and state government against the federal government.
So what is to be done? We write blogs and editorials, people demonstrate. But it goes on and on. How can we stand by and let our country go down flames. Now this has left me depressed, as a person, as a parent, and as an American Citizen.
I am getting very tired of the lies and the false promises. I can’t see myself voting for another president who will lie to get elected and serve the people that paid for his election.
And so it goes! Howie
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