If I had any children, I would be apologizing profusely to them today.
The specious “stimulus” package, with a price tag of over $787,000,000,000.00, passed both houses of Congress yesterday.
If anyone honestly thinks President Barack Hussein Obama will not sign this, you are fooling yourself.
I always wondered what it would be like to watch the collapse of a society, first hand…
So Linoge, what to do? I DO have children and over the past few months it’s hit me like a ton of bricks that one of the few things I can leave them of any real value is a free country.
Some people are saying, “Well in 2010 the Republicans will win and undo this mess”, but I have my doubts. I honestly think that over the next two years the Democrats and Obama (and whoever is “running” him) will spend their time consolidating their position and (reaches for tinfoil hat) perverting the election process to make it as difficult as possible for any meaningful opposition.
I hope I’m wrong, but at this particular moment I have many doubts.
Thanks for letting me rant.
Honestly, Jeff, I have no idea what to tell you. The Republicans are not going to fix it if they get voted in in 2010 – they are as much proponents of their own power as the Democrats are, and recently have helped inflate our government possibly moreso than the Democrats have.
That is, of course, they are voted in, and the Democrats do not pull some stunt like they were supposedly afraid President Bush would have.
As for our future, and your children’s… I have no idea. Our representation process has failed us, and this is simply the most current exmaple. Worse, our electorate does not care, and until that changes, nothing else will. We are digging our own holes, it is just that the government is providing us the tools.
How do we jump-start citizens into being Americans again?
“How do we jump-start citizens into being Americans again? ”
Well, that’s a good one. I posted something the other day about 2nd Amendment rights and got a very kind and thoughtful response that said, in so many words, “Well you’re right but folks on the other side of the issue can use force or reason on you as well. Not fair or right maybe, but that’s the way it is”.
So maybe half of the country feels that they are being Americans. And truthfully, until something I cared about was threatened, maybe I wasn’t being “American enough”. And then I realized a whole bunch of other American things were being threatened as well.
So maybe until a majority of people wake up one morning and see that they are about to lose something they care about, nothing will change much. We may be a long way from that.
That always seems to be the way with people, though… until they, personally, start being affected by something, they hardly even noticed that “something” was happening. Unfortunately, almost every American is currently being stricken by a tightening of our rights, a perversion of our government, and many other potentially disastrous happenings, and still no one seems to care.
In fact, some of them are helping this trend along.
Somewhere in the past 230-odd years, we lost track of what it meant to not only be Americans, but also be free people, free to live our own lives as we see fit. Instead, 52% of Americans think the government can take better care of them than they do, and that number is only growing. Unfortunately, I think it is going to take a rather large catalyst for that to ever change.