I grew up in The United States of America. I am the son of a decorated Korean War hero and the step son of a WWII submarine combat war veteran. The following is a list of everything we had in my childhood that we have lost during my adulthood.
#1 The Presidency. Growing up, this commander in chief of the greatest military and industrial country in the world was certainly America’s ultimate patriot. Do we have a man like that now? No, we have a dude. A guy who was put in office by a slim margin of rounded-up welfare moms who were made promises of special treatment. These opportunists had no qualms about stating their intent to hold him to his promises of preferential treatment the minute the election was over. They did it live on TV. Now we have a dude who has no experience with the military and has no experience with business. The dude never trained to defend anything and never made a dime of profit. Patriot? In fact, the dude can’t even show his ID. Barack Obama is the first woman President complete with gender bias. The Presidency is a joke.
#2 The Legislature. Our State Representatives right? They represent us and our states with their alcohol and drug abuse, sexual misconduct and felonies, felonies, felonies. Drunk with power and irresponsibility, they maraud through their days, grinding out one mistake after the other. The proof is the downward spiral toward socialism that our country is inexorably in. the Legislature is a disaster.
#3 The Judiciary. The scales of Justice. The scales of Justice? Uhh…. No. An independent private corporation constructed by the bar association to obtain wealth and rule through fear, Uhh…. Yeah. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Conner is on a national campaign to promote total immunity for all judiciary, nationwide, all the time. She actively opposes “J.A.I.L. For Judges” (J4J), an activist group attempting to promote judicial accountability. California has just enacted legislation allowing judges to openly accept bribes. The judiciary, the third branch of our checks and balances government, was once the “scared cow” of national citizen trust. Court has become recognized by anyone who has experienced it, as sleazier? Just as sleazy? The sleaziest? I guess everybody differs a little as to just how sleazy they are, but they do all agree on one thing. These folks are sleazy. There are no more checks and balances. The three branches of government have joined in corruption and have run amok.
#4 The Media. “The Forth Estate.” We used to have hard nose investigative reporters out there “putting it all on the line” for the story. With unimpeachable integrity these true seekers of the truth were the “eyes and ears” of America. Their dedication to the First Amendment made our country great. That was then.
Now we have a group of people who are paid by special interest groups, none the least of which is our government, who of course, are nothing but a bunch of front men for the bankers who own and operate the Federal Reserve. Other special interest groups such as radical feminists have handed the media its ideological directives and to earn their pay, the media delivers with propaganda. “On the ground” reporters now get their reports from the AP (associated press), Bloomberg, UPI (united press international) or some other commercially controlled source. Basically the government uses the media to tell people what they are supposed to think and then bases its policies on “what people think.” Nice huh? Go to the press with your expose’ and you’ll find that they are not there to work with you. Their boss won’t let them.
#5 The Churches. “The House of God.” With the government and the press wallowing in corruption, where can you go to find meaning in life? The church? Formerly a spiritual sanctuary, the church is now big business. Since the church can have so much influence on “the people” as it demonstrated throughout the civil rights movement of the sixties, it can be a true voice for just causes. It can be the voice of the people. Where is that voice today? These huge tabernacles are obviously not supported by the collection plate. They are supported by special interest groups such as, you guessed it, the government. The government who routinely makes outrageous errors in caring for the citizens is not quite as stupid in caring for itself. Government pensions for themselves compared to social security for us certainly prove this. The government and other special interest groups now provide the funding for church leaders that they control, often behind the back of the church’s own followers. Actually, for the true religious, this is blasphemy.
#6 The Stock Market. Reality. We are Capitalists (maybe now we’re CapitOlists) right?
1969. The stock market is based on what the market will bare. It is the ultimate in honesty. The prices were based on real value and were monitored by some of the most educated, motivated people in that day’s world.
2009. We are aspiring socialists (shush it’s a secret right now). Rather than stock prices being set by the performance of the businesses they represent, they are set by weird insider manipulation by foreign banks who, by the way, through the Federal Reserve, own our currency, thereby owning our economy. Can government fix our economy? No, it’s not theirs. They don’t control it. Neither do we. We can only serve it. Ready to bow?
#7 The Independent Business World. The Back Bone of the American Dream. OK, forget “the Fed” and “the market,” we are a country of entrepreneurs’. We are visionary wildcat dreamers who with courage and drive build empires. (Man I miss America.) In the unregulated economy of “the 50s” the motivated were king. Today we have the regulation of (like a broken record) special interest groups and the government. Racial quotas, gender quotas, gender and racial agendas, employee rights run amok, wild tax problems, the EPA, OSHA, incredibly bad management linked with finance fraud and an environment where it may be better to bankrupt than make a profit, control American business. Growing up the idea was to build a business, prosper and leave a legacy to your family, America and the world, and retire comfortably. Today the idea is create the concept of a business, gather unqualified financing, steal the money, bankrupt the shell of the business and retire comfortably.
#8 Real Estate. For many, their home is their life’s biggest asset. People used to buy a home, make their payment’s and raise their family. Ultimately they would pay their mortgage in full and retire debt free and secure in their own “castle.” They would proudly hand it down as a legacy to their children. Just being able to save the down payment and qualify for a mortgage was a milestone in a family’s successful development.
Now look at Detroit. Real estate just abandoned because it has no value. Look in your neighborhood. Real estate abandoned by unqualified house buyers trying to make a fast buck on a wildly over inflated housing market. Who created this disrespect for our homes? The Clintons, “Freddie,” “Fannie” and the Democrats. Now Nancy Pelosi and her friends are ravaging estates with conservator swindles and others are having their sovereignty undermined with abuse of eminent domain. In the past, many company’s value and security was based on the real estate that the company owned. Today, that security is gone.
#9 The Universities. College material. A young man or woman would evaluate their prospects for adulthood by determining if they would work in labor, a trade or if they truly excelled, they would be considered “college material.” An investment in their higher education would be merited. I said merited. I said an investment would be made. The word investment means that a dividend is expected. The dividend is expected because the college degree has true value. Otherwise the expenditure is merely a purchase. Colleges and universities were a place where the truth gained by a true Socratic dialog could set the course of advancement for the philosophy of the nation.
What we have now is a place where any jackass can go to create a debt to the government in the guise as a college loan. No Socratic dialog takes place. It is replaced with a program of indoctrination designed to condition the hapless pseudo student to accept his place of servitude to authority of one kind or another. The graduate finds that his degree has very little value if any. He/she enters an unqualified work force supervised by the gurgitation of the same system that created them. The country is weakened and all systems fail. (see items 1-8) Garbage in, garbage out. 60% of college enrollees are women. 50% of them “opt out” of the workforce in five years, making return on the investment of their education zero. Men generally work to retirement age, educated or not. Our first female President Barack Obama continues to encourage women to go to school. Running the numbers, to me, it seems like a bad investment. In fact, his own wife has “opted out.” She’s got a big university degree and doesn’t make a dime.
The truth is that our schools are so bad that we have a “brain gap.” Even though we “farm out” many of our great tech jobs, some are still done here. To fill the “brain gap” we simply import people with more education than our people have. We get many from a country that has cows walking among its people who believe that the cows are their dead relatives who have been returned to life as cows. I gotta’ guess that we’re not bright enough to go to a dairy farm and visit our own relatives. Apparently we don’t have “what it takes” to be as smart as the cow country guys. At least we’re smart enough to hire them.
#10 Americans. The Melting Pot. Our ancestors may have been from anywhere, but now that we are here, we are Americans. We all speak the same language. We work for a living. Use the same money. Go to the same school. Worship in our different churches but all to the same God. We all agree on the American dream, telling our children that they can “grow up to be president.” We root for our favorite sports team and with good sportsmanship, congratulate the winners because the winners are Americans, winners like us and they are of us. Even in the “Forties” with terrible racial segregation, we all fought “the foreign threat” as Americans. There was never any doubt.
Now the American is scorned by the immigrant, especially the illegal immigrant, or as I call him, the invader. The “American way” (work for a living) is circumvented at every opportunity. The American identity is not embraced. The intrusion of religions based in the termination of all that America stands for are supported. Supported by whom? My guess is the anarchists. Use of the Peso and the Euro is growing. Foreign languages have become a huge educational burden and a tool for social division. The once hearty stock, of the stew of the American melting pot has lost its nutritional value. It has become an over flowing caldron of acrid ingredients certain to make anyone puke. The cook (the government) is no better a chef than it is a businessman or parent. As far as loyalty goes, let me put it this way. I am grateful to the many wonderful people who have enriched my life. Of them all, there is no question as to which ones are my parents.
#11 The Family. Dad, mom, grand parents, cousins and the kids! In 1965 this described almost every family I knew. We had a neighborhood full of them. One unfortunate friend had a dad who left his mom. It turned out that she was gay. The family across the street had a mom who died. The father was left with six daughters and a son. Everybody else had “normal” circumstances, normal families.
Now define the 2009 family. The queen of “The People’s Republic of Santa Monica” defines it as a woman with a cat. Normal now is what? A rich woman who is living off of two or three x-husbands while they are alienated from their children with restraining orders based on false accusations. A woman with a child who was impregnated by a Federally funded doctor who knocked her up with a hypodermic needle. A woman who has four kids with four loser guys who has decided to be proud of her obvious title “slut queen of the loser guys.” Please note that all of these examples start with “A Woman.” Recently I tried to get photos of Fathers and Mothers with their children in a happy event circumstance. I E-mailed about two hundred people. The overwhelming response was “Gee, we don’t know anybody like that.” Government programs “for women” have created this destruction of “the normal family.” Radical feminist Women’s empowerment has backfired destroying the normal woman’s and child’s birth right. The “normal families” are few and far between. See, the normal family has a real potential for power through unity. Well, the government certainly doesn’t want that. The American family structure is in complete disarray. Three cheers for feminism. Oh, and I almost forgot. Let’s have a shout out for CPS (child protective services) for yanking four kids away from their father and mother because the mother gave her high school football playing son a smack on butt with a wooden spoon for being disrespectful. Those kids are better off in foster care. Ya’ know, for there own protection.
#12 Your Health. Well at least you’ve got your health. Not if the President and Hillary have anything to say about it. The bone-heads who ruined the economy, the real estate market (remember white water) the courts (google Richard I Fine) and our current War, want to control the health care system. I for one enjoy waiting in line with illegal aliens who are actually treated better than I because the receptionist speaks their language better than mine. Spanish, tagalong, farsi, mandarin, well, to hell with English. It’s highly overrated. The more I write the angrier I get. Let’s take your most important need, the need when you are most vulnerable and make it as impersonal as possible. Damn!
#13 Your Own Mind. The scariest intrusion of them all. We just had a Presidential election. The deck was stacked. The media was handed a mandate to glorify an unqualified lackey who was unable to prove his citizenship with a simple birth certificate. Actually, by law, he coudn’t even run for president. The people who decided to put this guy into the job made it easier on the press by running him against another guy who would be such an obviously poor leader that voting against him would be easily justified. Next they told the people that these two choices were the only real choices. “If you want your vote to count, you must pick one of the two,” was the mind-set. Here in California, the Electoral College (the people whose votes matter) was going to “go Obama” no matter what we did. Here in California people voted anyway even though this was common knowledge. They voted for Obama or Mc Cain just as they had been told to do. Both men represented the same special interest group who funded the whole show.
In reality there were four other totally legitimate candidates. Actually these four were all legal candidates, where the ultimate winner was not. A vote for Bob Barr (an interesting ideology choice), Cynthia Mc Kinney (my choice), Ron Paul (the best choice) or Ralph Nader (the silly choice, but at least qualified) would have been a statement that we are not happy with leadership of the Republican/Democratic (the same choice) Party. Rather than make this statement to the Republican/Democratic bank that tossed us their insulting choices for leadership, many voted as they were told, for the bank’s offering, thereby legitimizing the whole scam.
These bankers have such a good sense of humor that they even created a slogan of “Change You can believe In” for the guy who hasn’t changed a thing. Guantanimo Bay (his first announcement) hasn’t changed. The War hasn’t changed. The economy has changed but not for the better. The housing mess hasn’t changed. The jobless rate has changed, but not for the better. The immigration/invasion problem hasn’t changed. Today I was told by the “media you can believe in” (ready for your indoctrination?) that seventy percent of American’s want “the change guy” to change us to a medical system that will cost us ($1,600,000,000,000) 1.6 Trillion dollars we don’t have, so we can have a system they use in a country where people with real immediate needs end-up coming HERE.
When you voted in the last Presidential election, did you vote with your own mind? Did you do what was in your own best interest or did you legitimize the scam, support your oppressors and do as you were taught? I ask you. What do we have left?