Readers....if there are any?
Have you asked yourself the question: "What does my country stand for?"
We all should examine that question. Do you believe that our government is doing what you would do in their absence? Would you have reacted to the things happening in the world the same way as our present government reacted?
These are people that are supposedly elected to represent us. But we don't ask the hard questions when they do something in the name of the United States of America which is all of it's citizens.
I have heard many people talking and the same statement seems to cross all racial, ethnic, religious boundaries: "I just don't understand why so many people in the world hate us(United States of America citizens). "We are not a bad country that deserves people attacking us" is another statement I hear.
Are we a bad country? Do we have the wrong representation to the world getting out? Are the wrong people(all parties included) in political office in our country? Do we have the wrong government in place?
Does our government truly represent the Majority of citizens in this country or do they represent a very vocal twenty to twenty-five percent of our country. After all, that is all who vote on election day so that must be the reason for their influence.
I know there are probably some very nice, cordial, and perhaps charismatic people in our Congress but for the most part citizens they do not take the Majority into mind when enacting legislation. The Majority of the citizens in this country do not go along with what has been put into place but we do not know what to do about it and our lives are so busy we have to pray that our representatives don't do something that really hurts us in the long run....
As you have probably guessed by now I am leading to the fact that they already have done it. Congress and our President have led us into a position in the world where we have to say we are hated worldwide now and most of us would never have allowed it to get this way if we were really in charge as we should be. We The People is not just the preamble words they are very important words as they were to the authors. We The People are the legal, caring citizens of the United States of America.
True. Most of us were not persuaded to make the USA our homes because we were previledged to be born here. We better start acting like United States of America's citizenship or we are going to lose our country.
I am a Viet Nam veteran and I do not have post traumatic stress and this is not a rant.
Our country was attacked by Osama and his organization of thugs around the world. Our representatives allowed Osama to gain that kind of power because they built his organization for him. He needed it to recruit fighters during the Afganistan war with Russia and we sooooo wanted to defeat Russia.
We missed our opportunity in Viet Nam and Korea. After all we were courting China and we did not want to have anything like a war get in the way of our relationship with China. But Russia, we did not want them involved in any victory of war so we fought the hell out of them, especially in Viet Nam. When we captured the enemy whether from the north or a southern fighter we found Russian weaponry and accessories. Russian watches we a great find. The spoils of the war you might say. :) I never said I did not take advantage of my position as the winner in the fights that I was involved in. Call me mercinary if you like but my butt was on the line and I deserved some of the spoils.
Anyway, back to our illustrious "leaders?". Here we are again. Back in a war that did not have to happen in a region that we have no reason to be in. Except maybe to secure the oil for the purpose of keeping economic chaos from happening because of the reserves that exist over there....
Do you see the predicament? Our government saw the potential of a total shutdown of many institutions across the world simply with shutting off oil from the Middle East.
Okay, granted they are not all a bunch of losers and buffoons but common sense shows anyone that attacking Iraq at the time we did was not necessary. We had Osama in a position where we could have pressured him to surrender or at the least kill the mf. But instead our government chose to attack another country and to lie to all of us as to why they had to do that immediately.
I don't know many people that would have said yes to that plan of action that was done in our names, the citizens of the USA. We cannot disconnect our lives away from these actions. Each of us has to take responsibility for these actions and the future actions of our country's representatives.
I am sure that by this time you have noticed that the elections are held in such a way that the voters could not replace all of Congress in one election. Also politicians are relying on the fact that most of us are not "Congressional material". Either we don't have the time to dedicate to the job, the feeling of civic service that would be needed(it is evident to me that not many of our present representatives have the latter) to represent our country. We have families that need us or we have companies that need us or some other excuse and thus we elect them to represent us.
Have you looked at the perks of the job?
Over one hundred and forty thousand dollars salary for a part time job(the hours are not full time hours). They receive a pension and healthcare plan that is the envy of the corporations operating in our country. Doesn't that sound good to you?
What a job. You show up at the great halls each day you are in D.C. and sit on your ass in an office until you have to go vote for legislation. You vote according to your party's wishes and you go home at the end of the day. You don't have to listen to any of the so-called speeches in those halls because no matter what is said you have your vote decided and are just waiting for the time to go vote. The news media is way ahead of the citizenship and have published the vote tallies before the vote takes place. How could they know? It is decided way ahead of time and concessions on both sides(Rep & Dem) and everyone goes home feeling good about what has taken place.
In the meantime we are at war or hated by many more countries than in our history. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves everytime legislation occurs that takes more and more of our freedoms and rights away in the name of "security". The media is allowed to scare the hell out of us and slant everything towards the need for more security therefore we can afford to give away more freedoms and rights. The theory is that if you are Middle Eastern you are either connected to a terrorist or you are a terrorist. Can you imagine what it would be like to be Middle Eastern here in this country about now? About as popular as being black was back in the earlier part of the 1900's. Not until the 1960's did integration take hold and it was not without it's problems. They still exist today.
Most races, colors, ethnicities; whatever you decide to call groups of people want to be with others that share their culture. If they grew up Middle Eastern they want other Middle Easterners to live near. Why? We humans developed villages for social needs and if I am in another culture's social environment I feel like a person out of touch with my surroundings. It may take a couple of days before I could feel as if I fit in and maybe I could never feel that way. After all I was brought up near Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America. Give me an evironment that resembles my upbringing and I could feel very much at home.
Can you imagine being a black in the old south? Can you imagine what it would be like if you were a Catholic in the Protestant part of Northern Ireland? I cannot imagine that because I have always lived in the United States of America. What makes the USA different from these other countries where I would not fit in is our culture. I feel at home in any state in our beautiful country.
The United States of America is filled with some of the most loving, caring people that any country has. You can settle in most neighborhoods in this country and feel right at home...
unless you are Middle Eastern, Black, Brown, Yellow, you could settle in any neighborhood and feel right at home. No wonder enclaves of each race are beginning to increase.
When I grew up it would not be very long after you moved into your home that someone from the neighborhood would welcome you and most of the time offer you a baked item to let you know someone went out of their way to welcome you to the area. What a great feeling! You were accepted into the area. Others would go out of their way to let you know they were happy to see you as well. People would wave as you drove by. Unless you were Black. It seems there was always an exception when it came to Blacks. No wonder they are pissed off.
Like that guy in California that was taken out of his truck and beaten half to death said afterwards: "Can't we just all get along?".
What is wrong with that idea? All of us getting along? What happened to that United States of America where I grew up. That USA that I voluteered to protect with my life both as a civilian and a member of the military. Where is that country?
Well, let's examine the elements of our citizenry. Right down to the illegal citizens that are more of a burden on our society than any other problem we have. It is not their faults. It is our representative and their representatives that are at fault and that is the whole purpose of this blog. To point out the good, the bad, and the ugly. To point out that we need to take back over the daily, weekly, monthly, and annual operation of this country. We need to elect more people that don't really want the job but will take it because of their "civic duty".
How do we find those representatives? We advertise for them just like every corporation does. We look for the people that will go to Congress and the White House and do the "will of the people". We need representatives that will take a pay cut, forget about the golden parachute at the end, and really want to serve the country and not "milk the country's treasuries".
People unite and let's us find those representatives. If not, dwell in the dung heap that you allow to occur and don't complain about the lousy representation that you have in Congress. Don't ask the stupid question "why do people hate us?" because it will be fairly evident to you by then, they hate us because there are do nothing people like you that allow our representations to be flawed. Elect only those that you perceive as not wanting the job so badly. That is the smart tactic. Don't vote along party lines vote the person. In fact, if they align themselves along party propaganda that would be a sure sign not to vote for them.
Don't be fooled by those that go "independent". That is just another way of saying "I will not take defeat until I am totally defeated". You do not survive total defeat. You lose everything. That is why most wars end in some type of concession on both sides. Those that "stay the course even when that course is failing" cause more negative results than positive ones.
Show up on election day and write in your candidate for office. Pick someone that would do the job well but does not particularly want the job. Someone that will represent you honestly.
All of you citizens that are old enough to vote if you do not vote in this election you will have lost the right to be called an United States of America citizen in my opinion. This next one is most important because the very country that was established to be a beacon to everyone that desired a good life and a fair living is being tested. We The People must take a stand once again for our country. Otherwise you can kiss your country goodbye. Time is getting short for those that care about this country to make a difference. If we don't use our power as a large group of caring and loving citizenry we will become the minority in this country and our country's legacy will be lost forever.
We must take this country back from the facism that is at work here in this country. Look up the meaning of the word. Put very concisely it means corporate influence over governmental affairs. It means corporate influence over the operations of the entire country. Whatever the corporate level wants our legislative body provides. The President is a figurehead individual that thinks they are making important decisions but those decisions are made by proxy and echoed by the individual occupying that office of USA's leader. The Board is making those decisions as it does in the corporations.
One must take the time to research the inner workings of our country. Look who is on each company's board of directors and you will be so surprised to learn that they serve on each others boards and help make decisions that they have agreed on ahead of the meetings.
We cannot all be just robots. When people talk of the United States of America in relation to Babylon, "the whore Babylon", they are referring to the Bible teachings speaking of the "end times" and the rising of the Third Roman Empire that will reign for many years. These passages give examples of what to look for in these "times" and mentions how things will play out for several years until God saves our world from becoming totally destroyed.
The amazing thing about that story is that in each major Religion they have a story that says something about an ending of this era and a new one beginning. Some think these are the "end times" that the Bible refers to. Others who have studied Mayan culture think December of 2012 is when a new beginning will occur. Jesus Christ, when interviewed, mentioned that his life was to fulfill a prophesy. Christ said, according to Biblical references, "do not worship me". He always referred to The Father when he spoke according to the stories. Thousands of years before Jesus, Ezekiel, David, and others spoke of the times of Jesus and beyond. There was prophesy to fulfill and someone had to be put to death as a symbol for all who loved God to follow. God's son had been crucified because of his love for his Father. He preached about a loving God and a tolerant God and the zealot Jews of that time were having a hard time dealing with Jesus. He was becoming way too popular and their power over the people was waning. In a few years Jesus would have really changed the world with his teachings but...that was not the reason for his birth and he always reminded those around him of this. The apostles knew Jesus to be very capable of overwhelming the Romans and the Jews but Jesus would always remind them that soon he would be put to death because of God's teachings and that they needed to prepare for that time. "Many will be called but few will follow" is another quote from those Biblical teachings. Contemplate on that statement and then look around at the billions and billions of people on this planet. Few are going to follow.
That is what scares me more than anything. I will be among the few and that is not a good feeling to be outnumbered by those that think differently than you do.
That is why it is so important to try and put this inevitability off for as long as we can because we are responsible for this planet as well as our own neighborhoods. We need to vote for the person that we think will represent the citizentry of the United States of America with our interests in mind each time legislation is introduced. Someone that we will be proud of when they represent us to the world. Right now we are in trouble with the rest of the world for being so beligerant. We are not that type of people so that means we are being misrepresented.
Ask yourself the question: "what do I stand for?" Is my interest and philosophy being properly represented? I think if you get off the political band wagon for a couple of minutes you will see that no party is representing us. They all have their agenda and the organization would not exist if that were not true.
Vote in someone from the outside and fire the incumbents in office today. The opportunity will soon be here for everyone to express their opinions and be heard. November is the time to vote your spirit, the spirit of the United States of America.
God bless the USA citizenry. Let US group together under one banner.
I AM US-American.
Are you?
