Well, I must really be slowing down in my advanced years. You see, I had a bit of an
epiphany this morning while watching the network news.
What has happened in this country since 9/11? I'll tell you what, we have been running
around like "Chicken Little" crying "The sky is falling", desperately looking for a target
for our righteous rage at the attacks, in doing this, we have ceased to pay attention to
most of the real problems in society here, and the world in general. What we have been
doing, is focusing on Saddam and not the terrorists. Yeah, we got lucky and the Paki's
caught one of Bin Laden's top men for us, but the focus has been on Saddam.
Meanwhile our oil prices are skyrocketing due mostly to a strike in Venezuela, the
market is unstable, tourism is off, airport security has become a comedy of errors at
GREAT expense to taxpayers,national paranoia is at an all time high, we have a new
cabinet level position with yet another burdensome bureaucracy (at our expense)to do
little but alarm the sheeple that can not or will not THINK for themselves. Duct tape
and Plastic sheeting anyone? Give me a break! Much ado about threats real and
imagined, whipping the armchair commando's into to a frenzy over a little [bleep]
country in the mid-east, all the while spending money hand over fist on it. OUR TAXES
and SOCIAL SECURITY/VETERANS BENEFITS funds. All the while our children are being
cheated out of an education via public schools that do not focus on education, rather
social programming. They lower the standards to accommodate and make the
kids "feel good about themselves" rather than raising the bar and challenging them,
nay, teaching them to LEARN. To strive for accomplishment and the satisfaction of a
job well done.
We encourage people to not work and strive for a better life, by telling them they are
"entitled" to the benefits and fruits of others labor instead. Sound's a bit like socialism,
not liberty to me! Karl Marx would be proud of us!
Does all this ring a bell? What did we do to the former Soviet Union and Com-Block
countries? We put them into economic ruin, causing them do the very same things. We
broke them economically! What is North Korea doing? Starving their people by spending
the vast majority of their national product on an unnecessarily large military, they are
almost bankrupt thanks to that policy. We are defeating ourselves hunting non-existent
witches! The PRC would do the same, were it not for trade with the U.S. What's wrong
with this picture?
This whole mess stinks of the Gulf of Tonkin, or even further back, "Remember the
Maine".
I believe that if we don't change focus, FAST, we are going to accomplish the terrorists
goals for them, the closing of our society and free way of life. We will become
financially and morally bankrupt. A society like the former Soviet Union. Oh, we will
maintain the facade of freedom for a few more years, maybe a couple of generations in fact,
but sooner or later the government will be totally changed from "Of the People, by the
People, for the People" to "Of the government, by government mandate, to the people".
