We didn’t have auto insurance!
- We rode our bicycles in the street and on the sidewalks!
- I was severely disciplined as a child and the police we not called to save my butt!
- We went to the store as children to get groceries for our parents, barefooted (And shirtless for us guys)
- We received ‘swats’ in school for acting up!
All this and more and yet look, WE SURVIVED!!!!!
I know that change is inevitable and to survive you must adapt. It ain’t easy but we manage to do it. But is it necessary that this change include handing over control of our government that insist we live by their morals and standards because they feel our morals and standards are too low to fit in with their plans.
We need to step back and look at not only our history, but in fact the history of every present or former world power. Whenever the government starts over-controlling the people they represent the world power was crippled. We have a very diverse society with every nationality proudly represented. Some of these nationalist we endeavor to protect and preserve their heritage and yet here we sit giving up our own. My ancestors came here from England trying to escape the ever increasing control of King George and then fought his rule in our new country and succeeded. We shouldn’t be too hasty to depart from what inspired our ancestors. No politician or government entity should ever be stronger or more important than the citizens it represents. We must stand together as one voice and reclaim the rights and lives our forefathers intended for us in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
I am not speaking for or against any politician or political party only for our rights and our lives and allowed to live as though we are intelligent enough to make choices for ourselves and not have it shoved down our throats by those that feel they are better, wiser and richer.
Here are some basic definitions that I find interesting:
Capitalism: An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods and by prices, production, and distribution mainly by competition in a free market.
Go to the Illinois State Fair and buy a Pepsi product or for that matter a large number of theme parks. They are all controlled by Coke. There is no competition if the competitor is not allowed to compete.
Socialism: Any of various social systems based on shared or government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. (Sounding familiar)
Dictatorship: Government or country in which absolute power is held by a dictator or a small clique. (Wow, that sounds startling familiar too. A small clique?
I do not have all the answers, but it is obvious that those in charge have even less answers.
You decide!!! -- 10/23/2008 11:04:55 PM. |
