Where is the America that once was?

Remember when people looked up to the fastest, smartest and best in everything?  Remember when Americans competed to become #1?  Remember when just trying wasn’t good enough?  Where the hell has that drive gone?

We are now a nation that tells our children that it’s ok to fail.  It’s ok to be last.  We even hand out trophies to people for just participating.  What in the hell is that teaching anyone.  We have become so worried about hurting someones feelings that some teachers won’t even use red ink on papers anymore.  Hell we are so worried about feelings that we are allowing a Mosque to be built on ground zero.

People wake the hell up.  This is America.  We don’t settle for second best.  We want to be and are still the best.  Against every progressive desire, we still are on top.  For how much longer? Not very long if we don’t right this ship now!  

The country can not pull out of this depression because there is too much uncertainty.   Hell the administration is changing the rules every 2 minutes.  There is no way to plan when you don’t know the rules or how the game is going to go.  How is a business supposed to hire and expand when they don’t know what rules are going to be imposed by our idiotic government.

We have become complacent.  We sit around and expect someone in the government to help us when there is a problem.   We look for handouts from the government instead of rolling up our sleeves and attacking the problem head on.  We expect there always to be a quick way to the finish.   No one is willing to put in the hard work and pay the dues that are needed to succeed.   Our children are coming out of school and expecting high class jobs right off the starting line.  

We allow people to spend themselves into oblivion and then blame the banks or big business for being “predatory”.   There is no responsibility on the people themselves.  They are bailed out, bought out and held by the hand like little children.    The government tells everyone that they are too stupid to make a decision, too stupid to know the best way to spend their money, too stupid to watch out for their own well being.   Well sorry Congress, but we are smart enough.  We don’t need you running our lives.

Every day we are bombarded by shows on T.V. that are bent on distracting us from the real issues.  People are more worried about who’s going to be Paris’s next BFF or who is voted out of American Idol.   We sit and are told by people like OPRAH which foods to eat, which books to read.   We run around like robots and never question anything the media tells us. 

We put ourselves into debt so we can have the latest IPHONE, IPAD, Car, flat screen tv, game system.   Then we want to blame the banks for burying us under a credit load we can’t afford.  The “evil banks” and their high interest that we can’t even afford to pay the minimum payment.  No one made people purchase items on credit.

I want the America that once strived to be #1.  The America that didn’t apologize for being the best.  The America that had values.  The America that relied on neighbors generosity in times of need  and not some government check to come in the mail.

You hear people saying “well it’s about time that they taxed the rich oil companies” or “rich business men”.  Well guess what, they do not just eat the higher taxes.  This gets passed on down to the population on every level in higher costs on goods and services.   So guess who really pays the higher costs.  You and me.  They use class warfare to convince you that they are making the “evil” rich pay.  Well they are the ones that pass the costs on to us or do not hire you for a job.  

Guess who would have the power if you got to keep most of your money.  YOU!  The government wouldn’t be able to hold it over your head and threaten to cut services or SS or welfare.  There wouldn’t be any of these.  You would be reliant on yourself and your friends.  You would appreciate the money more because you would have had to work for it.  YOU would get a say where your money was spent because YOU would control it.   We wouldn’t have to worry about it going overseas for aid, bailouts, pork projects to buy votes because YOU would have the money and not them.  

Think it through.  It might be a little scary relying on yourself, but think how scary it is when the government has all the power and money.

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