America The Great – Now Let’s Take It To Hell
May 5, 2009
I’m beginning to learn why I struggle more and more each day to fit into America’s new society. It’s simple really. The America I grew up in is long gone. History is not taught anymore. The Constitution is nothing more than toilet paper and our current president says the U.S. isn’t and never was a Christian nation.
See ya’ll later!
Here’s what disturbs me most and there’s nothing I can do about it, yet I refuse to be a part of it because I know it is wrong. I feel sorry for those who know not the difference. The majority of our society today finds socialism acceptable. They find loss of liberty acceptable. They find decadence and immorality just a part of modern day living, progress, part of the living liberalism. All of this and more has led people to say that those of us who cling to what we know is right and what made America great – the land of the free and home of the brave – are out of touch. We need to get with it and change our value system and join in the fun.
David Brooks, still referred to in the Main Stream Media as a conservative, today in his article in the New York Times, chastises what he calls republicans because they still cling to “freedom, individualism, opportunity and moral clarity”. He says it’s time to move on and morph into a political party that panders to the communistic way of life, with a focus on community and doing everything together, all for the common good.
Brooks accuses republicans of bringing forward to today the wrong lessons in history. Because of the party of the right’s track, he thinks republicans are too busy with “untrammeled freedom and maximum individual choice”.
It seems to me that David Brooks has drank a little bit too much Kool-Aid. He’s all agog about community and being civic, sort of the same way that a totalitarian thinks of communism – it’s perfection.
I suppose it is for some of the reasons talked about here, that there is no real long term history of a republic or a democracy. History is soon forgotten.
While we can sing Kumbaya, hold hands and do group hugs, it might make us all feel good but in so doing we have forgotten the “freedom, individualism, opportunity and moral clarity”, that brought this nation to a point where people can choose to group hug and drink Kool-Aid.
As individuals living in a free society, we can choose which of those Currier and Ives villages Brooks seems determined to live in. Communities are a part of our lives as we have made them such but that shouldn’t mean that we can’t go home to the place of our choosing as well and be free, be an individual, while protecting opportunity. Do I need to surrender all that in order to live a lifestyle designed by Barack Obama and his followers?
Ultimate freedom, which once used to be a valued asset to life, is complete individualism. This once rugged individualism that Brooks now opts to ridicule and discredit as something only found in the movies of years gone by, prevented despots and dictators from ruining our way of life.
This current society has no vision of the past making them blind to the future. I suppose this will make my future a difficult road because I have a very clear knowledge of the past and with that I see a country heading in the wrong direction.
Tom Remington
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Heard some figures today don’t know where they came from or how reliable they are, you decide. 75% of people born between 1965 and 1980 do not believe in any absolute truths. Just to be sure we don’t find ourselves offensive to anyone.
Amen, Tom.
Thought I would share with you what Congressman Don Young of Alaska has to say about the first 100 days.
April 29, 2009
REP. YOUNG COMMENTS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FIRST 100 DAYS
“Our country is facing tough times that call for solutions not grandstanding.” -Rep. Don Young
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young released the following statement this afternoon on President Obama’s first 100 days in office:
“The first 100 days of this Presidency have been like nothing I’ve ever witnessed in my 36 years in Congress. We were promised full bipartisan efforts, but so far we have seen none of that. Written without bipartisan cooperation, the not-so-stimulating stimulus bill grew exponentially from what was originally proposed, and wound up including $137 billion in new government programs. Pushing a social agenda is not the way to stimulate our economy or create new jobs!
“So far this year, the Democrat led house has authorized the spending of $71,901,800,000 and that doesn’t even include the money appropriated for the bailout and the stimulus! Just THIS WEEK we have authorized $9.22 billion in spending. This Congress, and by default this nation, is hemorrhaging the hard earned money of American taxpayers and it’s not okay.
“Additionally, in just 100 days, this administration has managed to infringe on our Second Amendment rights, lock up more public lands, put a halt to energy development and production, and in turn take away more and more American jobs in a time when we need all we can get.
“I’ve said time and time again that this partisanship has got to stop. We are going to keep spinning ourselves in circles instead of coming to solutions if this continues. When the President took office he vowed he would work with both sides of the aisle. He’s made public shows of extending the olive branch, but behind the scenes has done nothing. Our country is facing tough times that call for solutions not grandstanding. If this first 100 days is any indicator of what’s to come over the next four years, then we’re headed down a very slippery slope. I still have faith that we can turn things around, but it’s going to require more than prime time press conferences and photo ops.”
Here we go again: We go from bondage to spiritual faith. From spiritual faith to great courage. From great courage to liberty From liberty to abundance From abundance to complacency From complacency to apathy. From apathy to governmental dependency From governmental dependency back into bondage ”
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”. . . . Ronald Reagan “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Winston Churchill “No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the WILL and MORAL COURAGE of free men and women.”