Willing to step up, make sacrifices and lend a hand when needed. These are The men and women that helped to make America great. They are aging and disappearing fast. Not all are gone, but the remaining few continue the tradition of sacrifice and helping others. The Reaper Express with its lustrous Titanium skin is on the tracks picking them up one at a time. Taking them to a better place. A place where hard fought battles for survival in war and peace are fondly remembered. Many fought side by side, some against each other in both war and peace. It was all for the greater good of the nation, not for the individual’s own interests. Soon, their deeds and sacrifices will be nothing but long lost memories to the remaining mortals. God, Guns, Guts and Glory were a common thread that runs through the genre. Much has been lost in recent years. Our Progressive government has destroyed much of the individual spirit that helped build America. Many made the ultimate sacrifice and died in battle. Others survived to continue the fight on the home front. Suffering many setbacks but never surrendering. They continue today. All put the idea of a great America first. Willing to lend a hand when and where needed. Many are money poor, but are rich in knowing they have helped. They are not the heroes that are being touted by the mainstream media. Police and firefighters are needed, but are nothing more than public servants well paid to do a job, not in the hero category. Many have taken to the title because of the action and sacrifice of a few. America today suffers from a lack of real leaders. Clinton. Bush and Obama are nothing more than ideologues produced by an education system that has failed America. Legislators are a product of the same system Military leadership is fair at best, too many leaders are politically correct and willing to kiss the hands of the politicians. Our leaders have little or no real leadership ability. Their main expertise is in parsing which is very effective at covering up their inadequacies. Once again we have well paid educators that look to their own pocket before they look at the job they are supposed to be doing. Yes part of the problem is with parents that do not discipline their children and are either not capable of or are unwilling to help with the education process. Nobody fails and point and click computer use are not good tools for developing future thinkers and leaders. Teaching Liberal views and down playing Conservative views is not only unfair to the students, but also is unfair to the people footing the bill. The purpose of education is to impart knowledge and enable the student to foster ideas and develop into a successful and productive member of society. Many of the people today are not willing to make the sacrifices needed to get ahead. Many do not care about their country or their fellow citizens. It is to the point where it is easier to look for the government handout than it is to work. We need to go back to a point in time where people helped each other. The first line of help should be family and friends. Next the church. Instead of building bigger fancier churches, help the flock. The fall back and last resort should be the government.
The “Occupy Whatever” is a symptom of the “Progressive Disease” that has permeated America. They look at the 1% who have worked very hard to get to their position and want to take from them. Yet they welcome with open arms stars who monetarily are worth as much as many corporate figures, but add very little value to America’s bottom line. Why don’t they go after the professional, cry baby, athletes and substance abusing entertainers? Entertainers and athletes make way more for less work than the people that support their endeavors, and have almost a zero chance at fame and fortune. Any worker in a company may rise to the top echelon with years of service and hard work. Let us pray for an awakening. Maybe there is still time to pull America out of becoming another European Like State. Stop the handouts. Poor in America is considered wealthy in many parts of the world. We need to step up and make the sacrifices needed to once again become great. There is no shame in working hard and becoming part of the 1%. The shame is in sitting back, taking government handouts and not being willing to step up and work.
A great post. I agree with you totally. I consider myself to be a moderate. Personally I would be happy to see the party system. I firmly believe that Congress should be for the "common man", not career politicians. Congress should have term limits. The system as it is now is broke and I the ones who can fix it are the ones who are part of the problem. The fox is truly guarding the hen house. It does get frustrating to watch these men who we elected to office perform like a bunch of little kids and not as adults. I would say that we, the people, can change it by electing decent people to office but this has been going on for a long time and the system is only getting worse. I hate to say this but America as we knew it is dying. There are too many people who are looking for a handout from the Government. With that note I have to ask, Who is the government? It is suppose to be the people, we run the government. We elect people to look after the affairs of government, they are nothing more than public servants. So what happen? Peopl see the government as some almighty entity, when it is us, or was us. Anyway, good post.
Very well said! The underlying causes are the problem and the only solution is to solve them.
America’s problem is not the current President; it’s an electorate that votes for anyone like him. Obama will be gone in four years - the electorate won't.
When all the excuses of why we lost the election are added up, they still miss the four underlying causes:
1. An electorate that is brainwashed from the age of 5 by the liberal public school teachers and university professors and…
2. The liberal media that maintains that brainwashing throughout the electorate's adult life and...
3. A Democrat policy to promote ignorance: a. Their immigration policy that, since the 60's, has shifted the source of the majority of our immigrants from Europe to third-world countries b. Their immigration policy that gives priority to all the family members of those same immigrants c. Their immigration policy that liberally grants "political asylum" to liars from the same third-world countries d. Continuance of an obsolete policy that grants "anchor babies" an automatic American citizenship...and Mom and Dad along with it e. A public school system that fails to educate our kids f. A college system that promotes BA's and a culture that mocks BS's
4. A Democrat policy that breeds an entitlement culture...and buys Democrat votes
The only solution is school vouchers and going back to our pre-60's immigration policy of "Brain Drain". But I’m afraid we're now past the point where that could ever happen. I'm really sorry for our kids - I won't be here long enough to see the worst of America's Europeanization - they will.
Sorry for the Gloom & Doom but we all need to complain once and while.Then we get back to battling the tide.
Sorry, but I must take issue with much of what you have written (after your second sentence which is dead on correct and the true essence of our problem!
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If the electorate are successfully brainwashed by the liberal public school teachers, university professors and media, how then do you explain everyone here at AMAC, my parents (until they were about 60 when they unaccountably turned to the dark left side) and my son (who I would classify as a conservative-leaning moderate because his liberal high school teachers encouraged him to think clearly and completely)? And how do you explain the 1980 and 1984 US presidential elections and the 1994 and 2010 off-year elections? I had many liberal college professors who encouraged (or, at least, did little to discourage) the development of my conservative thinking and when I taught I encouraged all my students, liberal, conservative, and those in the process of changing from one to the other, to develop their thinking and ability to explain their beliefs.
From what I have seen, most immigrants from "third-world countries" are incredibly hard working and contribute far more to the US than they take. This is especially true of illegal immigrants, who work hard to avoid coming to the attention of US authorities and therefore shun public welfare services. f. Huh? I have a BA; no Democrat encouraged me to seek that over a BS; I could have had pretty much exactly the same courses and chosen a BS. I am pretty sure I've missed your point and hope you can explain it in other words.
Much of what you said is, in my opinion, worthy of more discussion. I am not sure what you intended to say about the party system (I suspect that you inadvertently did not complete your though on that.) but as I see it the two-party system is not at fault. It is the “parties” themselves which are failing the system. They should be driven from the bottom up (think grassroots) but have been commandeered by politicians and party leaders to influence the voters from the top down.
As to the common man aspect of Congress, it was the original intent of the framers that the House of Representatives would be the peoples voice in the legislative branch. The Senate, on the other hand, was to represent the particular interest of the individual states and was elected by their respective state legislatures—not the people. That was changed by the Seventeenth Amendment. Much has gone downhill since then.
I agree with the idea of term limits, even though I do acknowledge the point of those opposed who argue that it would cause a number of otherwise well qualified person from serving just because they have already served. But then that could also be applied to the presidency as well. I think a possible solution might be to allow an incumbent to serve multiple terms but off-set the advantage of incumbency by setting the bar higher for each subsequent election. For instance, the rule may be that to be elected to a first or second term would require a simple majority of votes. To be elected to a third term might require receiving 55% of the popular vote, with progressively higher margins for further terms. Under such a system those who were really very well-liked by their constituency would not be barred from running for election but at the same time a challenger would still have a chance of competing. I would be interested in your thoughts along that line.
As to who is government, many people see it differently but in my view We-The-People is not the government but is the state. (By the state, I mean a body of people who want the services of a government.) The government then is a merely a legal entity which is created by the people to serve needs of the people. Having been created by the People, government is inferior to and subservient to the people in a Master-Servant Relationship.
George Washington said that government must be likened to a fire. He said it can be a good servant and or a terrible master. (Not a direct quote.) He explained that a man may light a fire in his hearth and as long as he keeps it under control the fire will serve the purposes for which the man lit it. Namely, to keep him warm and cook his food. If the man lets the fire get out of control then the fire will creep beyond the confinement of the hearth and consume the man’s house and everything he owns.
In the same sense that Washington was comparing government to a fire, he was comparing the Constitution to the hearth. Our problem is that we have been inattentive to our fire and it has moved beyond the confines we placed upon it and has now become the Master. Reestablishing the proper Master-Servant Relationship will not be easy but we can do it. If we don’t then we will leave for some future generation the burden of regaining that which well have lost.
Hey Trouble, you said in your post: "We need to step up and make the sacrifices needed to once again become great."
Boy oh boy I sure hope so. It seems that Russia is making a financial comeback, so after we hit bottom maybe we can too. The big uncertainty is whether or not the next President can untangle everything that our current President has done and will do. I am not even sure the electorate will vote conservatively regardless of how bad things get. The "melting pot" has been diluted so much that the "real" men and woman that developed this nation (not all of course) are, as you alluded to, disappearing. What a shame.
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